Our garage door lifter gave up the ghost. It needed a new circuit board, which wasn't a bad fix but we had been having problems with it for a while so we decided to get a whole new lifter. When we had our solar panels put on our house, the ones above the garage interfered with the signal from our clickers in the cars to the receiver on the lifter. It has been a struggle on bright, sunny days to get the garage door opened. Lately, we had been getting locked out because the keypad was on the fritz and the clickers would only work if you were right next to the garage door. So we needed to do something different.
The man came out and told me that they could install a new lifter and put in belts instead of chains, which would make the garage door really quiet. The new signals in the lifters aren't bothered by solar panels, so we wouldn't have problems with that anymore. So we decided to go for it.
It took a couple hours but they got the new lifter installed and got the belts installed. I didn't realize how squeaky our garage door was until the lifter was silenced! The man sprayed it with spray to try and get it to quiet down but it took a couple more days of me putting WD40 on the joints for it to stop making such a horrible noise.
The door does come with wifi connectivity. It only came with one clicker so I bought a second one, But Courtney wanted a clicker too. We set up our door to open using an app and then installed it on Courtney's phone. She was thrilled to be able to open the garage door from anywhere!! As you can tell, she was giddy with power!
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