View all 5 items > Garage Door Opener Hardware View all items > Garage Door Opener Remotes Garage Door Openers & Hardware at True ValueFrom the time you leave in the morning to your return drive home, you count on your garage door to perform - no matter the conditions or time of day. With the garage door openers and home hardware accessories at True Value, you can start and end each day knowing that quality is on your side. Update this vital part of your life with garage door openers, weatherstrips, and a host of accessories for your repairs and upgrades. Balancing the features of your home and garage is vital when selecting your products. Luckily, the local True Value experts understand your needs when helping you select the right hardware for your situation. Because your home is unique, we encourage you to meet our friendly staff who can help you select the right garage door openers and parts, while providing helpful installation steps for your home improvement project.
Even when the weather turns, it's important that your garage door opens, locks, and adds value to your home. for our guides on installing your garage door opener, painting your garage door, and much more!The torsion spring, not the operator (or motor), does the heavy lifting. Aesthetics aside, the big changes in today's 300-pound steel doors are in insulation. Tighter perimeter seals and sandwiched polyurethane panels get some doors' U-factors, which measure resistance to heat flow and air infiltration, down as low as 0.2. A door under 0.3 qualifies for a 2010 tax credit of up to $1500.1. Motor & Gears: The motor is typically about a 1/2-hp, 6-amp machine hooked to a 120-volt outlet—that's all it takes to overcome the inertia of a stopped door. The machine also slows a door in transit, preventing it from crashing to the garage floor.2. Drive Guide: This track (aka the T-rail) guides and shields the chain, screw or belt as it moves the door open and closed. It connects the operator to the trolley, which in turn is connected to the door.3.
Height Adjustment: Operator settings determine the distance the door travels. The machine kicks in to arrest the door's motion or to make adjustments if a door isn't opening or closing completely. The force of the door's motion can also be adjusted so the door stops moving if grabbed.4. Inverter & Battery: To allow smaller, more efficient motors, most garage-door operators use DC current. An inverter switches household AC power to DC, which is also used to charge a battery backup system that kicks in when the power is out.In the past, suburban burglars sometimes gained access to garages by using radio scanners to eavesdrop on a code transmission between a remote control and a garage door. Doors in the 1960s were easy targets—they used only one code. In the 1970s and '80s, code grabbers pilfered one of 256 codes that the remotes cycled through. "Since the mid-1990s, we've had rolling codes with billions of combinations," door-operator manufacturer Chamberlain's Paul Accardo says. "The remote sends a code to the receiver;
it opens the door and creates a new code for the next time the door opens. Someone could still capture that code, but it won't be used again." Among the quietest (and costliest) drive options, the belt's Kevlar polymer body is molded into nubby teeth on one side. These rotate through a gear on the operator top to pull the trolley.The cheapest and oldest technology, the bike-chain-style chain sits slightly slack when the door is open—at least 1/2 inch above the bottom of the T-rail. The chain makes a racket, but maybe that's a good thing when your teenagers are sneaking out.A continuous threaded shaft connects the operator to the trolley, and its arm reaches for the door. Its threads require biannual lubrication with silicone, and it wears out the trolley more quickly than the other options. But the screw is the Goldilocks drive—median price and noise level.Flow GarageGarage PowerDriveways CarportsCarports GaragesWe Re FlooredChamberlain Garage Door OpenerRace DeckDeck FreeGarage FlooringForwardThis is the kind of garage floor every car guy needs.
Finish off the garage with a #Chamberlain garage door opener or Garage Power Station!We’re lucky where I live. And my “where I live” I mean my specific neighborhood and my specific house. Knock on wood, we don’t have the issues with flooding that so many around me (including in my neighborhood) do. We don’t lose power. We don’t have major natural disasters. So of course we lost power for the first time since we moved into our house.If you haven’t noticed, it’s been incredibly hot this summer. And on one of our hottest days of the year, we lost power. At first, it was a flicker that went out for just a minute or so before everything turned back on. Five minutes later, the power went out, but there was no buzz of the house turning itself back on. As time ticked by, it got awfully warm in our house. Calling ComEd – our electric company in Chicago – I found out that it would be hours before they expected to repair the blown transformer and restore power.
It was a no brainer. I called our library, confirmed they had power (and air conditioning), and I packed up the wee ones. Getting out of the garage wasn’t a huge issue. I know how to disable the automatic garage door opener. In my case, you simply pull on the red lever, which removes the motor and gear from the track. Then I can manually lift it up and exit the garage – just like I did when I was a little kid and we didn’t have an automatic garage door opener.Unlike when I was a little kid, we don’t have a key to lock our garage door to keep anyone from coming in the way we did back then. Instead, I locked the back door to our house (thank goodness for the battery operated keypad lock on our front door), and manually closed the garage door. What else can I do, right?Yes, it was definitely a good call to leave my house. The power outage was fairly widespread. When there’s no power to stoplights anywhere around, you know it’s a bad sign. It took us awhile to get to the library, but we were happy to be there (and meet up with some friends who had the same idea) once we finally arrived.
After a few hours at the library, I got a text from a friend letting me know power had been restored. We all cheered and jumped back in the car to return home. When we arrived, I manually opened the garage door again and drove inside. After scooting the wee ones through the front door, I turned my attention to the garage door, knowing I wanted to reconnect it so that it would work with my opener again.It’s only easy if you remember how to do it. I pressed the garage door opener, pleased with myself for remembering how to do this, since I hadn’t had to reconnect my garage door opener in over 10 years. I waited for it to engage the gears as it went past, smiling to myself. The motor worked and pulled the gear along, but the garage door wasn’t engaged and remained firmly planted on the garage floor.I tried pulling and tugging the cord to see if that worked. Calling friends to see if they (or their husbands if they were around) knew how to reattach the garage door opener.
I could have sat down to cry. Or I could have pretended that all was well with the world and that I wanted to manually open and close the garage door for the rest of the time I lived in this house. Or I could have waited for my husband to get home and make him fix it. But that’s not how I roll. I like figuring things out and fixing them.So I stood up on the door of my car to peer at the track and gear and garage door. It isn’t a complicated system, relatively. I should be able to visually see how it goes together and fix it that way. Once I really looked at it, I figured it out, but I’ll save you the pain of having to sit and stare and puzzle.The first key is that you have to open your garage door. Trying to reengage your garage door opener with the door closed doesn’t work. Next up, is reattaching the gear to the track. When you disengage it, it’s easy and obvious. You simply pull back on the emergency cord, and it disengages. Pulling back a second time does nothing.