A garage door is the largest moving object in the home. These doors are often operated by electric door openers. Proper installation, operation, maintenance, and testing of the garage door and automatic opener are necessary to provide safe, trouble-free operation. Here are some helpful safety tips. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every safety...
Continue readingYour garage door – well, it’s just kind of there, isn’t it? It goes up when you press the button and goes down when you press the button. You go in. You go out. You probably just take it for granted, don’t you? But there’s one thing you really need to be aware of – garage door safety. Garage door openers were convenient, but dangerous! The invention of garage door openers were very welcome, especially in the regions that had regular inclement weather. Having to get in and out of your car,...
Continue readingPress Contact: Bruce Romano: 202-418-2124 DA 05-424 February 15, 2005 Consumers near certain military installations have recently experienced interference to their garage door opener controls that may reduce the operating distance or cause the device to stop operating. This public notice is issued to explain the cause of the interference and the steps being taken to alleviate this problem....
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Continue readingHaving trouble finding the right Genie garage door opener remotes? Check out our Genie Remote Compatibility Chart. Check out our Genie Circuit Board Compatibility Chart. Don't know which circuit board you need? Having trouble finding the right remote for your Chamberlain Lift-Master garage door opener? Check out our Sears Craftsman Compatibility and Reference Chart [Pre-2005]. For...
Continue readingMarch 6th, 2008 First United Door Technologies, manufacturer of residential and commercial garage doors, expands its presence in Southern California with the opening of a distribution center in Canoga Park. This is the second regional distribution center to be opened this year, with First United opening a distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga in January. The new center will distribute residential and commercial sectional garage doors, operators and hardware, greatly improving product availability and expediting delivery times, and is located at Marwest Access Controls, Inc. headquarters (21101 Osborne St., Canoga Park, CA 91304)....
Continue readingYou can look through our garage door opener questions and answers that other customers have already asked (frequently asked questions). You may find your answer here. Otherwise , contact us. We would be happy to answer your questions personally. Do you carry remotes?Absolutely, we carry remotes and most other replacement parts for gate and garage door opener operators for Stanley, Genie, Liftmaster, Sears Craftsman, Chamberlain, Multicode, Manaras, and Linear (for TenPro, ProLift, Clopay, MasterMechanic, and others not listed, please call us). How do I determine which remote do I need?We need to know the brand and model of...
Continue readingFrequency FlierDoor industry grapples with military’s siege of 390MHzBy Amy Campbell Like many a military invasion, the target was caught by surprise. It wasn’t some foreign country suddenly besieged by a military attack, but garage door operators when the U.S. Department of Defense elected to employ the 390 frequency, which it owned but was not using. When the military began testing its new mobile radio system at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, industry panic set in. With an estimated 50 million or more operators using the same frequency, was the garage door opener doomed?It began simply enough about...
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