Anyone know much about garage door?

[NeoSolo]

Home Depot has Clopay
Lowes has Wayne-Dalton .. this one has something called TorqueMaster (little different than tension spring)

not looking for anything fancy.
any sugestion?

 

[Ipno]

I am not a garage door expert, (IANAGDE ? ) but ...

My parents have an opener with a spring, and the spring broke and did about $600 damage to their car (it snapped down, scrached up the trunk while going nuts for a few secs) also had to replace the spring, guess they go bad a lot so if you can avoid them might be a good idea.

 

[LemonHead]

I have a Wayne-Dalton rollup that I installed a few years back. I like the look of it and it's good quality. I got the middle-of-the-road door that has a hard foam insulated shell on the inside. This gives it some thermal properties, but most inportantly, in my case, it adds rigidity to the door as opposed to the door with no backing at all. The high end one has the foam backing sandwiched between another layer of metal, and a higher R-value (insulation property rating) than the middle one. The extra metal backing also protects the foam backing from being nicked and gouged from use. (the foam backing is actually very hard, so even it can hold up pretty well by itself.) Unless you live in a region where it gets very cold, then the middle-of-the-road one is fine and saves you a few $$$

Hope that helps.

 

[teddymines]

Originally posted by: Ipno
I am not a garage door expert, (IANAGDE ? ) but ...

My parents have an opener with a spring, and the spring broke and did about $600 damage to their car (it snapped down, scrached up the trunk while going nuts for a few secs) also had to replace the spring, guess they go bad a lot so if you can avoid them might be a good idea.

I had my 92 corvette for a little under a week when the spring broke in my garage. I was pulling the door down from the outside when I heard this loud snap/bang/crash sound and the door went down quick. I couldn't lift the door so I *sprinted* thru the house and found the spring right next to the car almost touching the wheel. I spent at least 10 minutes looking over the car wondering how it didn't get hit.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I don't know if we just have a different style or what, but when one broke on ours it just released the tension but stayed coiled. (thier natural state is a rather tight coil).

The alternative might be a torsion bar w/ some gears.