Vertical Lift Garage Door Openers

The liftmaster 3900 side garage door opener can be used on standard high lift sectional doors up to 14 feet in height.

Vertical lift garage door openers.

Full vertical lift garage doors. When a standard lift garage door is closed the top roller rests at the bottom of the curved portion of the track or just below it. Standard lift garage doors. If you have a high lift garage door you should know how crucial it is to maintain it properly.

Chamberlain group cgi the corporate parent company to liftmaster chamberlain merlin and grifco is a global leader in access solutions and products. Maintenance for a high lift garage door. We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems. If this sounds like an appealing idea to you you just might be the kind of person that could benefit from a high lift garage door.

Jackshaft garage door openers are the most common type of wall mounted operators. In case of low headroom garage doors you can use a jack shaft garage door opener. Only a torsion spring system can be used with a jackshaft garage door opener. Jackshaft garage door openers can be used on the following doors.

These systems can be used for any type of garage door including vertical standard and high lift doors. The average diy er should not attempt this. The task is more complex than installing a garage door from start to finish. Call for a free estimate.

These instructions should act more as a guide. Moreover if a garage door spring wears down it could. These side mount garage door opener liftmaster are designed to deliver safety and reliability to the end user. The following instructions for converting your garage door to a vertical lift system are written only for the confident mechanic.

If you have read our introduction to standard torsion springs you will already know that vertical lift and high lift garage doors work differently than standard lift garage doors. A high lift garage door creates vertical space in your garage giving more space underneath them to store items on shelves or stack vehicles. The two primary differences are in the track and the cable drums. They do not include all the necessary steps.

Instead of using a rail track wall mounted garage door openers are connected to the door s torsion bar to operate the door. After all the mechanism consists of many moving parts and if any one of them fails you re stuck with a garage door that won t open or close.