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Sat 11 Aug 2018 18:38
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - Metropolis.

Looking to put my car in my garage and going to purchase electric doors, just wondered if anyone has recommendations for brands to go for/avoid? If it's going to break all the time I might as well do it manually!

Thanks in advance

Metropolis

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Sat 11 Aug 2018 22:17
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - RobJP

We've got a Hormann sectional electric garage door.

Quiet in operation, reliable as a rock.

The big thing with these is the fitting. You are far better avoiding the big companies like the plague, and finding a local independent company - they seem to care far more about their customers than the big companies do. Prices are usually cheaper too !

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Sun 12 Aug 2018 00:59
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - Avant

We used Dorset Garage Doors,a highly reputablte local company, for ours, and they always recommend Garador. All fine so far.

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Sun 12 Aug 2018 10:21
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - John F

Double garage with two single Hormann Promatic doors, now nine years old. No problems so far.....

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Sun 12 Aug 2018 10:30
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - Andrew-T

... they always recommend Garador. All fine so far.

It's not powered, but ours is a Garador, made by Westland, the helicopter people in Yeovil. After about 45 years in situ the steel counterbalance spring failed spontaneously, but was replaced fairly cheaply. Probably another 40 years life, but I won't worry about that.

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Sun 12 Aug 2018 10:27
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - sandy56

We changed to electric doors years ago and no real problems. We had one failure that was quickly fixed. I would recomment using a local installer, one that has been going for some years and has a good reputation, and go for whatever doors they recommened and support.

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Thu 16 Aug 2018 12:55
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - daveyjp

Parents have a Gliderol garage roller shutter type door and they have had no problems with it in 6 years.

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Thu 16 Aug 2018 19:13
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - galileo

Without wishing to tempt Providence, our Hormann single piece double garage door has worked reliably for 14 years, I've only needed to put 2 new batteries in the remote control.

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Fri 17 Aug 2018 09:56
- No, this isn't spam! - Electric garage doors - NARU

We fitted a hormann opener, mostly so that we could retain the latches at the side of the door - its much more secure than relying just on the resistance of the motor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJUaJkYmlM

But I guess it depends on what door you already have.

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