[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by yamma3

Armed with a 10% off coupon, I went to Lowes to buy a new garage door opener. When it came time to apply the coupon - surprise! Lowes does not accept the coupon on an item if they will be doing the installation (which is priced separately). I did not expect the coupon to apply to the installation cost, but they would only accept the coupon if I did not arrange for installation. On what planet does this make sense? They lost a sale.
So, looking around, I can get the opener at a lower price from Amazon. Any recommendations on who to have do the installation?

I got a much better deal on the opener from Amazon. I did my own installation in a couple of hours. The new opener is Mich lighter than the old one, and the center attachment from the old one, over the garage door, worked with the new one. It came with a downloadable video step by step instruction manual. The only trick was that the ceiling bracket for the old All Star was a bit too far back to mate with the mounting bracket on the new one. I had to purchase a piece of pre drilled steel from ACE hardware and a couple of stove bolts. Cut the steel bar into seven inch lengths, problem solved.

[JRcorvette]

Originally Posted by yamma3

Armed with a 10% off coupon, I went to Lowes to buy a new garage door opener. When it came time to apply the coupon - surprise! Lowes does not accept the coupon on an item if they will be doing the installation (which is priced separately). I did not expect the coupon to apply to the installation cost, but they would only accept the coupon if I did not arrange for installation. On what planet does this make sense? They lost a sale.
So, looking around, I can get the opener at a lower price from Amazon. Any recommendations on who to have do the installation?

I hate Lowes and have not stepped foot in there since Home Depot opened up!

[N44125]

Another vote for Ryan.

[mfp509]

Highly recommend Scott Cowen.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by N44125

Another vote for Ryan.

At least one other poster said that Ryan doesn't install new garage door openers anymore. Is that not correct?

[bagboy]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

At least one other poster said that Ryan doesn't install new garage door openers anymore. Is that not correct?

Post #8 said he didn't install garage doors. He just worked on my neighbors opener a month or two ago. I don't know anything about his work with doors.