Home Depot/garage door opener
 

Has anyone purchased a new garage door opener from Home Depot and had their contractor do the installation? If you did this are you satisfied with the install?

I am also in the market for a new garage door opener, which will probably be a Chamberlain belt drive type. However, you should know that Home Depot does not have their own contractors. They hire third party subcontractors who they may or may not have ever contracted with previously. So, some posters may have had a good experience, but there is no guarantee that whoever installed their opener will be the same company who will install your opener. I will not be hiring Home Depot because I just don't like their concept. I intend to get a quote from Scott Cowan, 352-697-0321, who gave me a quote of about $350, but that was a few years ago. Good luck.

The Chamberlin units are fairly easy to install, I suggest you check for a local handyman to do this. I have installed about 8 of these over the years, helping neighbors. With 2 ladders and a second person this can be completed is around 2 hours. On a side note, if you use some washers, it is possible to reuse the old MVP bracket at the door header, and you can buy some additional angle with holes and add this to the new opener to be able to use the original ceiling mount. All of this saves a lot of time.

Home Depot uses Clopay Garage door to do their install.

HomeDepot has a special on Genie Openers. $99 Installation. Expires 11/2.

Installing a garage door opener isn't brain surgery. You shouldn't have any problem with one of HD's installers. Beware of "extras".

Thanks, but I am confused. Clopay is located in Tampa. Are you sure that Clopay employees will be installing a garage door opener that you buy from Home Depot? If so, why not just call Clopay?

Home Depot is one of many Clopay dealers like Romac, etc. I just looked on Home Depot and you can price out DIY or have installed (by one of their contract vendors). Unless you do a straight out DIY your going to pay about the same prices for a dealer to install.

I'm still confused. Are you saying that, if I buy the opener from Home Depot, one of their contract vendors will install the opener, or will it be installed by a Clopay employee? I have no interest in installing the opener myself or having it installed by a Home Depot contract vendor who Home Depot doesn't even know. I find it difficult to believe that Clopay is paying people to travel from Tampa to install garage door openers. Looking at their website, it appears that their main business is garage doors, not openers.

In MA, we used Precision Door Services, and they did a fantastic job, fixed price, with Wifi, camera, remotes, wall unit and outside coded opener, for $799 fully installed each door. They will only install their GD Openers. .

In FL, same company, is located at
Address: 4070 Co Rd 124A Ste A, Wildwood, FL 34785
Areas served: Lady Lake and nearby areas
Phone: (352) 254-4758
Appointments: precisiondoornorthcentralfl.com

It might be a difficult DIY project without tools, on a ladder, even with tools for some people, I can do somethings, but lifting and holding units in place and bolting them on at the same time is now long longer what I can do. .

good luck

Clopay is a distributor and has no install people. You cannot even buy an opener directly from them you have to go through a dealer like Home Depot or Romac (type your zip into their field and it will provide their sellers) . If you get an opener from Home Depot they will contact a vendor for install.

Home Depot knows their installation vendors and they're "approved" by Home Depot. That's sort of like being approved to use the McDonald's App at the Drive Thru window.

Call Scott at *(352) 697-0321‬, if you want it done right.

That is what I thought. The OP said that Clopay does the install, but that is obviously not correct. My issue with Home Depot is that they will hire anyone, and that means that they are not hiring top quality installers. Top quality installers do not need to go through Home Depot to get business. Although, having a large company like Home Depot may help if you have an installation problem.

FYI, there was another thread where someone bought a water heater from Lowe's, and the Lowe's installer wanted $3,000 to install the water heater. Mike Scott Plumbing will furnish and install a water heater for about $900.

Yes, price less than $300.

I did purchase one from HD and had their contractor install it. It was about 4-5yrs ago, but I think it was $80 to install, and he did a good job. However, I also purchased another belt drive opener for the golf cart garage, and installed it myself. I only needed a 2nd ladder and didn’t need any help. Not hard.

I would recommend just picking an installer that will install Chamberlain, Liftmaster, or any door compatible with MyQ. That will mean you can use an app to open and close your door. You will have history of it. In addition, you can use Amazon Key Delivery for secure delivery of your orders.

An alternative would be to use Aladdin connect or some other app. This may require mounting something on the door itself to detect whether it is open or closed. I use that now, because the original door was not Chamberlain compatible. When Chamberlain upgraded MyQ, they disabled MyQ, for the device that I mounted on the door. Avoid needing the extra detector to keep it simple.

If you don't want to use Amazon Key Delivery now, at least you, will have the choice in the future. You can also enable others to enter your garage with individual codes if you want to. So you can know who had access and when.

Yes i did. Never been happier replacing that hunk of junk Allstar MPV with quiet reliable Liftmaster.

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I did and the install was awful. I ended up paying more then if I just had a reputable garage door company install a new opener.

Consider a Wall Mount Garage Door Opener
 

I just installed a Wall Mount Garage door opener. The Opener itself it more expensive $509, but it mounts to the spring Bar. No rails up the center of your garage. It's very quiet. I can't comment on install cost, I installed myself. It's fairly easy to do.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Chamberl...O101/325675581

I had a Craftsman from Lowe’s and had it installed. Very pleased . They used ASAP garage door company. I’m sure HD has a similar relationship with local contractors. Ask.

I bought two smart chamberlin openers from Home Depot in Wildwood. They had a company(DIAMOND, FROM NEAR ORLANDO) come out and install them at $150.00 each which I paid H.D. at the time of purchase.

GRTEAT OPENER AND GREAT WORK!

Has anyone had the weatherstripping, sides and top, and the rubber seal at the bottom replaced as part of the opener installation, and how much did it cost?

Yes, very happy. Showed up right on time, took about 45 minutes to remove the old one and install the new one. He even fortified the attachment brackets so the door wouldn't shudder as it operated. Made sure all the openers were programmed correctly. Excellent work.

Why not use Romac?? They are local and take care of all The Villages. They redid mine for a total of $560. Out the door. Do not us ASAP Garage Door, they suck and are TOO expensive.

Now I am intrigued. I had never heard of this. So you don't have a track running along your ceiling? How durable do you think these are?

Shoulder Tendonitis prevents a DIY.

Then call Scotts and have him do it.

Garage door install
 

This a little off topic but I purchased two belt drive Genies with WiFi from Lowe’s when it was on sale this spring. Install was done through Angie’s by a contractor they use. Got an opener and installed for $328.00 per door. Installer was excellent.

The side strips are just nailed in, caulked and painted to match, and available at Lowes and I am sure others. The trick with the rubber seal is to remove the screws at the ends. I have found these are typically a 2 person project. After the old strip is removed, spray soapy water into the aluminum channel, then have one person keep the new strip aligned while the other pulls the strip into place.

Garage door openet
 

Call a reliable company as I did and they installed a better one than I had

My 22 year old MVP works good going up down 10 times day, only thing done was change belt, Lift cables, and cleaned controller button pads. Get back with me in 20 years :$:

BTW, what makes you think you need a new opener?

I purchased garage door opener from Lowe's using their installer no issues great experience. It's really not worth fixing old MVP opener new one I purchased much quieter and smoother operating . My opener has the MYQ app allows Amazon to put packages into my garage and allows me to open and close door remotely.

They are much more efficient and flexible, but more expensive. Some doors are a little complicated to use this sort of system, but I think most of the garage doors installed in TV will work perfectly fine. They're called a "Jackshaft opener".

The Villages is a perfectly application for this sort of opener, as most of the garage doors are fairly small and lightweight and garages are attached to the home .

Probably an extra $300 in total, but definitely worth it, if you plan to live there for a while. Warranties are similar. There's no reason I know of, that either type won't easily last 15-20 years ... your Jackshaft opener will just be way quieter.

(& yes, it obviously cleans up your ceiling space.)