Belt Drive

Our belt drive garage door openers are strong and virtually silent. The low vibrations minimize noise in attached garages while easily handling doors of all kinds.

Chain Drive

Chain garage door openers deliver a cost effective solution to lifting heavy garage doors. Designed for optimal lifting power and reliability, chain drive garage door openers deliver consistent operations for years to come.

Speciality

At Southwest Garage Door Service, we offer specialty garage door openers designed to fit your needs. From low-noise products to openers compatible with your smart home, Southwest Garage Door has it all.

Safety Sensors

Every garage door opener born after 1993 has been installed with camera eyes at the bottom of the doors tracks that point at each other with an invisible beam that will not allow the motor to push the door down if it is interrupted. These “safety sensors” are designed to be a secondary safety feature to the bump and reverse feature already implemented in all properly functioning operators. If a box, rake, dog, child, car bumper, or random leaf from your neighbor’s tree is blocking one eye from seeing the other eye, the garage door will not close until the object is moved. Sometimes the camera eyes might be accidentally bumped and moved out of alignment, creating the same symptom as if there was an obstruction. All safety sensors have a sending camera eye and a receiving camera eye. Most manufactures have an LED light on the sending camera eye that stays constant as long as there is power going to it, but all garage door opener brands have an LED light on the receiving camera eye to signal that it is seeing the sending eye. If there is an obstruction or an issue with an eye, the receiving camera eye LED light will blink or completely go off. It is common for manufacturers to use different color LED lights to indicate which camera eye is the sending and which is the receiving. On Chamberlain garage door openers (Craftsman, Liftmaster), when there is a camera eye safety sensor issue, in addition to the garage door not closing, the light bulbs up at the opener’s head unit will flash off and on a few times.

Stripped Gears & Trolleys

Because the small motors used to guide garage doors up and down do not have the strength to continually lift more than eight pounds and the springs and rollers that actually move this large, heavy, metal wall will inevitably wear out and not do their job efficiently, operators usually come equipped with some sort of “self-destructive” mechanism that will wear out before the motor does. The hard plastic gear inside a Chamberlain (Liftmaster, Craftsman) chain or belt drive unit will strip out, the metal sprocket attached to the top of the gear and sprocket assembly will break if the garage door is riding rough through the tracks, or the garage door is heavy from loss of spring tension. In Chamberlain screw drive units, there is a plastic coupler that connects the rail to the motor that can break from stress and there is a plastic inner slide with plastic teeth that travel in the screw that will also file down due to the garage door stress. Other opener brands have their own unique plastic “self-destructing” device that will break if the garage door needs serviced. Genie and Overhead brands may use a trolley, and/or a coupler that may be replaceable, but if anything plastic within the head unit breaks on these brands, and most other brands, you will be likely replacing the entire operator. Our preventative maintenance tune-ups include the applications of the appropriate grease and lubricates to the gears and trolleys to help extend their life-expectancy.

Circuit/Logic Boards

Power surges and electrical storms can both be detrimental to the circuitry within the operators logic board. When a logic board has been damaged, it can give off one or many random symptoms. If the receiver built onto the board was the part that was damaged then the wall button could maybe still operate the garage door, but the remotes will not. If another part of the circuitry on the logic board was damaged, it may cause the opener to intermittently cease function or even occasionally open and close on its own. Whatever symptom the bad board is displaying, the solution will be to replace the entire board. Because the receiver is built into Chamberlain logic boards, all the remotes and keypads will need to be reprogrammed after a board is replaced. And because most other brands have a separate board and receiver, which will most likely both need replaced, the cost of replacing all the parts effected by electricity are usually close to the price of an entirely new garage door opener. It is a good idea to have a surge protector protecting your garage door opener from power surges.

Capacitors

A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component used to store electrical energy temporarily in an electric field. In a garage door opener, the capacitor works like the starter in a vehicle; if the capacitor doesn’t ignite, then the motor won’t move. The most common cause for a capacitor to stop working would be too much stress from the garage door. Most of the time, the stress is caused by bad rollers, but sometimes the spring is to blame. When the springs relax, they don’t lift the complete weight of the garage door anymore, forcing the garage door opener to lift more weight than it is designed to lift. If the opener motor is forced to lift too much weight, too many times within an hour, the capacitor may explode. This explosion within the casing of the garage door operator sprays an extremely hot liquid that sometimes creates smoke that exits the head unit. There are hundreds of different sizes and MFDs for capacitors, but only around a dozen or so used in the many different brands of garage door openers. As with all other possible components for your garage door and garage door opener, we try to carry all the possible types of capacitors so we can repair your problem right away.

The most common product we sell are these rollers. Most builders install rollers that are plastic and do not have ball-bearings. As a result, 75 percent of our calls have something to do with the dragging and wearing down of these plastic rollers. Whether the problem is a stressed out operator, or a door out of its track, the problem usually originated from bad rollers. Our nylon ball-bearing rollers significantly quiet down loud and unsafe doors, and greatly increase the life expectancy of your motor by eliminating the stress that is being created by the door not rolling easily enough. Each roller has eleven ball bearings and a special busing inside of them that doesn’t allow the weight of the door to cause them to pivot like other inferior ball bearing rollers sold at Home Depot or Lowes. The nylon coating eliminates the irritating noise of metal scratching on metal, and the whining sound that plastic rollers tend to make while dragging through the track. Once we have given the door the opportunity to finally roll up and down without the emergency brakes on, we can adjust the sensitivity in your operators force settings to make the motor much more safe and sensitive to hitting obstructions.

Universal keypads are a safe and convenient way to enter your garage. They are a Chamberlain product, but will work with almost all brands of operators. The wireless entry is installed somewhere close but on the outside of the garage, usually on the wood framing of the garage. Not only does the keypad allow you secured access into the garage, you may also set temporary code if you are out of town and need to give someone else access to the garage. Another convenience of the keypad is if you leave your vehicle in the driveway and don’t want to have a remote control in your vehicle because it could allow access to unwanted guests, you can not have a remote at all in your car and simply just use the keypad to come in and out. There is absolutely no way someone can use the keypad as an entry without first knowing your personal code that you personally set.

Just like they sound, they are a nifty little remote small enough to carry on your keychain. Again, this is a better idea then leaving a remote control on your sun visor in your vehicle for anyone to break in and use. The universal keychain remote is made by chamberlain and compatible for most all major brands of Garage Door Operators.

This external receiver kit will allow access to your garage from anywhere in the world from your cell phone. Made by Chamberlain, this product is universal to most major brands of operators and is considered the leader of its form of technology. With the MYQ app that you will install on your phone you will now able to see if you remembered to close your garage door after you have already driven away; and close it from your phone if you had not already.

Deluxe wall buttons can have different features that give you the ability to control different functions on the garage door opener. Most have the ability to switch the motor light off and on for when you just need a little more light in the garage. Most also have a button or switch that locks out in transitions from remote controls that may be outside in a car. The lock feature also enables the keypad or your homelink remote button in your vehicle to operate the motor. Some deluxe wall buttons have the ability to program other remote controls from the wall button itself, and some deluxe wall buttons have a timer option on it to automatically close the garage door if it has been opened for 1 minute, 5 minutes, or 10 minutes. Some other deluxe keypads even display the time and weather.

This is a devise installed onto the ceiling of your garage that points a red laser beam down to a designated location on your windshield to indicate when to stop pulling forward in your garage to prevent driving through a wall.

This device should protect the circuit board inside your garage door opener unit from costly damages brought on by electrical power surges and small electrical storms.

Program your gate and second garage door to the same remote control that you use to operate your main garage door with these handy three button remotes. Unfortunately, these three button and four button remote controls just come with Chamberlain specific technology, but we do carry two button universal remotes that will work for most all major brands of operators.

Most builders install a bottom seal that is 2.5″ to 3.5″ wide at the bottom of the garage door to keep things from coming under the door. Over time, this seal shrinks and/or deteriorates leaving gaps under the door for critters and leaves to make their unwanted access into your garage. We carry and install a 4.5″ wide bottom seal that we strategically tuck inside itself so that it can not shrink over time. The extra width covers more area just in case the foundation isn’t perfectly level, and ensures that it will be a long time before it will ever need replaced.

Otherwise know as “Jamb Seal”, is an attractive way to seal the top and sides of your garage door from the outside. It is installed onto the outside framing of the garage door opening and works as a trim board with a vinyl flap that covers any gaps along the top and sides of the door. They come is white, brown, and almond to match the three most common color garage doors.