We’ll show you how to install garage door opener by yourself with Chamberlain’s product. It’s perfect for DIY skill. You should read this review in which explain why I choose Chamberlain.
Check out this video before we start:
# 1: Eliminate a garage door opener (without swearing or getting hurt!)
Okay, perhaps I used one curse word.
But that was later in the setup procedure and also I cut open my finger. Perhaps I should get a free pass?
Anyways, grab a ladder and setting it under your garage door opener.
Place a cardboard box or timber on the ladder to make sure that the opener is fully sustained.
Open the opener and also take an image of all the electrical wiring.
This offers you a reference for the new opener’s wiring arrangement.
Get the bulbs (broken glass has an odor).
Then eliminate all the nuts as well as screws holding the opener to the assistance brackets.
Oh, and disconnect the opener, too!!
Slowly and thoroughly reduced the opener to the ladder and afterwards to the ground.
Now you can get rid of the rail from the brace that’s just over the door.
Usually the rail is held in place by a clevis pin and ring bolt.
Unscrew the ring bolt from the clevis pin as well as pull the pin while holding the rail.
You can lower the rail to the ground as well as carry the old opener to the waste.
I will certainly state this, keep a few of the old components (like clevis pins, ring fasteners, support brackets, etc.) because you could be able to reuse them.
Currently it’s time to set up the brand-new Chamberlain garage door opener. I assume you’ll find it to be easy, specifically if you’re not shooting a video clip tutorial.
# 2: Why I love Chamberlain garage door openers (and you will as well)
And you could wager that if it didn’t work or was a pain, I ‘d inform you.
I made a decision to acquire a version that makes use of a steel-reinforced belt instead of a chain.
Mostly because belts are quieter compared to chains as well as they aren’t as unpleasant.
Furthermore, the belts are a little bit simpler to keep compared to chains.
These are points you could desire to consider when buying a garage door opener.
Draw the Chamberlain opener from package as well as set it on a towel.
Construct the rail and also make certain the front rail item’s tab encounters upward (I show you this in the video).
The tab protects against the trolley (which lugs the door) from disengaging from the track.
If you have trouble setting up the rail, which is constructed from 5 pieces, you can tap them with a rubber club.
The following step is to relax the rail on the opener and also a box at the opposite end. You could after that attach the u-bracket to the rail.
You recognize just what, this is most likely a lot much easier to describe via the video.
Check it out for all the details as well as to see my 3-day old beard.
Now I’m on day 6 as well as seeing a great deal of grey hairs on my face … getting older kinda has an odor!
# 3: What’s Next
I know the video is a bit lengthy yet it will absolutely make your garage door opener setup go smoother.
Feel free to ask me any inquiry in the remarks if you get stuck.
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