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Warning: you may well be hopelessly seduced into investing in a Hormann Ecostar Electric Garage Door Opener once you see what it has to offer. If your inner Puritan tells you that it’s your divine duty to strain your spine and get drenched in icy rain every evening when you get home from work just to open the garage door, it’s time to give the Puritan, not the garage door, the heave-ho.

For just about $260, the Hormann Ecostar can be assembled in about 5 minutes even by a novice, and it’s perhaps the best value quality door opener from a top manufacturer on the market at present.

Once you’ve installed it, you only need to operate it a few times to learn how it functions. It comes with two, pocket-sized remote controls so you never have to get cold rainwater down the back of your neck again (unless you think it’s good for you, of course).

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Check Amazon for Garage Door Openers

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As automatic garage door openers go, this is one smooth operator. The Cardale DC-800NIII Auto-Pro can lift a door measuring 18ft by 7 as though it were made of paper, and there’s a choice of super-smooth Kevlar belt drive or chain.

The chain option however, is a delight – its toothed cable is virtually silent. Advanced ‘Reference Point Technology’ ensures that it always accurately gauges the door position and monitors for obstacles and unexpected forces for maximum safety. It also has an ingenious security feature in the anti-thief ‘back-drive’ technology, which senses any attempt to forcibly prize the door open and engages the motor to resist. It comes with selectable Soft Start and Stop and it’s amazingly quick, opening fully in just 15 seconds.

And you can add multiple handsets in seconds with the ‘Easy Add’ transmitter technology. It’s a little more expensive than basic door openers at around $650, but then, it’s not a basic door opener.

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Fancy an automatic garage door opener which works even when you’re in the midst of a power cut? The oh-so-silent Chamberlain Whisper Drive Plus WD962KD is just what you’re looking for.

This ¾ horse power strength Hercules has the mechanical muscle to lift even heavy wooden doors; but the unique feature is Chamberlain’s ‘EverCharge’ Standby Power System. It can operate the door for up to 40 cycles without power, re-charging fully when the electrical supply returns. The belt drive ensures super-quiet operation and it’s reinforced with flexible steel cords like a steel-belted tyre.

The gear case is enclosed to ensure longer-lasting lubrication and protection from the elements and the door features soft start and soft stop cushioning. It comes with in-vehicle remote control – no more rain dripping down your neck as you get out of the car to open the door. And it’s robustly secure with its ‘PosiLock’ theft protection. It’s the daddy!

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Instead of torturing your vertebral discs every time you need to get the car into the garage, you could do a lot worse than investing in a Henderson Ultra-S Garage Door Opener.

For around $300, the Henderson’s 550 Newton motor will effortlessly open doors up to 14 feet wide at the touch of a button from its stylish, 50 meter range mini hand transmitter. Microprocessor control ensures that any obstacle will stop the door automatically; on closing, it not only stops but gently reverses by 500mm. An emergency release allows you to open it manually from inside the garage, and a neat memory feature calculates the time needed to open and close, including a soft start and stop movement.

To tempt you further, a rolling security function changes the security code each time the system is used, and a courtesy light welcomes you into the garage as it opens, turning off automatically after three minutes. Save your back – get a Henderson!

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Looking for a remote control garage door opener to spare you backache and discomfort on those cold winter evenings? It would be hard to beat the excellent Seceuroglide Excel.

One of the most secure garage doors on the market, this insulated roller garage door with remote control has been awarded the sought-after ‘Secured by Design’ status after meeting all the specifications recommended by the UK Police. Each door is made to measure for your particular garage, and comes supplied with two single-channel key fob radio transmitters.

The single channel Seceurosmart receiver is equipped with an internal courtesy light to welcome you into the garage and, if you’re unlucky enough to get a power cut just after the door closes on you, you can escape to freedom again with the internal manual override. A safety sensor on the bottom slat detects obstructions, causing the door to gently reverse. And with 16 finishes to choose from, it looks really classy, too.

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OK, so the Merlin Prolift 230T Garage Door Opener isn’t ‘cheap’. But at only around $250, it’s hardly expensive either – and it’s built to last.

Your days of risking a hernia wrestling with a heavy door in the cold and rain are over; the Merlin Prolift 230T will open it effortlessly with a simple touch of a button from the comfort of your car – and it’ll fire up a welcome light in the garage, too.

Once you’re inside, press the button again and the door closes and locks. Four minutes later, when you’re relaxing on your favourite armchair with a nice hot brew in your hand, the welcome light goes off. It’ll lift 80kg and is suitable for both sectional and tilt–up doors, whether they’re double, single, or made of steel, fibreglass or wood. And it comes with a two year warranty and 5 year total replacement guarantee for the motor. Forget about hernias.

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Many people think that humankind’s greatest invention is penicillin; they clearly haven’t come across garage door openers. No more dragging and hauling on cold nights after work with rain dripping down your neck. Just push a button from the warmth of your car, and the excellent Doortronic LiftKing LK 800 Pro opens your garage with less effort than it takes to scratch your head.

It comes with a wall switch and three remotes. The Soft Start and Soft Stop features ensure there’ll be no slamming – it starts slowly, speeds up, and finishes softly, whether opening or closing. The automatic stop and reverse feature freezes the door if it encounters an obstacle and sends it calmly into reverse until the obstruction is removed (and as the obstruction could be you or your car, this is one nifty feature). There’s a manual release system so you can get in and out of your garage if there’s a power failure – and it’s really, soothingly,  stress-meltingly quiet.

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If your idea of getting a garage door opener is bribing one of the kids to do it for you, it’s time to think again. Kids are unreliable – they’ll promise to do it ‘in a minute’ without mentioning that the minute they’re contemplating won’t arrive until sometime next year.

There’s an easier way to get the garage door open. Get a machine to do it. The LiftMaster 800A DC Drive Garage Door Opener is easy to install, coming with an optional wireless key pad which opens your door with a 4-digit code. It has a 24V DC motor and you can choose between chain or belt drives (chain is more hardwearing and more expensive but belt drives are quieter – important if there’s a room above the garage).

You’ll also get a multi-function control console, remote control, energy saving transformer, and a light which can be timed to stay on automatically for up to 2.5 minutes. Forget bribing the kids.

Check Amazon for Garage Door Openers

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If you’re done with heaving hernia-inducing garage doors open on cold rainy nights after work, a garage door opener will be a wise investment. Most of us just want to get out of the car and into the comfort of our homes at the end of the day – we don’t want to bust a gut hauling an overweight portcullis up in order to put the car to bed for the night.

There are some excellent deals on garage door openers from or little as $300.  You can free yourself from eye-popping exertion (and blobs of cold rain down the back of the neck) with, for instance, the Sommer Duo Vision 650, available from the same company.

Suitable for doors up to 14 feet in length, it comes with a gutsy 650n chain drive motor, a wall-mounted control box, an internal release mechanism and two 4-channel remote control handsets. Don’t get wet – get wise: get a garage door opener today.

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For anyone who is beginning to resist going into the garage in order to avoid dragging open that back-wrenchingly heavy door, the Hormann Ecostar Electric Garage Door Opener is the ideal solution – garage Heaven will replace garage Hell.

In less than 5 minutes, your days of wearisome weight-lifting will be over – the door will open quietly and effortlessly at the touch of a button. Hormann has a well-deserved reputation for selling superb products at affordable prices and the Ecostar Garage Door Opener is no exception to this rule.

It comes with complete fitting instructions which even the most technically inept amongst us can follow, and a two year warranty. You can also add extras like external entry keypads, fingerprint entry or auto key entry. Not to mention extra remotes, automatic safety beam sensors, emergency release devices and a variety of bulbs and spares. No more grunts of exertion through gritted teeth – a wave of the remote is all it takes. Open Sesame!

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