Commercial Garage Door Opener

Commercial garage doors are a necessity to dealerships, auto body shops, oil-change facilities, gas stations and other industries that cater to auto repair. These businesses usually include large auto bays that are accessible through a garage door, and when the vehicle passes through the door it can be serviced from above and below the surface of the ground, depending on the work needed.

Oil changes and service stations often employ easy-to-operate manual garage doors. These doors are manual as they help to prevent individual drivers from driving into the garage while another vehicle is in place. These facilities are generally set up for quick services such as ten-minute oil changes and point checks on the vehicles, or in the case of service stations perhaps a car wash. Employees of the business can open one door to let out the vehicle on which the job has been finished, and then the other door can be opened to allow a second vehicle access.

Dealerships and auto body repair services, as well as insurance companies, will often employ larger models of commercial garage doors that are operated automatically, by means of switches or sensors, and must incorporate a commercial garage door opener. These businesses are often high volume and cater to all kinds of models of vehicle, from smaller models to big rigs. The garage opener must therefore be heavy duty and able to handle heavy use.

Because of the nature of the business, with its emphasis on high volume valuable property, it is essential that businesses invest in a commercial garage door opener with a high level of security. These openers should have a feature which cycles through ransom door codes, in order to prevent the ever-increasing abilities of cyber hackers from accessing the warehouse or bays by cracking the codes.

A commercial garage door opener should also take into account the perception of the customer, and therefore try to be as convenient and quiet a model as possible. The latest model of Overdrive commercial garage door opener offers several features, among them the ability to close twice as fast as the standard remote and a quiet design. The model also offers precautionary weather technology, so that it does not freeze or frost up in colder weather. It will also offer the highest available protection to the casings and limit accidents through infrared technological implementations.