Michael: It’s time to put the garage doors on our project house, but we’re not just putting on some doors. We’re actually installing an innovative garage door system from Wayne Dalton. The innovation starts right out of the box. All the panel hinges and the rubber door seal on the bottom panel had been attached at the factory. This quick install design makes this system simpler for do it yourself installers. It even makes the professional installation go much more quickly. David Osso and Kelly Green of Wayne Dalton, assemble a door from the ground up. First, they set the bottom panel in to place. Then Kelly attaches the jamb brackets to the roller track. These jamb brackets secure the track to the wall. They are attached to the track using a simple, twist lock design that eliminates the need for bolt.
The lifting cables are attached to the bottom panel then the track is bolted to the wall. The other door panels drop in easily, one after the other. The rollers are placed into the tracks, the panels are lowered into place, and the pre attached hinges are simply bolted to the panel above. The horizontal roller track is lined up with the vertical track by connecting both to a wall mounted bracket called the flag angle. Then the ends of the horizontal tracks are suspended from the ceiling support and bolted into place.
Well, until now it’s been a typical garage door installation. But we’re going to do something different when it comes to the garage door opener. We’re using a unit called an I Drive. Now, the difference with this unit is it doesn’t mount in the middle of our ceiling in the garage and we don’t have a long track and arm attach to the door. We don’t have all different types of systems to pull the door open like a chain or screw or any type of pulleys.
We’re actually going to put this unit right above the garage door. It’s going to mount right there on the wall and it’s really going to tie this into where it’s all one unit. Instead of a garage door opener and a garage door, it’s going to be like one operating unit.
The idrive simply slide on to the spring tube. This tube totally encloses the garage door spring, so the spring is never exposed. Kelly and David mount the spring tube called the torque master on to the support brackets. The idrive opener is then mounted to the wall. Then Kelly assembles the winding gear. This is the gear that will wind the springs to the proper tension point.
Well, now that it’s installed, it’s time to open it up and David and I would say that is very quiet compared to the normal garage door.
David: Oh yes it is Michael, eliminating that rail that goes of usually above and eliminating the chain drive or the screw driver belt did a lot to eliminate noise and vibration, especially the rooms above the door.
Michael: Yes, so if you have a bedroom upstairs, wake up the kids when you open up the garage.
David: Right and note feature about this one its pretty good. It’s a pinch resistant design. It will actually push your finger away from the garage door if you accidentally like placed them near there. So the fact, there’s about 10,000 finger injuries a year from people accidentally putting their fingers between door sections and this type of design will prevent that.
Michael: Great safety feature. Looks real different, not to see the arm bolted on to the garage door right here in the center.
David: Yes in fact, because the way the opener connects to the door, on traditional openers, you’re attaching it right to the section and over the life of the door that creates a lot of stress on the section. It wears out your hinges and so without having that connection, your door is going to last a lot longer with out having to worry about that constant violent operation.
Michael: Will it warp or buckle or anything, for going up and down over and over again.
David: Right.
Michael: Well, since we don’t have it connected here. You got to be pulling it up on the ends.
David: Yes correct. In fact, it goes through our torque masters spring tube and then it connects right down to the bottom here and because of that feature, UL have a revision to their code that regulates garage door opener safety where photo or eyes not required. The safety is actually inherent to the door as one complete unit and then it effect, turns your whole door into a reversing mechanism.
Michael: So the door hits anything, it’s automatically going to go up.
David: Right.
Michael: Even though we don’t have the eyes.
David: Correct. No matter what part of this door you touched, it’s a super sensitive setting tool. Instead of reverse nicely off even a roll of paper towels.
Michael: It’s good so the kids won’t be kicking the eyes out of alignment and you don’t quits—
David: Well, that’s correct. A lot of people get hit with a nice $100.00 more service bill just to find out they’re photo eyes were out of alignment.
Michael: Then they’re pay back. Now normally, when you have the rail on the center, you have a pull cord. You could need up manually open the door. How do you do it here?
David: Well, here that another nice feature is located to the side of the door. Normally people with SUVs or tall vehicles that corking and stock and if you really need to use it, you can’t even get to it. Well, in this case the release handle over to the side, you simply will put it down and that gives you you’re manual operation.
Michael: It puts up the door.
David: That’s right. So in an event of an emergency, you’re not trying to jump into a vehicle just to get to the emergency released handle.
Michael: Now, lifting it up and down and listening to it you can tell it’s not just a single piece of steel.
David: It’s not, just to let the door access.
Michael: That’s right.
David: In fact this is— I have a sample for you right here, to show you a little bit better. This is two sheets of steel with polyurethane foam injected between it. And not only does that give you a great R value. In fact, in this case its 12 R value, but it also makes a super strong door because both of those are really important. A lot more people are living and working out their garages and turning them into you know more of a personal area to live in.
Michael: So it is going to be quiet with all that insulation.
David: Yes and that’s another great feature, not just from the insulating value but also, many doors with single sheets of steel and those can rattle. A lot of times you get more noise from your door.
Michael: And went enough when they actually press in a little bit where this is going to be just a lot stronger.
David: Right, it gives a real firm and solid type of door and eliminates a lot of noise for you.
Michael: Okay, while I’ve been using the hand remote and I know that you got some special features on the wall mount, so let’s go test it in there.
David: Oh Michael, this is our wireless wall station and has the control button that turn the door on.
Michael: And when you say wireless wall station, there’s no wire connected to this to operate the system?
David: Right, it’s a great little feature because you can move your wall station wherever you want. You want it by your kitchen door, if you decide you want it by your work bench, all you have to do is take the cover off and move it right where you need it to go.
Michael: I like that. It’s obvious what this is doing with the up and down arrow. How about this hourglass here?
David: Well, the hourglass, that’s a great feature. You may notice on traditional garage door openers if you want to exit the garage, you have to hit the button and then you have to make a mad dash for the door and then don’t forget with those photo eyes. You also have to jump over the photo beams that go across. So, you got the old jump and dock thing going on there.
When this case, you hit this delay button and as it starts to beep, it’s giving you plenty of notice and warning that the door is about to be moving. In fact, 10 seconds and then you can just calmly walk out and then with no photo eyes, you don’t have to do the old jumping.
Michael: So we’re not going to jump or dock it either one. Plenty of time, we’ve made it outside so, approximately 10 seconds?
David: Yes, plenty of time to calmly exit your garage.
Michael: That’s neat. Over here, you have what looks like a light bulb with light coming out of it. But since, we don’t have a unit mounted right in our ceiling, where is the light?
David: Right. Right now, we don’t have the light because the other outlets aren’t hook up yet but as you can see from this, you can plug the light into any standard outlet in the garage within line of sight of the opener.
Michael: So we’re not limited to the unit, we can put it anywhere.
David: You can put it anywhere. If you like to put it above the kitchen door here or again over there by your work bench, you can just move them around.
Michael: Neat. How about this paw print here, what is it that do?
David: Well, that was a pretty neat feature we added. We found a lot of people would like to maybe just put their dog or cat out in the garage and then open it so that they can go in and out during the day and what we did was, we set it so, instead of you hitting the button to start the door and having to hit it to stop it, this gives you a one time program between six and 30 inches. So, you can set it to whatever height your pet happens to be. And you just hit that one button and the door opens the exact height.
Michael: For more information on this revolutionary garage door system, contact Wayne Dalton at www.waynedalton.com.
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