Key Safety Features to Consider When Choosing a Garage Door Opener

Safety must be your highest priority when selecting a garage door opener. Today’s garage door openers are equipped with a wide range of safety features intended to keep your home and family safe. Being aware of these features enable you to make an informed decision and, more importantly, keep your garage door operating safely. Here’s how to know which safety features a garage door opener should have.

Auto-Reverse Mechanism

The auto-reverse is another vital safety feature of the opener which recognises the foreign objects while the garage door is on the way of closing. Equipped with safety measures, an Amazon-purchased garage door will reverse direction if it encounters any object while closing, preventing damage and injury.

This also prevents accidents and injuries, especially with small children and pets, that could be close to the garage door. It also protects your car and possessions from potential harm.

Safety Sensors

Safety sensors are positioned close to the base of the garage door tracks and use infrared technology to prevent objects in the door’s path from being crushed. These sensors relay to the opener to halt or reverse the door’s motion if something is detected in its path.

Sensors provide an additional line of defense, preventing a garage door from unintentionally closing on an object or person. These work particularly well in households with young kids or pets.

Manual Release Feature

A manual release feature can aid you in getting the garage door opener detached from the garage door manually. It comes in handy during power loss or when the opener falters, enabling species to move the door by hand.

A manual release also ensures that you’re not locked out of your garage if the opener is ever not working, which is a nice feature from convenience and safety standpoints.

Rolling Code Technology

What rolling code technology does is changes the code that is sent from the remote to the garage door opener every time the remote is used. It helps to keep it away from unauthorized access by making it harder for potential thieves to intercept and replicate the code.

This is a preventative measure against outsiders stealing your code to break into your garage and ultimately your house.

Battery Backup System

A battery backup system allows your garage door opener to work during power outages. Using this feature, you can even open or close your garage door even if the main power supply is cut off.

If you want access to your garage in case of a power outage, you will want to have a battery backup system so that you are not stuck outside waiting for the power to come back on or locked out of your garage entirely.

Auto-Close Feature

My favorite garage door security feature is the auto-close, which can be configured to close the garage door automatically a certain duration after opening it. You can customize this feature depending on your preferences.

Enhanced security: Auto close keeps the garage door shut automatically higher security by avoiding accidental left doors.

Alerts and Notifications for Active Safety

New generations of garage door openers include safety alerts and notifications to notify you in real time when your garage door is open and closed. Such alerts may include notification of the door being open too long or other operational issues.

Safety alerts keep you informed about your garage door’s state of health so that you can take any necessary repair steps to ensure your home remains a safe place.

Picking a garage door opener with full safety features is an important aspect of protecting your home and family. Get in touch with DoorMaster Garage Door Services for professional expertise and installation of garage door openers equipped with the best safety features.