Eichler Garage Door Opener

Sometime ago one of our handy eichler owners posted instructions on installing a garage door opener on an eichler original sliding door.

Eichler garage door opener.

Just used 2 standard craftsman door openers and some clever blocking to attach the openers to the doors. I ll approach them about their installation. One of the sliding doors operate on an electric garage door opener. February 27 2007 9 04am 4.

Just bought an eichler in concord and am considering installing a garage door opener for the original wood door. Apr 2 2003. All garage door openers sold in california since 1993 are required by law to include a monitored non contact safety reversing device or safety edge that stops and reverses a closing garage door. Used a 4x4 mounted on the outside door note this means the doors cannot slide past each other any more and some old bookshelf supports on the inside door where i needed to run the track about 10 from the door in order to avoid the other opener track.

As i read these posts it seems that the new breed of installers don t understand how this can be done and opting to replace the door with a section steel door. Were you aware. Garage door openers and eichler sliders since we moved into our eichler we ve had a love hate relationship with the dual sliding garage doors. I currently have an eichler with the original sliding garage doors.

I have a flat roof eichler 2 car garage with the horizontally sliding garage doors. Had to do a bit of tweaking to the height of the tracks and a few different modifications behind the door jambs to build up something for the back door to close on but that was about it. Eichler renovation remodel and addition duration. This is usually a photo electric eye that will turn off the automatic opener mechanism if an object comes between the door and the edge of the opening.

Get this design of modern steel sliding garage doors without any registration only at homeposh when trouble develops with eichler sliding garage doors and the local garage door to replacement. However the door is starting to have a hard time opening. I ve done it too. The garage doors require a lot of effort to slide open closed and i suspect that the roller mechanisms may be worn causing the doors to hang lower and scrape the ground.

It s been working perfectly for the past 2 years. Edward ang 308 views. He thought it would take two days. Adapting a conventional automatic garage door opener for an eichler home duration.