Quiet belt drives, battery backup, phone control — across Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino, Willow Glen, Almaden Valley, Sunnyvale.
A new opener is the cheapest upgrade a garage door ever gets: quieter, safer, and finally connected to your phone. We install belt drives for attached garages and anything under living space, chain drives for detached garages and shops, and wall-mount jackshaft units where a flat-roofed low header, ceiling storage or a car lift owns the overhead. Every install includes new safety eyes, rail, travel and force calibration, with remotes, keypad and app paired before we leave.
Two local specifics shape the recommendation. Battery backup, because planned fire-season shutoffs here run for days rather than hours. And the header: this valley has an unusual number of flat-roofed and low-header garages — Eichlers and mid-century tracts especially — where a standard overhead rail simply does not fit and a side-mounted jackshaft unit is the correct answer rather than a compromise.
Flat roofs are a real specification problem and a common one here. A mid-century or Eichler garage often has only a few inches between the top of the door and the structure, which rules out the rail most installers default to. A jackshaft unit mounted beside the opening solves it completely, keeps the ceiling clear, and on those houses the ceiling is usually part of the design. We measure the headroom before we quote rather than discovering it on the ladder.
Door weight, headroom, roof type, ceiling storage and bedroom adjacency decide the drive type — not whatever is on sale.
Unit, rail or jackshaft, sensors, remotes, keypad, battery and haul-away in one approved number.
Old unit down, new unit hung square, safety eyes aligned and shaded if needed, travel and force calibrated.
Remotes, keypad, car buttons and the app paired, backup battery tested, full cycles with auto-reverse proven.
Tell us what your door is doing and we'll call you right back. No prices online — cost depends on the door, parts, and size, so we give an exact on-site quote.