This is what I’m getting ready to do, and you have no idea how beneficial this video was. Thanks for sharing this.I’m doing 2x10’ foot doors so I’ll have to order the extender kit.
This is a great idea and implementation! I'm building a home and a separate garage building to store my motorcycles. Riding up to the door and just clicking a remote button on my bike will be a hell of a lot easier than getting off and opening it up by hand. Thanks for this idea!!!
What a great video you did! I just installed my Chamberlain B2405 on a 10’x8’ roll-up door identical to yours, and did not- nor could I use the 8’ ext kit . To get the extra 9” of travel out of the 20” stock bar, I simply cut 9” off the bar leaving two holes at the end and did some bench grind work to round the new end. This unit stands 123” tall and that’s all I had to work with as I have 10’ walls and garage doors are on the side, not the end as in your video. So my head unit actually touches the roof insulation. In lieu of your antenna pole, I used a 36” x1.5” perforated box tubing 14 gauge from HD and still had to use the two L brackets you showed to keep it from twisting as you mentioned. I’m only 1.5” from fully up in travel (like yours due to L bracket hitting limiter) and still pleased with that. Thank you so much for a great job on the video! It helped me greatly. Hopefully others out there can use my mod to get a full 8’ of trolley travel if they have an 8’ tall door.
Ever since I did this 5 years ago, videos have been popping up of people doing the same thing.... lol Should have patented the idea and marketed it. haha ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q9vDauK-EN8.html
When I had a garage door company come install my 16’ wide by 14’ tall door on the front of my building, he was amazed and took a bunch of photos of this himself.
Neat idea. I just installed that exact model opener in my garage. Found your video looking for ideas on my shops rollup doors. If i didnt have 14 foot tall doors thist might work.
thanks for posting! i've been looking for an automatic door opener for my roll-up garage doors and i've been a little horrified at the prices. this definitely seems like it would be worth a shot💪😁
Very cool set up I was thinking of wAys to automate these types of garage doors too this one seems to work the best I also thought about way too is if there was a gear on the side of the roller door mount the opener with a short belt or chain the opener drives the gear on the roller door’s spring rod but I like your way as good 😁👍
I just did this, and it works perfectly..best idea for cost efficiency..mine controls 2 doors joined together by a 2x4 w/ door trimmed out using a router to insure a no rub obstruction on metal, appears as long as its no obstruction it will work fine, also belt driven is more silent if noise bothers u. Thanks for ur ingenious idea!
I love the Ingenuity of man. Mangenuity needs to become a new vocabulary word. I feel like a genius when I can make anything happen almost perfectly when I put my mind to it. Fix small problems to hone in a great product at the end.
@@d804boy I ended up purchasing the 9ft extention kit for my 10 ft door. The 10ft extention was too long but the 9ft extention gave me all but 7 inches of the door being fully open. Hope that helps
I am planning on doing the same thing on my steel garage roll up doors. What an awesome Idea. I was wondering if the remotes will work ok through the metal building or did you have to install some kind of outside antenna?
If you can mount the motor near the floor and use a 2' long L shaped bar (since the motor is would be about 2' from the bottom of the opening) to attach to the chain then you can push those pesky programming buttons when you change out remotes or program for new vehicles. I'll save from having to climb a ladder. I was wondering if there wasn't a way to mount a sprocket to the end of the door turner and just use the sprocket gear on the garage door opener by itself without the rail.
Do you think this could work on a 6’ roll up door or is there a minimum length for the belt drive? Do you need to add any additional weight to the bottom of the door? Debating on trying this instead of ordering a roll up door with the built in motor because then I’d have WiFi functionality for open/close on the shed.
It would work just fine. My opener has wifi already and works great. Either works though? You set the height of lift with the door for how high or how low to travel.
How is this still doing for you? Any issues? Any danger or hazards with the chain drive and it being so accessible? Do you have a list of everything you used to do this? I want to do the same thing.
It works great still. In fact, I have another building being built and will install three more just like it. I have no list but most was with the belt drive opener. The rest, I winged it as I went. No seen dangers and mine is belt driven and is super quite. Could install a simple guard easily if wanted.
Great job, it looks great. A less expensive way to get that door open. Does it have to be Chamberlain? Does it have to be belt drive? Lastly, is that 1/2hp or 3/4hp Thanks
Not very likely since the belt rides up against the bar but always possible. I have a nee building being built and adding three more just like this. Could always put a guard around the belt and bar.
Is that the style garage door that doesn't come with a chain pulley set-up that you have to manually push up with your hands like at storage facilities?
@@DaleStagg Mine didn't come with them either. To lock them securely from the inside, I drilled the bar that protrudes through the track on the inside, rather than the outside so the lock can't be cut. For when I leave them closed long term.
I added another one on my back building only it opens two doors with the one opener. One is an eight foot wide door and the second door is a nine footer, so yes, it would open a 16 foot door without issue. I just put my opener between both doors and used a wide metal bar to fasten to each door.
I forgot to mention below I have two garage doors and will be adding another identical Chamberlain opener now that I know it can lift the full 8’ without the extra extension kit. I wanted to buy only one first to be sure and see if it would lift correctly. My 1 ton Dodge Ram dually is right at 7’ tall with a short antenna atop the cab in the other bay and it certainly needs the full lift. Now I’m confident to buy another, and install will go much quicker this time.
@@DaleStagg in one place you said 3/4 hp but here you said 1.25 hp. Can you clarify please, which one you used? LOVE THIS!!! Thank you so much for sharing
Big enough motor to lift? Try oiling the door sides to insure no binding. Check the sensors to insure nothing blocking from lowering? Start by lubricating the door on each side track. Grease or oil to verify it can move freely. Check the sensitivity of door opener and adjust to allow heavier doors. They can be set sensitive and needs to adjust to lift heavier loads.
I just started working on mine. The very bottom of my door flexes on the down stroke and binds against the door track. I am hoping L brackets will solve the problem.
@@robertboyero3797 Sorry, it is not at my home but at another location that is distance away now. I just used self drilling screws and used just like my round pole but is more stable and does not try to turn like the round pipe did.
Will work fine if door is operating smoothly but if it gets in a bind it will warp the door . Maybe the opener has a overload that will react quickly in that event though .
They were much more expensive when I did this. However, mine is a smart version opener that I can operate from my phone using wifi also. I use that option frequently too.
Found them as you say now for that price range but does not fit my door well. About to do a double door and will do it with the same method as before. My drum does not have the openings for the rollers to work without major mods.
