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Depends on how much you want to spend, menards has different grades of cheap your local hardware store probably has a better grade and the overhead door supplier near you will have different grades of more expensive.
 
LiftMaster, don't forget to get a set of spare nylon or plastic gears, seems they give out at some inconvenient time in the distant future, you know, when its a blowin and a snowin !! LOL
 
Talk to a professional garage door installer/dealer. They will know which are good -bad.....You know they will only install the 'best'.
 
We have a Sears in our shop that was put in 23 years ago when my folks built the place... Has been opened 2x every day for about 15 years and now is opened 4 or 5 times a week... Pretty fast too, and it has the laser that will stop the door on the way down if something crosses it.. Kind of a pain, but it has saved our ElCamino a few times!! :
 
I have only used Overhead Door the last 10 years for new installation and service they are the best in our area. Migraine
 

I had the professionals come out and they installed a "Genie". Probably 5 years ago. Best thing I ever did. Never so much as a hint of trouble.
 
My garage door is 16' X 8' and I've used only opener's from Sears. The first two lasted 45 years. I bought another Sears opener last year
it's a 1/2 hp. My garage door has torsion springs above the door and the door is insulated. Hal
 
No particular brand, but stay away from the screw drive. I prefer belt drive.

More important than the opener is the balance of the door and track condition. If the door doesn't consistently work properly, no opener will work well.
 
One of the springs broke several years ago. It lasted over 20 years. We use that quite often since the cars are kept in there, so is a lot of junk and my tool box. Hal
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If it is a spring, I called the local overhead door
company and they came and put a new one on in short order. As for the Screw openers, I have 3, One was put in approximately 1960, evidently metal gears, We have only had to add a new motor to it (17'x8'). The other two are at the farm, 16 years old and both have the gears out of them now, (Plastic)8'x9'.
Iowa Bob
 
Most all of them are from the same company and have the plastic drive gears. Liftmaster ,Chamberlin, Sears ect. all the same.
Never had a Genie ?
 
I've installed 3-4 Chamberlain openers in the last 35 years. They used to be a decent opener. Last one was last Febuary, they're the cheapest piece of junk now, I'll never put another one up.

Like MIKE M said, they make openers with several other names on them.
 
Get a professional door company to supply it and install it. Do not use anything from Menards (or any other big box for that matter).
 
I helped a friend install 2 of the Liftmaster Elite 8500 series. They mounted beside the garage door directly to the shaft. Amazingly quiet with soft start and soft close. Nothing mounting on the ceiling.
https://www.liftmaster.com/For-Homes/Garage-Door-Openers/Elite-Series/model-8500
 
You mean to tell me you have options? I thought you lived out in the boonies like me. My garage door opener has to get out of the vehicle to open the door.
 
I have a newer Chamberlain and 2 older Sears. If you look at the label on the motors in the Sears they say Chamberlain on them. The plastic gears in both my Sears only lasted 20 years before I had to replace them (usually available online pretty cheap). just don't build them like they used to I guess.
 
We installed two Genies from Menards in 1978. The only parts I've changed have been light bulbs and batteries in the remotes.
 
We have Chamberlains, and have had good luck with them, keep your spring tension set right, and you will have a lot less trouble. Too many people install an opener and never disconnect it to check spring tension, and then pi$ and moan when they have trouble!
 

We have a Raynor that mounts on the wall and turns the torque rod. No problems yet but it's only five years old. The door is a Raynor of the same age so I don't know if the opener is specific for that door or not. It replaces a Raynor that was 39 years old.

One of the shops has a commercial Wayne Dalton on one door and Lift Master on the other door. Two years old for them so the jury is still out.

The old shop has a Raynor that's at least 20 years old and it keeps chugging along.

The Wayne Dalton has a remote that will operate the door from anywhere on the farm building site. Not especially good because if the remote is accidentally pushed anywhere on the farm on a cold day that door will be wide open without me seeing it.
 
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