LiftMaster
The one most South Florida gates already run.
7 models
LiftMaster garage door openers
The opener most of South Florida already has.
Belt, chain and wall-mount, all on the same myQ app. Battery backup is worth having here, because a garage you cannot open is a car you cannot move before a storm.
For your home
Residential garage door openers
Driveways, single family homes and townhouses. 10 to choose from.
- Belt drive
- Wall mount
- Chain drive
- Control
Belt drive
- 1 HPS belt drive
- Battery backup
- myQ smartphone control
- 1-1/4 HPS belt drive
- Battery backup
- For heavy or wide doors
- Ultra quiet belt drive
- Battery backup
- Wireless keypad included
- Belt drive with built-in camera
- Two-way talk through myQ
- Battery backup
Wall mount
- Mounts beside the door, not overhead
- Battery backup and automatic lock
- Frees the whole ceiling
Chain drive
- 3/4 HPS chain drive
- Built-in camera
- myQ smartphone control
- 1/2 HP chain drive
- The workhorse, and the cheapest to run
- myQ smartphone control
- 3/4 HPS chain drive
- Camera and battery backup
- myQ smartphone control
- Heavy duty DC chain drive
- Camera, LED and battery backup
- For the hardest working door
Control
Both
- Phone control
- Guest access
- Open and close alerts
For your site
Commercial garage door openers
Warehouses, storefronts, gated communities and property portfolios. 8 to choose from.
- Control
- Jackshaft
- Trolley
- Hoist
Control
Both
- Phone control
- Guest access
- Open and close alerts
- Open, close and stop
- Surface mounted
- Timer settings on the unit
Jackshaft
- Jackshaft mounted
- Rolling steel and sectional
- DC commercial operator
- Same operator, emergency hand chain
- Opens the door in a power cut
- Required on most fire exits
- Manual chain release
- Keeps the door working in an outage
- Control station included
Trolley
- Sectional commercial doors
- Ceiling mounted
- Continuous duty
- Security+ 2.0 and myQ
- Commercial duty cycle
- Monitored entrapment protection
Hoist
- Rolling steel and grilles
- Manual chain hoist
- High headroom applications
Not sure which one
Tell us the door, we'll tell you the opener
Door size, whether the garage is attached, and how many times a day it runs. That is all it takes to spec it properly.
myQ, set up on the day
See the door, not just a switch on the wall
Every current LiftMaster runs myQ, and the camera models put a live view of the driveway in the same app as the button. We pair it, test it and hand you a working app before we leave, because an opener nobody has set up is just a noisy motor.
The door and the camera in one app
Open, close and check the door from anywhere, see who is at the opening, and get an alert if it was left up. Basic control is free; camera video storage is the only part that costs extra.
One tidy unit on the ceiling
No wall hub, no extra bridge and nothing plugged into an outlet. The smart control lives in the opener, which is why the current range looks cleaner overhead than the units it replaced.
The wall control still works
Nobody wants to find their phone to let the dog out. The app is an addition to the switch by the door, never a replacement for it.
Belt or chain
The only decision that really matters
Everything else on the spec sheet is a variation. Belt runs markedly quieter and costs more; chain costs less, shrugs off heat and neglect, and does not care about noise. Both lift the same doors.
Same box, different drive
The 6690L belt and the 4690L chain share one housing, one camera, one LED panel and the same battery backup. LiftMaster ships a single render for both because from underneath you cannot tell them apart. The difference is what pulls the trolley.
Belt: quiet enough to sleep over
A reinforced rubber belt instead of a metal chain. Worth the difference when there is a bedroom over the garage or the garage shares a wall with the house.
Chain: the one for a detached garage
Cheaper, tolerant of Miami heat and years of no maintenance, and the right answer for the heaviest doors or a rental where nobody sleeps nearby.
What install day looks like
Fitted, tested and explained before we leave
An opener bolted up and left is how you get a callback in a month. The door gets balanced first, the safety reverse is tested in front of you, and nobody signs anything until the app opens the door from their own phone.
Balance first, then the rail
An opener cannot fix a badly balanced door, it just wears out trying. We check the springs and the balance before the unit goes up.
Paired to your phone on site
myQ set up, tested, and you open the door from the app once while we are still standing there.
Safety reverse tested in front of you
Photo eyes aligned and the reversing test done while you watch. A door that will not reverse on an obstruction is not safe to use.
Old unit leaves with us
The old opener, rail and hardware go on the truck. Nothing is left in your garage for you to deal with.
Warehouses, docks and storefronts
The commercial side, which is most of what we do
A dock door that will not open is payroll standing still, so commercial operators are specified by duty cycle rather than by price. Rolling steel, sectional and grille doors all take a different mounting, and we size to cycles per day rather than door width.
Sized by cycles, not by door
A residential opener on a dock door lasts months. The Maxum and Logic operators are built for hundreds of cycles a day, take loop detectors and card readers, and accept the fire door release a commercial job often needs.
Mounted to suit the door
Jackshaft on the jamb for rolling steel, trolley on the ceiling for sectional, hoist where the headroom is high. We survey the opening before quoting because the wrong mounting is an expensive thing to discover on the day.
The rail matters too
Commercial rail and trolley take the load a light residential rail will not. On a heavy door it is usually the rail, not the motor, that gives up first.
Living with it
The parts you notice after we have gone
It opens with the power out
Battery backup is standard on everything we recommend. In a county that loses power every storm season, a garage you cannot open is a car you cannot move.
Light where you actually park
A wide LED panel instead of two bulbs at one end, so the whole bay is lit when you are getting the shopping out of the back.
Security+ 2.0 on every remote
The code changes every time you press it, so a signal captured from the street cannot be replayed to open your door later.
Still running an 8000 series?
We repair the discontinued ones too
LiftMaster has retired the 8160W, 8165W, 8365W, 8550W, 85503 and 87504 that a great many South Florida garages still run. Discontinued is not the same as unsupported: logic boards, remotes, safety sensors, belts, chains and gears are all still available and the trucks carry the common ones.
We will tell you plainly when a repair has stopped being worth it, which is usually the point where the logic board and the motor both want replacing at once. Until then, fixing the opener you have is nearly always cheaper than replacing it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Belt or chain?
Belt if the garage is under a bedroom or the house is attached, because it is markedly quieter. Chain if the garage is detached or the door is heavy, because it costs less and does not care about noise.
Is battery backup worth it in Florida?
Yes, and in some jurisdictions a new opener has to have it. A garage door with no backup and no power is a door you have to release manually and lift by hand, which is the last thing you want the day before a storm.
What is a wall mount opener?
It bolts to the wall beside the torsion shaft rather than hanging from the ceiling on a rail. It frees the whole ceiling for storage or a car lift, and it is quieter again than a belt.
Can you fit an opener to my existing door?
Usually, yes, provided the door is balanced and the springs are sound. We check the balance first, because an opener fitted to an unbalanced door burns out.
Is my old LiftMaster still supported?
Probably. LiftMaster has discontinued the 8000 series that many South Florida homes still run, but parts, logic boards, remotes and safety sensors are still available and we carry the common ones. We will tell you honestly when a repair stops making sense against a new unit.
What is myQ and does it cost anything?
myQ is LiftMaster's smartphone control: open, close and see the door state from your phone, and get an alert if it was left open. Basic control is free; some extras such as camera video storage are a paid subscription. We set it up on the day and hand you a working app before we leave.
Motor not running?
We service every brand on this page, not only the ones we sell. Residential and commercial, same-day where we can.