Fun Things To Do With An Old Garage Door Opener

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Fun things to do with an old garage door opener. The carvings and designs of a wooden garage door will look awesome as a bed headboard. Unlike their intellicode system which you can program with a press of a button the remotes and the door opener dip switches must match in order for the remotes to work correctly. Keep with the raising dropping theme and rig the access panel to your attic to open and close automatically. Use one of the panels as a headboard for a bed.

Whether kept intact or broken into smaller parts an old garage door has myriad potential second lives. Repurpose for the mechanically inclined your old but still working garage door opener can be a motor to power a number of projects including a dumb waiter for transporting groceries from the garage to the kitchen for example or any number of creative motorized inventions. This smart dad had a pool table but wanted a ping pong table too. Convert the wood to other furniture like cabinets shelf etc.

Older model genie garage door openers use dip switches rather than a smart to program the opener and remote controls. With today s high tech products and opener designs there are options galore and accessories too. Hook up your old garage door opener to a projector screen and at the press of a button have a movie theater drop down from the ceiling. Just take a look at these great projects that use repurposed garage doors.

Thanks to the plague of 2020 we re all looking for interesting ways to pass the time i m no exception today i started a fun project that combines low voltage a shelly 1 and my garage door. Depending on the kind of garage door opener you have this project can be really easy or it can be a little harder but it isn t out of anybody s reach. If you have a garage door you need a garage door opener. The design of the garage door panels will look awesome and classy.