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I've spent the last few weeks fighting with a garage door opener and finishing the walls and ceiling of my shop garage. The garage door opener thought it didn't want to open the door. So I tried reprogramming if for more force. That led to it slamming the door all the way up to the end of travel and continuing to turn. I unplugged it but not before the damage was done. So a new carriage. But I was lazy and didn't go look, I just bought one that said it fit all Genie screw drives. It didn't. So another week (big box stores don't have much around here) and one arrived that fit. But installing it meant taking the garage door down entirely. It was quite involved but it got installed. But the garage door still wouldn't work because Genie decide a plastic coupler was better than an overload trip. I didn't realize that so it was wait another week but I found a cheaper place for parts, Preferred door parts. They had the couplers for about $2.50 when everybody else wanted about $7.50. So when that arrived, I got it running. But I put it back together wrong so I had to take it down, again, and redo things. But that time I got it right and I could program it. But it still wouldn't work because one of the "eyes" that look across the opening was not working right. I could get that locally but it was almost double what I could get it for over the internet (Preferred was out of stock or their price was less than half the big box stores). So another week. Installation was simple but programming was not. But it works now. I spent roughly $50 in parts to fix a garage door opener I paid about $175 for about 2 years ago. If it breaks again it is probably going out with the trash. Some of the difficulty was me ordering the wrong part but a lot was a lousy design and overpriced parts. A champerlian chain drive may be worse but at least it cheaper. Reviews, which I didn't check, indicate lots of other people have bad luck with Genie screw drives and better luck with Chamberlain chain drives. One of the big box stores had the basic model for $75 on a markdown.
After messing with the garage door opener each weekend, I would shift to the shop garage. I got all the waferboard up on the walls, skim coated with drywall compound, and painted with ceiling paint. I also put insulation in the walls. I still need to build storage cabinets and a rolling workbench but I passed a major milestone. Along the way, I've decided that my wife is right and Zinseer ceiling paint is the one to use. I haven't used a bunch of brands but we bought two gallons of Valspar's best ceiling paint that we didn't use in the house in favor of the Zinseer. I hate throwing things away so I decided to use it in the shop. It did most of the shop walls and ceiling but didn't quite finish. We've been using the Zinseer so I got that to finish with so the extra would be useful. I was surprised how much better it was than the Valspar. It covered better and went on easier. I used the same little 4 inch foam roller with both so there was no difference there and the surface was also the same. It's good ceiling paint/primer. A little hard to find here but worth looking. About the same price as other paint/primer. One coat usually does it.
That's it, just some rambling about paint and garage door openers.
After messing with the garage door opener each weekend, I would shift to the shop garage. I got all the waferboard up on the walls, skim coated with drywall compound, and painted with ceiling paint. I also put insulation in the walls. I still need to build storage cabinets and a rolling workbench but I passed a major milestone. Along the way, I've decided that my wife is right and Zinseer ceiling paint is the one to use. I haven't used a bunch of brands but we bought two gallons of Valspar's best ceiling paint that we didn't use in the house in favor of the Zinseer. I hate throwing things away so I decided to use it in the shop. It did most of the shop walls and ceiling but didn't quite finish. We've been using the Zinseer so I got that to finish with so the extra would be useful. I was surprised how much better it was than the Valspar. It covered better and went on easier. I used the same little 4 inch foam roller with both so there was no difference there and the surface was also the same. It's good ceiling paint/primer. A little hard to find here but worth looking. About the same price as other paint/primer. One coat usually does it.
That's it, just some rambling about paint and garage door openers.
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