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Garage door and gate brands

Find the maker's name on your opener or gate motor and open its guide, or tell us the job and a door specialist gets in touch.

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Garage door opener brands

The Door Hero is not connected with any maker named here. Each guide sticks to that maker's own manuals and web pages, and says which model a step is for.

ATA: Automatic Technology runs its own New Zealand site with owners manuals, and B&D NZ lists it as a B&D Group brand. See how to program an ATA remote.

B&D: B&D Doors (NZ) Ltd sells doors under the Dominator and Garador names, and its home page lists Smart and Secure garage door openers. For Dominator remotes, see the Dominator page.

Dominator: remote coding, the three kinds of reset and the flash codes for the Select, Secure, Smart, Smart Pro and Excel openers are on the Dominator page.

Merlin: Merlin's New Zealand site says it was founded here in 1984 and is now part of the Chamberlain Group, which Chamberlain belongs to as well. See how to program a Merlin remote.

Electric gate motor brands

BFT: BFT's own site has a New Zealand page that lists an office in Albany, Auckland, and shows gate openers and remotes. See how to program a BFT remote.

CENTURION: this is CENTURION Systems, the gate motor maker also called CENTSYS. Aero NZ Ltd, a FAAC Technologies company, says it supplies CENTURION Systems in New Zealand. See how to program a CENTURION remote.

FAAC: FAAC Technologies lists a New Zealand company, based in Christchurch, that imports and distributes gate automation. See how to program a FAAC remote.

For fitting or fixing a gate motor, start with electric gates.

If your make isn't listed

How to program a garage door remote covers remotes of any make, and your opener's own manual has the exact steps.

Not every door specialist works on every make. Give the brand and model from the label when you tell us the job, so whoever takes it knows what they are looking at.

Helpful next

Garage door remote programming: what to doCoding a new remote at the opener, or copying it from one that works.Garage door openers and motorsAdding a motor to a door, swapping an old one, or getting one going again.Electric gatesSliding and swing gate motors, power at the gate, beams and repairs.Garage door guidesPlain guides for doors that won't open, power cuts, remotes and safety.

Where this information comes from

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