The Genie Company is one of America’s best known and trusted consumer brand names. Genie garage doors have an illustrious history that underscore its commitment to innovation. Moreover, Genie garage door openers are known for their long time of operation without needing repairs and for their easy installation.
Many garage owners who decide for an upgrade and go for buying a remote control door opener ask themselves if they need a specialist to install it, or they can do it by themselves. Genie has the answers in their animated installation instructions. You watch the film, then decide if that’s a job you can do or not. Genie provides you with the tools you need, so you can buy them before you start installing your opener. Tools like the electric drill, the hammers and the screwdrive are probably found in many homes, but you’ll also need a carpenter’s level, a socket wrench, a step ladder and a few more tools you may have to buy or borrow.
Genie is so trustful in the ability of their clients to install the openers by themselves, that they are selling even products from their premium line in stores such as Home Depot, Sears or Lowe’s. For example, the Genie Direct Lift screw drive garage door opener is considered a do-it-yourself product and it is sold with an installation manual.
The Genie Company History
Founded in 1923, and known in its early days as the Alliance Manufacturing Company, the company produced a broad line of consumer, industrial and military products. When America was at war in the 1940´s, Alliance’s factories produced everything from fuse caps and voltage regulators to canteen handles and generators. In May 1954, the Alliance Manufacturing Company first produced its own garage door opener unit. Genie was the first mass-produced, radio-controlled residential garage door opener, becoming the market leader in design, safety and reliable service – core values Genie still upholds to this day. In the years following the introduction of the original opener Genie, engineering innovations brought about the development of the first screw drive opener in 1958. Further design refinements ultimately resulted in the offering of a split rail. This innovation opened opportunities to mass retailers for the first time in the mid 1970´s. Consumer appeal for this product grew alongside the rapidly developing do-it-yourself market. In 1983 the company entered the home and shop vacuum market, and in 1985 it changed its name to Genie Home Products.
By the time Overhead Door Corporation purchased the company in 1994, the Genie name had become well-known for its reliability for millions of customers around the world. Its continuing focus on product quality, innovation and service remains the hallmark of Genie’s legacy.
Today, Genie manufactures remote-controlled garage door opening systems for multiple distribution channels, as well as a full line of commercial operators private labeled exclusively for Overhead Door distributors. Genie’s line of garage door openers include advanced features such as the Intellicode remote access security system that automatically changes the security code to one of billions of combinations each time the transmitter is activated, as well as the Safe-T-Beam infrared beam system that senses objects in the door’s path to prevent entrapment.
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