Keypads and Garage Access

The Spare Key That Cannot Be Stolen

An exterior keypad is the most useful thing you can add to a garage door, and it solves several problems at once.

No key hidden under a plant pot. No remote clipped to a visor in a car parked on the driveway, which is a key sitting beside its own lock. Nothing for a child to lose and nothing to carry when you go running.

What It Is Good For

Getting in without keys. Coming back from a run or a swim with no pockets.

Kids after school, without any of them carrying a house key.

Tradespeople and deliveries on a specific day, on a code you change afterwards.

Dog walkers, cleaners and house sitters, again on a code that can be retired the moment it is no longer needed.

That last point is the real advantage over a remote. A remote you hand out is a permanent grant that depends on someone remembering to give it back. A code is a temporary one you can revoke in ten seconds.

Fitting One

Most openers made in the last twenty years accept a keypad, either matched to the manufacturer or through a universal unit paired to the receiver. Very old fixed-code openers sometimes will not, and there the answer is usually a rolling-code receiver upgrade, which solves compatibility and security together.

We mount it where it is reachable but not visible from the street, program the code, and show you how to change it yourself so you are not calling us for that.

Codes Worth Choosing

Not the house number. Not the year. Not four identical digits.

If a keypad has visibly worn keys after a few years, change the code periodically, because worn keys narrow the guess considerably.

While We Are There

Two things worth doing in the same visit.

Clear the opener memory and re-pair only the devices you hold, particularly if you have recently moved in or had a tenant.

Check the emergency release. On many doors the release cord can be hooked from outside with a wire through the top seal, which defeats everything else. Shielding it is inexpensive.

Call Comedyclubwilliamsburg at (562) 214-7724.