Garage Doors
Repairs, parts and new doors
Below is everything we do to garage doors, from the smallest adjustment to a complete replacement. If your problem is not obvious, start with a diagnosis visit; the fault is often in a part you would not have guessed.
Repair & Maintenance
There are more moving parts on a garage door than most people expect: twenty or so rollers, a dozen hinges, tracks, brackets, cables and seals.
Garage Door Safety InspectionIt has been a hard winter.
Garage Door Tune-UpEvery morning the door announces itself to the whole street: a long metallic squeal as it climbs, a rattle at the top, and a groan on the way back down.
Off-Track Garage Door ResetThe door came down fine but with a scraping noise, and now the vertical track on one side is bowed away from the wall.
Garage Door Panel ReplacementYears of slap shots have peppered the lower two sections with dents.
Garage Door Bottom Seal ReplacementThe garage doubles as a workshop, and with the heater running the floor near the door stays cold and the draft finds your ankles at the bench.
Garage Door Perimeter WeatherstripThe bedroom over the garage is always the cold room, and standing in the garage you can feel why: a steady draft along the door edges that moves the cobwebs on the wall.
Garage Door Manual Lock RepairYou have just moved in.
Springs & Hardware
Two springs on one shaft usually age together.
Garage Door Roller ReplacementEvery morning the door announces itself: a rattle on the way up, a grinding squeal on the way down, loud enough that the neighbours know when you leave.
Garage Door Hinge ReplacementThe roller at the top of the second panel is leaning outward and only half of the wheel is still in the track.
Garage Door Track Repair or ReplacementThe door climbs crooked, one side clearly ahead of the other.
Garage Door Cable ReplacementYour older door has springs along the tracks, and one cable has slipped off its pulley and dangles slack.
Torsion Spring ReplacementOn a cold morning the remote does nothing useful: the light comes on, the motor turns briefly, the door stays shut.
Extension Spring ReplacementThe home inspector's report on the house you are buying flags the garage door: extension springs with no safety cable running through them, coils showing rust, and a door that sank when he lifted it partway.
Garage Door Balance AdjustmentWith the door closed, daylight shows under one bottom corner and the seal is squashed flat at the other.
Openers & Access
Remotes that need pairing, keypads for the kids, controllers that report to your phone, and the motor that does the actual work.
Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and RepairThe motor runs, the chain rattles along the rail, and the door does not move a millimetre.
Chain-Drive Opener RepairThe chain hangs in a loop under the rail and slaps against it on every cycle.
Belt-Drive Opener RepairThe belt looks fine from a distance, but up close the rubber has cracked across the back in dozens of places and, in one spot, you can see the steel cords showing through.
Garage Door Opener ReplacementYou swapped the old wooden door for a heavier insulated steel one, and the twenty-year-old opener that was kept has never settled.
Photo-Eye Sensor Alignment or ReplacementThe door will only go down while a finger stays on the wall button; let go and it stops or reverses.
Garage Door Remote and Keypad ProgrammingAfter the move, the previous owner's remotes are somewhere in another city and the keypad on the outside wall wants a code nobody wrote down.
Smart Garage Controller SetupThe house came with a controller already screwed to the garage ceiling and a sensor on the door, but the app insists the device belongs to another account.
Emergency Release RepairA previous owner knotted the release cord around the rail and stacked storage shelves right beneath it.
Installation & Upgrades
A new door starts with a tape measure.
Sectional Garage Door ReplacementThe bottom section has absorbed years of moisture and road-salt residue.
Insulated Steel Garage Door InstallationSeveral sections are dented and the bottom edge has begun to rust.
Wind-Rated Garage Door ReplacementNew windows would improve the door's appearance, but they also change the section layout and reinforcement pattern.
Carriage-House Garage Door InstallationYour garage door works, yet its broad plain panels feel disconnected from the brick, gables and entry details around them.
Full-View Glass Garage Door InstallationYou like the brightness of clear glazing but not a direct view of everything stored inside.
New-Construction Garage Door InstallationPower and low-voltage wiring are being roughed in while the garage is open.
Commercial Sectional Door RepairThe loading-bay door rises with one side several centimetres lower than the other.
Commercial Rolling Door RepairA metallic clatter now comes from inside the hood whenever the curtain coils.
High-Lift Garage Door ConversionA taller van clears the closed opening comfortably, then loses useful space when the door is raised because the bottom section hangs below the ceiling.