The pages in this section describe real work, not slogans: which parts we measure, what we replace and why, how we test the door afterwards. Use them to understand your options before we talk.
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Garage door services
Repair & Maintenance
There are more moving parts on a garage door than most people expect: twenty or so rollers, a dozen hinges…
- Garage Door Safety InspectionA tenant mentioned the door is louder than it used to be.
- Garage Door Tune-UpTwice this week the door started closing, stopped a metre from the floor and reopened on its own.
- Off-Track Garage Door ResetThere was a loud bang from the garage, then silence.
- Garage Door Panel ReplacementThe top section has developed a bend where the opener arm pulls on it.
- Garage Door Bottom Seal ReplacementThere are mouse droppings along the wall behind the recycling bins, and at one bottom corner of the door the vinyl has a neat…
- 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…
- 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…
- Garage Door Hinge ReplacementEvery time the door goes up there is a sharp pop from the same spot, about a metre off the floor, and the whole door gives a…
- Garage Door Track Repair or ReplacementAfter a decade of slushy winters the bottom foot of the track is flaking rust.
- Garage Door Cable ReplacementThe cable has wrapped itself around the shaft above the door instead of sitting on its drum.
- Torsion Spring ReplacementThe door drops the last stretch to the floor rather than settling, and when you stop it halfway by hand it slides down instead of…
- Extension Spring ReplacementThe home inspector's report on the house you are buying flags the garage door: extension springs with no safety cable running…
- Garage Door Balance AdjustmentReleased from the opener, the door will not hold anywhere.
Openers & Access
Newer remotes change their signal every time they are pressed, so a captured signal cannot be replayed.
- Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and RepairYou press the remote from the driveway and hear the motor hum overhead, a steady drone with no movement behind it.
- Chain-Drive Opener RepairThe chain in the detached garage went orange with rust over the winter, the links are stiff, and the opener strains and groans to…
- Belt-Drive Opener RepairPress the remote and the motor runs its full cycle, lights on, the usual whir, but the door does not move a centimetre.
- Garage Door Opener ReplacementSince the storm the door behaves oddly: it reverses halfway down for no reason, the light flickers, and the travel limits drift…
- Photo-Eye Sensor Alignment or ReplacementSomeone backed the car in a little too far, a bin or a bicycle brushed the track, and since then the door starts to close and…
- Garage Door Remote and Keypad ProgrammingThe new car has three buttons in the mirror for garage doors.
- Smart Garage Controller SetupA smart hub arrived in the mail with a coin-cell sensor and two wires.
- Emergency Release RepairYour garage is detached and has no side door.
Installation & Upgrades
Not every upgrade means a whole new door.
- Sectional Garage Door ReplacementSeveral sections are rusting along their lower edges, and one has begun to bow.
- Insulated Steel Garage Door InstallationThe room above your attached garage stays chilly while the steel door below feels cold to the touch.
- Wind-Rated Garage Door ReplacementStrong gusts make the centre of your wide garage door bow inward and the rollers chatter in their tracks.
- 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 InstallationYour renovation has given the house clean modern lines, but the old raised-panel garage door now looks out of place.
- New-Construction Garage Door InstallationThe garage walls are framed, the roof is on and the opening is taking shape.
- Commercial Sectional Door RepairThe loading-bay door rises with one side several centimetres lower than the other.
- Commercial Rolling Door RepairThe rolling door starts upward, then one side rises ahead of the other.
- High-Lift Garage Door ConversionYour new vehicle lift fits the floor plan, but the open garage door crosses the space above it.