What we fix in the city and around the county, what a visit involves, and the standards we hold, for doors that face wind, grit and heat.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free; the work waits for your yes.
Springs and cables rarely fail without notice. A gap opening up in a spring's coils, broken strands on a cable near the bottom bracket, a door that lifts heavier than it used to or rises crooked: those are the signs.
Calling at that point means a planned repair instead of a door stuck shut on a workday morning. The broken spring page shows what a worn spring looks like up close.
Older homes often have heavy wood carriage-house doors, some hung on extension springs that don't match each other. One side lifts harder than the other, one cable carries more of the load, and that cable frays first.
Matching the springs and replacing both cables fixes it for now. A lighter carriage-look steel door, with windows if you like, ends it; the installation page shows the styles.
Wind off the open ground carries grit into every garage. It settles in roller bearings, pulley wheels and hinge pins, and over a season the door goes from a hum to a grind.
A cleaning and fresh grease handle most of it, and sealed rollers keep it from coming back as fast. Worn pulleys and rollers get their own write-up under cable and roller repair.
A garage door is the largest moving thing in most houses and the one least often looked after. Springs, cables and rollers run for years without a drop of grease, and the first sign of trouble is often the break itself.
A yearly look, with lubrication, a balance test, a check of the cables and a test of the opener's reverse, is the simplest way to avoid that. Older extension-spring doors without safety cables get them added on the same visit, since a snapped spring without one can whip across the garage.
Heat dries the grease in the bearings and bakes west-facing doors. Faded builder doors on the newer two-car garages are a common sight, and an insulated replacement keeps a hot garage noticeably cooler.
In winter, freezing rain can seal the bottom of the door to the slab. If the opener hums and the door doesn't move, stop pressing the button and call, before a cable comes off its drum.
Tell us the symptoms and whether the springs run across the top or along the sides, and we'll book a time. Expect a call from the technician before arrival; the inspection then covers the whole door: springs, cables, pulleys or drums, rollers, hinges, track and opener.
You'll have a free written estimate with every repair broken out, and only what you approve is done. The last step is a set of checks: the door balanced by hand, the opener's force and travel set, and the reverse proven against an obstruction.
Torsion and extension springs in matched pairs, safety cables, pulleys, lift cables and drums, sealed rollers, hinges and weather seals, plus opener gears, boards, sensors, remotes and keypads.
Warehouses, service garages and shops around the county open and close their doors all day long. Those doors are inspected as closely as a home's, and an emergency repair covers one that fails after closing time.
Nobody names a repair sight unseen. Springs are matched and replaced as a set. Work never goes past the approved estimate. Extension springs always leave with safety cables. And an old door that can be saved is repaired, not replaced.
Call (785) 498-8618 or send the form. If the door is wood, or the springs run along the sides, say so on the call, and the matching parts come with the truck.
Look for a gap forming in the coil, a door that suddenly feels heavy, or a squeal from above the door. Any of those is worth a call.
Usually mismatched springs or a door that lifts unevenly. The springs are matched and both cables replaced.
Yes. Steel carriage-style doors with windows keep the look at a fraction of the weight of wood.
Once a year suits most homes. A door that opens many times a day, or one exposed to a lot of grit, benefits from a look more often.
Yes. It is written, free, and the choice is yours.
Tell us the fault and you'll get a straight answer on whether it can wait. Free estimate anywhere in Shawnee County.
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Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free; the work waits for your yes.