General repair
Garage Door Repair
Tell us what the door is doing and we'll get it in front of someone who can fix it — with the price agreed before the work starts.
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Garage door repair · Lansing, MI
In Lansing the strip of concrete between the houses decides half the job.
In Lansing the strip of concrete between the houses decides half the job. Tell us what yours is doing and see the price before work.
12 repairs coveredFree to askPrice before work
Do you cover Lansing?Yes — right across it
Moores Park, Colonial Village, Groesbeck, and the streets either side of them.
What can I get done?12 residential repairs
Springs, cables, openers, sensors, tracks, panels, seals, and full replacements.
What will it cost?Agreed before anything is touched
You hear what failed and what it costs first. Saying no at that point costs you nothing.
How fast?A person replies the same day
Ask before 5 p.m. on a weekday and you hear back that business day.
Why us for this door
An opener that trips the breaker is talking about the wiring.
A motor that runs until it trips the circuit, or works only when nothing else is on, is usually sharing an old circuit with everything else in a detached garage. Replacing the opener transfers the fault to a new opener. The supply is what needs checking first, and that's a five-minute question.
If the drive squeezes between two houses, we need that before anyone sets off. Add whether the slab has heaved so the door no longer meets the floor square. What is actually wrong and what it costs is agreed with you first.
Get my door fixedWhere we work
How tight is the drive between the houses?
Old Town and REO Town squeeze between buildings; Groesbeck and Churchill Downs have room. Say which, and whether the garage is detached.
- Moores ParkEarly-1900s Foursquares, Tudor Revivals and Craftsman bungalows on low ground south of the Grand River, with narrow drives running between closely spaced houses to a rear garage.
- Colonial VillageMid-century ranches and two-story colonial houses, mostly with an attached single garage and a short driveway that leaves little room to work outside the opening.
- GroesbeckRanch and colonial houses built between the 1940s and the 1980s on curving northeast-side streets, generally with attached garages and wider driveways.
- Old TownOlder houses mixed with commercial buildings north of downtown near the river, where garages sit at the rear and access is tight for anything larger than a car.
- REO TownOlder housing just south of downtown on small lots, with detached garages behind the houses and narrow side drives serving them.
- Churchill DownsPostwar south-side houses with attached single garages and short, level driveways that sit close to the sidewalk.
Just outside Lansing?
Plenty of the work we take isn't in Lansing proper. These are the towns around it and what tends to be different about a door there.
- East LansingJust northeast, heavy rental housing where doors run far more cycles in a year than a family home puts on them.
- OkemosEast, newer subdivisions on wooded lots with long drives and debris that finds its way into the track.
- HoltSouth. Attached garages of one vintage where the door has taken thirty winters of salt spray off the road without anyone looking at it.
- HaslettEast by the lakes, a mix of year-round houses and older cottages, so openings vary more than the street suggests.
- WaverlyJust west, single-story tract housing where road salt reaches the bottom of the door every winter.
Don't see your street or your town? These are the places where the housing changes enough to change the job — not the edge of where we go, and not a promise about your exact address either. We take work across Lansing and the wider Michigan area, and the address you send is what actually gets checked.Check my address
Repairs in Lansing
Pick by what the door is doing.
Springs and balance
Garage Door Spring Repair
If your door suddenly weighs a couple hundred pounds, a spring has almost certainly let go. Leave it down, keep everyone clear, and let someone with the right winding bars deal with it.
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Cables and drums
Garage Door Cable & Drum Repair
One corner sitting lower, or a cable hanging off its drum, means the lift system is out of balance. It wants looking at before the next cycle, not after.
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Tracks, rollers, hardware
Track, Roller & Hardware Repair
Grinding in the same spot, a door that shakes the whole wall, a roller creeping out of its track — all cheap to sort now, all expensive once the door comes off.
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Off-track and stuck
Off-Track & Stuck Door Repair
Every extra cycle bends another panel and drags more cable out of line. Leave it where it is, keep the opening clear, and get it stabilized properly.
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Openers
Garage Door Opener Repair
Motors take the blame for dead springs constantly. Worth knowing which one you've got before you buy an opener you didn't need.
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What tends to go wrong here.
If the drive squeezes between two houses, we need to know first
Around Moores Park, Old Town and REO Town the garage sits at the back and the only way in is a strip of concrete running between your house and the neighbor's. Some of those drives are barely wider than a car.
A van can get down them. It often can't open a side door once it's there, and that's the difference between working out of the vehicle and staging everything at the curb. Tell us how wide it is, what's parked on it, and whether a fence pinches it near the back.
An opener that trips the breaker may be telling you about the wiring
A detached Lansing garage is usually fed by one circuit run out from the house, and that feed is often as old as the garage itself. The attached garages in Colonial Village and Groesbeck are a different story, which is why we ask which one you have.
If the opener hums and dies, the bulb dims each time it starts, or the breaker goes on a cold morning, the motor may be fine while the supply isn't. Say what the lights do when you press. Knowing that beforehand means the right tester comes along, not just parts.
When the slab heaves, the door stops meeting the floor square
Frost gets under a garage slab and its apron here every winter, and concrete that lifts at one corner doesn't always settle back level in spring.
The door shows it. It seats hard on one side and leaves daylight at the other, the down limit stops early because the door reaches concrete sooner than the opener expects, and the seal wears through on the high corner. If you can see light under one end of a closed door, measure the gap at both ends and send both figures.
Put the Lansing basics in the first message and skip the diagnosis
We want the cross streets, whether the garage is attached or detached, roughly how wide the door is, and a plain account of what happened: where it stopped, what you heard, and whether a car is trapped.
In Churchill Downs the driveway is short and level. Behind a Moores Park house it can be a long narrow run to the rear of the lot. Both change the visit, so it's worth being specific about where you are. Send it before 5 p.m. on a weekday for a same business day reply from a person, with scope and price confirmed before work starts.
Most common around Lansing
Know when to stop using the door.
Don't wait
Door will not close
The door stays open, stops, or will not begin closing.
What to do about itStop using the door
Broken torsion spring
A gap appears in the spring above the door or a loud bang precedes a heavy door.
What to do about itDon't wait
Blocked or misaligned safety sensors
Sensor lights blink or the door will not close from a remote.
What to do about itDon't wait
Opener does not operate
The opener is silent, hums, or runs without moving the door.
What to do about itBook it in
Pricing and written quote clarity
The customer wants scope, parts, labor, fees, and alternatives in writing.
What to do about itLansing questions
Asked before anyone books anything.
My door won't open and the car is inside. What's my first move?
Get in through the side door or the house door rather than forcing the main one. Then stop using the opener, because every extra press against something jammed makes the repair bigger. Note where the door is sitting, what noise it made, and whether anything looks out of place along the tracks. Leave the springs and cables alone and send us that description.
It won't shut and I need to leave for work.
Try not to leave it standing open. Check the safety eyes and look along the track for anything in the way first. If it still won't close, many openers have a manual lock, and some doors take a locking bar instead; ask us if you aren't sure which yours has. Tell us whether it refuses to start closing or reverses partway down.
Something snapped and now it takes two of us to lift the door.
That's a spring, and it's the repair to leave to someone with winding bars. The door weighs what it always weighed; the springs were simply carrying it for you. Put it down, keep it down, and keep the opening clear. Don't try to prop it or balance it with a jack while you wait.
One sensor light is green and the other is orange and flickering.
That's a misalignment. The two eyes have to point straight at each other, and a nudge from a bike or a snow shovel is enough to break it. Don't loosen anything yet. Tell us what colors you're seeing and whether either bracket looks bent. A technician realigns them in minutes and then checks that the door reverses the way it should.
The garage light works but the motor won't run.
Power is reaching the unit, so the trouble is further in: a failed board, a dead capacitor, or a safety input holding it back. In a detached Lansing garage on an older feed, low voltage can do it too. Tell us whether the wall button clicks, whether remotes do anything, and whether the light flashes a pattern when you press.
Who sets the price, you or the person who shows up?
The technician does, after seeing the door. We don't quote on their behalf and we don't handle money. You'll have the scope and the cost before work begins, and you are free to say no to it.
Lansing, MI
Put the Lansing basics in the first message.
The access, what the opener does, and your cross streets. Skip the diagnosis. The scope and price are agreed before work.