Repairs across Las Vegas

Garage door repair · Las Vegas, NV

It closes at eight in the morning and refuses at four in the afternoon.

It closes at eight in the morning and refuses at four in the afternoon. Say what yours does and see the fault and the price first.

12 repairs coveredFree to askPrice before work
Do you cover Las Vegas?Yes — right across it

Huntridge, John S. Park, Scotch 80s, 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

The time of day your Las Vegas door refuses is the diagnosis.

Low afternoon sun lands directly in a photo eye and the opener reads it as something in the way, so the door goes down a foot and comes straight back up. Every afternoon, same hour, then perfectly fine by evening. It's one of the cheapest faults on a door and one of the most expensively misdiagnosed.

Heat piles on top: an opener set up in mild weather starts hitting its force limit once the garage is running hot. Say what time it happens, and if you're in Summerlin or Desert Shores, check what the board requires. Price agreed before work.

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Where we work

Old opening, or a board with rules?

Huntridge and the Scotch 80s weren't built for a modern door; Summerlin and Skye Canyon have panel standards. Say which applies.

  1. HuntridgeSmall mid-century cottages close to downtown; garages here are single width where they exist at all, and some were enclosed from an original carport.
  2. John S. ParkOlder houses on generous lots just south of downtown, with garages and carports set back behind long front driveways.
  3. Scotch 80s1950s custom houses on large lots, a good number of them with a porte cochere in front of the garage that limits how close a vehicle can park.
  4. SummerlinMaster-planned neighborhoods on the western edge with wide attached double doors and architectural review over how a replacement door may look.
  5. Skye CanyonRecent construction in the northwest with attached two- and three-car garages facing open desert and taking full afternoon sun.
  6. Centennial HillsNorthwest stucco subdivisions of mixed age; most garages are attached and street-facing with short driveways and no shade over the door.
  7. Desert ShoresLakeside subdivisions off Summerlin Parkway with attached garages and community rules covering changes to the exterior of the house.

Just outside Las Vegas?

Plenty of the work we take isn't in Las Vegas proper. These are the towns around it and what tends to be different about a door there.

  • HendersonSoutheast and a city in its own right, largely newer subdivisions where sun destroys the seal long before the door wears out.
  • North Las VegasEast, a mix of older housing and fast newer building, so openings vary far more than the address suggests.
  • ParadiseSoutheast toward the strip, heavy rental and short-let housing where doors run many more cycles than a family home puts on them.
  • Spring ValleySouth, tract housing of one era where west-facing doors bake all afternoon and the plastic inside the opener gives out.
  • EnterpriseSouth, newer building on open desert with wide doors taking sun and blown grit in equal measure.

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 Las Vegas and the wider Nevada area, and the address you send is what actually gets checked.Check my address

Repairs in Las Vegas

Pick by what the door is doing.

Garage Door Repair performed safely in a residential garage

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 Spring Repair performed safely in a residential garage

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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Garage Door Cable & Drum Repair performed safely in a residential garage

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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Track, Roller & Hardware Repair performed safely in a residential garage

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 & Stuck Door Repair performed safely in a residential garage

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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Garage Door Opener Repair performed safely in a residential garage

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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Las Vegas guide

What tends to go wrong here.

Note the time of day the door refuses to close

It matters more here than in most places. When the afternoon sun drops low enough to shine straight down the opening, it can land in one of the two safety eyes near the floor and blind it. The opener reads that as an obstruction and sends the door back up, and an hour later everything works again.

Heat does something similar to the opener itself. A unit that has been sitting in a shut garage since noon runs hot and can cut out on its own thermal protection. So tell us when it happens, not just what happens. If it's fine in the morning and awkward from about three onward, that narrows things down and saves a wasted visit.

Huntridge and Scotch 80s openings were not built for a modern door

The downtown-side neighborhoods went up when garages were single width and cars were smaller. Huntridge cottages and a lot of John S. Park houses have openings to match, and some of those garages started life as carports and were closed in later, which leaves an odd frame behind.

Scotch 80s adds its own wrinkle, because a porte cochere in front of the opening looks good and means a service vehicle can't pull square to the door. None of that changes what is broken. It changes how long the job takes and whether the parts on the truck will fit. Say whether it's a single or a double, and whether anything is built over the driveway.

A Summerlin or Desert Shores board will want the panel to match

Out on the west and northwest side, associations in Summerlin, Desert Shores and Skye Canyon generally have a say in what the front of the house looks like, and the garage door is most of the front of the house. A single replacement section has to sit convincingly between the ones either side of it.

Full afternoon sun makes that harder than it sounds, because a door that has been facing west for years fades unevenly and a brand new section rarely matches it first time. If your community reviews exterior changes, mention it early, and photograph the whole door in daylight so the profile and the color are both visible.

What a Las Vegas technician needs from you first

Cross streets, single or double, what the door did and where it stopped, and whether a car is stuck inside. You don't need to work out which part failed, and honestly you shouldn't try. The technician does that at the door, and it's the reason the visit exists.

Photos taken from standing height are fine, and please don't climb for a better angle. Anything that reaches us by 5 p.m. Monday through Friday gets an answer from a person that day, and later requests get the next business morning. The technician agrees the work and the cost with you before starting.

Most common around Las Vegas

Know when to stop using the door.

Don't wait

Door will not open

The door does not lift or only moves a few inches.

What to do about it
Don't wait

Door will not close

The door stays open, stops, or will not begin closing.

What to do about it
Stop 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 it
Don't wait

Opener does not operate

The opener is silent, hums, or runs without moving the door.

What to do about it

Las Vegas questions

Asked before anyone books anything.

Nothing happens when I hit the remote. Is the opener dead?

Try the wall button first. If the wall button works, the problem is the remote or its battery, which is the cheapest outcome available. If nothing moves the door at all, stop rather than repeating the attempt, and tell us whether the opener made any noise, whether the door shifted at all, and whether a car is shut inside.

It only refuses to close in the late afternoon.

That timing is a real clue and it points at the safety eyes. When the sun drops low enough to shine straight into the opening it can wash out the receiving eye, and the opener treats that as a fault and sends the door back up. Heat inside the opener can do something similar. Note when it starts and when it stops, and send that with your request.

There is a gap in the spring above my door. Can I still use it?

No. A gap means the spring has broken, and the weight of the door is now hanging off cables and brackets that were not sized to hold it. Do not run the opener, do not try to lift the door by hand, and do not park under it. Leave everything where it is and let a technician deal with it.

Dust keeps setting off my sensors. Is there a fix?

Often, yes. The lenses pick up a fine film out here and a wipe with a dry cloth clears a surprising number of faults. If the trouble comes back within days, the brackets are probably loose enough to drift out of line every time the door runs. Tell us how often it happens and whether both lights are lit, and leave the circuit intact.

The opener quit in the middle of the afternoon and came back later.

That pattern usually means it overheated, shut itself down to protect the motor, and reset once the garage cooled. It matters whether the door is also getting harder to move, because an opener fighting a badly balanced door heats up much faster than one that is not. Tell us what the garage feels like when it happens.

Will I see the price before anyone touches the door?

Yes. The technician inspects the door, explains what failed, and puts the scope and the price to you before starting. You are free to say no. No payment is taken through this site, and asking costs you nothing at all.

Las Vegas, NV

Get the Las Vegas door closing at four again.

The time of day, what the door does, and your cross streets. The scope and the price are agreed with you before work.