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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 · Houston, TX
Wet air, tight drives, and doors that have stood in water.
Wet air, tight drives, and doors that have stood in water. Say what your Houston door is doing and see the price before work.
12 repairs coveredFree to askPrice before work
Do you cover Houston?Yes — right across it
Meyerland, The Heights, Rice Military, 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
If water has been in that Houston garage, how high it came decides everything.
Water at the bottom of the door is a seal and hardware question. Water that reached the opener, the wall control or the sensor wiring is a safety question, and a motor that took standing water should not be dried out and quietly put back into service. A few inches decides which conversation you're having.
A Rice Military townhome garage is tight for everyone involved, and the widest door on the house is the one a storm pushes on. Say how high it got and what type of garage it is. Cost agreed with you before work.
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How high did it come, and how tight is the drive?
Meyerland and Clear Lake have taken water; Rice Military and EaDo run tight townhome bays. Say which is yours.
- MeyerlandSingle-story mid-century housing along Brays Bayou, much of it with attached garages that have taken water in past flood events.
- The HeightsRaised early-century houses on narrow lots, with detached garages at the rear reached down a single-width drive beside the house.
- Rice MilitaryDense three-story townhomes on subdivided lots, with ground-floor garages, shared drives, and almost no working space beside the door.
- EaDoNewer townhome construction east of downtown with tandem ground-floor garages, gated shared courts, and street-side approaches only.
- Spring BranchMixed ranch housing and newer infill on low ground, with attached garages and a history of standing water in the lower pockets.
- KingwoodWooded suburban subdivisions on open lots north of the city, with wide attached double doors and long unsheltered street frontage.
- Clear LakeBayside suburban stock to the southeast, with wide attached garages, salt in the air, and little shelter from onshore wind.
Just outside Houston?
Plenty of the work we take isn't in Houston proper. These are the towns around it and what tends to be different about a door there.
- PasadenaSoutheast, older working housing where damp heat and industrial air together work on springs and hardware.
- PearlandSouth, fast newer building where an entire street reaches the same failure in the same season.
- Sugar LandSouthwest, planned streets where the look of a door matters to the neighbours as much as the mechanism does.
- Missouri CitySouthwest, post-war and later subdivisions with attached doubles of one era and one set of failures.
- BaytownEast on the bay, older housing with doors replaced since the last storm sitting in much older openings.
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 Houston and the wider Texas area, and the address you send is what actually gets checked.Check my address
Repairs in Houston
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 water has been in that garage, tell us how high it came
It's the first thing worth saying in this city. Along Brays Bayou through Meyerland, and in the low pockets of Spring Branch, garages have taken water more than once, and the parts that suffer are the ones nobody looks at: the bottom brackets, the lowest few inches of track, the cable ends and the drums.
Hardware that has been under water can look sound and still be losing metal from the inside. A cable that lets go under load drops one corner of the door with it. If your garage has flooded, even years ago, say when and roughly how deep, and the technician checks the low fixtures first rather than last.
A Rice Military townhome garage is tight for everyone involved
Three-story townhomes on narrow lots have taken over much of the inner loop, and Rice Military and EaDo are full of them. The garage is on the ground floor, the drive is often shared with the neighbors, and you won't find room to stand a ladder where anybody would want one.
Older housing has a different squeeze. In the Heights plenty of houses are raised, with a detached garage at the back reached down a single-width strip beside the house. Either way, describe the approach and say whether there is a gate, a shared court, or a management company that wants notice. It saves the first ten minutes.
The widest door on the house is the one a storm pushes on
A double garage door is the largest unsupported panel on most Houston homes. In a serious blow the wind doesn't just mark it, it bows the middle inward until the ends of the sections start lifting out of the track. Out in Kingwood and Clear Lake, where lots are open and doors face down long streets, that is the failure people get.
Afterwards the door may still run. It just runs wrong: rubbing on one side, sitting unevenly on the slab, or stopping short of the floor. Stand back and check whether the bottom edge is still a straight line. Tell us which way the door faces and roughly when the weather came through.
Skip the diagnosis and send us the symptoms
Nobody expects you to know whether it's a spring, a cable or a circuit board. What helps is the plain version: the address with a nearby intersection, single or double door, attached or detached, and what the door did on the last press. If a vehicle is shut inside, lead with that.
Send a photo from where you stand rather than from a ladder. Messages in before 5 p.m. on a weekday get a human reply the same business day; anything later gets one the next business morning. The technician then confirms what the job involves and what it costs, and you're free to say no.
Most common around Houston
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 itHouston questions
Asked before anyone books anything.
My garage flooded a while back and the door has got noisy. Related?
Very likely. Water sits in the bottom track and around the low brackets long after the floor looks dry, and the rust works from the inside out. Noise is usually the rollers, but the cables and the bottom fixtures are what we'd want checked. Tell us roughly when it flooded and how deep it got.
The door won't open and there is a car stuck inside. What now?
Say that first when you contact us, because it changes how the request gets handled. Don't force the door or yank on the release with the door part way up. If the door is fully down, pulling the release lets you lift it by hand, but only try that if it feels normal in weight. If it feels heavy, stop.
The door goes about halfway down then rises again.
Something is interrupting the safety beam, or the opener is meeting resistance and reading it as a person. Look along the floor for anything in the beam path, wipe both sensor lenses, and check the track at the point where it reverses. Never disable the sensors to get the door shut.
I heard a bang like a gunshot from the garage last night.
That's the sound a torsion spring makes when it breaks, and it carries through the house. The door will now be far too heavy to lift and the cables are holding weight they were not sized for. Leave everything alone, keep people and pets away from underneath, and let a technician release the load.
The opener keeps dropping its remotes after every storm.
Power interruptions can scramble the logic board and clear the learned codes, and a nearby strike can take the board out entirely. Try reprogramming one remote from the learn button first. If it won't hold the code, or the wall control is dead as well, the board is the likely fault and it's a straightforward replacement for someone carrying the part.
Will somebody tell me the price before they touch anything?
Yes. The technician assesses the door, explains what has gone, and gives you the scope and the price up front. You can turn it down at that point. No money moves through this site, and there is no charge for making a request.
Houston, TX
Skip the diagnosis and send the Houston symptoms.
The water line, the garage type, and what the door does. Scope and price are agreed with you before anyone starts.