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 · San Antonio, TX
When the ground moves, the garage door is the first thing to notice.
When the ground moves, the garage door is the first thing to notice. Say what your San Antonio door is doing and see the price.
12 repairs coveredFree to askPrice before work
Do you cover San Antonio?Yes — right across it
Monte Vista, King William, Beacon Hill, 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
When a San Antonio slab shifts, the door stops sitting square.
Expansive clay moves with the seasons, and it takes the garage opening with it. The door then meets the floor at one corner, catches on one side, and wears its track unevenly. Chasing that with rollers and seals is a long and expensive way of not fixing it, and it's extremely common here.
Inside Loop 410 there's often nowhere to put a vehicle either, so access gets settled early. Say which corner sits short and where a truck can stand. What is actually wrong and what it costs is agreed with you first.
Get my door fixedWhere we work
Inside the loop, or out?
Monte Vista and King William leave nowhere to park; Stone Oak and Alamo Ranch have room. Say which, and which corner sits short.
- Monte VistaLarge pre-war houses on a tight inner grid, many with no driveway at all and only a small garage at the rear off a narrow lane.
- King WilliamHistoric housing just south of downtown on compact lots, largely pier-and-beam, with rear outbuildings and street parking only.
- Beacon HillSmall early bungalows close to downtown with narrow single-width drives beside the house and detached garages set at the back.
- Stone OakNorth side development on shallow limestone with wide attached double doors, open street frontage, and exposure to Hill Country storms.
- Alamo RanchNewer far west side subdivisions of production housing with wide attached garages, short driveways, and almost no mature shade.
- SouthtownMixed older housing and infill south of downtown, with tight lots, rear alley access in places, and small original garage openings.
- Woodlawn LakeEstablished near-west side neighborhood of bungalows and cottages with detached rear garages and single-car side drives.
Just outside San Antonio?
Plenty of the work we take isn't in San Antonio proper. These are the towns around it and what tends to be different about a door there.
- New BraunfelsNortheast up the interstate, older town housing near the middle with fast newer streets around it.
- SchertzNortheast, newer subdivisions with wide attached doubles hung within a few years of each other.
- ConverseEast, single-story tract housing of one era where the same door repeats down the block.
- Universal CityNortheast, a lot of rental turnover, so doors take far more cycles in a year than the age suggests.
- Live OakNortheast, post-war housing where west-facing doors take full afternoon sun and the seal goes first.
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 San Antonio and the wider Texas area, and the address you send is what actually gets checked.Check my address
Repairs in San Antonio
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.
When the slab shifts, the door stops sitting square
Clay under much of the south and east side swells through a wet spring and shrinks back in an August drought, taking the edge of a slab with it. The garage opening is the widest hole in the wall, so that movement shows up there first: a door binding down one side, or a wedge of daylight at one corner of the floor.
People blame the door and buy a new one. Often the door is fine and the opening isn't. Before you spend anything, shut it and look at the gap along the bottom and up both jambs. If it's even, the door is the problem. If it tapers, tell us, because that changes the conversation about repairing against replacing.
Inside Loop 410 there is often nowhere to put a van
Monte Vista, King William and Beacon Hill were laid out before two-car garages existed. Plenty of those houses have no driveway at all, just street parking out front and, if there is a garage, a small one at the back down a narrow rear drive. Much of that stock is pier-and-beam too, so nothing is anchored to a slab.
It's no problem, but the technician should know before they load the van. Tell us whether there is off-street parking, how wide the side drive runs, and whether the garage sits under the house or behind it. Ten seconds of that avoids a wasted trip and keeps the estimate honest.
Hail along the 1604 corridor does more than dent the skin
Storms come off the Hill Country and the wide newer doors around Stone Oak and Alamo Ranch take it flat on. A dent that only marks the surface is cosmetic. A strike that creases a section across its width stiffens the panel, and a stiffened panel doesn't want to fold at the hinge line as the door rolls up.
You'll hear it before you see it: a knock or a shudder at the same point in the travel every time. Stand back and look for a shadow line running side to side. Tell us which way the door faces, roughly when the storm came through, and send one photo of the whole door rather than the worst dent.
Describe the failure and let the technician name the part
What we need is the address with a cross street, single or double, garage attached or detached, and exactly what happened: where the door stopped, what noise it made, and whether a car is shut in. Guessing at the cause is how people buy an opener when a roller was the trouble.
Photos help when taken from ground level. Please don't climb for them. A request in before 5 p.m. on a weekday gets a human reply the same business day; after that, the next business morning. The technician covering your address confirms the work and the price before starting, and using this site costs nothing.
Most common around San Antonio
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 itSan Antonio questions
Asked before anyone books anything.
There is a gap at one bottom corner of my door but not the other.
That usually means the opening is no longer square rather than the door being bent, and around here soil movement under the slab is the common reason. It matters, because a new door fitted into a twisted opening will do the same thing. Measure the gap at both corners, tell us the difference, and let a technician look at the jambs.
My door judders at the same spot every time it goes up.
Something is out of shape at that point: a creased section after hail, a dented track, or a roller with a flat on it. It's worth catching early, because a door that fights the track wears the hinges and the opener as well. Say roughly how far up it happens and whether it started after a storm.
Hail hit us hard last night. Should I still use the door?
Try it once and listen. If it runs smoothly it's fine to keep using while you sort out the cosmetics. If it binds, scrapes or stops short, leave it down and get it looked at, because a creased panel can pull the top section out of the track. Photograph the whole door from a distance for your own records.
Huge bang from the garage and the door won't open now.
A spring has broken. The door is now at full weight with nothing counterbalancing it, and the cables and bottom brackets are carrying a load they were never sized for. Leave it alone entirely, keep everyone from under it, and don't pull the release to try lifting it by hand.
Both remotes stopped working the same week. Is the opener dead?
Not necessarily. If the wall control still runs the door, it's the receiver or the remotes rather than the motor, and reprogramming often sorts it. If nothing works at all, check the outlet and the breaker before assuming the worst. Tell us which controls still respond and we can pass that on.
Will someone give me the price before doing any work?
Yes. The technician assesses the door, explains what has failed and what putting it right involves, then gives you the price before starting. You can say no at that point. We take no payment through this site and there is no charge for asking.
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Describe the San Antonio failure and let someone name the part.
Which corner catches, where a truck can stand, and your cross streets. Price is agreed with you before any work starts.