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.
See what's includedRepairs
Every repair, and what it really involves.
You don't need to know which part broke — that's the technician's job. But knowing roughly what each repair involves makes it much harder for anyone to sell you something you don't need.
New openers
Garage Door Opener Installation
Door weight, headroom, travel, and the safety devices decide this — not the horsepower number on the box.
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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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Panels and sections
Panel & Section Repair
Some damaged sections come back perfectly well. Some quietly wreck how the whole door hangs. You should know which one you've got before you pay for either.
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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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Replacement doors
Garage Door Replacement & Installation
Replacement pays a lot better than repair, so the reasoning matters. We separate what is genuinely beyond fixing from what somebody would simply prefer to sell you.
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Sensors and safety
Sensor & Safety Reversal Repair
Blinking eyes, a door that only closes while you hold the button, a failed obstruction test. We'll get it traced properly — never taped over, jumpered, or bypassed.
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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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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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Maintenance
Garage Door Tune-Up & Maintenance
A proper tune-up finds shifting balance, worn rollers, and loose hardware — the things that let go on a cold morning when you're already late.
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Seals and insulation
Weather Seal & Insulation
Daylight under a shut door, a bottom seal gone hard, rain running across the garage floor. Usually a small job — and much smaller than what it costs to ignore.
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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.
See what's includedWorth knowing
The opener gets blamed for almost everything.
It's the noisy part with the motor in it, so it takes the blame. But a motor that strains and quits is usually lifting a door whose spring has failed — the opener was never designed to carry that weight on its own. Replace the opener and you'll have a new opener with the same problem.
The same goes the other way. A door that refuses to close is very often a pair of safety sensors knocked out of alignment by a bike, which is a five-minute fix, not a new door.
Every page here says which parts are connected and where the safety line sits, so you can ask a better question when someone's standing in your driveway with a quote.
Start from what your door is doingRepairs covered12 residential categories
Problems explained45 symptom guides
Where140 US cities
What you pay usNothing
Not sure which one you need?
Then don't pick one.
Describe what the door is doing and let the technician work out which repair it is. That's the part you're allowed to skip.