Repairs
Repair & Maintenance
Long-lasting doors are not lucky, they are looked after. This category holds the services that do the looking after: adjustments, part replacements, seal renewal and the periodic inspection that ties them together.
Which one do I need?
- On bright afternoons the door goes down a metre, stops, and climbs back up while the light on the opener blinks.Garage Door Safety Inspection
- The door lands with a thud you can feel through the kitchen floor, and sometimes it bounces back up a few centimetres before settling.Garage Door Tune-Up
- The morning after a thaw the opener groaned, the door stayed stuck to the icy floor for a second, then lurched up crooked.Off-Track Garage Door Reset
- After an overnight freeze the door stuck to the slab, the opener strained, and something gave.Garage Door Panel Replacement
- After a spring rain there is a puddle inside the door that reaches the tires.Garage Door Bottom Seal Replacement
- Dry leaves keep appearing in the same corner inside the garage, and this fall there were mouse droppings along the wall beside the door.Garage Door Perimeter Weatherstrip
Repair & Maintenance
Inspection, adjustment, sealing, and section-level repairs.
Garage Door Safety Inspection
Putting a name to the door and the opener
The first thing the technician does is read labels. The door's model tag is usually on the inside of an end stile or the bottom section, and the opener's is on the motor head; between them they tell the technician the door's weight class, the lift hardware it was built with and the exact test procedure the opener maker publishes. That matters because reversal settings, photo-eye mounting heights and force limits differ between models and generations.
Writing the model numbers down at the start also means the report is tied to a specific door, so the next person to look at it, years from now, starts from the same page.