Garage door repair · Hazel Park, MI
Garage Door Repair in Hazel Park, MI
Broken springs, jammed tracks, frayed cables and openers that quit partway. We come to your driveway, find the cause, and tell you the fix and the price before we pick up a tool. Tell us what the door is doing when you call.
- Licensed and insured
- Parts-and-labor warranty
- Upfront quote before work
- Locally owned
Repairs in Hazel Park
Garage door repair in Hazel Park, from springs to openers
Garage door repair in Hazel Park, MI usually starts with a door that is doing something it did not do last week. It lifts a foot and drops. It goes up crooked. The opener hums but the door stays put, or the door slams down faster than it should. Each of those has a short list of causes, and most come back to the parts that carry the weight: the springs, the cables and the track.
A standard residential door weighs well over a hundred pounds, and the springs do almost all of the lifting. The opener only guides the door along. That is why a snapped spring leaves the opener straining and the door heavy, and why running an opener against a broken spring wears out the motor gear.
Hazel Park is a city in Oakland County and an inner-ring suburb of Detroit, about 10 miles north of downtown. Garages in inner-ring suburbs are often older than the doors in them, and an older door that has been opened thousands of times tends to show it in worn rollers, stretched cables and tired springs. Michigan winters add to that, since cold stiffens grease and moves metal parts, which is when a weak spring finally gives out.
When the cause is an opener rather than the door itself, fixing a garage door opener is a separate job, and we will tell you which one you have before any work starts.
First checks
What we check first on a Hazel Park door
Springs
We look for a visible gap in the coil, a door that feels heavy, and a loud bang you may have heard from the garage. A spring that has broken once means its twin is the same age and close behind.
Cables and drums
Frayed strands near the bottom bracket or a cable that has slipped off its drum will let one side of the door hang lower than the other.
Track and rollers
Bent track, loose mounting brackets and worn rollers cause grinding and a door that catches. We check alignment with the door down and with it moving.
Balance
With the opener disconnected, a correctly balanced door stays where you leave it at about waist height. If it drops or climbs, the spring tension is off.
Opener and safety eyes
Photo eyes that sit out of line make a door reverse and refuse to close. We test them and the force settings so the door stops when it meets an obstruction.
Our process
How a repair visit goes
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You describe the problem
Tell us what the door does and what you heard or saw. That helps us bring the right parts.
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We come out and inspect
A uniformed technician checks the springs, cables, track, rollers and opener against what you described.
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We explain it and quote it
You hear what failed, what caused it and what the repair involves. The upfront quote comes before any work begins, so you decide with the full picture.
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We fix it and test it
We make the repair, rebalance the door and run it through full cycles. A spring swap is usually finished in one visit.
Door stuck halfway or sagging on one side?
Describe it and we will tell you what it most likely needs before we arrive.
Recent work
Repairs and finished work
Questions
Garage door repair questions from Hazel Park homeowners
How do I know whether it is the spring or the opener?
Should I replace both springs when only one broke?
Is it safe to keep using the door with a broken spring?
What decides the price of a garage door repair?
Is it worth repairing an older door, or should I replace it?
Are your technicians licensed and covered if something goes wrong?
Hazel Park, MI
Garage door acting up in Hazel Park?
Leave the door where it is and tell us what happened. We will come out, find the cause, and explain the repair and the price before any work starts.