Garage Door Repair: Services and Prices

Torsion springs wear by cycle count, and on most Calgary houses the originals were rated low. When one goes, the door suddenly weighs what it really weighs, often more than an adult can safely lift. We measure the old spring and the door, then fit 12,000-cycle springs wound to match, or higher-cycle upgrades if you would rather not see us again for a long while. On two-spring doors we recommend replacing both together, since the survivor has the same mileage.

Cables tend to fail from the bottom up, where salty slush from your tires sits against the bracket all winter. Our cable price covers both sides plus re-levelling the door, and we look hard at the bottom brackets and drums while the springs are unwound, because a rusted bracket will chew through a new cable. Both jobs carry stored spring energy that injures people every year, so they are strictly technician work.

We service chain, belt, screw-drive and wall-mount openers from LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie, Craftsman and the other common brands. The usual faults are a worn nylon drive gear, a start capacitor that gives up in the cold, a logic board cooked by a power surge, and photo-eyes pushed out of line. Before blaming the opener, we disconnect it and check the door’s balance by hand; a surprising share of “dead opener” calls are really spring calls. If the opener is past about 15 years, we will give you a repair price and a replacement price and let you choose.

Tracks are the steel rails your door rides in, and rollers are the small wheels that run inside them. Neither gets much attention until a roller pops out and the door hangs at an angle. When that happens, unplug the opener and leave the door alone; running it can fold the sections or bring the whole door down.

The trigger is usually one of a handful of things. A bumper nudges the bottom section and pushes the lower rollers out. A cable lets go and the door tips. Lag bolts holding the track brackets loosen in old framing, so the vertical track drifts away from the door. Steel rollers with seized bearings stop turning, skid instead, and climb the track lip. In winter, ice in the bottom of the track holds one side back while the opener pulls the other.

Where you live changes the odds. Back-lane garages in older inner-city neighbourhoods often have track brackets screwed into framing that has dried and shifted for decades, so loose hardware is the usual story. In newer suburbs the doors are heavier insulated 16x7 and 16x8 steel, so when one does leave the track there is more weight hanging off fewer rollers, and it needs securing quickly.

Panels and hinges. Summer hail and reversing cars account for most dented sections. A single section can often be swapped if a matching panel still exists for your door’s make and model; we check before you commit. Hinges crack quietly from years of flexing and are replaced on the spot from stock, with the correct numbered hinge at each joint so the door still closes tight.

Most broken garage doors should be repaired, and we say so. Replacement only earns its cost when most of the door is damaged and no matching panels exist, when rust has come through the bottom section, or when an old uninsulated door keeps a heated room above the garage cold. In those cases we will show you the cost of fixing it alongside a new door installation, so you are comparing real numbers rather than a sales pitch.

Our trucks cover NW Calgary, NE Calgary, SE Calgary and SW Calgary, along with Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks, Chestermere and the other communities around the city, with no travel surcharge. We run seven days a week from 8 am until 8 pm, and urgent calls get priority emergency service. Every price is on our price list, and each repair carries our written parts-and-labour warranty.