A garage door company for the valley, from the ranch houses on the mesas to the shops out among the orchards. How we work, and the habits we won't break.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free and you can say no.
The air here is dry enough that the grease on springs, rollers and hinges hardens into a crust. Springs start to squeal and chatter well before they break, and rollers go from quiet to grinding in a season or two.
Then there is the swing between a hot afternoon and a cold night, which flexes the steel and the weatherstrip through most of the year. It is a big part of why springs on the Western Slope seem to wear on a faster clock, and why a squeal is worth a call before it turns into a broken spring.
Many builder doors came with thin stamped rollers or hard plastic wheels, and heat followed by cold cracks them. A cracked roller wobbles in the track, the door shakes, and the extra drag lands on the cables and the opener.
Sealed nylon rollers on steel stems hold up far better here. They are a regular part of our cable and roller work, and they make the door noticeably quieter.
Ranch houses on the mesas mostly have attached two-car doors that went in with the house, many still on their builder cables and drums. Older streets in town have detached garages with single doors, some on extension springs strung along the tracks.
Both get the same treatment: the worn part replaced, the rest checked, and the door balanced so the opener isn't doing the springs' job.
A garage here often doubles as a workshop, a place to keep a raft or a side-by-side, or the spot where bikes get loaded for the trails. A door that opens that often, with summer heat behind it, wears faster than the builder planned for.
For garages used that way, a higher-cycle spring and sealed rollers are worth asking about when the old ones go. Both show up on the estimate as options, never as requirements.
Out among the orchards and hay fields, sheds and shops have tall doors, sometimes with windows, for trucks, sprayers and equipment. They carry heavier springs and longer cables, and field dust gets into every bearing.
Those doors get the same inspection and paperwork as a house door, and a shop door that fails in the middle of harvest is handled as an emergency call.
You call with what the door is doing, and a window gets booked. The technician phones ahead, then inspects the springs, cables, drums, rollers, hinges, track and opener, including the shaft bearings and drums that are easiest to check while the spring tension is off.
You receive a free estimate in writing with each repair spelled out, and nothing proceeds without your say-so. Afterward the door is balanced, the opener's force and limits are set, and the safety reverse is proven.
Springs in the common sizes for both torsion and extension doors, cables, drums, shaft bearings, sealed nylon rollers, hinges, struts and weatherstrip that stands up to sun. For openers: gears, boards, safety eyes, remotes and keypads.
An unusual part for a farm door or an older opener is ordered, and the door is left safe and closed while it's on the way.
Each spring is sized to the door it's going on. Two-spring doors get a matched pair. Estimates are approved before work, and they don't quietly grow. And when a door has years left in it, we say so rather than pitching a new one.
Call (970) 238-2833 or send the form. For a farm or orchard property, include directions a map might miss.
Usually dry springs, rollers or hinges. The dry air strips grease quickly here. Lubrication and sealed rollers fix most squeals, and a spring that chatters may be near its end.
Yes. Tall doors with windows, heavy springs and long cables are regular work.
If the garage bakes in the afternoon or turns cold at night, an insulated door evens it out and runs quieter. It is worth weighing whenever a door is replaced.
Yes. Shops, warehouses and service doors along the commercial streets get the same visit as a home.
Yes. You'll have it in writing, free, before a tool touches the door.
A two-hour window instead of a whole day, and a call before the technician leaves. Free throughout Mesa County. The estimate is free either way.
Want to talk instead? Call (970) 238-2833.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free and you can say no.