A garage door in this valley lives through summer days near a hundred degrees, spring and fall weeks with warm afternoons and near-freezing nights, dust storms and the odd wet snow. The door you choose should suit that, the house it's on and what the garage is really used for. The measure and the written estimate are free.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free and you can say no.
Wide daily temperature swings are hard on thin, uninsulated doors: they rattle, they let the heat and cold straight through, and their skins flex. An insulated door with foam bonded between two steel skins keeps the garage steadier, protects whatever's stored inside, and makes the rooms next to an attached garage easier to keep comfortable. For a door that lets daylight into a house or a shop, see our glass garage doors. Shop, farm and business doors have their own page: commercial overhead door repair. Carriage styles in real wood, steel and composite are compared on our page about wood and carriage garage doors.
The seals matter as much as the door. A new bottom seal and side weatherstrip keep the dust out during the spring winds, which also keeps the new rollers and opener cleaner for longer.
The ranch homes on the mesas and in the newer subdivisions usually look best with a clean ribbed or flush panel and a simple row of windows. Downtown's bungalows and older houses look right with a carriage-style door, arched or square windows and a pair of decorative handles. Neither choice changes how the door goes in.
If the house is in a subdivision with covenants on exterior changes, the door's style and color are checked against them before anything is ordered.
Shops and equipment buildings around the orchards need taller, wider doors, and a band of glass along the top lets whoever is working inside see what they're doing without opening up to the dust. Those doors get heavier-duty tracks and hardware, springs sized for their height and weight, and an operator matched to the door.
An outbuilding used only for storage can take a lighter uninsulated door; one used as a workshop through the winter is worth insulating.
What happens and in what order.
Plenty of homes and farms here are a long drive from anywhere, so an install is planned so that nothing needs a second trip: the door, the hardware, the springs, the seals and the opener parts are all on the truck before it leaves. If the measure found anything unusual, like a low header or a soft jamb, the fix for it comes along too.
The old door is loaded up and taken away, so there's nothing left to deal with afterward.
A new insulated steel door is often lighter than the old wood door it replaces, and it runs straighter on new tracks and rollers. That takes load off the opener, and many openers run better on the new door than they did on the old one. An opener with no safety eyes, a stripped gear in its past or years of straining behind it is the exception, and it's better replaced while everything else is new. You hear which way it goes at the measure, not on the install day.
Windows in the top section let daylight into a garage without putting the inside on display, and textured or frosted glass keeps it private. On a street-facing ranch, a single row is usually enough; on a shop, more glass can make the space far more usable. Windows are kept out of the lower sections, where they only invite a stray ball or bumper.
Ranch homes on the Redlands and Orchard Mesa, bungalows downtown and along North Avenue, homes in Pear Park and Fruitvale, and farm and orchard buildings toward Palisade, Fruita and Clifton. Loma and Whitewater included.
We come out to measure wherever the building is.
Measured in person. Never from a photo.
Springs set to the new door. Once it's hung and weighed.
The old door taken away. Same visit.
Working before we leave. Balance, reverse, remotes.
If the garage is attached, used as a workshop, or holds anything that minds heat and cold, yes. For a detached storage garage, often not.
Yes, with heavier hardware and springs and an operator matched to the door's size.
Often. An opener that's old, straining or has no safety eyes is better replaced at the same time, and you hear which before ordering.
Tell us which one. Style and color are checked against the covenants before ordering.
Nearly always, because everything the job needs is loaded before the truck heads out.
If you'd like daylight inside, yes, in the top section only. Frosted or textured glass keeps the inside private.
Close enough to look intended. Colors are chosen outside against the house, from real samples, not from a screen.
Yes, as is the written estimate.
Phone or send the form with where the building is and what you'd like the new door to do. Samples ride along on the measuring visit.
Free estimate anywhere in the valley.
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.