If the whole house hears the door go up at six, the noise is telling you something: dry rollers, loose hinges, a chain that needs tension. We track down each sound, correct the cause, and hand back a door you barely notice.
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Glass doors need a level opening, solid framing and precise track alignment, because any twist shows in the glass lines. We check the header and jambs, set the tracks carefully and adjust the balance for the door's weight, which differs from a steel door of the same size. The result is a door that looks as sharp as it did in the showroom.
A garage door belongs to the architecture. Its movement belongs to your everyday life. We bring both into the conversation.
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Garage door services
When a door stops, you want to know two things: what happened and what it takes to fix it. The service pages below answer both for every job we do, from the smallest adjustment to a whole new door.
Garage Door Safety InspectionDuring the power outage you pulled the red cord and tried to lift the door by hand.
Garage Door Tune-UpYou moved in a few months ago and have no idea when the garage door was last looked at.
Off-Track Garage Door ResetThe rollers on the door have been squealing for months.
Garage Door Panel ReplacementRust has crept along the bottom edge of the lowest section.
Garage Door Bottom Seal ReplacementAfter a spring rain there is a puddle inside the door that reaches the tires.
Garage Door Perimeter WeatherstripThe new door went in last year and looks perfect, but the old wooden stop and its tired seal were left in place.
Garage Door Manual Lock RepairOn the old wooden door out back, one lock bar hangs loose from a rusted guide and the other is bent at an angle, so the handle turns but the door can still be lifted a hand's width from outside.
A stray ball went through one of the window panes in the top section. The glass is gone, the frame around it is cracked, and the steel beside the opening is pushed in, so the whole section is in question rather than one pane.
Garage Door Panel ReplacementIt is a January morning and the door lifts about a hand's width, groans, and settles back down. When you pull the release and try by hand the door feels far heavier than it used to, and the bottom seal is stuck hard to the slab.
Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and RepairHalfway up, the door hesitates and the opener strains before it carries on. Pulled by hand with the opener released, you feel the same catch at the same height, as if a wheel is dragging instead of turning.
Garage Door Roller ReplacementSprings
Nothing on a garage door stores more energy than a wound spring. Handling it well means securing the door, releasing the tension in a controlled way, fitting the correct replacement and rewinding to the right count. This category is that work.
The door starts to rise, gets about the height of your knee, then shudders and reverses.
Someone left the snow shovel leaning in the opening and the door came down on it.
The door is the one the builder installed and has never had a part changed.
Someone backed the car in a little too far, a bin or a bicycle brushed the track, and since then the door starts to close and comes back up.
New Doors
An older home with an original wood door often has an opening that is out of square. Fitting a new door into it well takes care with the jambs and the tracks, and that care is what makes the door seal and run straight.
Openers
Nothing. No light, no click, no hum from the unit on the ceiling.
The rail shakes when the door runs. The steel straps holding it to the ceiling have worked loose, the chain rattles the length of the garage, and a bolt has already dropped onto the hood of the car.
The belt looks fine from a distance, but up close the rubber has cracked across the back in dozens of places and, in one spot, you can see the steel cords showing through.
During the ice storm the power was off for two days. You came home in the dark, found the door dead, and had to climb out of the car to pull the red cord in the cold.
Someone backed the car in a little too far, a bin or a bicycle brushed the track, and since then the door starts to close and comes back up. One sensor now sits at a slightly different angle from the other.
After the move, the previous owner's remotes are somewhere in another city and the keypad on the outside wall wants a code nobody wrote down. The wall button works.
Your daughter gets home from school an hour before anyone else. She has lost two house keys this year, and the garage keypad code has been shared with half her class.
After a week of lifting the door by hand you pressed the button, hoping it would catch. Instead the motor grinds, the trolley thumps against the end of the rail, and the little lever that should snap back stays stubbornly upright.
Sensible optionBottom seal replacement.
WhyA fresh seal, sized to the door's retainer, closes the gap and follows the unevenness of the floor.
Sensible optionPerimeter weatherstrip.
WhyVinyl stop moulding fitted snugly against the door face closes the sides and top.
Sensible optionSeal and threshold review.
WhyA different seal profile or a floor threshold keeps meltwater from bonding the door to the slab.
Sensible optionEmergency Release Repair
WhyMost households meet the release for the first time in a power outage, usually in winter.
Sensible optionSectional Garage Door Replacement
WhyA warmer garage begins with more than an insulation label.
Sensible optionInsulated Steel Garage Door Installation
WhyAn insulated steel garage door is a sectional assembly with steel faces and insulating material inside the sections.
Describe the property, the hardware and what has changed, and the visit starts from what you have seen.
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Doors rarely fail without a hint. If it got louder, slower or heavier before it stopped, say so; that history steers the diagnosis.
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The spring system, the tracks and the opener are checked as one machine, because a fault in one part often starts in another.
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New parts fitted, tension set, sensors aligned. The door then runs through several complete cycles before we consider the job finished.
Ontario
2021 Census
About 58% of homes in Toronto were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Older houses frequently have a garage door that was replaced once already, sometimes with a door chosen for the opening rather than the building. When that door reaches its end, there is a chance to pick a style that suits the house properly, and we measure with that in mind.
Single-detached houses make up about 23% of homes in Toronto (2021 Census).
Attached housing frequently has tandem or tight garages with limited headroom and little side room, so replacement openers and tracks are chosen to fit those dimensions. A low-headroom track kit or a wall-mounted jackshaft opener often solves what a standard unit cannot.
The opener believes something is in the way. Either the photo-eye beam near the floor was broken, misaligned or blocked, or the door met more resistance than its force setting allows, often from a frozen seal, stiff rollers or a travel limit set slightly too long so the door hits the slab. The indicator light on the head unit usually tells which of the two it was, and the technician confirms it by testing rather than guessing.
Short range is almost always interference or a weak signal, not a broken opener. Certain LED bulbs, including ones fitted in the opener's own sockets, emit noise on the frequency remotes use. A remote battery near the end of its life also loses reach before it fails outright. The technician tests range with a known-good remote, swaps bulbs, checks the antenna wire hangs free below the head unit, and replaces the battery or remote as needed.
Through the house if the garage connects to it, or through a side door. Many doors also have an outside keyed emergency release, a small keyed cylinder that pulls the trolley free so the door lifts by hand from outside. If yours does not have one, the technician can fit a keyed release kit as part of the visit so there is a safe way in next time; until then, an alternate entrance is used and the diagnosis proceeds once inside.
If the opener predates the entrapment-protection standard, which operators have had to meet since the mid-1990s, its board has no sensor circuit and a pair cannot simply be wired in. The positive news is that a modern operator brings the whole package: matched sensors, force reversal and a monitored circuit. The technician confirms the model first, because some units do have the terminals and simply had their sensors removed.
Usually a little. A balanced door presents a much lighter load than a door with a broken spring, so the opener's force settings are reset to suit it, and the travel limits are checked so the door seals at the floor and stops cleanly at the top. The technician then runs the reversal test and the photo-eye check to confirm the safety system responds correctly with the new balance.
Households in Toronto are not left guessing about cost. The technician assesses the door, explains the cause, and gives the price on the spot, before starting. There is one fee whatever hour we arrive, and if you decide to wait or think it over, that is a perfectly acceptable answer.
