Garage door repair in Sherman Oaks
We do garage door repair in Sherman Oaks from the flat blocks north of Ventura Boulevard up to the hillside streets below Mulholland Drive.
The estimate is free and there's no charge to come and look. Nights and weekends cost the same as a weekday.
Open 24 hours, 7 days. A person answers the phone.
Hillside garages and low headroom
Headroom is the space between the top of the opening and the ceiling. In a garage under a hillside house it can be tight, and it decides which track and which opener will fit. We measure it on the first visit, along with the room at the sides.
With a bedroom above the garage, a belt-drive opener runs far quieter than a chain. Garage door opener repair covers what we test first, and new garage doors covers a door for a tight opening.
When the door won't open or won't close
Summer heat in the Valley is hard on an opener's logic board, and an opener that has been lifting a door with a broken spring often strips its gear. We test for both before anyone says the word new.
- Broken springs
- The door won't lift, or it rises a few inches and stops. If it's stuck open, keep your hands off the release cord, because the door can drop.
- Off-track doors
- A door hanging crooked has usually lost a cable or jumped a roller out of its track. Don't run the opener again until we've seen it.
- Emergency repair
- If the door is stuck open and you have to leave, call before you go and tell us who can meet us.
The estimate is free and there's no charge to come and look. Nights and weekends cost the same as a weekday.
Open 24 hours, 7 days. A person answers the phone.
How the visit goes
- You get the arrival window by text. If you can't be there, so does whoever is meeting us.
- We check the whole door and measure the headroom before we price anything.
- You get the price in writing, repair option first. Only you approve it, by phone if you're away.
- After the repair, we balance the door and check that it reverses when something is in its way.
- Whoever is home tries every way in before we go, from the keypad to the button in the car.
Questions about openers and headroom
Why won't the door move when the opener runs?
Usually a broken spring, which leaves the opener trying to lift the full weight of the door, or a stripped gear inside the unit. A new opener won't fix a broken spring, and we'll say so before you buy one.
Will a new opener fit a low garage?
Usually, yes. Low headroom changes which opener and which rail will fit, so we measure it before we price one.
Can a tenant or a neighbor let you in?
Yes. They show us the problem, and the price comes to you by phone.
What we fix, and what we install
Call us now, or send the form and we'll call you back.
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