Most of what goes wrong with a garage door in Edmison Heights is small: a cracked roller, a hinge with an oval hole, a bearing that dried out. We carry those parts, replace them in sets so wear stays even, and lubricate the rest, which is often all a noisy or sticky door needed.
Garage door services
We think of garage door work in Edmison Heights as keeping a heavy moving object safe and smooth. That covers spring and cable work, tracks and rollers, opener force and sensor settings, seals against the weather, and complete door replacement when a repair no longer makes sense.
Edmison Heights
Garage Door Tune-UpHalfway up, the door shudders.
Garage Door Track Repair or ReplacementThe door has started rubbing the frame on the left, leaving a shiny stripe down the weatherstrip.
Garage Door Cable ReplacementYour older door has springs along the tracks, and one cable has slipped off its pulley and dangles slack.
Extension Spring ReplacementIt is the first hard frost of the year and the door on the old detached garage has stopped halfway, squealing at one pulley.
Garage Door Balance AdjustmentThe door has grown heavy so gradually you stopped noticing, until a visitor tried to lift it and could not.
Chain-Drive Opener RepairThe rail shakes when the door runs.
Sectional Garage Door ReplacementThe door shakes through the curved track, hinges have loosened in worn mounting points, and repairs now involve several parts at…
Insulated Steel Garage Door InstallationSeveral sections are dented and the bottom edge has begun to rust.
Full-View Glass Garage Door InstallationA damaged glazed door has mismatched sections and uneven movement.
New-Construction Garage Door InstallationThe garage walls are framed, the roof is on and the opening is taking shape.Repairs
The best time to look at a door is before anything breaks. An inspection walks through the springs, cables, rollers, hinges, tracks, seals and opener settings in turn, and comes back with a plain list of what is fine and what is not.
Springs
Hinges hold the sections together and let them fold around the curve of the track. When they crack or wear oval, the door binds and the panels begin to separate.
Edmison Heights
The garage door on a house in Edmison Heights is usually the entrance the family uses most, so we treat a repair as something that has to hold. That means finding the cause rather than the symptom, replacing the worn neighbour as well as the broken part, and setting the door up so the opener is not straining.
— Trent Valley Door & Opener Co.
Hours
Peterborough, Ontario
2021 census · what it means at the door
64%Older homes
About 64% of homes in Peterborough were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Extension springs are common on older doors, and they should carry a safety cable through the middle so a broken spring is held rather than flung. Adding those cables is a small job the technician checks for and offers on any older door he services.
57%
Single-detached houses make up about 57% of homes in Peterborough (2021 Census).
A blend of housing means a blend of garages: spacious attached garages with full headroom on the detached lots, and tight tandem garages with little side room in the attached units. Openers, tracks and springs are all sized at the door rather than assumed from the street.
Edmison Heights
Garage Door Tune-Up
On windy nights the door rattles in its frame, there is a line of daylight along one side, and the bottom seal has gone hard and flat. Leaves and fine snow drift in underneath and the garage never seems to hold its temperature.
Garage Door Tune-UpUsually, yes, and often dramatically. Most garage door noise comes from dry hinge pins, dry roller bearings and hardware that vibration has loosened, and those three are exactly what a tune-up addresses. Some noise comes from parts that have worn, such as a roller gone out of round or a chain that has stretched, and the technician tells you which sounds were settled by maintenance and which point to a part worth replacing, with a separate quote for that.
Where the damage is, at floor level, near the curve or overhead; what caused it if you know, such as a bumper or a ladder; whether the door is closed, open or stuck partway; whether any roller has come out of the channel; whether there is a spring above the door or springs along the tracks; and the door's rough size. A photo of the damaged length and of a bracket with its screws is very useful.
Leave it. With one cable slack the door is being carried on one side only, so it is unbalanced and may bind or drop unevenly when moved. The technician arrives with clamps and a method for taking the door's weight before anything is moved, and that is the moment to lift it. Until then a stationary door is exactly what you want.
Keep a clear zone around them. The springs, pulleys and cables move on every cycle, and anything leaning into their path, such as a ladder, a hockey bag or a shelf edge, can catch a cable or knock a pulley. Storage that crowds the rear hangers also slows any future service. A hand's width of clear air around each spring's full travel, and nothing hung from the springs or their cables, is the rule of thumb.
It is the manual release. Pulling it disconnects the door from the opener's trolley so the door can be moved by hand, which is how the balance test is done and how you get the car out during a power cut. The industry standard calls for it to be red and reachable, no more than about six feet above the floor. Reconnecting is usually as simple as running the opener once.
On-site assessment preferred
Ask about your door. Let's talk about your door.
Trent Valley Door & Opener Co.
Garage Doors · Edmison Heights
Open 24/7
(249) 494-287733 years in business
Open 24/7 · same fees any hour
On-site assessment preferred · (249) 494-2877 · open 24/7
