Menifee Garage Door and Opener Repair

I charge only for work that fixes the problem.

Each year I perform an extensive check-off list. The list includes not only general service but an inventory of what you have and the status of each item.

The cost for fixing miscellaneous problems that don’t require hardware or extensive amounts of time. Each additional door is $20 more.

Miscellaneous replacement of broken items.

The price varies depending on the severity.

Struts keep the door from sagging, buckling, and developing cracks. They are like I-Beams. The struts take the stress away from door sections that are collapsing. One to four struts may be needed on a normal 16 foot wide by 7 foot tall door. They are not cheap but certainly cheaper than a new door. Usually the door will last for decades after struts have been added. (Or until somebody drives through the door.)

Safety beams fail.

Replacement of the gears, spindle, bearings, and sprockets.

That’s standard weather stripping. Non-standard would need to be ordered and the price would increase.

The bread-and-butter job! Law requires springs be at least capable of 10,000 cycles. And so vast majority of garage door companies use springs rated for just over 10,000 cycles. That is usually about 10 years give or take depending on usage. Springs sold as "lifetime" must be rated for a minimum of 25,000 cycles. I regularly use springs rated for almost 100,000 cycles and charge less than anybody else. That is less than my competition selling the little over 10,000 cycle springs. Don’t be fooled by low bids. Get the full price.
Final word, I will beat my competition by $10 for the final advertised price of the completed job.

These are the springs you can’t see because they are contained in the tube. I convert these over to the professional torsion spring system.

Please move the cars out. I need to put ladders under your garage door opener. I’ll also need about four feet of space behind your garage door. All 16 feet of your garage door.

No property managers, insurance companies, banks, real estate agents, etc. I don’t like spending time doing paperwork. Nor do I like property managers that do all the easy work and leave the impossible jobs for me. And "upscale" complexes are the worst. They usually try to leave residents with dangerous messes because of the way the money flows in these nightmares. So please call some large garage door franchise instead of me!

I prefer you to be in the garage as I work. At a very minimum at the house. I know in the summer it is usually very hot in the garage so I can understand.

Every few years I login to Facebook and see people have tried to schedule service. That doesn’t work! Nor does texting my business land line. The text messages just vanish. Emails I usually get in a few days. That doesn’t help since you probably need something fixed asap. So call me! Then I can get to you usually within the hour. No nonsense!

They are sometimes called "Wall-Mount Garage Door Openers". In the past probably 99% were sold by Liftmaster but now Genie sales quite a few.

They sometimes work for years without a problem. More often than not they fail every few months. They are not really meant for garage doors found in most homes. However, they may be the only solution if you have a structural beam in the garage preventing a normal opener from being installed. Where they really shine are in warehouses where the doors go straight up vertically. If you mistakenly buy one of these because it looks cool don’t call me! I don’t want my name being dragged through the mud because you mistakenly think I’m the reason it is always causing trouble.

It’s such a shame. For example one family was super pissed. They had just moved into one of the new developments. Houses were still being constructed on their street. The first thing they did with their 8' high doors were to replace their openers with jackshaft operators. They apparently had them at their old home and swore by them. In this new house of theirs the doors were not balanced right. The doors were not installed right so they were rubbing. And they had already installed shelving to obstruct any repairs. They had already been trying to take legal action against the garage door franchise that did not do their work correctly. Unfortunately it wasn’t just the franchise that was at fault. There was blame to go all around. The builders. The original doors installation. The company that installed the jackshaft operators. The various companies they called to keep patching the mess. And finally themselves for stuffing the garage way past the point of being full. Naturally I refused to work on this like I do whenever I encounter them.

The garage doors found in Southern California and most homes in the USA are meant to connected to openers that have motors hanging from the ceiling. Not from the wall. These openers directly pull the door and push the door. Overcoming the poor construction and maintenance in most homes. They do not need the door to be perfectly balanced with no friction anywhere. Sure there are a lot of people that will give you confidence they can make it work. Buy from them and be prepared for problems!