Menifee Garage Door and Opener Repair

I only charge for work that fixes the problem and naturally only after I fix the problem.

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 parts.

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.

Standard weather stripping. Non-standard would need to be ordered and the price would increase.

Law requires the springs be 10,000 cycles or more. The vast majority of garage door companies use springs rated just over 10,000 cycles. So if there are two people and they both go to work then the springs will last about seven years. "Lifetime" springs are rated for a minimum of 25,000 cycles and will last about 17 years. My springs are rated for around 100,000 cycles, so about 60 years. Final thoughts, I will beat any competition by $10.

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.

HomeLink systems are often built into the car’s touch screen computer system. So the owner’s manual for each make, model, and year must be studied! (You can’t just poke your head in and look for three buttons on the visor, rearview mirror, or somewhere else and visually tell if the car has HomeLink.) HomeLink also has a YouTube channel describing how to program the various HomeLink systems. As of today there are 141 videos available at www.youtube.com/@HomeLinkGentex/videos. The HomeLink website is www.homelink.com/

HomeLink can also connect via WiFi to show whether the garage door is closed or open. HomeLink cannot only open the garage door and gates, but can also work the home’s security systems, lighting, climate control, stereos, etc.. There is a lot that HomeLink can do!

Now. Right now!

Keep in mind, our springs cost $350 and are rated for 60 to 70 years on a 7' high door. Other garage door companies charge about $450 during the week and close to a thousand on the weekends or late at night. And they often use springs that may last only six years. (Some franchises use 9,000 cycle springs which only last six years if the door is opened and closed 1,500 times per year.)

The srings used in normal weight doors that make the majority of homes in the sea of Menifee houses are rated for about 100,000 cycles. Our best springs are rated for close to 200,000 cycles.* Our worst springs are rated for 80,000 cycles. So if you go somewhere each day that would be one cycle to get out and another cycle to get back. If your spouse does the same then in total the springs would get four cycles a day. In a year you would get clost to 1,500 cycles. So our best springs would get you about (200,000 cycles) / (1,500 cycles/year) or 133 years. For the common door weight in probably 90% of the homes it would get you 67 years. The worst of our springs would get you about 53 years. Our competitions springs at possibly 13,000 cycles (13,000/1,500) would get you less than nine (9) years and cost more.

Most door manufacturers and repair companies use springs rated between 9,000 and 14,000 cycles. Some of the best springs coming with new doors are rated for 29,000 cycles. These are usually advertised as "Lifetime" because they are more than 25,000 cycles. These 29,000 cycle springs usually come with free hardware replacement. Like some springs from Martin and Hörmann doors. Though the springs are warrantied the labor is not. These companies will send out authorized dealers usually 60+ miles away and charge $400 for labor. Call the manufacturer and verify.

There are repair companies like us that make a point of selling good springs. For instance one national franchise uses 29,000 cycle springs and gives a lifetime warranty. (The springs are very beautiful and expensive in shiny green.) The best torsion spring I’ve ever seen from these repair companies is only at 50,000 cycles. This was around 2015, they put the wrong springs on for the door weight, charged $960 on a Sunday, and would not come back to fix the problem so the customer eventually called me. That is not uncommon. For instance in 2025 a customer wanted the noise of the garage reduced. They called a franchise which replaced his opener and springs charging over $2,100! When I got there later, because the company wanted to charge even more for a wireless keypad, the door was not that quiet.

It all depends on the problem. However, if you have so little faith in yourself that you ask this question, then you should call. Here are some things you should certainly call for even if you have confidence in yourself:

Because only Menifee is serviced. Driving from one side of Menifee to the other side takes only 20 minutes. Not the hour or so it takes to drive to Temecula and then another hour to drive back. So ask yourself how does a company handle multiple cities? The answer is by charging more and being slower.

I’m only one old and weak man. I do not have the time to install a new door or opener. I’m too weak to repair an old wooden flipper door that has fallen down. Substandard, dangerous, or products prone to failure I avoid. So I will sometimes pass on jobs, not charge anything, and give suggestions so you are not ripped off while dealing with somebody else.

Their chat program from a computer gets you a real person. Unfortunately the last real person I chatted with could not answer simple questions. They are a waste of time. The last time I called for tech support, in August of 2023, the wait time was nearly three hours. They have a call back feature though so you can give them your number and they will call you back as if you waited in line. They have different support levels though and if you need a level 2 support tech like I did they may have to call you back. The level 2 tech support person called me back 48 or so hours later. They were also of no help. In my case I merely wanted to know if they had a replacement trolley/carriage for an opener they discontinued recently. Apparently this is too difficult for anybody including their level 2 techs to answer. The movie "Idiocracy" comes to mind…​

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!