Ottawa garage door repair and installationSame-day servicefor broken springs, cables, openers and off-track doors.

It depends on the part, and the honest version of the answer is which part. A torsion spring pair, a cable set, an opener gear kit and a new opener are four different bills, and a door that needs a spring often needs its cables at the same time because both have been through the same number of cycles. Ask what the visit and the part will cost when you call, before anybody is dispatched.

A broken torsion spring, by a wide margin, then cables and rollers. All three are wear parts with a finite cycle life, and a door that opens twice a day is spending that life whether anything looks wrong or not. The second most common call is the photo-eye sensors near the floor, which is usually a five-minute alignment rather than a fault with the door at all.

No, and this is the one job on a garage door worth being firm about. A wound torsion spring on a double door holds enough energy to break an arm, winding it needs the correct bars rather than a screwdriver, and the spring, the drum and the cable length all have to be matched to that specific door. A pairing that is close but not right leaves the door heavy on the floor or floating at the top.

Pull the red release cord so the opener is disconnected, then lift the door by hand. If it will not lift or feels enormously heavy, the fault is the door: a spring, a cable, or something in the track. If it lifts easily and stays where you leave it at waist height, the door is fine and the fault is the opener. That one test decides which half of the system the visit is about.

The Nepean shop covers Ottawa and the towns around it, the Mississauga branch covers the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe, and the London branch covers London and the towns near it. Every place we cover is listed on the service areas page, including the ones with no page of their own, so you can check the exact name rather than guessing from a radius.

It depends far more on how well the door is balanced than on the brand. An opener working against a spring that needs adjustment is doing several times the work it was designed for on every single cycle, and it shows up as a stripped gear kit. An opener on a properly counterbalanced door is barely working at all.