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Garage door repairs, servicing & new doors in Toronto
Test first. Then the finding. Then the plain call.
Every visit starts the same way, whatever you booked: we check the door's balance and run the hardware before anyone talks money. Then you get what we found, in plain words, and what it costs to put right, before a spanner comes out. Here is the work, job by job.
How pricing works here
Faults & repairs
A call-out to look, then a firm figure for the fix once we've read the door. You say yes or no to the number, standing next to the thing it describes.
New doors & openers
Measure and quote, free. The quote comes from your opening, your headroom and your site, and it stays the quote.
What we won't do
Guess a price over the internet, or invent one before we've seen the door. A figure made up on a web page isn't a quote, it's bait.
Springs & balance
The spring does the lifting, not the opener and not you. When a door goes heavy, slams down, or flies up the last half metre, the spring has lost its argument with the door's weight. We re-tension torsion springs, replace broken and fatigued ones, and match spring rate to the door's actual weight so it holds at half like it should.
A snapped spring is usually loud, a single bang from the garage, and afterwards the door weighs everything it ever was. Don't lift it and don't unbolt anything. A wound spring stores real force, which is why this is winding-bar work with the training behind it, not a socket-set job.
- Torsion and extension spring replacement, sized to the door
- Re-tensioning and full balance setup, finished with the half-lift test
- Cables, drums and bottom brackets, the parts under the same tension
Tracks, rollers & cables
Grinding, screeching, a door that binds at the same spot every time or sits crooked in its opening: that's hardware, and it's honest work to fix. We true tracks, replace worn rollers and hinges, re-seat jumped doors and renew frayed cables before they let go.
On the bay streets, Coal Point round to Rathmines, the lake air is part of the story. Lake Macquarie is a saltwater lake, open to the ocean through Swansea Channel, and waterfront hardware wears faster than the same parts two ridges inland. Not a crisis, just a fact we check for: surface rust on springs and fixings, stiff rollers, cables furring at the bottom bracket.
- Rollers, hinges and track alignment on sectionals and tilts
- Roller-door guides, and curtains that have walked out of them
- Cable replacement before the fray becomes the failure
Openers & conversions
An opener should be the easiest thing in the house: one press, a smooth run, a safety reverse that actually reverses. We fit new openers to sound doors, replace tired units, and convert manual doors for people who'd rather not lift anything at all, which in this town is a lot of sensible people.
One thing an opener can't do is fix a heavy door. An opener dragging an out-of-balance door up its tracks is a motor being asked to hide a spring problem, and it will wear out early doing it. That's why the balance test comes first, every time, even on an opener call.
We work across the common Australian brands, the B&D and Merlin and Steel-Line class of gear, without being tied to any of them. No dealership, no quota, so the recommendation is about your door, not our shelf. Any mains wiring an opener needs is confirmed on site and done by a licensed electrician.
- New opener supply and fit, matched to door weight and cycle count
- Manual-to-auto conversions, including older tilt doors where they're sound
- Force and travel limits set properly, safety reverse tested with the door
New doors, measured & quoted
A lot of the western shore's doors went up decades ago, original tilts and first-generation sectionals now reaching the end of honest service. When repair stops being the right call, we say so plainly, and the next step is a measure, not a brochure.
We quote sectionals, rollers and tilt replacements from the site itself: opening width and height, headroom and side-room, the slope of the drive, what the garage is actually used for. On the peninsula blocks that matters double, because an under-house garage on a sloping block is its own little engineering problem, and we treat it as one.
- Sectional doors, the usual right answer for most openings
- Roller doors, where headroom is tight or the garage is a working shed
- Tilt replacements and conversions on the older stock
- Clearance checks for boats, trailers and roof racks before you commit
Service & balance check
The cheapest repair is the one a service catches early. A service visit here runs the same discipline as a fault call: the half-lift test, then springs, cables, rollers, hinges, tracks, weather seal and the opener's force and safety settings, with lubrication where the door wants it.
You get honest notes at the end: what's sound, what's wearing, and what to watch. If nothing needs doing, that's the finding, and it's a good one. We'd rather tell you the door is fine than invent work on it.
- The full balance and hardware check, door and opener together
- Lubrication and adjustment where it genuinely helps
- Plain written notes, no invented urgency
Tell us about the door
Say what it's doing in your own words. Gone heavy, off its track, slammed shut, or just due for a look, it all makes sense to us. You'll get a call back on the number you leave, and a plain answer when we're standing in front of it.
We don't publish a phone number while the books are this new. The form is the front door, and it goes straight to a person, not a queue.
Prefer a bigger form, or want to attach a photo? Use the full enquiry page.
Received, and holding.
Your enquiry is in. You'll get a call back on the number you left. If the door is stuck part-open in the meantime, leave it where it sits and keep people and cars clear.