Loud bang, won’t lift
Almost always a broken torsion spring. Don’t lift the door, and don’t pull the red cord.
Garage door repair in Sarasota. Fixed the same day.
Springs, openers and new doors.
Get a quote from photos
Send photos of the door. Get a quote back.
From inside the garage: the door, the springs and the opener. The owner sends back a price, you say yes or not yet, and you pick a day.
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The door from inside, the springs above it and the opener.
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The owner sends a price, each part on its own line.
Pick a day
Say yes, choose the day that suits you, and we text you to confirm the time.
From your photos, confirmed on site. A broken spring? Don’t touch it: photos from where you stand are enough.
Start here
What’s your door doing?
Pick the closest. Each one says what it usually is, what not to touch, and which page to read next.
Opens six inches and stops
Usually the travel limit or a door that binds, not a dying opener.
Hanging crooked
A cable off its drum. Keep clear, and leave the door where it is.
Off the track
A roller out of a bent section. We take it apart properly, not by force.
Loud and grinding
Tired rollers and hinges are usually the whole fix, not a new door.
Remote dead from the street
Antenna, battery or interference. Rarely a new opener.
- $89
- to look, said on the phone
- 8
- kinds of work, from a spring to a new door
- 2
- trucks out of one yard in Sarasota
- 4.9
- from 112 Google reviews
What we do
Garage door services in Sarasota
Eight kinds of work, from a single spring to a new door. Most calls are one of the first three.
01Broken spring repairA torsion spring wound with proper bars, the cables and drums checked with it.Learn more02Opener repairGear kits, limits, safety eyes and logic boards, once we know the door is balanced.Learn more03Cables and drumsBoth cables re-seated and set to the same mark, so the door comes up level.Learn more04Off track and bent sectionsA roller out of its track or a section creased by a bumper, straightened or replaced.Learn more05Rollers and hingesTen nylon rollers and a hinge set quiet most doors more than a new opener would.Learn more06New garage doorsInsulated steel, carriage, modern and glass, measured to your opening and rated for wind as a whole.Learn more07Safety tune-upThe once-a-year visit that finds the tired spring before it goes.Learn more08Commercial doorsDoors that cycle forty times a day, serviced on a schedule instead of in a panic.Learn more
New doors
New door? Pick a style.
Four looks we fit on Sarasota homes most often. Ask about any of them and we’ll tell you what suits the house, and whether your old door is worth keeping.
Every new door is measured and wind-rated for the opening before we price it. New doors
A habit worth one minute
Test it yourself, once a month.
Every opener made since 1993 has to reverse when it meets something. This is how you check yours is still doing it.
- Lay a 1½-inch board flat in the middle of the opening. A roll of paper towels on its side is close enough.
- Close the door onto it with the wall button or the remote, and watch the bottom edge.
- It must touch and go back up If it doesn’t, stop using the opener and call. The answer is never to turn the force up.
Only if the spring above the door is whole. If you can see a gap in the coil, leave the door alone and call.
What you’re handed
The ticket you keep, including what we refused to do.
Every visit ends with a written ticket. It’s the piece of paper that lets anyone check our work, including the next company you call.
- What we found, with the spring’s size and cycle rating.
- What we did, line by line, with the price.
- What you asked for and we wouldn’t do, printed at $0.00 with the reason.
From a recent job
Service ticket
01$0.00
Balance checked before anything was touched
Opener disconnected at the trolley and the door lifted by hand. It came up heavy and dropped about four inches at waist height, which told us the problem was the door, not the opener.
02$89.00
Service call and first half hour
Attend, diagnose, and the small parts that came off the truck: two lag bolts and a bracket shim.
03$96.00
Left vertical track, bent at the third roller: repaired
Clipped by a car mirror at some point and closed up by three-eighths of an inch. Dropped, straightened on the bench, re-shimmed off the jamb and re-bolted plumb.
04$36.00
Two flat-spotted steel rollers, replaced with nylon
The pair on the left stile were skidding through the bend. Replaced with 13-ball nylon so the two sides match.
05$0.00
Increase the force setting so the door stops reversing: REFUSED
Requested and not done. The door was reversing because it was binding, and the reversal is the safety feature working. Turned up, it would push through whatever it met, including a person. We fixed the bent track that caused the bind instead.
06$0.00
Photo-eyes re-aimed, lenses cleaned
The right-hand eye had been knocked down about fifteen degrees by a bicycle handlebar.
07$0.00
Safety reverse test: passed, twice
1½-inch board under the centre of the opening; reversed on contact both times. The homeowner did the last run himself.
Total, parts and labor$221.00
Ask before you call
Not sure what it is? Ask the chat.
It tells you what not to touch, works out what’s wrong, and hands you to a person.
It won’t price a spring it hasn’t seen, and it will never tell you to lift a heavy door or climb a ladder to the springs.
Ironleaf Garage DoorsThis is the chat on this page
Which is closest? You can add the detail after.
Tap one to start. It tells you what not to touch, and hands you to the owner.
Reviews
What Sarasota homeowners say
4.9112 Google reviews
Dana L.Lakewood Ranch · 1 week ago
Loud bang at 6 am and my car was stuck inside. Wade told me on the phone not to touch the door or pull the cord, came out mid-morning, and showed me the gap in the old spring before he did anything. Door was up and balanced within the hour.
Rick M.Sarasota · 3 weeks ago
I asked him to turn the force up so the door would stop reversing. He wouldn’t, and he put that on the ticket at zero dollars with the reason. Then he found the bent track that was causing it. That ticket sold me.
Carol S.Venice · 1 month ago
Two other companies wanted to sell us a new opener. Marco checked the door first, found it was badly out of balance, and fixed the spring. The old opener works fine and it’s quieter than it has been in years.
Local and owner-run
Where we work around Sarasota
Two trucks out of one yard in Sarasota, covering Sarasota County and the south edge of Manatee. The limit is how far a truck can go and still get back for the next call.
- Sarasota
- Bradenton
- Venice
- Osprey
- Nokomis
- Palmetto
- Siesta Key
- Longboat Key
- Lakewood Ranch
- Englewood
- North Port
- Ellenton
- Parrish
- Laurel
- Gulf Gate
- Fruitville
Straight answers
Questions we hear most
My door opens about six inches and stops. Is the opener dying?
Almost never. Six inches and stop is usually one of two things, and neither is a dead opener. Either the up-travel limit is set wrong, so the opener believes the door is open, or the door is binding in the first few inches and the opener is reversing off the resistance. That is the safety system doing its job. We tell the two apart with the opener disconnected and the door checked by hand, so please don’t turn the force up to push through it.
Can you talk me through replacing the spring myself?
No. It’s the one thing we are rigid about. A torsion spring holds the whole weight of the door as wound steel, and winding it takes proper winding bars. Screwdrivers and rebar slip, and when one slips the cone unwinds through whatever is in front of it. We would rather drive out, and if we can’t get to you soon enough, we’ll say so.
How long does a spring replacement take?
On a standard home door with the spring on the truck, about forty-five minutes to an hour, including balancing the door and running both safety tests. What adds time is a cable or drum damaged when the spring let go, which is why we look at both before we price the job.
Do you charge to come out?
Yes, $89, and we say it on the phone before you agree to anything. It covers the visit, the diagnosis, the balance test and the safety reverse test, whether or not you go ahead with a repair. A free call-out is never free; it just gets filed somewhere else on the bill.
Is it worth insulating the door?
Sometimes. If the garage is attached, has a room above it, or doubles as a workshop or gym, an insulated door makes a real difference in August. It is also stiffer and quieter. If the garage is detached with gaps under the eaves, you would be paying to insulate the outdoors, and we’ll tell you so.
Get the door fixed and the car out.
Tell us what the door is doing. The owner calls you back, gives you the visit price, and tells you what not to touch while you wait.