Garage door services in Sarasota

There are two ways to hold up a garage door, and which one you have decides most of what a spring visit costs and how careful anybody has to be.

Torsion

A shaft above the opening carrying one or two springs that wind up as the door comes down. It is the better system: the load is central, the door travels straighter, and when a spring lets go it stays on the shaft. It is also the one that must never be touched without winding bars, because all of that stored energy is sitting in a coil with a cone on the end of it.

Extension

A long spring stretched along each horizontal track, usually on older or lighter doors. Cheaper to fit, and the reason it worries us is what happens at the end of its life. A stretched extension spring that snaps has nowhere to go but across the garage. Every extension spring should have a containment cable — a plain steel cable threaded down the middle of the spring and anchored at both ends, so that when the spring breaks the pieces are captured on the wire instead of leaving at speed. It costs almost nothing. We fit them as a matter of course, we will fit them to your existing springs as a standalone job, and if we find a set without them we will say so on the ticket whether or not you asked us to look.

Worth saying plainly, because it saves you a phone call.

We do not sell openers over the phone

Nearly every “my opener is dying” call turns out to be a limit switch, a drive gear, a bad safety eye or a door that is out of balance. A new opener bolted above a heavy door will die the same way the old one did, only sooner and with your money in it.

We do not do one-day-only pricing

There is no discount that expires at the end of the visit. The price we say on the phone is the price on the ticket unless we find something and tell you about it first.

We will not turn the force up to hide a problem

An opener that reverses is an opener doing its job. If it reverses when nothing is in the way, something is binding, and the answer is to find it. Winding the force up so the door pushes through the bind is the single most common unsafe thing done to garage doors, and it is the reason the ticket on our home page has a refused line on it.

We do not fit a spring without writing down what it is

Wire size, inside diameter, length, wind direction and cycle rating go on your paper. The next person to touch your door — us or anyone else — should not have to guess.