Bigger openings and custom doors. Matching the house matters more here than turnaround does.
Hillsborough runs to larger lots, larger houses and larger garage openings than the rest of the Peninsula. Doubles and oversized singles are normal, along with a high share of custom and carriage style doors that were specified to the elevation rather than picked off a catalog page.
Weight is the thread running through all of it. A carriage door in solid timber or a clad overlay carries far more mass than the equivalent catalog panel, so the hardware works harder over the same count of cycles. Springs and cables come up most. Both get sized off a weighed door rather than off a chart.
Same figures in every city we cover. You approve the exact number before any work starts.
| Job | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Spring replacement | $200 to $330 | About an hour on site. If the door runs two springs, replacing both together is usually the better call, because they wear at the same rate and the second one tends to follow within months. |
| Opener repair | $200 to $400 | Covers the common failures: the drive gear, the logic board, the travel limits and sensors out of alignment. What it costs depends on which of those it turns out to be. |
| Cable replacement | $200 to $350 | Cables are replaced in pairs. A frayed cable on one side means the other has done the same work over the same years. |
| Off-track repair | $200 to $400 | Price depends on what put the door off the track. A roller out of the curve is quick. A bent track or a panel that took the impact adds parts. |
| Roller set | $250 to $400 | Ten rollers on a standard door. Nylon runs quieter than steel and is what makes the difference on a door that grinds. |
| New door installed | $1,500 and up | Steel, insulated steel and wood, sized to the opening. The figure covers the door, the track, the hardware and taking the old door away. |
What moves each of these is on the garage door repair cost page.
Every job below goes out to Hillsborough: spring, cable and roller repair, opener repair and replacement, and new door installation when a repair has stopped paying for itself.
Not sure which one you have? Start from what the door is doing, or call (650) 376-6070 and describe it. Most problems are recognizable from the description, so we can usually tell you the likely range and whether it is today or tomorrow before we set off.
Yes. The part that matters is putting a scale under the door and matching the springs to what it actually weighs. A carriage door on generic springs is out of balance from day one, and it takes the opener down with it eventually.
That's most of the work on a Hillsborough job. We bring samples to the house, so the choice gets made against the actual elevation in daylight rather than against a screen.
Call before early afternoon and we can usually get out the same day.
Call (650) 376-6070