Springs, openers, cables, rollers and doors off their track. Most jobs finish on the first visit, and you get the price before we start.
Housing across San Mateo, Burlingame and Belmont was largely built between the 1940s and the 1970s. A door fitted with the house is now 45 to 70 years old, which is well past the point where springs, cables and openers start giving out.
The most common failure on the Peninsula, and the one that makes a door feel impossibly heavy. We carry the common torsion sizes on the truck.
$200 to $330Motors that hum, click, or do nothing at all. Most opener faults come down to the drive gear, the logic board or a sensor out of line.
$200 to $400Frayed cables and worn rollers are what make a door grind and jerk. Both are cheap to fix before they take the door with them.
$200 to $350A door off its track is carrying weight the way it was never built to. Stop using it and call. We reset the door and realign the track.
$200 to $400Ten nylon rollers on a standard door. This is the fix for a door that wakes the house every morning.
$250 to $400Steel, insulated steel and wood, sized and fitted to the opening. We take the old door away.
$1,500 and upEvery price above, and what moves it, is on the garage door repair cost page. The cities we reach from our San Mateo shop are listed on the areas we serve page.
Almost every door on the Peninsula runs torsion springs, the bar mounted on the wall above the opening. They are rated in cycles, not years. A 10,000 cycle spring on a door that goes up and down four times a day is done in about seven years, which is why a 1965 house is on its third or fourth set.
Extension springs are the older setup, stretched along the horizontal tracks on both sides. They still turn up on original single-car garages in San Carlos and Daly City. They need a containment cable through the middle so a broken spring stays in the garage. If yours does not have one, we add it when we replace the spring.
Either way, springs are replaced in pairs where the door runs two. They wear at the same rate, and the second one usually follows the first within months.
Tell us what the door is doing. Most problems are recognizable from the description alone.
Same day when you call before early afternoon, otherwise the next working day.
We look at the door, tell you what it needs and what it costs. You approve it before anything starts.
Most repairs finish on the same visit, with the common parts already on the truck.
Most repairs land between $200 and $400. A single torsion spring installed is $200 to $330, a full nylon roller set is $250 to $400, cables are $200 to $350 and opener repair is $200 to $400. Every job we price is written out on the cost page.
No charge to look at the door. We tell you what it needs and what it costs, you approve that number, and then the work starts. If you decide to leave it, that is the end of it.
Usually yes, if you call before early afternoon. A door stuck open is a security problem, so those go to the front of the list. Call (650) 376-6070 and we will tell you on the phone whether it is today or tomorrow.
Leave the door where it is and stop pressing the opener button. A broken torsion spring drops the entire weight of the door onto the opener and the cables, and running it that way is how a straightforward spring job turns into a bent track and a burnt-out gear. If the door is open, park outside and call.
Yes. The common torsion spring sizes, cables, nylon rollers, hinges and the usual opener gears ride with us, so most repairs finish on the first visit. An unusual size or an older opener board can mean an order, and we say so while we are standing there rather than afterward.
Call before early afternoon and we can usually get out the same day.
Call (650) 376-6070