Garage Door Repairs Rockland County New York
Broken overhead garage door does not mean that you will have to replace the door. Since most garage door problems can be repaired. If you look around you while driving in Rockland County, you will see that there are many different types of overhead doors. You can find in Rockland County wooden garage doors, steel overhead doors, commercial heavy duty doors, residential single car doors and more. Since when it comes to garage doors in Rockland County New York, the options are endless.
In most cases, especially if made from strong materials, and installed by a garage door expert, a problem with an overhead door that prevent the door from working is very rare. And it doesn’t matter if it is a door in Rockland County, or a garage door in New Rochelle New York. If your overhead door in Rockland County need to repaired more than once every few years (Not including the maintenance and the lubrication that we recommend to perform every 6 months), you better have a garage door expert to check the door, and find why the door is getting stuck so often.
Overhead doors in Rockland County are designed to last for many years, and so does the garage door’s parts and the opener. Today we install garage doors in Rockland County with lifetime warranty. And if you find yourself looking for garage door repair service in Rockland County often, it can be due to 2 options: The garage door is from low quality, or the garage door wasn’t installed properly.
Garage door repair Rockland County
We know that trying to open your garage door, and to find that the door don’t move is never a pleasant experience. And you are probably wondering how long it is going to take to a garage door expert to come and fix the door for you? So the answer is simple: We can fix your garage door in Rockland County New York today. Yes, we have same day service in Rockland County, and most likely since you are local to us, we can be there within 2 hours.
It doesn’t really matter to us what is the reason that your garage door got stuck, since we can fix all garage doors in Rockland County. If the spring of your residential garage door snapped, or if your commercial overhead door is out of tracks, we can fix it. We specialize in same day repairs in Rockland County, and to be able to fix your garage door on the spot, and get your garage door working again ASAP, we carry with us many garage door parts like springs, pulleys, drums, cables and garage openers to fit every overhead door in Rockland County.
So there is no need to worry that you might find yourself waiting long hours for someone to come and repair your garage door in Rockland County NY, since with our same day overhead door repairs services, one of our garage doors experts in Rockland County will come to assist you today and repair your broken garage door.
Garage door spring repairs Rockland County
The spring system is like the heart of every garage door in Rockland County. And as such, when the spring snap, or break, the door can get stuck and it can be impossible to operate it. The best thing for you to do will be to stop using the door, and to call a local garage door expert in Rockland County who can come and fix the door.
A broken a garage door spring can turn your garage door from something that operate in a perfect and in a smooth way, to something dangerous, that can end with serious injuries and even death. If you noticed that your garage door spring in Rockland County snapped, stop using the door, and call us. If you will insist to try and operate the door when there is a missing spring, it can result with two things: The first, as we just explained, it will be dangerous. And the second, operating an overhead door with a broken spring, whether it is overhead door repairs in Syracuse or garage door repairs in Nanuet, will probably cause a bigger damage to the door and to the other parts, for example: Using a garage door with a broken spring can burn the garage door opener, which use the power of the spring to open and close garage doors in Rockland County New York. You may not see it, but listen to the experts when we tell you that if you will ignore the broken spring of your overhead door in Rockland County, eventually you will need besides replacing the snapped spring, to replace the garage opener as well.
Torsion spring repairs Rockland County
There two kinds of garage spring system in Rockland County. Torsion spring system and extension spring system. And we can fix both of them. If you are wondering what kind of spring system you have installed in your overhead door in Rockland County, go to the door and look at the springs. They will be either on top of the door wrapped around a steel pipe (The shaft), and in that case you know that you have torsion spring system. If your garage door springs are on the sides of your garage door, on top of the tracks, your overhead door in Rockland County is using extension spring system, and you can jump to the next paragraph.
If a torsion spring system snap, you will need a garage door technician in Rockland County to replace the spring. We know that to the non-experienced person, many different torsion springs may look the same, and you may assume that if you will replace your torsion garage door spring with one of them the door is going to work again. But the truth is that it is not that simple. There are many garage doors in Rockland County, and each garage door in Rockland County require a certain set of springs.
But even if we assume that you contacted a local garage door supplier in Rockland County, who supplied you with the right spring, you will still need to perform the torsion spring replacement, which is considered a complicated job, that require tools which designed for torsion spring replacement. In cases of torsion spring replacement, we recommend that you will contact a local garage door repairman in Rockland County to come and perform the replacement for you. To read more about garage door spring replacement, you can visit this article about garage door spring repairs, or read our page about torsion spring replacement in Rockland County.
Extension spring replacement Rockland County
If you own a garage door in Rockland County, and the mechanism of your overhead door use extension spring to operate the door, and one of the springs snapped, you are going to need a garage door specialist in Rockland County to replace the extension springs before you will be able to use the door. Like with the torsion springs, a garage door in Rockland County, or every overhead door repairs in New York for that matter, should not be used before a professional garage door tech replace the springs and fix the problem.
Unlike the torsion springs, extension springs in Rockland County should also include a safety feature, and that safety feature is safety cables, that every garage door with extension springs in Rockland County shouldn’t include. The safety cables are there in order to protect your garage area when the spring will snap. Yes, the door will work the same way with or without the safety cables, but the difference will be between a spring that snap, and can potentially hurt someone, or a spring that snap and was secured by the safety cables. If you called a garage door specialist in Rockland County to come and replace the extension springs, for your protection, make sure that he also include safety cables during the springs replacement.
You may consider installing the safety cables by yourself, since it is relatively a simple job. But just like any other garage door repair DIY, be careful and avoid guessing. Garage doors in Rockland County can be dangerous, and when you use them the wrong way they can be dangerous.
Garage Door Opener in Rockland County
Not every garage door in Rockland County is being operated with an electric garage opener. Some are being used manually. But if you live in Rockland County, and experiencing hard time operating your garage opener, or if you are thinking about installing a new garage opener in Rockland County, we can help. We repair and replace garage openers in Rockland County for more than 20 years now, and we can supply you with high quality garage opener, and of course with a professional installation.
There are few important things about garage door openers, and they can be applied to different garage openers, whether it is a garage door repair in Syracuse, or a garage door repair in Nyack NY. To read more about garage door opener repair, and installation, you can read the article we wrote about garage door opener in Rockland County.
There are many garage openers in Rockland County, and just like anything else in life, when you invest in quality, you get quality in return. Some people would prefer to purchase the cheapest product, thinking they are saving money. But the truth is that this is not always right. And we would like to explain. Let’s assume that you live in Rockland County and you are looking to purchase a new opener for your garage. You went and searched, and found a garage door supplier in Rockland County that sell garage openers. He offered you 2 garage openers: The low quality will cost you 75 cents; and the high quality will cost you 1$.
If you chose the low quality opener: You will get a garage opener that will open your garage in Rockland County for 3-7 years, before you will need to replace it. After 20 years you spent like 3.75$ since in that period you replaced like 4-5 openers.
But if you will choose the high quality opener. You may pay more right now, but after 20 years it is the same garage opener that you paid 25 Cents more. So after 20 years you still invested only 1$, and at the same time you used a high quality garage opener, and quality is something you will notice every time you will open or close your garage.
(3) Lift Master garage opener Rockland County
There are many garage openers in the market, and each garage door supplier in Rockland County will probably tell you that the brand he represent is the beat garage opener brand. Here is not the place to compare between different opener brands, if you want, you can visit and read an article about types of garage openers in New York. But what we will do here is recommend about garage opener manufacture that we have been using for many years, and that every time we install a new garage opener in Rockland County, we know that we just supplied and installed a high quality garage opener, and we just added a new satisfied garage customer in Rockland County to our long list of garage doors customers.
New Garage Door in Rockland County NY
Just like when you are deciding to install a new garage opener in Rockland County, a new garage door installation should include one important thing: QUALITY. If you want to get a new garage door, and to forget about it for 30 years and more, invest in quality. It is not rare to see overhead doors in Rockland County older than 40 years old, since they were made from high quality materials.
You can choose the deign you like for your new overhead door, you choose the color you want for your door, and choose whether you will or will not have a window section. But when planning to purchase a new garage door in Rockland County, there is one important thing you should not settle for: The quality of the overhead door you are planning to purchase.
Garage door installer in Rockland County
But the new door itself is only half of the way to get a new high quality garage door in Rockland County. Beside the high quality garage door, you are going to need one more – and no less important – and that is a professional garage installer. It doesn’t matter if you went and purchased the best garage door in Rockland County, and you made sure it is made from high quality materials. If you did not use a professional garage doors installer in Rockland County, you will not get the high quality garage door you are wishing for.
New garage door installation, and it can be garage door installation in Haverstraw, or a new garage door installation in Nanuet, can be complicated, and require a lot of knowledge and experience in installing new overhead doors in Rockland County. And the reason is that every garage in Rockland County is unique, and no 2 garage installations are the same, sometime not even in the same house. So the installer must have the knowledge and the ability to deal with all kinds of garage structures, and sometime only experience can solve certain problems.
When we install a new garage door in Rockland County, we prefer to remove all door parts like tracks and springs, and bring everything new and from high quality. When we install a new garage door, we put our signature on the new door, and we would like to know that when we put our name on a job, it must end in a way that will preserve our reputation, as one of the leading garage doors company in Rockland County.
DIY Garage Door Rockland County
When you search online for DIY garage door repair in Rockland County, you discover that there are many youtube Videos and online garage doors stores that offer garage door parts and DIY instructions.
We are not big fans of DIY garage door repairs in Rockland County. And not because this is what we do, but because we have seen do it yourself garage doors repairs attempts that ended very badly, and lead to bigger damage than benefits. We are writing this article for Rockland County, but there are many stories of people who tried to fix their door by DIY and got injured.
But at the same time, there are some DIY garage door repairs that can be performed by DIY, and by locating a local garage door supplier in Rockland County, it can help you get the job done without the need for garage door specialist in Rockland County area. We would like to take 2 garage door repair DIY case studies, and explain the differences.
Case study #1: Torsion spring replacement Rockland County
The first will be a torsion spring replacement in Rockland County. As you can see in that Video, it may seem relatively simple to replace a broken torsion spring for overhead doors in Rockland County. But the truth is that what may seem easy and simple when you watch it comfortably on your screen, is not the same in real life. In the online tutorials of garage doors repairs, you do not see the time and the difficulties that the person who replace the spring went through, since they cut it when they edited the Video. In real life a garage door technician in Rockland County carry with him a lot of equipment that help him complete the job, like torsion sticks, different sizes of springs, and other parts like cables, rollers and drums, to give him the option to complete the repair.
We would like to list some of the steps that you will need to go through to replace a torsion spring in Rockland County, to show you that watching a tutorial, and buying the torsion spring is only a small part of the job:
- Locating the parts: There are many overhead door suppliers, who sell garage door parts in New York. But the fact that you found one, doesn’t mean that you already got the spring. There are many possible sizes of torsion garage doors in Rockland County, and there are many sizes of springs. Using the wrong spring can be dangerous, and may prevent the door from working. A professional garage door technician in Rockland County, can match the right spring for every overhead door in Rockland County.
- The tools for the job: Torsion spring replacement, whether in Rockland County, or a torsion garage spring repairs in the Bronx NY, require specific tools, that were designed for the job, like torsion sticks. There is no room to try and replace them with any other tool.
- The replacement itself: Every garage in Rockland County is unique. What you watched on the tutorial will not necessarily fit your overhead door, and you may need to do some adjustments that goes farther than simply replace the spring. Am experience garage door tech in Rockland County, who have replaced many overhead doors in Rockland County, have the knowledge to overcome any obstacle.
Case study #2: DIY Garage maintenance in Rockland County
There are some garage door repairs in Rockland County that should be performed in DIY. One is the garage door maintenance and lubrication, and the second is garage door safety sensors repair.
As you can see in this Video about garage door maintenance in Rockland County, maintain an overhead door, whether it is a garage door in Rockland County or an overhead door services in Westchester County is not complicated, and within 40 minutes you should be able to complete it by DIY, and with no need for a garage door specialist in Rockland County. The important part is to always use common sense, and never take risks, or touch something you are not 100% sure about. If you have any question about garage doors repair in Rockland County, or if you need help lubricating your overhead door, we are always happy to help, and to share the knowledge we acquired in the overhead door service in Rockland County. We have parts, tools and knowledge, to complete the most complicated garage doors repairs, as well as the basic repair. Sometime the problem is easy to solve, and can be repaired with minutes, and sometime the problem require deep understanding of the overhead doors and the way the doors operate.
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