A residential garage door can weigh as much as two grown adults, and the springs above it are wound to carry exactly that load. Our technicians in Maple work with winding bars, clamps and stands, secure the door before touching tension, and run it through full cycles before they call the job finished.
Halton, Ontario
2021 census · what it means at the door
47%Homes of every age
About 47% of homes in Burlington were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Where housing is mixed, so are garage sizes: single doors on older lots, double doors on infill and newer builds. Spring pairs, cable lengths and opener strength are all sized to the actual door, and we carry the range to cover whichever door is in front of us.
50%
Single-detached houses make up about 50% of homes in Burlington (2021 Census).
In a neighbourhood with both detached and attached homes, some customers decide alone and others report to a board or property manager. We adapt the visit accordingly, giving a homeowner options at the door and a manager a written summary they can circulate.
Garage door services
Homeowners in Maple can read below about the repairs we make most, the parts we replace, the opener and remote work we do, and how a new door is chosen and installed. Commercial customers will find rolling and sectional door service alongside the residential pages.
Maple
Garage Door Safety InspectionDuring the power outage you pulled the red cord and tried to lift the door by hand.
Garage Door Tune-UpOn windy nights the door rattles in its frame, there is a line of daylight along one side, and the bottom seal has gone hard and…
Garage Door Bottom Seal ReplacementWith the door closed and the lights off, a bright line of daylight runs along the floor from one side to the other.
Garage Door Roller ReplacementSince the cold snap the door has been stiff and noisy first thing, and after the last thaw the bottom corner began to judder.
Extension Spring ReplacementIt is the first hard frost of the year and the door on the old detached garage has stopped halfway, squealing at one pulley.
Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and RepairThe motor runs, the chain rattles along the rail, and the door does not move a millimetre.
Garage Door Remote and Keypad ProgrammingSomeone in the family tried to add a remote, held the button on the ceiling unit a little too long, and now every remote in the…
Sectional Garage Door ReplacementA planned exterior renovation has made the old door stand out for the wrong reasons.
Wind-Rated Garage Door ReplacementYour renovation drawings call for a garage door with a stated design pressure, yet the existing door has no readable label or…
Carriage-House Garage Door InstallationYou appreciate the grain and depth of traditional wood doors, though regular refinishing is not part of your plan.New Doors
When the old door comes down, everything that carried it goes with it: the tracks, the springs, the cables and the rollers. A new door on old hardware is a compromise, and we do not install that way.
Repairs
A door in good repair is quiet, closes flat against the floor and stays put wherever you stop it. When one of those three things changes, this is the category to look through for the likely cause and the fix.
Maple
Garage Door Safety Inspection
There is a new sound. Last week the door simply hummed up and down; now there is a bang at the top of travel and a scrape on the way back, and you have started standing well back while it moves.
Garage Door Safety Inspection
Maple
Our technicians treat a door in Maple as a system: springs, cables, drums, rollers, tracks, opener and sensors all affecting each other. A repair that ignores the neighbouring parts fails early, so we check the lot, fix what is worn, and tell you honestly what is fine and can wait.
— Aldershot Door Specialists
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A brand-new section beside sections that have weathered ten summers will look brighter, and it is worth knowing that before the order goes in. Paint fades gradually on the existing sections, but the new one does not reliably converge with them, and a visible difference can remain for good.
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Grinding, slow climbing, a door that reverses: the symptom points to the part. We take it down and plan the visit around it.
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We measure the door's weight and the existing spring, test the opener's force settings and check sensor alignment before recommending anything.
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When the work is done, you see the door run, learn what was replaced and get a few pointers for keeping it in shape.
The three owner checks, yes: the manual balance test from the closed position, the board test for contact reversal and the photo-eye test with a broom handle through the beam. Industry guidance recommends all three monthly. What stays with a technician is anything that involves loosening, winding or unhooking springs, cables, drums or bottom brackets, and any adjustment to the opener's force settings.
No. Tracks should be clean and dry. Rollers are meant to roll along the track on their own bearings, and a film of lubricant on the track collects grit, thickens in the cold and makes the rollers slide and drag instead. Wipe the tracks with a rag and put the lubricant where it belongs: on the hinge pins, the roller bearings, the spring coils and the bearing plates at the ends of the torsion shaft.
Several years is typical, with the range set by exposure. A door facing south or west, a threshold that is wet and salted all winter, and a seal that freezes to the floor a few times a season all shorten the life. A shaded door on a dry slab with a wipe of silicone each autumn can go much longer. The condition of the strip, rather than its age, is what to watch.
One roller can be changed on its own, and sometimes that is the sensible stopgap after a wheel breaks. The better result comes from a full set, because the other wheels have done the same number of cycles and are close behind, and mixing new with old, or nylon with steel, leaves the door running unevenly and sounding different on each side. A matched set also lets the technician set every top fixture and check every hinge in one pass.
Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons a pair of springs is suddenly found wanting. Insulation panels, glazed sections, a wood overlay or a new steel skin all add weight the original springs were never chosen for, so the door grows heavy and the opener strains. When the springs are replaced, the door is weighed as it is now, and the new pair is rated for the door you actually have.
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