Garage door repair in Halifax, Nova Scotia

What we fix

Think of a garage door as one heavy curtain of steel or wood that springs hold in balance, tracks keep in line and a motor moves up and down. A fault in one piece puts extra strain on the rest, which is why one repair often turns up a second worn part. We handle the lot:

• Springs: they carry the weight of the door, and they are the part that breaks most often.
• Lifting cables and drums: cables that fray, rust through or unwind after a spring lets go.
• Openers: motors, logic boards, safety sensors, remotes and wall keypads.
• Rollers, hinges and tracks: seized or noisy rollers, cracked hinges, bent track and doors that have jumped off it.
• Panels and weatherseals: dented or split sections, rotten wood, and the bottom seal and side stops.
• Locks: the handle, lock and keyed release on the overhead door.

Salt, damp and rust

On the coast, rust is the slow problem behind a lot of sudden ones. Salt spray off the harbour, sea fog and the road salt that drips off the car every winter all settle on the steel parts of a garage door. Rollers stiffen, cables lose strands, hinge pins seize and spring coils pit. None of it is dramatic until the day the door stops halfway. A quick look and some garage door lubricant on the moving metal parts in spring and fall goes a long way, and if something already looks orange and flaky, we replace it before it fails.

Storm nights: wind, outages and frozen seals

A nor'easter tests a garage door three ways. Wind pushes on the face of the door and can bend tracks or pop rollers on a wide door with an open aspect. The power goes, and the opener with it, so you need the manual release (read how to use the manual release safely). And wet snow that melts by day and freezes by night glues the bottom seal to the slab. If the door won't lift after a freeze, free the seal rather than asking the motor for more force.

When to leave it alone

Some faults are dangerous to touch. Stop, keep people and cars clear, and call us if:

• the door hangs at an angle, or one side sits lower than the other;
• a cable is slack or has come off its drum;
• a roller has left the track;
• you heard a bang and the door now feels like dead weight.

Don't run the opener and don't try to force the door into place. A door that is out of balance can come down without warning.

Home garages and commercial bays

Most garage door work we do is at homes: attached doubles in newer subdivisions in places like Bedford and Hammonds Plains, and older single garages around Dartmouth and the peninsula. For shops, warehouses and loading docks, go to commercial garage doors. If the door has reached the end of its life, see garage door installation.

Car stuck behind the door?

That counts as an emergency, and we treat it like one at any hour. Read car stuck behind the garage door for the first steps, then call or text. The price is agreed before any work starts, as our price promise explains. We cover Halifax, Dartmouth and the communities listed on our areas page.