Your car is blocked, the spring has snapped. Call for garage door repair Lithonia GA and a real person books your two hour window. (678) 270-5321 is staffed 24/7 by real people, so call at any hour of any day.
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We examine the door before any tools come out. Below are some of the typical services we provide for garage door repair Lithonia GA.
Our garage door repair Lithonia GA trucks carry everything from bottom seals to opener rails.
Contact (678) 270-5321 to check parts available on this truck and scheduling.
Garage door spring repair Lithonia: We service torsion and extension springs. Many broken springs will snap without warning. The door then becomes unsafe to try to open or close. We stock most types of springs and can give you a price before we do the work. Most spring jobs are finished in one visit.
A grinding, clicking or inoperable opener is usually caused by a worn drive gear, faulty logic board, or misaligned safety sensor(s). You get a diagnosis and a written estimate before any repair.
Old doors from the 1970s and 1980s on these older ranch style homes in our area many times have to be totally replaced instead of repaired. Measure, order and install the new door(s) and get back to your busy life! The written price comes first and the tools come second.
Our experienced team can repair your cables and straighten, replace and tension your door tracks so your door can hang correctly again and move up and down as intended.
We can make one panel replacement for a panel damaged by a storm or by accident. We replace panels, and whole doors when needed, on the 1970s and 1980s ranch homes common here.
In this service we cover major parts such as springs, cables, rollers and hinges. Adjusting the opener’s force settings is part of the tune-up.
The springs of a door carry the full weight of the door every time it moves. You can hear them break. We get a lot of calls for this part, Garage door spring repair Lithonia, especially for the older homes on the streets off of Panola Road and for many of the homes in the subdivisions on Evans Mill Road.
Once a spring is broken, do not run the opener. Leave the door where it is and call a technician.
This rule is to protect your opener’s motor from burning up as well as to prevent a falling door. We carry Torsion Springs, Extension Springs as well as complete opener replacement kits.
Stop using the door and call us.
When a door won’t open, the garage door repair Lithonia GA fix is usually on the opener.
Never pull the red release cord while the door is open or jammed. Pull it only when the door is fully closed.
That matters every time a power outage hits or an opener dies mid-cycle. Our techs walk through manual release safely before they leave.
Cables that break near one side of the door tend to fall down that side of the door and get stuck in the track. A bent or broken track can also have similar problems. Our technicians fix cables and tracks for garage door repair Lithonia GA by straightening or replacing the track, installing new cables and checking all the rollers for flat spots or cracked nylon before considering the job fixed.
A door that comes off track can weigh 200 pounds or more, and it can drop without warning. Keep people and vehicles clear until a technician secures it.
We treat a tenant’s stuck door exactly like a homeowner’s.
Even a single dent or crack in a garage door panel is worth replacing if the rest of the door is in good shape.
Spring and cable work belongs to a trained technician, never a homeowner. The same goes for the drive gear and wiring inside the opener.
All repairs can be completed by one of our experienced technicians. Call (678) 270-5321 to arrange for a home visit.
A live dispatcher answers day or night.
Live 24/7 answering service for calls to (678) 270-5321 including midnight, Sundays and holidays. After hours, a live dispatcher answers garage door repair Lithonia GA calls, checks the schedule and tells you when a truck can come out.
For a booked visit we agree a two hour time slot with you prior to the dispatcher hanging up.
Emergencies for garage door repair Lithonia GA always come at the worst time, so we stock enough parts to finish most repairs on the first visit.
Our trucks run daily from 2372 S Stone Mountain Lithonia Rd Ste A, Lithonia, GA 30058, to the surrounding communities.
We cover garage door repair Lithonia GA across 30058, 30087, 30088, 30038, 30035, 30083, 30039, 30012, 30034, 30032, 30002, 30079, 30094, 30078 and 30013. That would be Stonecrest, Conyers, Stone Mountain, Decatur and the rest of the communities along Highway 78 and I-20. Garage door repair stone mountain ga calls get the same crews and trucks as the rest of the areas above. Simply call and ask the dispatcher if your specific street is serviced by a particular unit.
Summer weather in Lithonia can be harsh on garage doors and garage door openers. For one, the extreme heat can burn grease from rollers and hinges causing them to rub against each other. This can cause damage quickly. In addition, the heat can cause damage to the logic boards of openers causing them to fail. And the humidity can cause the contact points of safety sensors to corrode quickly. The International Door Association has information on how to maintain your garage door openers in high-humidity climates in a recent published article.
The majority of housing stock in this area was built between the late 1960s and 1990s in the form of brick-front ranches and split-levels. Many of these homes still have the original torsion spring hardware on their doors. On a garage door repair Lithonia GA call for these types of doors, more often than not the springs have been wound to the incorrect tension after the door, or doors, have been replaced or insulated. This type of repair is seen on a regular basis by our techs in the subdivisions off of Panola Road as well as the Redan area. Often garage door repair Lithonia GA on these older systems will require re-tensioning of the entire spring assembly rather than just replacing the broken coil spring. The proper re-tensioning of the spring is detailed work and must be done correctly so that the next spring does not break in six months.
Whether or not we have a slot available for same day service today will be advised by our dispatcher when you call. Most garage door repair Lithonia GA parts are kept in stock on our trucks, so no wait for parts. Our dispatcher for (678) 270-5321 will inform you if we have service available for same day service today, or give you a next available appointment time. Your 2 hour window of arrival time will be provided to you at the time of call scheduling, and you will receive a text message when the service truck is on its way to your location.
We do not quote a fixed price for a garage door repair Lithonia GA service call over the phone. Rather, our experienced technicians assess what is required to repair your door so it functions properly, list the total cost for the service to be performed on the service call, and get your approval prior to starting any work. This is how every service call is processed.
Unlike companies that promise “sometime today,” we give you a two-hour window. When you call us for garage door repair Lithonia GA, the dispatcher sends the truck closest to you. The dispatcher gives you the actual window before the call ends. You will then receive a text message when the truck has left for your address.
We answer 24 hours a day for Lithonia and the surrounding communities of Stonecrest, Stone Mountain, Conyers, Decatur and other locations near Highway 78 and I-20. The zip codes that we serve are 30058, 30088, 30038, 30012, 30087, 30035, 30083, 30039, 30094, 30034, 30032, 30002, 30079, 30013 and 30078. If you are unsure if we serve your street, just call and ask the dispatcher, who will be happy to find out for you.
We’re located at 2372 S Stone Mountain Lithonia Rd Ste A, Lithonia, GA 30058. We send garage door repair Lithonia GA trucks from there to Lithonia and other local communities on a daily basis. If you need to reach us, just call (678) 270-5321 and a real person will answer. We’ll send a truck to your location, you don’t have to come to us.
No. The large mechanical forces stored in a garage door spring can be hazardous if released without the proper tools and accurate measurements. A single mistake could end up costing more than an afternoon of time. The specialized tools required to perform this work are not typically found in a home workshop. Also, accurate measurements must be taken in relation to the door’s weight and height, making it best to leave to a qualified service technician.
Both. A garage door repair Lithonia GA call can turn into an opener job just as easily as a spring job. We repair drive gears, logic boards, safety sensors, remotes, and keypads, and we carry full replacement openers on the truck when a repair doesn’t make sense. LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie, and Craftsman are all in our wheelhouse.
No work will begin until you approve our written quote. Our dispatcher will explain our written quote process before we send a truck to your location. Nothing on your Lithonia door starts until you sign off on the written quote. The full price for the required repairs will be written up on the work order when the technician arrives and you will have the opportunity to approve the work before any work is performed with tools.
Summer heat trapped at the garage ceiling slowly dries the grease on opener drive gears. At the same time, the natural humidity in the air corrodes the contacts of safety limit switches and the terminals of logic boards. These failures often surface in late summer after weeks of seemingly innocent heat damage. They are among the most common problems encountered when trying to open a garage in warm weather.
The most common problems can be easily diagnosed and repaired in the same order in which they occur: Are the springs broken? Are the cables broken? Are the photo eyes blocked or out of alignment? Is the drive gear stripped? Is it a dead remote control or wall button? Most repairs are completed on the first garage door repair Lithonia GA service call and we carry the most common parts to complete repairs.
A non functioning door only gets worse as time goes on. A broken spring or a jammed track can cause significant damage if left unrepaired for too long. Call Century Garage Door Repair Service now at (678) 270-5321.
Century Garage Door Repair Service, 2372 S Stone Mountain Lithonia Rd Ste A, Lithonia, GA 30058.
