Call (833) 435-4540 any time of day or night when a spring breaks. Most repairs are carried out on the initial visit.
That predawn bang in Falls Church is a snapped torsion spring. Do not run the opener. Leave the door right where it is and call us.
Old Falls Church colonials see this opener fault a lot. Motor runs, door stays put. Could be the drive gear, a logic board, or photo eyes out of line.
Wet winters shift these older tracks right off their brackets. Keep everyone and every vehicle away from it. Our techs need to secure it before anyone goes near.
Humidity and freeze cycles crack Falls Church panels fast. A cracked panel or rotted bottom seal lets cold air and pests straight in. We swap both out cleanly.
Every call for garage door repair Falls Church VA starts with our tech looking at the door, writing the cost out clearly, and getting your sign-off before a single tool comes out. Here’s what we handle on those calls.
We repair and replace torsion and extension springs on old heavy wood garage doors in the Falls Church area.Read more
Our technicians have the proper size springs for your door and most spring jobs finish in one visit on a garage door spring repair Falls Church call.
Grinding or clicking sounds are something we can fix, even if you have a LiftMaster or Chamberlain garage door opener. We fix drive gears, photo eyes, logic boards and remotes at your home.
We can replace your worn out garage doors with steel, wood composite, or insulated panels. Property managers booking garage door installation Falls Church for a rental unit get a written quote before any work.
Our technicians will assess your door’s needs and inform you whether a complete door replacement is needed. In that case, they will explain the most suitable alternative for your opening.
Rollers, springs, cables and all parts of the garage door opener are inspected in a complete garage door safety inspection and tune-up.Read more
We also force-set the opener for proper function. Seniors, military members and first responders receive a standing discount on all services.
We send a technician to your facility to service a jammed down roll-up or sectional door so you can get back to work.
Our technicians rethread the cables and make sure they are properly tensioned to keep your garage door running safely and properly.
We source panels cut to match what is already on your door and fit a new bottom seal so the door closes flush again.
The Torsion Spring is typically attached to the top header of the door. When one breaks, you hear a loud crack, and the door either drops or will not move at all.
These are among the most common calls for garage door repair Falls Church VA, especially the older steel-panel doors found on colonial-style homes, which are extremely heavy and drastically shorten the life of the spring. Once a spring is broken, do not run the opener. Leave the door where it is and call a technician. After a spring breaks, do not force the motor to pull dead weight for which it was never designed. This can burn up the motor and over stress the cables to fraying.
Many problems that seem to be the opener itself are really caused by something else going wrong, such as a broken spring, a photo eye that was bumped, or even a years old problem with humidity damage to the opener’s logic board that just finally gave up.
On a garage door opener repair Falls Church call, we diagnose the true problem and don’t just replace the whole unit. We service LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie and Craftsman openers and typically have the most common drive gears and circuit boards for these brands on our trucks.
The cables are attached at the bottom of the door and run up to the drums which are located on each side of the spring shaft.
When a cable breaks or starts to slip the door will fall at that corner and bind in the track. 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. The red handle is attached to the trolley by a cord which can be released. Never pull the red release cord while the door is open or jammed. Pull it only when the door is fully closed. Tracks collect road grime, and car bumpers bend them. We straighten, replace or realign tracks as part of a garage door repair Falls Church VA cable or track call.
Just because one panel has been dented doesn’t mean you have to replace the whole door. Generally, our techs can swap the damaged steel section for a new one, provided the sections next to it are square.
Also don’t forget the bottom seal, which is so easy to miss. It has to be in good condition in order to stop cold air entering, water from building up under the door and insects from entering. Spring and cable work belongs to a trained technician, never a homeowner. The same goes for the drive gear and wiring inside the opener.
A door stuck open at midnight leaves the house exposed. We answer (833) 435-4540 24/7, and the dispatcher tells you honestly whether there is a slot tonight or the next opening is the following morning.
We don’t have voicemail. We don’t have a callback form. You get an answer at any hour. The after-hours garage door repair Falls Church VA dispatcher books a two hour arrival window with you on the call. You receive a text message when the truck departs and the arrival window is active. Arrival time window is 2 hours and is agreed when you book garage door repair Falls Church VA.
Property managers with a tenant locked out need the same straight answer.
Century Garage Door Repair Service covers Falls Church, including the 22046 and 22042 areas and many surrounding streets. We serve many of the older homes off of Broad Street as well as many of the residential neighborhoods off of Lee Highway and Route 7.
Garage door service Falls Church calls also cover communities just outside the city. Call (833) 435-4540 to confirm whether your street is in our area before booking.
Call (833) 435-4540 for questions about coverage in your area.
The Falls Church, VA climate is hot and humid during the summer months and cold during the winter with occasional warm ups.
In late winter the weather can fluctuate between freeze and thaw cycles. This type of weather can cause a lot of stress on the torsion springs of your home’s garage door as they can quickly lose tension in cold weather. Also the lubricant for the roller on your garage door becomes thicker in cold weather and breaks down in hot weather. So wear on the spring and rollers can occur after a late winter freeze-thaw cycle, which typically occurs in February and March. Information on what a technician looks for during a maintenance/tune-up service call is published by the International Door Association.
The typical home in our service area was a colonial or split level built in the mid 20th century.Read more
Often the single car garage was enlarged in some fashion. The opening for the garage door in these older homes often has very narrow tracks, misshapen track channels and shifted framing over the decades. A garage door repair Falls Church VA call on an opener in a 1960s colonial looks very different from the same call in a new townhouse.
Serving older Colonials & new builds
Whether a slot is open today depends on how full the schedule already is when you call. Our trucks are stocked for most repairs, so garage door repair Falls Church VA jobs usually finish in one visit once a tech is on site. Call (833) 435-4540 and you get a straight answer: today, or the next opening. The window is two hours wide, and you get a text when the truck rolls.
We do not quote figures over the phone as cost to repair a door can vary depending on the actual requirements of the repair. Each garage door repair Falls Church VA service call is priced in the same manner, our technician will inspect the problem and provide you with a detailed cost to repair prior to commencing work.
We agree on a two-hour arrival window with you before the call ends. The dispatcher confirms that window before hanging up, so you know exactly which two hours to plan around. Garage door repair Falls Church VA calls route to the nearest available truck, and you receive a text when it departs.
In addition to providing services throughout the city of Falls Church, we serve many locations in the 22046 and 22042 ZIP codes including locations off of Lee Hwy, Route 7 and Broad St. Garage door repair Falls Church VA service is also available in surrounding cities and towns. Please call our dispatcher at (833) 435-4540 to confirm if you are in our service area before making a reservation.
Century Garage Door Repair Service is a mobile service with no physical shop. Customers book garage door repair Falls Church VA directly by phone with the dispatcher on (833) 435-4540 and the dispatcher will check if the street is included in the area covered before fixing an appointment time. Century Garage Door Repair Service covers the whole of Falls Church.
Torsion springs can store a large amount of force which can release at high speed and cause severe damage to walls and other objects. Using the wrong tools to re-wind springs, or measuring them wrong, can have disastrous results. Measuring a spring for re-winding a door requires knowledge of the weight of the door and the size of the drums used for re-winding. This work can only be carried out by a qualified and experienced technician.
Both springs on a two-spring door are of the same age and have been worn equally. When one breaks, the other is not far behind. Our techs usually recommend replacing both springs at the same time in order to avoid a second service call in a few weeks for the second spring. This is just common sense, not a sales pitch.
We do not provide a figure until we measure your door for repair. Spring pricing for replacement is based upon the weight of the door and the size of the drums. We provide our customers with a written quote prior to beginning work, and they approve the price before we proceed with the repair.
As time passes, all of the parts can be damaged severely by humidity in the summer and freezing temperatures in the winter. Even though a door panel may look in great shape, the parts under the door can be damaged severely. Our technicians check the springs, rollers, hinges, cables and seals on every service call. All of these parts are exposed to the weather.
Midnight panic causes are generally more mundane than you might expect. Sticking wall buttons, shorted wiring, a neighbor’s old remote control operating on a fixed frequency that is near to your control’s frequency and is causing interference with it, or a control failing for some reason are all typical examples. Our technician can diagnose the problem on a garage door repair Falls Church VA call and test each component separately to identify which part or parts actually need to be replaced.
Century Garage Door Repair Service is dispatched across Falls Church around the clock. Call (833) 435-4540 now and a real person picks up. See the full list of what we handle:. Garage door repair Falls Church VA starts with one call.
