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Century Garage Door Repair Service works from East High Street in downtown Pottstown, on the same block as Borough Hall. Ironmaster John Potts laid the town out in the 1750s as Pottsgrove, and his stone house, Pottsgrove Manor, still stands at the west end of High Street. Iron had been worked along the Manatawny Creek since the early 1700s, the town was incorporated as Pottstown in 1815, and the mills that followed made it a steel town: from 1933 the McClintic-Marshall works here fabricated steel for the Golden Gate Bridge. The Hill School opened on the hill above town in 1851 and is still there.
The houses carry that age. The median home in the borough was built in 1951, close to four in ten went up before 1940, and about seven in ten before 1960. Twins and rowhomes are almost as common as detached houses, each making up roughly a third of the housing, and a little over half of households own their home. Much of the center sits inside the Old Pottstown Historic District, with Victorian, Italianate and Federal houses on narrow lots, so the garages we work on range from century-old outbuildings to modern attached bays on the newer edges of town.
Water and wind are the weather problems here. The Schuylkill gauge just south of downtown set its record at almost 30 feet during Agnes in June 1972 and reached nearly 21 feet in June 2006, and the remnants of Ida in September 2021 flooded out US 422 near PA 100. Flash floods regularly fill the High Street underpasses by College Drive. On the night of the 2nd of November 2018 thunderstorm winds tore the roof off an apartment building in town and brought trees down across several streets. Winters average around 110 nights at or below freezing at the Pottstown airport, the February 2010 storm left 17 inches in the borough, and the January 2016 blizzard dropped about 26 inches just north of town.
Spring snapped, door stuck, panel bent by a falling limb? Give us a call. We are on High Street, the common parts ride on the truck, and most Pottstown calls get a same-day window.
Tell us what the door does, what you heard and whether the opener runs. If a limb or a car hit it, send a photo. For a twin or rowhome, tell us which side so we find the right door. Most calls get a same-day window.
We check the springs, safety cables, drums, rollers, hinges, track, framing, opener and photo eyes, then disconnect the opener and lift the door by hand to see how it is balanced.
You get the findings and the price before anything is touched. Parts that can safely wait are listed as optional, and anything unsafe is explained in plain terms.
Springs go in as matched pairs, worn rollers and frayed cables are replaced, and loose track is re-anchored and aligned. Common parts are on the truck, so most jobs are finished on the first visit.
The door is cycled under power and by hand, auto-reverse is tested against an object on the floor, and the photo eyes are lined up before we leave.
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