Farm shops and equipment barns, truck bays along the highways, storage rows, body shops and storefronts: around Amarillo a lot of the doors that matter most hang on working buildings, and they get the same wind, grit and hail as everything else out here. We fix sectional, rolling steel and roll-up doors and the motors that run them, and the estimate is free.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free and you can say no.
Doors on shops, barns and truck bays are often far wider and taller than anything on a house, sized for a tractor, a combine header, a stock trailer or a semi. A door that size carries a lot of steel and a lot of spring, and when one part wears or breaks, the rest of the door feels it quickly.
Heavy-gauge sections, steel struts across each panel and track that climbs steeply or straight up the wall keep the overhead clear for a lift or stored equipment. When those doors start binding, groaning or stopping short, the cause is usually a worn roller, a spring that has lost its pull, a bent strut or track knocked out of line, and each can be repaired without replacing the door.
Storefronts, fuel stops, pump houses and the back of feed and parts stores often use rolling steel doors, where narrow steel slats lock together and wind up around a drum above the opening. The springs that balance that curtain sit inside the drum, out of sight, and when they tire, the door gets heavy to crank or the motor strains to lift it.
Storage rows and small bays use the lighter corrugated roll-up door. Both kinds suffer from bent slats or curtains, guides knocked out of plumb, worn bottom bars and latches that no longer catch, and both are repaired here, slat by slat or section by section where that makes sense.
A wide door on an open lot takes a beating every windy season. The sections flex, rollers work loose, hinges crack along the pins and the door starts to rub the track. Then a gust catches a door that was left halfway up and bends the top section or pulls a track off the wall.
Hail adds dents across the panels and cracks in any windows set into the door. Dented sections that catch at the hinge lines make a door bind and stall, so the damaged panels are replaced and struts added where the door needs stiffening. Cycling a storm-bent door over and over to see if it frees up only kinks it worse, so let it sit where it quit and give us a call.
Blowing dust works its way into rollers, bearings, hinges and the gearbox of a door motor, and on a door that runs all day it grinds parts down from the inside. Sealed rollers and bearings last much longer in that air, and a tight bottom seal and side seals keep most of the grit out of the building in the first place.
Safety eyes on a commercial opener get coated after a dust storm just as house ones do, and the door refuses to close or reverses with nothing in the way. The lenses are cleared, aimed and checked, and a sensing edge torn by a bumper or a pallet is replaced so the door protects people and equipment again.
A heated shop loses most of its warmth around the big door: a bottom rubber that has cracked and curled, side seals pulled loose by a gust, a top section that no longer closes flat against the header. When a norther drops the temperature hard, those gaps let the cold pour in and run the heater all night.
New seals all the way around, a door squared back up in its opening and, where sections are being replaced anyway, insulated panels make a real difference in a shop that is used through the winter. The same seals keep summer dust and the occasional rattlesnake looking for shade on the outside where they belong.
Shop door motors mostly fall into three camps: overhead units that tow the door along a long rail, side-mount units bolted next to the opening that drive the torsion bar, and hoist units that hang a loop of hand chain for cranking the door during an outage. Out here the power goes down with enough storms each year that a crank chain or a backup battery on the main shop door earns its keep.
If the motor whines but the door just sits, the trouble is usually a slipped chain, a worn sprocket, a sticking brake or a broken spring rather than the motor itself. Limits that have drifted and a surge-damaged control board are the other common calls, and both are handled on the visit.
Whether it is one storefront or every door on a farm, the order stays the same.
The towns out here sit a long way apart, and plenty of the doors that need work are on farms, ranches and shops well off the paved road. The route still reaches them, and if the drive runs long, you hear that from us when the visit is set.
Because the drive is part of the job, it pays to have every door on the property looked at on the same trip: the house garage, the shop, the barn and the storage building. The estimate breaks it out door by door, and the parts for every one of them come out together on the return trip.
Yes. Large sectional doors with struts and high-lift or vertical track on shops, barns and truck bays are a big part of the work.
Rarely. Kinked panels, struts and track pieces are swapped one at a time, and extra struts go on where a wide door needs more backbone.
Yes. Springs in the drum, slats, guides, bottom bars and latches are repaired, along with the motors that run them.
Often a slipped chain, a worn sprocket, a sticking brake or a broken spring. The technician traces it before recommending a new motor.
Yes, with a hoist unit's hand chain or a battery backup. Either can be added during a repair visit.
Yes. Bottom, side and header seals are replaced, the door is squared up so they meet evenly, and insulated panels can go in where sections are being changed.
Yes. The route covers outlying towns and acreage, and every door on the property can be checked on one trip.
Yes. Every door gets looked over and you receive a written estimate at no charge before a wrench turns.
Two hours, not a day, and you'll get a call as the technician sets off. Free throughout Potter County. The estimate is free either way.
Prefer to talk it through? Call (806) 545-9374.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free and you can say no.