Hail pocks a door here, and a strong gust can catch a door partway open and fold a section in half. Express Garage Doors replaces damaged sections around Amarillo when the maker still builds that design, adds a strut where a wide door needs one, and sets the springs for the new weight. The estimate is free and written out first.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free and you can say no.
A wide door on an open lot takes a steady push from the side, and a hard gust can do in a second what years of wind do slowly. A door caught halfway open swings in the track, and the section at the bend folds. A closed door shoved inward bows across the middle, and if it's done that often enough, a section creases along its length.
A creased section changes how the door flexes every time it rolls over the curve. It rubs, binds, throws rollers out of line and puts uneven load on the cables. That kind of damage is mechanical, not cosmetic, and the bent section is replaced rather than straightened.
Doors facing open ground to the west and south take the worst of it, and a door that has bent once in a gust will usually bend again in the same place until it is stiffened.
Hail does something different. It leaves a spread of dents over several sections, and the door often still runs perfectly well. Whether to replace dented sections then becomes a question of looks and of how much life the door has left.
Hail also cracks the glass in window sections, and a pane can often be replaced without changing the section if its frame is straight. The technician separates what is cosmetic from what affects how the door runs, so you can decide what is worth doing now.
If the whole door is covered in dents and the design is old, a new insulated door with thicker steel is compared honestly with a string of section swaps, and the choice stays yours.
Four steps, and the springs set the order.
Many double doors here carry steel struts fastened across their sections, especially the top one, to keep the door from bowing in the wind. When a section is replaced, the strut comes off the old section and goes onto the new one, and a door that bent because it never had a strut is offered one on the estimate.
A strut adds weight, which is one more reason the balance is checked once the work is done. It is a small part that keeps a wide door straight through a windy spring.
On a door that has started to bow but hasn't creased yet, a strut alone can stop the problem before any section needs replacing, which the technician points out when it applies.
A sectional door is a set of separate sections hinged together, so one can come out alone, but only if the maker still produces that design at the same height, thickness and texture. The technician identifies the door from its label and measures the section before anything is promised. Older designs are often discontinued, and when a match can't be found you hear that during the visit.
The high plains sun fades a door over time, so a new section in factory color can look brighter than its neighbors at first. On a light-colored door the difference is usually small; on a darker one, painting the whole door gives an even face.
Blowing grit piles up against the bottom of a door, and when rain turns it to mud it holds moisture against the steel for days. The bottom section rusts from the edge where the seal retainer is fastened, and a seal that is already worn lets the grit into the garage as well.
When the bottom section is the damaged one, the bottom seal and retainer are renewed with it, so the new section starts with a tight edge against the floor instead of inheriting the old one's gaps.
Properties out of town often have a shop or barn with a door much wider or taller than the house door, built from heavier sections. Those sections can be replaced the same way when they're still made, and the struts, hinges and track on that side are checked for bends from the same gust or impact.
On a door that tall, a bent section near the bottom often comes from equipment rather than weather, and the bottom seal and brackets are looked at along with it.
Several doors on one property can be looked at on the same visit, with each one written up separately so you can decide which to do first.
A new section seldom weighs exactly what the old one did, and a strut adds some weight of its own. The springs are wound for the door as it was, so every section job ends with them set to the door's weight now and the cables checked at the drums. If a cable has been riding crooked since the door was bent, our cable and roller repair page explains why it gets replaced rather than wound back on.
Yes, when the maker still builds that design in the same size. The door is identified first, and you hear whether a matching section exists before anything is ordered.
Often not. The bent section can usually be replaced, along with any bent track or hinges, and a strut added if the door is wide enough to need one.
Shallow dents are usually cosmetic. A crease across a section or a bend near a hinge affects how the door runs, and those sections are worth replacing.
If the frame around the glass is straight, the pane can often be replaced on its own. A bent frame means the whole section.
It stiffens the section it's fastened to, so a wide door doesn't bow in the wind. It adds a little weight, so the springs are checked afterward.
Grit and mud collect along the bottom edge and hold moisture against the steel. The seal and retainer are renewed whenever that section is replaced.
Yes, when matching sections are still made. Shop doors are heavier, so the springs and track are checked on the same visit.
Yes. You get a free estimate in writing before any order or any work.
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.