The Irving Garage Door Blog

Q: Can I do any of this myself?

Diagnosis, the annual lubrication, cleaning the photo eyes and testing the auto reverse are all fair game, and the steps are spelled out. Torsion springs, lift cables and the bottom brackets are not: they hold the weight of the door as stored energy and they let go without warning. Every article that goes near them says so up front instead of burying it at the bottom.

Q: What decides which guides get written?

Whatever the phone is busy with. Spring hail brings the dented panel questions, August brings dead openers out of west facing garages, and one hard freeze week brings springs failing across Dallas County all at once. The topics follow the North Texas calendar rather than a publishing schedule.

Q: Are the figures in these articles quotes?

No. Anything with a dollar sign in an article is a guide range for Dallas County work, and the pricing guide holds the full set of them. The number that binds gets written down at your address once somebody has actually seen the door.

Clay slab binding, August opener failures, hail dents, freeze week springs: the faults Irving doors actually throw.

Where These Guides Come From

None of this was planned in advance. Each guide is a question somebody asked while a pro was standing in their garage in Irving: why the door lifts four inches then quits, why the opener hums with nothing moving, why the gap along the concrete is wider at one end than the other, whether the second spring should go at the same time as the broken one. Writing the answers down means you can work out what you are looking at before any money changes hands.

Seasons drive most of the topics. Spring hail brings the dented panel questions, a run of 100F plus afternoons kills opener boards in west facing garages, and one hard freeze week finishes off tired torsion springs across Dallas County all at once. The safety line comes first though, because it matters more with these doors than with most household jobs: diagnosis, lubrication, cleaning the photo eyes and testing the auto reverse are all fine to do yourself. Torsion springs, lift cables and the bottom brackets are not, and every article that goes near them says so. When you want numbers, the garage door repair cost guide carries estimated ranges by job.