What Is Wrong With My Garage Door?

That bang was a torsion spring letting go above the door, and you can usually spot the gap in the coil from the floor. The door now weighs everything it really weighs, with nothing holding it up. Keep hands off the spring, the cables and the bottom brackets, and stop pressing the button. Park on the driveway, leave the door down, and call. Springs run an estimated $210 to $380.

Broken Spring Replacement

Silence with no light points at power rather than at the door. Check that the ceiling outlet has not been knocked loose, and that the garage breaker or a GFCI has not tripped, since that circuit often feeds the outside sockets too. If power is good, suspect the logic board or the wiring back to the wall control. Opener work is an estimated $130 to $290.

Garage Door Opener Repair

An opener that lifts fine but refuses to close is protecting itself, and the safety beam across the floor is the usual reason. Look for a bin, a bike or a coiled hose breaking the beam, and for an eye knocked out of aim. Your home is not secure until it shuts, so pull the manual release, lower it by hand if it moves easily, and lock it.

Emergency Garage Door Repair

Reversal at the floor comes down to two things. Either the photo-eyes are dirty, slightly off aim or catching a reflection, or the close force is set too low so the opener reads normal seal resistance as an obstruction. Wipe both lenses with a dry cloth first. Do not turn the force up yourself, because that setting is what stops a door closing on a child or a pet.

Garage Door Opener Repair

Halting just off the slab means the opener met resistance and quit, which is exactly the behavior it is built for. Usual causes are grit or a bent lip in the track, a roller starting to climb out, one failed spring on a two spring door, or an up limit that has drifted. Scan both tracks for a fresh scrape mark. Repeated attempts bend hardware that is only misaligned today.

General Garage Door Repair

Grinding up at the header is usually a dry or collapsed bearing, either in an end bearing plate or the center bearing behind the spring, with the shaft cutting metal on metal. Worn roller stems add to the racket. Ignore it and the bearing seizes, the shaft scores, and a small part swap turns into rebuilding the whole bar. Cut daily use and get it looked at this week.

General Garage Door Repair

Squealing is friction, not danger. Steel rollers with no grease left, dry hinge pins and grit in the track make that sound, and a garage sitting over a hundred degrees through an Irving July cooks the factory lubricant out faster than a mild climate would. Nylon rollers, proper lubricant on the moving parts and a hardware check quiet it down. Household oil inside the track only collects dust.

Garage Door Maintenance & Tune-Up

A noise that repeats on each cycle is a different animal to a one off spring break. Cracked hinges between sections, a shifting bottom bracket, or a section flexing as it rounds the curve of the track all snap loudly under load. Note which joint jumps. Bottom brackets hold cable tension, so keep clear of them and have the hinges checked before a section tears at its bolt holes.

Jerky travel means the door is no longer rolling smoothly. Flat spotted rollers skid instead of turning, loose track bolts let the assembly wander, and an opening pushed out of square by slab movement pinches the door at one point in its run. Every lurch shock loads the springs, cables and opener. Rollers are an estimated $110 to $200, and the tracks want checking for plumb at the same visit.

Garage Door Roller Replacement

Off track doors are the ones that put people in the hospital. Sections are held by nothing dependable, cables may be slack or wrapped wrong on the drums, and a jammed corner can release with no warning. Do not pull on it, do not run the opener, and keep cars and children out from underneath. Expect an estimated $150 to $290, often plus a cable or hinge damaged on the way.

Off-Track Garage Door Repair

One corner rising while the other stays put means a lift cable has snapped or a cable drum has slipped on the shaft. An opening racked by slab movement looks similar, except the floor gap tapers evenly instead. The high corner is loaded and the surviving cable is carrying everything, so leave it alone. Cable work is an estimated $130 to $220.

Garage Door Cable Repair

Light at the floor is either a bottom seal that has gone hard and split, or a door sitting on a slab that no longer matches its bottom edge. Blackland Prairie clay lifts and drops concrete here, so a gap wide at one end and tight at the other accuses the opening rather than the rubber. Insects, rain and blown grit all use that gap, and the fix is quick once the cause is clear.

Fresh rubber that still leaks tells you the floor line is the problem. A settled slab, a bowed bottom section, or a door hanging a fraction off level all leave a channel that no seal can bridge. Threshold seals bonded to the concrete solve plenty of Irving driveways that slope back toward the garage. Book it ahead of storm season rather than in the middle of one.

General Garage Door Repair

Wall control working proves the opener and motor are healthy, so the fault sits in your hand. Begin with a fresh battery, then consider whether the handheld lost its rolling code pairing after a power cut. A case cracked on the concrete can break the antenna trace as well. Pairing or replacing a handheld is an estimated $70 to $120, and very old units sometimes need a new receiver.

Wireless keypads carry their own battery, and afternoon heat on a west facing wall shortens its life to a season or two. Worn rubber buttons and programming lost during a storm outage come next on the list. Enter the code slowly, then swap the cell behind the cover. Still dead means it needs pairing again or replacing, usually an estimated $70 to $120 with the licensed local pros we connect you with.

Humming with no movement says the motor is spinning and nothing is being pulled. On chain and belt heads the plastic drive gear strips first, and you will often find nylon shavings inside the cover. The other regular find is a trolley carriage broken where the door arm attaches. Neither one justifies a whole new opener, since a gear kit or carriage costs an estimated $130 to $290 fitted.

Garage Door Opener Repair

A head that starts, pulls, then shuts itself down has hit its own force or overload limit, and the honest question is what it was fighting. Nine times in ten the door has gone stiff or heavy, not the electronics. Ask for a hand balance test before anyone reaches for the force dial. Dialing force up to shove a door through a bad spot burns out a serviceable opener within months.

General Garage Door Repair

Weight in your hands means the counterbalance has gone, from a broken torsion spring or extension springs stretched past their useful tension. A balanced door of any size should hold roughly still at waist height. Yours is being hauled by the opener working as a hoist, which wrecks the opener and can drop the door. Stop using it, keep everyone clear, and budget an estimated $210 to $380 on springs.

Broken Spring Replacement

Spring storms across DFW press dimples and creases into steel skins, and the real question is cosmetic versus structural. Shallow dimples in the flat of a section usually only offend the eye. A crease running through a stile, a bent strut, or a section that now catches in the track changes how the door carries load. Photograph everything for your insurer before any work starts.

Hail & Storm Damage Repair

Those two eyes tell you which side is unhappy. The sending unit shows a steady light on its own, while the receiver only holds steady when it can actually see the beam, so a blinking or dark receiver means aim, a dirty lens, or a broken wire. A bracket clipped by a trash can is the classic cause. Alignment is an estimated $85 to $140 and takes minutes.

Safety Sensor Alignment

People assume they are imagining this one. Low western sun coming up an Irving driveway floods the receiving eye with infrared and drowns out the beam from its partner, so the opener reads a blocked path and backs off. Swapping which side sends and which receives, fitting a shade tube, or turning the brackets a few degrees settles it permanently. Nothing is broken, so a normal appointment is fine.

Safety Sensor Alignment

Slack in a chain or belt shows up as noise, a lurch at start up, and a door that parks slightly off its marks. Chains stretch with cycles, and an attic pushing past a hundred degrees all summer speeds that along. Tensioning it back to the rail specification counts as maintenance, not repair. Leave it and the chain jumps the sprocket or chews the trolley, which is a far bigger bill.

Garage Door Maintenance & Tune-Up