Wyoming is largely postwar and mid-century ranch housing, which means a lot of original-era garages and a lot of doors that have been repaired rather than replaced. We work on plenty of them.
Wyoming grew fastest in the decades after the war, and the housing reflects it: single storey ranches, attached single-car and early two-car garages, and a good number of detached garages set back off the drive. Doors on those homes have often been through two or three openers and at least one set of springs.
That is not a problem, and it is usually not a reason to replace. Older doors were built heavy, and a heavy door in good track with fresh rollers and correctly rated springs will outlast a cheap new one. What we watch for on Wyoming calls is hardware that has been mixed and matched over the years, because a door running on three different generations of hinge tends to wear unevenly.
Original or near-original doors with worn steel rollers, and openers fitted in the 1990s that are now on their second drive gear. Both are straightforward. The one to catch early is a door on extension springs with no safety cables, which was normal practice at the time and is not acceptable now. If your springs run along the horizontal tracks and there is no cable threaded through them, ask us to fit them.
No. Wyoming is a standard service area and there is no travel surcharge.
Usually. Rollers, hinges, cables, springs and seals are largely standard sizes and we carry them. Matching original decorative panels on a very old door is the one thing that is sometimes not possible, and we will tell you straight away if that is the case.
Yes, and it is worth fixing. A safety cable runs through the spring so that if it snaps, the pieces stay contained instead of becoming projectiles. Older installations often do not have them. It is an inexpensive addition.
Related: Spring Repair · Opener Repair · Tune-Up
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