Garage door guides
Written by the people who do the repairs. Most of these will let you work out what is wrong before anyone comes out, and several will save you a call entirely.
How to Fix a Noisy Garage Door (and When the Noise Means Trouble)
Every garage door makes some noise. The question is whether yours is making the ordinary noise of steel rollers on steel track, or the specific noise ...
Read the guideSigns of a Broken Garage Door Spring
The springs do almost all of the work of lifting a garage door. The opener only guides it. So when a spring breaks, the door does not get slightly har...
Read the guideGarage Door Maintenance Checklist for Illinois Homes
A garage door is the heaviest moving object in most homes and the one that gets the least attention. Twenty minutes twice a year will roughly double t...
Read the guideGarage Door Opener Troubleshooting: Work Through It in Order
Most opener faults fall into five buckets, and you can narrow yours down in about ten minutes without tools. Work through these in order rather than j...
Read the guideGarage Door Repair Cost in Illinois: What Things Actually Run
Garage door pricing is unusually opaque, which is why so many people are surprised by a quote. Here is what the common jobs cost in Illinois, and more...
Read the guideGarage Door Won't Close? Work Through These Six Causes
A door that opens fine but refuses to close is a specific and quite solvable problem. It is almost always the safety system doing its job, and only oc...
Read the guideGarage Door Off Track: What to Do in the First Five Minutes
A door off its track is one of the few garage door faults that is genuinely dangerous while you wait. The weight is being held somewhere it was not de...
Read the guideIs an Insulated Garage Door Worth It in Illinois?
Insulation is the upgrade people ask about most and get the least straight answer on. Whether it is worth the extra few hundred dollars depends almost...
Read the guideStill not sure what is wrong?
Describe the noise or the fault on the phone and we will narrow it down.