Plenty of garages in Del Ray are workshops first and parking second. Dust, sawdust and frequent openings are hard on rollers and photo-eyes, so we fit sealed bearings, protect the sensors, and set the opener for the extra cycles, so the door keeps pace with whatever you are building inside.
Toronto, Ontario
2021 census · what it means at the door
58%Older homes
About 58% of homes in Toronto were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Decades of freeze and thaw work on the concrete apron in front of an older garage, and an uneven floor means the bottom seal meets a gap on one side. A thicker seal or an adjusted threshold closes it and keeps snow and cold air out.
23%
Single-detached houses make up about 23% of homes in Toronto (2021 Census).
In denser housing the garage door is frequently the main entrance to the home and sits close to the living space, so a door that closes fully and locks properly matters for security. We check the closing force, the lock and the opener's stored codes on every visit.
Garage door services
People in Del Ray call about garage doors for many reasons, and we have a service for each: the door that stopped, the one that got loud, the one that lets in cold air, the remote that died, the panel that got dented, and the door that has simply had its day.
Del Ray
Garage Door Tune-UpOn windy nights the door rattles in its frame, there is a line of daylight along one side, and the bottom seal has gone hard and…
Garage Door Panel ReplacementYou misjudged the last metre of the driveway and felt the bumper meet the door.
Garage Door Perimeter WeatherstripA length of weatherstrip along the right jamb has pulled away, nails and all, and it slaps against the trim every time the wind…
Garage Door Hinge ReplacementPressing a hand against one of the middle hinges makes it rock on the panel.
Garage Door Cable ReplacementThe cable has wrapped itself around the shaft above the door instead of sitting on its drum.
Garage Door Balance AdjustmentThe opener has started to groan on the way up.
Chain-Drive Opener RepairPress the button and the opener hums for a second, then quits.
Emergency Release RepairThe power went out in the middle of an ice storm, the car is inside, and when you reach up for the red handle there is nothing…
Sectional Garage Door ReplacementThe garage becomes notably colder each winter, with drafts around the perimeter and condensation on thin door sections.
Commercial Rolling Door RepairAt closing time, the bottom bar reaches the floor on one end while daylight remains under the other.Springs
A well-set spring system means the door will stay wherever you leave it, half open included. That is the standard we work to on every spring and cable job.
Openers
If the light on the opener blinks and the door refuses to close, the sensors are usually telling you something is in the way or they cannot see each other. Cleaning, re-aiming or replacing them is a small job with a big effect.
Del Ray
Garage Door Tune-Up
On windy nights the door rattles in its frame, there is a line of daylight along one side, and the bottom seal has gone hard and flat. Leaves and fine snow drift in underneath and the garage never seems to hold its temperature.
Garage Door Tune-Up
Del Ray
Winter is when garage doors in Del Ray fail most, so we prepare for it. Cold-rated lubricants, bottom seals that stay soft in the frost, spring tension checked before the freeze and opener force adjusted for a stiffer door. A door serviced in the autumn is a door that opens in January.
— Del Ray Garage Door Experts
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Most of the noise a garage door makes comes from its rollers. Steel wheels on a steel track are loud by nature and grow louder as their bearings dry out and pit, and the plastic wheels fitted to many new doors have no bearings at all, so they simply grind as they wear.
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Phone or form, whichever suits. Mention any unusual sounds, how long the trouble has gone on and whether the door still moves.
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Springs, cables, drums, bearings, rollers, hinges, tracks and the opener drive are each checked, because a fault in one shows up in another.
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The repair is completed with new parts, the door cycles several times under observation, and the workspace is cleaned before we go.
Salt carried in on tires and shovelled snow settles on the lowest hardware: the bottom brackets, the lower track, the bottom roller stems and fixture bolts. Those are the parts that carry the door's weight, so corrosion there matters. Rinsing the lower hardware and the inside face of the bottom section after winter, keeping the floor by the tracks swept, and having the bottom brackets looked at each spring keeps salt from becoming a structural problem.
Stop using the door and leave it where it is, whether open or closed, unless leaving it open is unsafe. Pull the opener's plug so nobody presses a remote out of habit. Keep people and pets clear, especially if the door hangs unevenly or a cable looks loose, since the springs are still under tension. Take a few photographs, find the manufacturer's label if you can, and tell the technician exactly what happened and how hard the contact was.
Four times a year, check for daylight from inside with the lights off and press the fin to feel that it is still soft. Wipe the seal with a damp cloth to clear grit and salt, keep paint off the fin, apply a silicone wipe before winter, and keep slush and bins away from the bottom of the jambs. Press any lifted corner back and call if a length has come loose.
Yes. A stripped hole is common on older steel doors and on wood doors where the timber has softened. The technician either shifts the hinge to fresh metal within the stile, uses a larger self-drilling screw that cuts new threads, or drills through and fits a bolt with a nut and washer or a backer plate on the inside. Any of these gives the new hinge a firmer anchor than the original screws had.
The bottom bracket is where the cable attaches, so whenever the springs are wound it carries a share of the door's weight as tension. Loosening it while the counterbalance is loaded releases that tension all at once. Many manufacturers now fit tamper-resistant fasteners for this reason. The technician unloads the springs first, after which the bracket is just a piece of hardware to unbolt and replace.
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