Garage Doors in The Junction, OntarioBikes, strollersand a door that behaves.
Family garages in The Junction are busy places, with kids ducking under the door and a bike wheel always somewhere near the track. We set the auto-reverse so it trips on a light touch, aim the photo-eyes properly, and make sure the door closes fully every time so the house stays secure behind it.
About 58% of homes in Toronto were built in 1980 or earlier, according to the 2021 Census.
Wood door frames in an older house settle and swell over the decades, which can leave a door rubbing on one side. Rather than forcing the opener, the technician trues the tracks, adjusts the jamb seals and sets the door so it travels freely again.
23%
Single-detached houses make up about 23% of homes in Toronto (2021 Census).
Where most homes are townhouses, condos or apartments, garage doors are often shared: a single overhead door or gate serving an underground or common garage. Those doors run on commercial operators built for constant use, and their upkeep is usually arranged through the building's management.
Shops, warehouses and service bays in The Junction have their own list: rolling steel doors, heavy sectional doors, industrial operators, safety edges and high-cycle springs. Alongside our residential work, we service and replace all of these and can set up a maintenance schedule that fits your operating hours.
Windows in a garage door bring daylight into a space that is often dark. Adding glazed sections to an existing door, or choosing a full-view glass door for a workshop or studio, is part of what we do here.
Long-lasting doors are not lucky, they are looked after. This category holds the services that do the looking after: adjustments, part replacements, seal renewal and the periodic inspection that ties them together.
Halfway up, the door shudders. The sections seem to catch for a moment, the whole assembly shakes, then it carries on as if nothing happened. You have started holding your breath at that spot each time.
Years of slap shots have peppered the lower two sections with dents. Each one alone is small, but from the street the door looks tired, and the deepest dent near the centre has cracked the paint and shows bare steel.
You have just moved in. The garage door carries a proper keyed handle on the outside, but no key came with the house, and the inside slide is painted over. You would like to be able to use it.
Every morning the door announces itself: a rattle on the way up, a grinding squeal on the way down, loud enough that the neighbours know when you leave. A spray of lubricant settled it for a day or two, then the racket came back.
Request a visit for a stuck or noisy door in The Junction.
A garage door is heavy and the springs carry real force, so the work in The Junction is done the careful way: door clamped, tension released with proper bars, parts measured before they are matched, and the door run through complete cycles afterwards. Careful is not slow; it is simply how a heavy door should be treated.
— Del Ray Garage Door Experts
Talk before toolsThe visit begins with a conversation about what you noticed and ends with one about what we did. The work sits in between.
Tidy job, tidy garageLoose hardware collected, packaging taken away, tracks wiped. We judge our work partly by how the garage looks when we leave.
Options with honest trade-offsA basic part, a heavier-duty one, or a new door: we describe how each will behave over time and let you weigh it.
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In business25 years
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How a visit goes
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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Reach out
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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Inspect everything that moves
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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Repair, test, tidy
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.
The car has just hit the door. What should I do before you arrive?
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.
Can a manual lock be added to a door that never had one?
Yes. An inside slide bolt is the simplest addition: it fixes to the door's edge stile and a slot is punched in the track to receive it. A keyed T-handle can also be added, with a cutout in the centre of a section, a centre mechanism and bars run to both tracks. Where an opener is fitted, the new lock is set up so the two are coordinated from day one.
Can worn rollers make the door come off its track?
Yes, and it is one of the main reasons to replace them before they fail. A wheel worn oval, a bent stem, or a short stem sitting loose in a double hinge lets a section drift until the wheel climbs onto the track lip; from there a bump or a gust can carry it out entirely. A door hanging crooked is a far larger repair than a set of rollers. Fresh, correctly sized rollers seated in a squared track are what keep the door where it belongs.
The screws spin in their holes. Can the hinge still be fitted securely?
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.
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 Manual Lock RepairSomeone slid the inside lock across before bed, and in the morning someone else pressed the remote.
Garage Door Roller ReplacementNew springs went in last year and the door balances well, yet it still clicks along the ceiling track like a train over rail…
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.
Torsion Spring ReplacementAfter pulling the red release cord, you tried lifting the door yourself and it would barely leave the floor.
Chain-Drive Opener RepairPress the button and the opener hums for a second, then quits.
Garage Door Remote and Keypad ProgrammingSomeone in the family tried to add a remote, held the button on the ceiling unit a little too long, and now every remote in the…
Commercial Sectional Door RepairOne busy service-bay door has become louder than the matching doors beside it.
