Garage door repair near you
We fix garage doors on every block of Hawthorne and Sunnyside, where some small detached garages behind the Victorian houses and bungalows serve as storage rooms, and the usual jobs are seized rollers, doors knocked off their tracks, locks, and remotes recoded between tenants.
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Sunnyside, which runs from SE Stark down to Hawthorne between SE 28th and SE 49th, is known for its Victorian architecture, with bungalows, foursquares and vintage fourplexes on the same blocks, and the garages behind some of these houses are small detached buildings.
Renting shapes the garage door work here as much as the architecture does. About 63 percent of Sunnyside households rented in 2010, so a call often involves a landlord or fourplex owner as well as the tenant, and the person standing at the door is not always the person approving the repair. Owners who live elsewhere tend to want photos and a written price before anything gets replaced.
The neighborhood produces a predictable set of jobs. A garage too narrow for a modern car becomes storage, and a door that opens twice a year seizes at the rollers and hinges. Doors that tenants drive through can be clipped and knocked off track. Condos over ground-floor shops, one on a former Arby's lot, round out the mix, and where they share a garage door, an association handles it.
Some Sunnyside houses have a modest detached garage reached by a narrow strip of driveway beside the house, and when one is too tight for a modern car, the door closes on boxes and bikes instead.
That turns the garage into a storeroom, and the door can stay shut for a wet season. Steel rollers rust in their bearings and stop turning, hinge pins stiffen, and an old wood door soaks up water along the bottom edge that sits on the slab. Boxes stacked against the inside add their own damage, pressing on the tracks and lower sections until the door binds on the next lift.
Storage garages, tight side driveways and a large rental market bring these Hawthorne and Sunnyside calls: seized rollers, off-track doors, locks, tenant remote resets and fourplex work.
A door left closed all winter in a damp storage garage comes back with rollers that drag instead of turning and hinges that bind at every joint. Sealed nylon rollers and new hinges usually get it moving in a single visit, and we oil the bearings and hinge pins so the next idle season does less harm.
An older garage sized for narrower cars leaves little clearance at the jambs, and a clipped mirror or a box shoved against the track can pop a roller out of its channel. We secure the door first, since a door hanging out of its track can drop, then straighten or replace the bent track on the same visit.
A storage garage with no opener is held shut by the door's own weight or a worn handle. A slide lock inside or a keyed T-handle outside, with a new outside handle if the old one is cracked, gives a garage full of bikes and tools a real latch.
Remotes do not always leave with departing tenants. We erase the opener's stored codes, program the remotes the next renter will keep, and set a new keypad PIN, so an old clicker in someone's glovebox stops working.
Fourplex owners and condo associations near Hawthorne and Belmont need repairs kept inside an approved amount, with a written record for the file. We schedule around residents and report to the manager with photos of what we found and fixed, on single doors and shared garage entries alike.
We reach Hawthorne and Sunnyside from the Banfield Freeway (I-84) by heading south on SE 28th Avenue or Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard, or from I-5 across the Hawthorne Bridge, and Belmont and Stark carry us east and west through the neighborhood.
Parking shapes the visit more than distance does. Some Sunnyside lots have no driveway at all, and others have only a narrow strip beside the house, so let us know whether the truck can pull in or has to stay at the curb. That matters most when a new door arrives in sections that have to be carried down a side yard.
Sunnyside runs from SE Stark to SE Hawthorne and from SE 28th to SE 49th, under the neighborhood motto "Proud Past, Bright Future."
Every Memorial Day weekend since 2000, residents have repainted the sunflower at Sunnyside Piazza, SE 33rd and Yamhill.
Peacock Lane, the short street between SE Stark and Belmont, sits inside Sunnyside, and the boulevard has its own branch of Powell's Books.
Hawthorne went from "U" Street to Asylum Avenue in 1862 and Hawthorne Avenue in 1888, named for Dr. J.C. Hawthorne, a cofounder of Oregon's first mental hospital, and became a boulevard in 1933.
When a McDonald's was proposed for a former Arby's site on Hawthorne, neighbors stopped it, and the lot became condos over ground-floor shops.
Yes. Sunnyside and the Hawthorne strip fall in 97214 and 97215, and we take calls anywhere from SE Stark down to Hawthorne between SE 28th and SE 49th, plus the blocks just outside those lines. Laurelhurst, Richmond and Mt. Tabor fall along our usual drive in, so a street on the boundary changes nothing about scheduling. Send us a shot of the door with your cross streets, and we can often name the part before we arrive.
Usually, yes. A door that has sat shut for years tends to have seized rollers, stiff hinges, and springs and cables with surface rust, and all of that is replaceable hardware. We check the balance before running it, probe the bottom section for rot, and tell you whether the door is worth reviving or whether a new one suits a garage you plan to use again.
Yes, and it is a quick job once we know what is on the wall. Count the remotes you have collected, send a photo of the opener label, and we arrive with compatible spares. We wipe every stored code, pair the remotes the next tenant receives, and change the keypad PIN. If the opener is old enough that its memory cannot be cleared, we explain the replacement options first.
On foot, one section at a time. A sectional door ships as panels that two people can carry, so we park as close as the curb allows and walk the sections, tracks and springs down the side yard or through the gate. Mention steps, gates or a tight side path when you book, and we plan the carry before the truck arrives. The old door leaves the same way, cut into pieces small enough to carry out.
No. When we repair the door, the bill is the posted price for that job and nothing extra for the drive. The only separate charge is the diagnostic visit, which applies when a visit ends in a diagnosis and you decide to hold off. Hawthorne sits close in, but the rule is the same everywhere we work. Parts and labor for the job are already inside the posted number.
A renter can start the booking. Text us a photo, describe what the door is doing, and we send the price to whoever is paying, usually the owner or the property manager. Once they approve it, we schedule the visit with you, since you hold the key to the garage. If the garage cannot be shut, say so, because an open garage tends to speed up the approval.
A slide lock on the inside or a keyed T-handle on the outside, depending on where you enter. A slide bolt shoots into a hole in the vertical track and is the simplest choice for a garage you enter through a side door. A T-handle lets you lock and unlock from the driveway. If you add an opener later, take the slide lock out of service first so the opener never pulls against it.
Laurelhurst to the north, Richmond across Hawthorne, Mt. Tabor up the hill to the east and Brooklyn toward the river all pair easily with a Sunnyside call.
Call with the symptom, or text a photo of the door and the opener, and we will name the part and the posted price before anyone drives out.