We work on garage doors: broken torsion springs, openers that won't respond, tracks knocked out of line, rollers and cables that have worn through. Most of the doors we get called to sit on houses built between 1938 and 1988, with the bulk of that stock going up in the 1960s and 70s. That matters because a door built for a 1965 opening doesn't always match what a hardware store sells today, and a lot of our job is fitting current parts to older framing without tearing out the jamb.
We don't do new construction framing or structural carpentry. If a garage opening needs to be rebuilt because it's out of square or rotted at the header, that's a carpenter's job first, ours second. We'll tell you that straight instead of taking a job we can't finish right.
The mild, temperate climate here means we're not fighting the freeze-thaw cycles that crack slab foundations or the swings that warp wood panels the way garages in harsher climates see. Most of what fails on doors in this area fails from age and use, not weather, which changes what we look for on a service call.
We're a garage door repair company based in San Francisco, working out of an office at 235 Montgomery St. We don't advertise a founding date or a staff count because neither one fixes a spring, and we'd rather talk about the door in front of us than a number on a page.
What we can tell you is what we work on and where. This is a service area with a median household income around $152,131 and roughly 449,915 households, about 167,337 of them owner-occupied houses. That's a lot of aging garage hardware behind a lot of driveways, and it's the reason a repair-focused shop makes sense here rather than a shop that only sells new installs.
We show up, look at the door, and tell you what's actually wrong before we talk about what it costs to fix. If the repair doesn't make sense against the cost of a new door, we'll say so.
Call (650) 250-5824 and you'll talk to someone who can get details about your door before a truck rolls: the age of the house if you know it, whether it's a torsion or extension spring setup, and what it's doing (or not doing) right now. That's often enough to bring the right parts the first time instead of a second trip.
On site, we check the springs, cables, rollers, tracks, and the opener itself, since a problem in one usually shows up as a symptom in another. A door that won't close all the way is sometimes a spring problem and sometimes a sensor problem, and guessing wrong wastes your afternoon and our gas.
We'll tell you what needs fixing now, what's fine for another year, and what we'd replace outright given the age of the hardware. Some older torsion setups on 1960s houses use parts that aren't stocked anymore, and in those cases the honest answer is sometimes a new door rather than a patched one.
We're based in San Francisco and work the surrounding area, including Daly City, Colma, Brisbane, and South San Francisco to the south, Sausalito, Belvedere, Tiburon, Strawberry, Mill Valley, Corte Madera, Larkspur, Kentfield, and Ross across the water, and Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, Piedmont, Kensington, El Cerrito, San Pablo, and El Sobrante to the east. We also cover San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, Hillsborough, Pacifica, and Richmond, along with Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, San Leandro, and Stinson Beach.
Most of these towns sit within roughly 7 to 15 miles of our office, which keeps drive time reasonable and lets us actually see the door before quoting anything over the phone. If you're outside this list, call anyway - we can tell you quickly whether the address is one we can reach the same day.
Yes. A lot of the housing stock in this area went up between 1938 and 1988, with the heaviest concentration in the 1960s and 70s, and that's most of what we service. Older torsion and extension spring setups often need parts matched carefully to the original opening rather than swapped for whatever's on the shelf.
We don't take on structural carpentry, like rebuilding a rotted or out-of-square garage opening. That's a carpentry job first. We'll tell you if that's what your door needs before we touch the hardware, rather than patching around a problem the frame itself has.
We cover San Francisco and towns roughly 7 to 15 miles out, including Daly City, Sausalito, Belvedere, Brisbane, Berkeley, Mill Valley, and similar nearby areas. If your address isn't on our usual list, call (650) 250-5824 and ask - we can often still reach you the same day.
Repair is most of what we do. New doors matter when a repair doesn't make financial sense against the age and condition of the hardware, but we'd rather fix a spring or opener than sell a door that isn't needed yet.
Call now or request a free quote - same-day service on most repairs, upfront written pricing.
