New Garage Door Installation in Denver

A door at the end of its life is the fault we're called out for most often in Denver, and it is the one homeowners least expect. In Denver County, you see nothing, hear nothing, and then one morning the door won't budge and your car is on the wrong side of it. Around Park Hill and Washington Park we see it concentrated in 1950s brick ranches and bungalows in the older neighborhoods, big two- and three-car garages on the newer builds out east, where hail dents panels and the freeze-thaw swings crack old lubricant and stiffen springs.

Installing a door is four jobs. Width, height, headroom and backroom are all measured first. The old door, track and springs come out. Track is set true to the opening, plumb and square. Never reused, never adjusted to suit the old door. The door goes up a panel at a time, hinged and strutted, and the spring is sized once the finished weight is known. Skip that last calculation and the new door punishes its opener from the first week.

Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Littleton, Englewood, Thornton and the rest of Denver County are all inside the normal radius. Free to come out, and nothing happens until you've decided.

• It's loud enough, or heavy enough, to bother the room above the garage.
• Rot, rust or a crash has damaged several panels.
• You want a better-looking door, and since it's coming off anyway, better insulation too.
• The panels are finished after years of repairs on the same door.
• It's a single-skin door, and in winter the garage is a freezer.

Across Denver County, replace when the panels are gone: rot, rust through the skin, or impact damage across more than one section. Replace when the garage is a room you use and the door is single-skin. Once repairs come more than once a year, replace: you're buying a door in pieces and never getting the door.

If any of that sounds familiar, a technician can confirm it on site in about ten minutes. Rather than guess over the phone, we come and look, free.

None of that is unique to Denver. It's the natural result of guessing at a door over the phone. So we don't guess; we send somebody to look first.

It gets postponed a lot, so it's worth saying plainly what postponing leads to. None of the following is unusual. It's the ordinary sequence, and we see it in Denver every week.

1. The door is old, and everything bolted to it suffers for thatOnce the door itself is finished, the opener strains, the springs are overworked and the track takes abuse it wasn't built for.
2. The insulation is what makes a garage a roomIt's the difference between a workshop you use and a store room you avoid.
3. A door dies at the panelsOnce there's rot, rust right through the steel, or crash damage across more than one section, repairing it stops being the sensible choice.
4. The repairs get closer togetherThe surest sign a door is at the end is repairs arriving closer together. Seen one visit at a time, it's easy to miss.

The estimate is free, so finding out where you stand asks nothing of you. Call early and you avoid all of that.

A steel door lasts twenty to thirty years. The parts around it don't. Springs, rollers and cables wear out on a door built to last decades, which is why a door that looks fine can need work three or four times in its life.

Insulation is rated as an R-value, and that number decides whether the garage is usable in winter. An uninsulated door is roughly R-0 to R-2, a polystyrene-core door about R-6 to R-9, and a polyurethane door R-12 to R-18. The polyurethane ones are stiffer and quieter as well.

If the opener is old, swap it while the door is down. The labor overlaps almost entirely. If it has years left, it stays. Since the door is being built from parts, nylon rollers are the obvious choice at the same time.