Garage Door Repair Pickering

From our Ajax office to your Pickering driveway

Our office is at 60 Randall Dr, Ajax, ON L1S 6L3, a short drive from the Pickering line. From there, the crew reaches every part of Pickering within 20-30 minutes, day or night:

No travel fee anywhere in our service area. The price we quote in Ajax is the price we quote in Pickering.

Neighbourhoods we serve in Pickering

All of them. These are the ones we are called to across the city:

• South Pickering by the lake: Bay Ridges, West Shore, Rosebank, Rougemount
• Central Pickering: Woodlands, Dunbarton, Highbush, Amberlea, Liverpool, Glendale, Village East, Brock Ridge
• North Pickering: Duffin Heights and Seaton
• Rural Pickering: Claremont and the rest of rural north Pickering

Pickering homes and their garage doors

Pickering was built in waves, and each wave has its own garage door problems.

Lakeside homes from the 1960s and 70s. Bay Ridges and West Shore have many single-car garages, and some doors still run on extension springs along the side tracks, with original tracks and hinges. When an extension spring snaps, the safety cable is what keeps it from flying across the garage. If yours has none, we add them when we replace the springs.

Two-storeys from the 1970s to the 90s. Amberlea, Liverpool, Dunbarton and Glendale are full of double garages. A lot of these doors are on their second or third opener, and the original torsion springs are long gone. Worn rollers and loose track brackets are the usual noise complaints.

2000s and 2010s subdivisions. Duffin Heights and Brock Ridge mostly have 16x7 insulated steel doors with two torsion springs and belt-drive openers. Those original springs are reaching the end of their cycles now, often both within a few weeks of each other.

Seaton new builds. Seaton is Pickering's newest community and still growing: by 2022, only 1,549 of its 20,989 planned homes had been built. Builder-grade doors usually come with standard 10,000-cycle springs and a basic opener. Once the builder coverage ends, a high-cycle spring upgrade ($50 to $120 + HST extra) is worth asking about.

Pickering by the numbers

The 2021 Census counted 99,186 people in Pickering living in 33,425 occupied homes, up 8.1% from 2016, with a median household income of $118,000 (Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population). That growth matters for garage doors: whole streets went up in the same few years, so their springs, openers and rollers wear out in the same few years too.

What Pickering weather does to garage doors

Lake air. Homes near Frenchman's Bay and Lake Ontario get more damp air, and that rusts springs, roller bearings and hinges faster. A light spray of garage door lubricant on the springs and hinges twice a year helps.

Road salt. Cars bring salty slush into the garage all winter. It sits against the bottom of the door, where the cables tie into the bottom brackets, and rusts both from the floor up. Rinse the bottom of the door in spring.

The first cold snap. Springs carry the full weight of the door, and cold steel is less forgiving. The first freezing mornings of the season bring a run of snapped springs. If you hear a bang, don't run the opener.

Garage door repairs in Pickering

Every repair is priced on the phone or at the door before we start:

• Broken springs. One torsion spring is from $195 + HST, a pair from $325 + HST. Spring repair details
• Cables off the drum or snapped. A pair of cables is from $165 + HST. Cable repair details
• Openers that run but don't lift. Opener repair is from $125 + HST. Opener repair details
• New openers. We install the one you bought for from $175 + HST. Opener installation details
• Doors off track. Off-track repair is from $175 + HST. Off track repair details
• Night emergencies. We arrive within 20-30 minutes. 24 hour repair details
• New doors. An insulated single is from $1,295 + HST installed. New door installation details

The full list is on our garage door repair cost page.