It has been over a year
Annual is the right interval for a typical household.
Prevention
Garage Door Maintenance & Tune-Up
A garage door cycles thousands of times a year under serious spring tension. A short annual service catches worn parts while they are still cheap and keeps the heaviest moving object in your home safe.
What is involved
What a tune-up covers
A full pass over the system, ending with the safety tests that actually matter.
- Full system inspection, top fixtures to bottom brackets
- Balance and spring-tension test with the opener disconnected
- Safety reverse and photo-eye alignment test
- Hinges, rollers, springs and rail lubricated correctly
- All hardware and lag fixings re-torqued
- Weather seal and bottom astragal condition checked
Why it is worth booking
Worn rollers and fatigued springs give warning signs long before they fail outright. Catching one early costs a fraction of an emergency callout at midnight in January.
Warning signs
When to call us out.
If any of these sound like your door, it is worth a look before it turns into a callout at midnight.
Door is getting louder
Early warning, not just an annoyance.
Winter is coming
Cold stiffens grease and finishes off weak springs.
New house, unknown history
Worth a baseline check on a door you did not fit.
Why AAA
What you get either way.
Quoted before we start
A fixed price on the spot. Nothing happens until you approve it.
Stocked trucks
Springs, cables, rollers and openers on board, so most calls finish in one visit.
Repair before replace
If a component fixes it, we will not try to sell you a whole new door.
Open 24/7
Nights, weekends and holidays — a real person answers the phone.
Straight answers
Maintenance & Tune-Up
questions.
More answers on the full FAQ page, or call and describe what the door is doing.
Once a year for a typical household, twice for a busy family home or a commercial door.
Hinges, rollers, springs and the opener rail, with a garage-door silicone or lithium spray. Never grease the track itself, and never use WD-40 as a lubricant here.
Illinois winters stiffen grease and contract metal, which is why a marginal door often fails on the first properly cold morning.
Also available
Other things we fix.
Garage Door RepairFull-system diagnosis and repair for residential and commercial doors.
24/7 Emergency RepairAnswered any hour, any day — for doors that cannot wait until Monday.
Spring ReplacementCycle-rated springs, replaced in pairs and balanced properly.
Opener Repair & InstallMotors, sensors, remotes and limits — repaired or upgraded.
Roller ReplacementNylon roller sets for a quieter, smoother, longer-lasting door.
Cable ReplacementRe-cabled, re-tensioned and re-balanced as one job.
Ready when you are