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Finished installations
Doors we have fitted and handed back.
Newly installed white short-panel double garage door on a blue-sided house, closed and lit by the porch light at night.Modern full-view garage door with a black aluminium frame and clear glass panels on a white board-and-batten home, reflecting the street and trees opposite.Two charcoal carriage-house style garage doors with cross-buck detailing, set into the light brick facade of a two-storey home.Cream carriage-house style double garage door with decorative black strap hinges and matching handles, below a white stone and red brick wall.Pair of black short-panel garage doors on a white painted brick home, photographed from the driveway on an overcast day.Tan short-panel double garage door on a brick home under a clear blue sky, with children's chalk drawings on the driveway in front.Tan carriage-house style double garage door with black ring pulls and strap hinges, beneath a white stone wall trimmed with red brick.Almond-coloured short-panel single garage door closed on a brick home, photographed in bright afternoon sunlight.Newly installed white raised-panel double garage door seen from inside an unfinished garage, with a step ladder to the left and exposed wall insulation on the right.Full-view black-framed glass garage door seen from inside a residential garage, daylight spilling across the concrete floor with a white vehicle parked to the right.Black short-panel double garage door closed on a red brick single-storey home under a clear blue sky, with the electrical meter and disconnect box on the wall to the left.Almond short-panel double garage door closed on a brick home on an overcast day, photographed square-on from the driveway.Two charcoal carriage-house style garage doors with cross-buck bracing, set into the light brick facade of a two-storey home with a steep gabled porch.Modern full-view garage door with a black aluminium frame and frosted glass panels photographed from the driveway at night, the panels glowing softly from the light inside the garage.Full-view aluminium garage door with dark tinted panels seen from inside a residential garage, a red sports car and a white car parked in front of it and a step ladder standing against the door.Newly hung white raised-panel double garage door seen from inside, closed and sealed to the floor, with its struts, hinges and torsion spring in place and the old timber header still exposed above.The same garage opening after repair, fitted with a new white raised-panel double door hanging square in its track, brick pillars either side.
Commercial doors
Sectional, rolling steel and full-view glass openings.
Open control cabinet of a commercial LiftMaster operator, showing the pink logic board with its limit and force dials wired down to two sealed lead-acid backup batteries.Tall commercial sectional garage door closed inside a concrete warehouse bay, flanked by yellow safety bollards with tyre racking to one side.Commercial sectional door in a warehouse bay after its damaged bottom sections were replaced, the bright new white steel panels contrasting with the older cream panels above.Commercial insulated sectional door at a warehouse loading bay, raised partway above the dock leveller, with stacked truck tyres and an extension cord in the foreground.Full-view aluminium and glass commercial garage door installed in a storefront unit, with a multi-position ladder and a tool bag on the polished concrete floor and the Dallas skyline visible beyond.Wide white ribbed sectional door closed in the end wall of a cream steel farm building, photographed from the concrete apron under a clear blue sky.Newly installed white ribbed sectional door seen from inside a steel building, its galvanised struts, torsion spring, cable drums and red emergency release cord all visible against the metal wall.Tall commercial sectional door part-way through installation in a warehouse bay, the lower sections hung and the torsion spring and lift cables in place above, with pallets of wrapped material stacked alongside.Black LiftMaster Security+ 2.0 control enclosure closed and bolted to a white gate post, its power and accessory cables looped out of the bottom, with green pasture behind.LiftMaster gate operator cabinet with the door swung open, showing the pink logic board with its open, close and reversal-force controls wired down through a loom to two sealed gel backup batteries.
Repairs and what we find
The failures behind the call-outs.
Replacement torsion spring and shaft mounted on the header above a white sectional garage door, with the red emergency release cord hanging from the opener arm.Torsion spring, winding cones and shaft mounted above the windowed top section of a garage door, with the opener rail, door arm and red release cord alongside, lit by daylight through the door glass.Close-up of a black torsion spring on its shaft with the wire gauge, inside diameter and length stencilled along the coils in white paint.Technician's hand guiding the stem of a new white nylon roller into the vertical track of a garage door, with the old hinge and bracket visible just above.Close-up of a failed operator logic board showing a charred, burnt-through section of the circuit between the relays, with scorched resistors and swollen capacitors alongside.Gloved technician holding up a garage door operator circuit board with a wide black scorch mark burnt across its centre, standing over a grass lawn.White A Star Garage Door Repair service pickup parked outside the company's single-storey brick office building on a clear day.Broken torsion spring above a white sectional garage door: the coils have snapped and pulled apart, leaving a clear gap of bare winding shaft between the two halves of the spring.Close-up of a garage door that has come off its track: the top roller's rusted stem has pulled clear of the vertical track, the top section of the door has tipped away from the opening, and the timber jamb behind it is split and rotting.A worn steel garage door roller, its stem rusted and its bearing packed with grease and grit, laid on a concrete floor next to the clean white nylon roller that replaced it.Close-up inside a dim garage of the end bearing plate and grooved cable drum at the top of a door track, with the lift cable running down from the drum past the curved section of track.Inside a residential garage: a torsion spring on its shaft above the header, the cable drum and end bearing plate at the left-hand corner, and the hinges, brackets and vertical track running down the side of a closed cream short-panel door.Inside face of a tan sectional garage door, showing the galvanised reinforcement struts bolted across each section, the hinges at every joint and the two torsion springs on the shaft above the door.Residential double garage door off its track and buckled into the opening, the right-hand section collapsed down onto stored boxes and the left side still hanging high on its track.White double garage door with several creased and dented sections across its middle panels, with flat replacement panels strapped to a trailer on the driveway alongside.
Openers and hardware
Operators, springs, shafts, drums and track.
Empty two-car garage photographed from inside, with two newly installed insulated sectional doors side by side and two ceiling openers wired and mounted overhead.Residential garage interior with a white sectional door closed and a chain-drive opener mounted to the exposed wood ceiling framing, its light illuminating the empty concrete floor.Close-up of a black Chamberlain Wi-Fi garage door opener newly mounted to a garage ceiling, its power cord looped up to the outlet and the drive rail running out of frame.Chamberlain belt-drive opener with its rail, red emergency release cord, curved door arm and horizontal track running the length of a residential garage ceiling.Single-car garage lit by a newly installed ceiling opener, with the opener packaging and cordless power tools still laid out on the floor in front of the white sectional door.Corner of a garage ceiling showing the torsion spring on its shaft, the opener rail and curved door arm, the cable drum, and the wall control panel mounted beside the vertical door track.Two-car garage at night with a pair of single sectional doors, their torsion springs, safety cables and opener rails visible overhead, and two sedans parked either side.Grey raised-panel double garage door seen from inside the garage, closed, with its torsion spring and shaft mounted on the wall above the header and galvanised struts running across the sections.White raised-panel double garage door closed from the inside, with the torsion spring, shaft and end bearings mounted across the bare timber header above it and the opener rail coming in from the ceiling.Single torsion spring on its shaft above a closed white raised-panel garage door, with the opener rail, chain, curved door arm and red emergency release cord running down the centre of the door.Pair of torsion springs with colour-coded winding cones on the shaft above a grey raised-panel door, alongside the opener rail, the curved door arm bolted to the top section and the red release cord.Two torsion springs mounted on the shaft above a closed almond raised-panel garage door, with the opener rail overhead, the red release cord hanging down and a fibreglass step ladder standing against the door.Torsion spring stencilled with its size code on the shaft above a grey raised-panel door, with the opener rail, the black curved door arm and the red emergency release cord in the same frame.Newly installed white insulated sectional door filling an empty residential garage, its four galvanised struts, centre hinges and torsion spring visible against the pale wall.White insulated sectional door closed inside a lived-in residential garage, with a chain-drive opener lit up on the ceiling to the left and the door’s reinforcement struts running across the sections.Empty two-car garage after installation, with two new sectional doors backed in kraft-faced insulation, two chain-drive openers mounted and lit overhead and ceiling storage racks either side.Two-car garage photographed from between the parked cars, with a white insulated sectional door closed, a pair of torsion springs on the shaft above it, an opener and its rail overhead and a ceiling storage rack to the left.White Chamberlain myQ Wi-Fi garage door opener mounted on the ceiling of a residential garage, its light on and the rail and door arm running down to the closed sectional door below.LiftMaster slide gate operator newly mounted on a concrete pad beside a stone gate column, driving a dark timber and wrought-iron driveway gate on a rural property.LiftMaster wireless entry keypad mounted on a slim steel post at the edge of a fenced pasture, with the tree line and paddock fencing behind it.
On the job
Technician cycling a newly installed full-view glass commercial garage door from the wall control inside a shop unit, the door rolling up to reveal the street and skyline outside.Full-view aluminium garage door with dark tinted panels being run open from inside a residential garage in the evening, the camera panning along the sections, hinges and rails as the door lifts into the horizontal track.
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