Garage doors are the whole job here

Master Overhead Doors repairs, replaces and installs garage doors, openers and gates for homes and businesses. Our crews handle the everyday failures, such as a snapped spring before the morning commute or an opener that quit with the car inside, and the bigger projects, from a carriage-style replacement on a Spanish revival house to a rolling fire door drop test at a warehouse.

The work is organized around one dispatch line that answers 24 hours a day, and trucks stocked well enough that the first visit is usually the only one. When a door is past saving, we say so, measure the opening and price the replacement standing at your driveway.

The Door Guides is written by Gilbert Dorsey, our Overhead Door Guides Editor. Each guide starts from a question callers bring to dispatch, such as what a spring should cost, whether to repair or replace, or what California's battery-backup law means, and answers it in plain language with every cost figure linked to its source.

The guides never walk anyone through adjusting springs or cables, because those parts store enough force to cause serious injury. They do cover the safe checks, the upkeep anyone can do and the questions worth asking before hiring anyone. Read the Door Guides.