Garage Door Repair & Installation in Centerville, MN

Centerville sits between Centerville Lake and Peltier Lake, and it got its name from its spot roughly central to St. Paul, Stillwater and Anoka. French-Canadian settlers platted the town in 1854, and it was officially established in 1857, a year before Minnesota became a state. When your garage door gives out, we can typically get to you that same day.

Garage Door Repair

For all that history, very little of Centerville’s housing dates to its early days. Less than 2% was built before 1940. Census figures show the population nearly doubled during the 1990s, from fewer than 1,700 people in 1990 to more than 3,200 by 2000, and a little more than a quarter of today’s homes were built after 2000.

Growth like that means a lot of homes likely went up in the 1990s. A door installed then is now 27 to 36 years old, and its springs have likely been replaced more than once, since a typical spring lasts about 7 to 12 years. For garage door repair, we replace broken springs and frayed cables, fix doors that have slipped off their tracks, swap worn rollers and hinges and repair or replace damaged panels. If a spring has snapped, don’t try to move the door. Call us for garage door spring replacement.

Each visit is recorded in Jobber, the system we use to track service history. Call back with a question weeks later and your file is in front of us, which means many follow-ups get handled in a quick phone conversation, free.

Garage Door Installation and Replacement

Most garage doors last 15 to 30 years. A door original to one of Centerville’s 1990s homes is near the end of that range or past it, and a door from the 1970s or 1980s is well beyond it. When it’s time to replace one, garage door installation starts with a look at what you have. We carry HAAS doors and can walk you through insulation and style choices.

The opening itself matters too. If the header has sagged or the framing around the door needs work, that falls under the “Plus” part of Garage Doors Plus. We do that work ourselves or through subcontractors we trust, so you aren’t left coordinating a second contractor yourself.

Before we recommend anything, we want to know your plans. Is this a forever home, or will you be selling in a few years? You’ll then see three or four options at different price points, along with an honest answer about which one we’d choose if it were our own parents’ garage. If cost is a concern, ask us about financing.

Garage Door Openers

Openers typically last 10 to 15 years, so an original opener in a 1990s house has been running about twice as long as expected, sometimes longer. Many from that period are chain drives. Any unit built before 1993 also predates the federal rule that made photo eyes, or an equivalent secondary safety system, mandatory. Our garage door opener service includes repairs, complete replacements, quieter belt drive models and Wi-Fi openers controlled through an app. When a simple adjustment will do the job, that’s the recommendation you’ll get.

Commercial Garage Doors

Centerville is mostly residential, but for local businesses with overhead doors, we offer commercial service as well. Our commercial garage door work includes repairing and replacing both sectional and rolling steel doors, plus the operators that run them. Keeping existing doors working is the bulk of it.

Why Centerville Homeowners Call Garage Doors Plus

Garage Doors Plus is independent and locally owned, with our shop in Blaine. We don’t use cheap tune-up specials to get in your garage and then push repairs you don’t need. You’ll get a clear explanation of what’s wrong, a price before work starts and the final say on what gets done. Our word is our bond: when one of our repairs doesn’t last, we return and redo it for free.

We also serve nearby communities, including Lino Lakes, Blaine and Forest Lake. For a garage you can sit in on a summer night, ask about Lifestyle Screens, retractable screens we install across the open garage door.