Garage Door Repair & Installation in Lexington, MN

Lexington is one of the smallest cities in Anoka County, about seven-tenths of a square mile tucked between Blaine, Circle Pines and Lino Lakes. It was incorporated in 1950 with 569 residents. The area had been known as Lexington Park because Lexington Avenue formed its eastern edge, and the name stuck. Streets named Minuteman, Patriot and Liberty reflect the city’s Revolutionary War theme, a nod to the Battle of Lexington. Our Blaine shop is a few miles up the road, and most repair calls here are handled the same day.

Garage Door Repair

Lexington built most of its housing in the three decades after it incorporated. Census estimates put roughly six in ten homes in the 1950 to 1979 range, while fewer than one in ten have gone up since 2000. On homes that age, the garage door and its hardware have usually been repaired or replaced more than once.

When we come out for garage door repair, we deal with broken springs and cables, doors that bind or have come off their tracks, worn rollers and hinges and dented or cracked panels. Many doors on homes from this era run on extension springs rather than torsion springs. When an extension spring breaks, the door won’t lift properly and the broken spring can be dangerous to handle. Leave it where it is and let us handle the garage door spring replacement. While we’re there, we can talk about moving the door to a torsion setup.

Every job we do goes into Jobber. Ring us with a question after the visit and the details of your door are already on file, so a phone answer is often all it takes, with no charge for it.

Garage Door Installation and Replacement

Here’s how the math works on a Lexington house from the 1960s. With doors lasting 15 to 30 years, the original was probably replaced sometime in the late 1970s, 1980s or 1990s. If that second door went in during the 1980s or 1990s, it has now been up for 27 to 46 years, past or near the end of its own expected life. Many homes in town may be ready for a third.

We’re a HAAS dealer, and our garage door installation process begins with an inspection of the opening, not a sales pitch. If the header or framing has deteriorated, we fix it before hanging a new door. Structural work like that is what the “Plus” refers to, and it’s done by our own people or a subcontractor we trust.

A lot depends on your plans. Is this the house you plan to stay in, or are you getting it ready to sell or rent? Once we know, we’ll lay out three or four options with real prices and tell you straight which one we’d choose for our own parents’ house.

Garage Door Openers

A garage door opener normally lasts 10 to 15 years. Units manufactured prior to 1993 had no federal mandate for photo eyes or any comparable secondary safety device, so on a home this age, it’s worth knowing how old your opener is. Our garage door opener work runs from repairs to full replacement, with belt drives for a quieter garage and smart openers you can operate from your phone. When the fix is an adjustment rather than a new unit, we’ll tell you.

Commercial Garage Doors

For businesses in Lexington with overhead doors, we service sectional and rolling steel commercial garage doors along with the operators that drive them. The bulk of that is keeping current doors running, not new installs.

Why Lexington Homeowners Call Garage Doors Plus

We’re a locally owned, independent company. We don’t advertise a bargain tune-up as a way to sell you work you don’t need. Before anything starts, you’ll hear what we found, the price and the options. If one of our repairs gives out, we redo it free. That’s what we mean by our word is our bond.

We also work in Lexington’s neighboring cities, including Blaine and Lino Lakes, and nearby Shoreview. If you’d like to use your garage as a screened-in space during the warmer months, ask about Lifestyle Screens, the retractable screens we fit to garage door openings.