Garage Door Repair & Installation in Columbia Heights, MN

Columbia Heights has been a city since 1921, and a lot of its housing is older than the suburbs to the north. It sits right across 37th Avenue from Minneapolis, and many of its homes are 60 years old or more. When yours stops cooperating, we can usually have a technician there the same day.

Garage Door Repair

Close to half of all housing in Columbia Heights was built before 1960, and nearly one home in five dates to 1949 or earlier. With garage doors lasting roughly 15 to 30 years, a house that age is almost never on its original door. Our garage door repair work includes broken springs and cables, bent tracks, worn rollers, loose hinges and doors that won’t stay balanced when you let go of them halfway.

Extension springs, the long springs that stretch along the horizontal tracks, are common on garages from this era. When one of those lets go, it can whip with real force, which is why it should run with a safety cable through the middle. If yours doesn’t have one, that’s worth fixing. We also handle garage door spring replacement on torsion systems, and for many older doors a switch from extension to torsion springs is worth talking through.

Every job goes into Jobber. If you call a few weeks later with a question, whoever picks up can see what was done on your door, and a lot of those questions get answered on the phone without a charge.

Garage Door Installation and Replacement

Garages built before 1960 were often fitted with wood doors, and some of those openings need work before a modern sectional door will hang right. For garage door installation, we’re a HAAS dealer with different insulation options and panel styles to choose from, and we start by checking the opening itself.

That’s where the “Plus” in our name earns its keep. A header that has sagged over 60 or 70 years, a jamb that has rotted at the bottom or framing that has shifted needs to be fixed before the door goes in, or the new door won’t run right for long. We handle that work directly or through subcontractors we trust.

About a third of Columbia Heights households rent, so the house in question may well be a rental. That’s why the first question we ask is whether this is your forever home, a rental or a house you plan to sell. The answer changes what makes sense to buy. From there we lay out three or four choices, each with a price, and say plainly what we’d put on our own parents’ house.

Garage Door Openers

In most pre-1960 garages, any opener was added years after the garage was built, and an add-on install like that is often the weak point in the whole system. Federal safety rules for openers changed in 1993. Units built before then didn’t need photo eyes, edge sensors or any other secondary safety system, so an older opener deserves a close look. We do garage door opener repair, replacement and new installs, from basic chain drives to quiet belt drives and smart openers you can run from your phone. If an adjustment is all yours needs, that’s all we’ll do.

Commercial Garage Doors

Central Avenue runs through the city as a commercial district, and more businesses sit along University Avenue. Our commercial garage door work includes storefront rolling shutters and security doors, plus sectional and rolling steel doors. Buildings with 50 or more units hold about 13 percent of the city’s housing, and where those buildings have parking garage doors, we service them too. On the commercial side, most of our calls are to fix or upgrade a door that’s already installed.

Why Columbia Heights Homeowners Call Garage Doors Plus

We’re a locally owned company based in Blaine, up Highway 65 from Columbia Heights. We work all over Columbia Heights, from the blocks near the Minneapolis line to the homes around Silver Lake and Sullivan Lake. You won’t get a teaser price from us that turns into a long list of repairs once we’re in your garage. We explain what’s wrong, show you what it costs and let you decide. Our word is our bond, so a repair that fails gets redone by us, no argument about it.

We also serve the rest of the north metro, including Blaine and Coon Rapids, as well as neighboring Minneapolis. If you’re thinking about turning the garage into usable space on warm evenings, ask us about Lifestyle Screens, retractable screens that close off the garage door opening.