Garage Door Repair & Installation in Columbus, MN

Columbus was a township from 1857 until 2006, when it incorporated as a city, and it has kept its country character. In the 2020 census, about 96% of residents were classified as rural. The Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area covers much of the north-central and west-central parts of the city’s roughly 48 square miles, and Interstate 35 splits into 35E and 35W in the southeast corner. Expect same-day service on most repair calls.

Garage Door Repair

When Columbus became a city, it had a 5-acre minimum lot size for residential development to protect that rural feel. On parcels that size, the garage might be attached to the house or standing on its own. Garage door repair looks the same on either one: springs and cables that wear out, tracks that bend, rollers and hinges that loosen, and panels that get dented.

Living next to thousands of acres of protected wetland and wildlife habitat brings its own issues. Mice can find their way in under a bottom seal that has worn or torn. If you’re seeing signs of them in the garage, have us check the seal and the gap along the floor.

A broken spring is the one problem you shouldn’t try to work around. Don’t lift the door by hand or run the opener. Leave it exactly as it is and have us do the garage door spring replacement.

Every service call goes into Jobber, so when you call with a question later, we know your door’s history, and many of those calls end with an answer by phone and no bill.

Garage Door Installation and Replacement

New garage door installation out here can mean a standard door on an attached garage or an insulated door for a detached garage you heat in winter. We carry HAAS doors and will help you match the size, insulation and style to the garage and how you use it.

Some openings need repair ahead of the door itself. A sagging header, a rotted jamb or framing that has moved falls under the “Plus” in our company name. We handle it in-house or with a subcontractor we trust.

We’ll ask whether you plan to stay on the property for the long run or sell in the next few years, because the answer changes what’s worth buying. Then you’ll get three or four priced choices, and we’ll be honest about which one we would choose for our own parents.

Garage Door Openers

Openers usually last 10 to 15 years. Openers produced before 1993 came out ahead of the federal requirement for photo eyes or a comparable secondary safety device, so an older unit deserves a look. Our garage door opener service runs from quiet belt drives to Wi-Fi models you can monitor from the house, which is useful when a detached garage sits a long way from the back door.

Commercial Garage Doors

Columbus set aside a freeway business area around the I-35 split for commercial and light industrial use. For businesses there and elsewhere in the city, we handle commercial garage door repair and replacement on sectional and rolling steel doors, along with their operators. Most of what we do on the commercial side is keeping existing doors working.

Why Columbus Homeowners Call Garage Doors Plus

Garage Doors Plus is a local, independent company based in Blaine. We won’t pitch you a cheap tune-up and then turn it into a list of repairs. You’ll hear what’s wrong and what it costs before we start, and you make the call. Our word is our bond. When a repair we made doesn’t last, we redo it free of charge.

Neighboring cities we serve include Forest Lake, Lino Lakes and Ham Lake. If you want to use the garage as screened-in space in summer, we install Lifestyle Screens, retractable screens made for garage door openings.