Garage door repair near you
We repair garage doors throughout Aloha, where three-bedroom tract houses from the 1960s to the 1990s still carry plenty of original hardware, so worn extension springs, frayed cables, noisy rollers and aging openers fill much of our schedule.
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Most of Aloha's single-family homes went up in the four decades after 1960, and three-bedroom tract houses abound in this unincorporated stretch of Washington County between Beaverton and Hillsboro. Locals pronounce the name uh-LOH-uh.
The street pattern is older than the houses. Parts of it trace to the 1907 Beaverton-Reedville Acreage development, and the Wheeler Subdivision was platted even earlier, in 1893, so an occasional acreage lot sits among the later tract homes. If yours is one of them, the garage or shop on it may not follow tract sizes, and we measure before quoting.
Age is the thread through every Aloha door call. A door hung when the house was new in 1972 or 1988 has put decades of cycles on its springs, lift cables, rollers and opener gears, and in some garages here those are still the parts it shipped with. When one gives out, we look hard at the rest, because they have all worked the same number of years.
An Aloha tract garage often keeps its original track, hinges and bottom brackets after a spring or opener swap. Older, lighter doors may hang from two extension springs beside the horizontal tracks rather than a torsion spring across the header.
Each extension spring should have its own safety cable running down its center, and older installs sometimes lack them. After that, the wear runs to type: steel rollers flatten and grind, lift cables fray at the bottom brackets, hinges crack or work loose, and the opener drive gear wears down until the motor runs while the door sits still.
Original hardware on Aloha tract doors tends to fail in the same handful of ways, starting with the springs and working down to the opener.
Springs are the first original part to give out on an Aloha tract door, so extension-spring doors get a matched pair with new safety cables, and torsion doors get springs wound to the door's weight. If the whole extension setup is tired, we price a torsion conversion on the same visit, and the two options sit side by side before anything is ordered.
Original lift cables fray at the bottom brackets after decades of damp winters, and a door that suddenly hangs crooked usually has one cable slack or snapped. We fit two new cables, inspect the drums or pulleys for wear, then true up the door so it hangs level again.
Steel rollers from the 1970s and 1980s lose their bearings and scrape the track, a frequent source of the grinding owners describe. Sealed nylon rollers, with stem lengths matched to the hinges already on the door, plus fresh hinges at any cracked joint, quiet the door and take load off the opener.
Openers from the 1990s still run in some Aloha garages, and a worn drive gear leaves the motor humming while the door stays put. We repair it if parts are still made, or price a replacement if they are not or the unit predates photo eyes, and either way we test the reverse before leaving.
Original hardware that has never seen a service visit dries out and works loose, so an Aloha tune-up starts by lubricating hinges and rollers and tightening hardware. With the release cord pulled, we lift the door to waist height by hand to see whether it holds there, run the auto-reverse test, and leave a written note on which original parts are closest to the end.
Tualatin Valley Highway runs through the middle of Aloha, and 185th Avenue links it north to the Sunset Highway, so most of our trips arrive one of those two ways and then fan out along the cross streets.
Farmington Road, Kinnaman Road, 170th Avenue and Baseline Road reach the side streets, and OR 217 feeds TV Highway from the east. TV Highway is a signal-heavy commercial strip, so we schedule around it rather than promise an arrival clock. On an acreage lot with a long drive or a gate, let us know ahead so the truck can get close to the door.
The Aloha post office opened on January 9, 1912, a few years after trains began stopping in Aloha in 1907.
Intel opened its Aloha plant in 1976, three years before its first Hillsboro facility.
Aloha High School opened in 1970, and the Aloha Swim Center followed in 1977.
A 1984 attempt to incorporate Aloha as a city was halted by the boundary commission, and Aloha remains unincorporated today.
The Aloha Community Library opened in 2012 in a strip mall at Farmington and Kinnaman Roads.
Yes. Aloha shares ZIP codes with its neighbors, including 97003, 97006 and 97007, and the town printed on your mail is irrelevant to the visit. We cover unincorporated Aloha end to end, from the blocks around Aloha High School to the neighborhoods near the swim center and the library at Farmington and Kinnaman, at Portland's posted prices.
Often the same day, when you call in business hours. A snapped cable leaves the door crooked and unsafe to run, so leave it where it is, pull the opener's plug and keep everyone clear. Aloha is a straight shot out TV Highway or down 185th from the Sunset, and the truck carries lift cables in the lengths residential doors use.
No. Aloha pays exactly what Beaverton and inner Portland pay on the posted list, and a repair we carry out comes with no trip fee. The one charge without a repair is the pricing page's diagnostic visit, for when you decide to postpone the work, and it vanishes if the repair happens during that visit. A picture of the door texted ahead of time often tells you whether a visit is needed at all.
Either can be the right call. If the door is light, the tracks are sound and the springs simply wore out, a matched pair of extension springs with safety cables is the economical fix. If the door is heavy, the cables are tired too, or you want a smoother lift, a torsion conversion is worth pricing, and we quote both on one visit.
Yes, all of them. Those roads carry us from TV Highway and 185th into the side streets of Aloha's 1960s to 1990s tracts, and the older acreage parcels tucked among them are covered too. The signals along TV Highway make arrival times hard to pin to the minute, so you get a window, and a cross street plus the subdivision name gets the truck to the right driveway.
Yes. Shop and outbuilding doors on Aloha's older acreage parcels can be wider, taller or older than tract doors, so a photo with a tape measure across the opening lets us load the right parts. We repair sectional and one-piece doors, add an opener where there is power, and quote a replacement once a door is beyond repair. Where the shop lacks an outlet near the ceiling, plan on an electrician before the opener goes up.
A worn drive gear is the likely cause in an Aloha opener that has run since the 1990s. The motor still turns, but the stripped gear no longer moves the chain or screw, so the door stays put. We check the springs first, because a door that has grown heavy chews through gears, then replace the gear where parts are still made or price a new opener where they are not.
A route along TV Highway or Farmington Road reaches these neighbors too, with Hillsboro just west of Aloha and Beaverton just east.
Call with the symptom, or text a photo of the door and the opener, and we will name the part and the posted price before anyone drives out.