Garage door repair near you
Yes, we make the drive out to Damascus and Boring, where the garage door jobs are often bigger than a house garage: shop and outbuilding doors on acreage, heavy springs on tall doors, and openers for buildings set well back from the road.
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Damascus and Boring are still largely rural, with acreage homes, farms and more than thirty plant and tree nurseries around Boring, so a garage door out here may hang on a house, a detached shop or a working farm building.
The housing comes in three kinds: older farmhouses and acreage homes, nursery and farm properties, and newer subdivisions on the Happy Valley side of Damascus. Metro pulled the Damascus area into the urban growth boundary in 2002, but after the city incorporated, a run of ballot measures held back orderly development, which is why so much of it still reads as country.
That leaves two kinds of garage door job. Near Happy Valley, doors and openers look like those on any newer suburban street. On the acreage, a shop door taller or wider than a house door needs heavier springs and longer track, an outbuilding may need an outlet before it can take an opener, and a door that cycles all day in a busy season wears out standard springs early.
On acreage, the detached shop is often the hardest-working building on the property, and its door takes the abuse: equipment backing in and out, mud, dust and long days standing open while work goes on inside.
Grit does the damage first. Dust off a gravel drive and mud carried in on tires work into the rollers and tracks until the door shudders, the bottom seal tears on rough concrete or packed earth, and cables fray where they rub. Springs sized for a lighter door give out early if someone later added insulation, windows or a heavier replacement section.
Out past the edge of the suburbs, these are the five jobs that bring our truck to Damascus and Boring most often.
Older outbuildings do not always match stock door sizes, so a new sectional door for a shop or outbuilding starts with measuring the framed opening and the clearance above it. We order the door to the opening and ask how the building is used: an insulated door suits a heated shop, while a lighter one is fine for storage.
Tall and wide doors carry heavy springs, so we size replacements to the weight the door has today rather than copying whatever was there before, and both springs on a two-spring shop door get changed together. If the door runs all day during planting or harvest, high-cycle springs carry a higher price and a much higher cycle rating, which usually pays off on a door like that.
An outbuilding needs power near the ceiling before an opener can go in, and if the building has none, that wiring is an electrician's job and comes first. Once it is in, we mount the opener, photo eyes and an outdoor keypad, which saves a walk back to the house for a remote.
When a nursery building, farm shop or small business around Boring runs on a sectional door, we handle it as a commercial visit. Work stays inside the amount you approve, heavy commercial springs and operators are quoted per door once we have seen them, and we book around the busy weeks of your season.
Dust, mud and chaff work into the tracks and rollers on rural doors, so a yearly tune-up cleans and lubricates them, checks spring balance, tightens hardware shaken loose by equipment, and tests the auto-reverse. On a shop door that cycles constantly, that visit spots a cable going frayed before it snaps.
Highway 212 is our main road in, running east from I-205 through Damascus to Boring. SE 242nd Avenue carries us north and south across the area, and US 26 brings us in from the Gresham side.
Out here the drive is part of the job. An acreage address can sit at the end of a long or gravel drive, behind a gate, or past a dog that takes its job seriously, so tell us at booking about gates, codes, animals and which building the door is on. A dropped map pin helps when the house number is only on a mailbox at the road.
Boring was platted in 1903 as Boring Junction and named for the family of Union veteran William Harrison Boring.
Boring has been paired with Dull, Scotland, since 2012 and with Bland, Australia, since 2013.
The Springwater Corridor trail starts in Boring, beside Boring Middle School, and runs all the way to the Eastbank Esplanade in downtown Portland.
Damascus incorporated in 2004 as Oregon's first new city in 22 years, voted to disincorporate in 2016, and saw that vote reinstated by the Oregon Supreme Court on September 3, 2020.
The Boring Lava Field, about 80 vents scattered across the region, takes its name from the community of Boring.
Yes, we do. Our routes cover Damascus and Boring from the subdivisions near Happy Valley out past Boring on Highway 212, including the 97009 ZIP, which reaches well beyond the small Boring town center. Acreage, farms, nurseries and shops are all included, and the posted prices are the same ones we charge in the suburbs closer to Portland. A map pin in your booking note helps on the long rural roads.
Yes, as long as it is a sectional or one-piece garage-style door. We replace springs sized to the door's weight, fix cables, rollers and track, and add or repair openers. For an unusually tall or wide door, send pictures showing the whole door face, the spring assembly and the opener so we bring the right parts the first time. Shop doors that see daily equipment traffic are worth a tune-up while we are there.
Often, yes, when the spring is a size we carry. Standard house-door springs ride on the truck, but heavy springs for a tall or wide shop door sometimes have to be ordered, which is why a photo before we drive out matters so much. Do not move the door; keep people and equipment out from under it, and skip the opener entirely until the spring is replaced.
No. The miles are ours to absorb: Damascus and Boring repairs are priced off the posted list we use in Milwaukie or Gresham, and no trip fee appears when we do the repair. The only other line is the diagnostic visit, which covers a trip where we pin down the problem and you decide to wait on the fix.
Tell us anything that affects getting a truck to the door. That means a gate code, a locked chain, a soft gravel stretch, a low branch, loose animals, and which building has the door. If the shop sits far from the house, a dropped map pin saves wandering. We can carry parts a fair distance, but knowing the layout lets us plan the visit properly.
Clackamas County. Now that the Damascus disincorporation has taken effect, the area is unincorporated again, and in unincorporated territory the county issues every type of building permit. Oregon's statewide rules require a permit to change the size of an opening, not to hang a new door in the same opening without structural work. Our permit guide covers the details.
Yes, if the building can take it. A taller door needs a framed opening to match, enough headroom for the track and springs, and springs sized to the heavier door, and if the opening has to be enlarged, that framing change needs a county permit first. We measure, explain what the building allows, then order a door to those measurements, sized for whatever you park inside.
Happy Valley and Clackamas sit west toward I-205, Gresham lies to the north, Sandy is out US 26 to the east, and Oregon City is to the southwest, so all five share our Damascus and Boring routes.
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.