Garage Door Installation in Vancouver, Lane Garages to Attached Doubles

On the east and west sides, many detached homes have a garage off the lane. A lot of them are older single-car garages behind character houses and Vancouver Specials on 33-foot lots, and plenty still have an original or very old door. Those are the doors that stick, drag on the slab and come back for repairs year after year.

When a wood door is rotting at the bottom, warped from years of rain, or sagging in the middle, a new door is usually the cleaner fix. The same goes when the maker no longer produces matching panels. If the door is sound, we say so and repair it instead. We check the whole door before giving an opinion.

Lane access in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood can be narrow, with fences, bins and parked cars close to the opening. That makes it harder to stage a replacement, so we look at the lane during the quote and plan where the old door comes down and the new sections go.

Vancouver is mild and wet, with most rain between October and April. Mature street trees on the west side, in Point Grey, Dunbar and Kerrisdale, keep many yards shaded and damp. That wears rollers and bottom seals faster and is hard on old wood doors. A new steel door with a fresh bottom seal handles the damp better, and we set it square so it closes evenly on an uneven slab.

For a detached lane garage used for bikes and storage, an uninsulated door is often all you need. If the garage is attached, sits under a room, or is becoming a workspace or studio, an insulated door keeps it warmer and quieter.

Laneway house construction has already replaced many old garages with new ones, often with modern openers. If you have one of those and want a new door, your opener may well stay. We check its condition and whether it suits the new door's weight, and tell you at the quote.

Price depends on the size, style, insulation, windows and hardware, and on whether the opener stays. We measure and quote on site before booking.

Alongside Vancouver neighbourhoods like Marpole, Hastings-Sunrise and Killarney, we install new garage doors in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby and Richmond. The process is the same in each: a check of the current door and opener, an on-site measure and quote, then an install visit of about half a day for most single and double doors, with the old door taken away.