Garage Door Repair in New Westminster's Older Neighbourhoods

New Westminster has some of the oldest housing in the region. Many Victorian and Edwardian homes in Queen's Park and Sapperton have original single-car garages, some too narrow for modern cars. The doors on them are often old, some still manual, many with older extension springs.

These doors stick and drag for a few reasons. Damp weather swells wood and wears frames, rollers flatten or seize, hinges loosen and tracks bend. We replace rollers with nylon, tighten or replace hinges, reset the track and lubricate moving parts. If the wood or frame is too far gone, we'll tell you so you can decide what's worth fixing.

A door can come off its track when a cable breaks, an old roller fails or the door gets bumped. It hangs crooked or jams halfway.

• Leave it where it is.
• Unplug the opener if there is one.
• Keep people and cars away, since an off-track door can fall.

We set the door back in the track, straighten or replace bent sections, replace the cable and check the springs. On older extension-spring doors, we make sure safety cables are in place too.

Steep slopes down to the Fraser leave many lots partly shaded and damp, and lanes in Brow of the Hill, the West End and Sapperton can be tight. Tell us about access and parking when you book, since it affects how we stage the job.

In Queensborough, the newer homes and townhouses on flat land have modern doors. Repairs there are usually worn rollers, bottom seals letting water in, or a dented panel. One panel can sometimes be replaced if the maker still produces that model and colour.