Garage Door Repair in Mesa, AZ

The age of a Mesa home tells us a lot before we arrive. As the third-largest city in Arizona, the City of Mesa (opens in a new tab) covers everything from older central Mesa neighborhoods to newer east Mesa communities, and the garage door hardware changes with the age of the house.

Older doors are more likely to use extension springs, which stretch along the horizontal tracks on each side of the door. Each one should have a safety cable running through it so a broken spring cannot whip across the garage. If you see a spring with no cable through it, mention it when you call. It is common practice to replace extension springs in pairs so both sides lift evenly.

Newer homes usually have torsion springs on a bar above the door. Builder-grade torsion springs are commonly rated around 10,000 cycles, roughly 7 years at four cycles a day, so they are often the first part to fail in a newer home. When one breaks, the door feels extremely heavy or stops a few inches up. Our broken garage door spring repair page explains what we replace. If your household runs the door all day, DuraMaster high-cycle springs come in higher ratings such as 25,000 cycles or more.

On an older Mesa home, the question is often whether the original door is still worth fixing. Repair usually wins when the problem is a spring, cable, roller or opener and the door sections are sound. Replacement is worth pricing when sections are cracked or bent, the door has been repaired many times, or the garage gets too hot to use.

Insulated doors make a real difference in Mesa heat. A polyurethane or polystyrene insulated door keeps the garage cooler, which helps the opener and anything stored inside. Our garage door replacement page covers the doors we install, and our guide to repair versus replacement walks through the decision.