Garage Door Repair Guides

Plain guides from Tempe Garage Door Service for Tempe homeowners: what the symptoms mean, what is safe to check yourself and what to ask before you approve a repair.

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Garage Door Troubleshooting

Two-story home with a wide dark garage door

Torsion vs. Extension Garage Door Springs

The two spring systems, how each one fails and what changes in the quote when you have one rather than the other.

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Two glass-panel garage doors on a white modern home

Why Your Garage Door Will Not Open

Four causes, narrowed down from the driveway in a couple of minutes, and the point where you should stop and call.

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Row of white paneled garage doors with small windows

Garage Door Opener Troubleshooting

Power, remotes, sensors and drive faults worked through in order, including the heat problems specific to desert garages.

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White two-car garage door on a suburban house

How to Quiet a Noisy Garage Door

What grinding, rattling, popping and banging each mean, and which of them tells you to stop using the door.

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Need an Inspection?

These guides help you describe a fault accurately. They are not a substitute for having the door looked at, and none of them should be read as instructions for working on springs, cables or a door that is off its track.

When you are ready, browse the repair services, compare repair against replacement, check the common questions or send the details through the service request page.

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