Why Your Garage Door Won’t Open or Close: 9 Common Causes
A garage door that won't work is a problem with a deadline attached. Your car is either stuck inside or stuck outside, and you need to know in the next few minutes whether this is something you can sort out yourself or something that needs a technician. Here are the nine faults we're called out [...]
Garage Door Maintenance in Phoenix: What to Check and How Often
Your garage door is the largest moving object in your house. It runs a few thousand cycles a year and weighs somewhere between 150 and 400 pounds, yet most people never touch it until it stops working. In a milder climate you can get away with that for a long time. Here you can't. The [...]
Automatic Gate Openers & Access Control: A Guide for Phoenix Homeowners
You already have a driveway gate — or you're having one built — and now you want to make it automatic. That's where we come in. Arizona's Garage Door Doctor specializes in the automation side of gates: the motors that open and close them, the access control systems that determine who gets in, and the [...]
Best Garage Doors for Arizona’s Extreme Heat
Buying a garage door in Arizona isn't like buying one in Ohio. In most parts of the country, a garage door's job is fairly simple — keep the weather out, look decent, and open when you press the button. Here, your garage door has to survive surface temperatures that can hit 160 degrees on a [...]
Signs Your Garage Door Spring Is About to Break
Most people don't think about their garage door springs until one snaps at 6:45 in the morning while they're trying to leave for work. That's a bad time to learn what a torsion spring does. The good news is that there are often warning signs that something is wrong before a spring fails completely. You [...]
What Affects Garage Door Repair Costs in Phoenix?
If your garage door just stopped working, you probably want to know what this is going to cost. That's a fair question — and one we hear every single day at our Tempe and Gilbert offices. The honest answer is that garage door repair costs vary widely depending on what's actually wrong, and there's no [...]