Seaford runs from the capes up by the expressway down to the canal streets of the harbor, and we work the whole of it: broken springs, frayed cables, openers that hum and do nothing, doors knocked off the track, and bottom sections the salt has eaten. The technician brings the common parts, and the estimate is free.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free either way.
The same six jobs we do everywhere else on the Island. The parts the doors here need most, cables, bottom seals, springs and rollers, are on the truck before it leaves.
Up by the expressway it's the 1950s. Capes and ranches on small lots, a good number with the original one-car garage, some with a detached garage at the back that's older than the house's second owner. Those doors run a few times a week and that's the trouble: a door that mostly sits seizes up. The rollers stop turning and start dragging, the spring loses its temper over a long winter, and the day it finally breaks the opener can't move a thing.
Down by the water it's the harbor streets. Splits and high ranches with the garage under the house, waterfront colonials, and a number of houses that were raised after Sandy, with the garage now at street level under the living space. Salt air and the odd flood tide get into the bottom of the door first. The bottom rail rusts, the seal splits, the photo eyes corrode at their brackets, and the cables fray where they sit in the wet at the bottom bracket.
Openers are the last thing to fail and the first thing to get blamed. A motor that strains or hums is nearly always telling you the door is heavy. The technician lifts it by hand before anyone talks about a new opener. If it won't come up easily, that's a spring, and the opener will be fine once the door balances again.
The bottom section takes the salt, the rain and the runoff, and on the harbor side it's the part of the door we replace most. If the rust is in the bottom rail and the seal, a new bottom section and a fresh seal put the door right, and it matches the rest of the door closely enough that you stop noticing in a week. If the rust has climbed into the panel skin or the hinge stiles, a new section gets you most of the way to what a new door takes, and you'll get both numbers side by side.
Cables get the same look. A frayed strand at the bottom bracket means the pair comes off and galvanized cables go on, both sides, wound to the same tension, with the drums checked for the grooves that grit wears into them.
Right down to the water, and the towns either side of it on the same truck:
Town pages: Wantagh, Massapequa, Levittown, the rest of Nassau County, Suffolk.
Yes, right down to the water, and Massapequa, Wantagh and Bellmore on the same truck. Give us the cross street and you'll get a real arrival window.
A click with no movement is usually the opener trying and failing to lift a door that's lost its spring. Sometimes it's a stripped gear or a dead capacitor in the opener itself. The technician lifts the door by hand first: heavy means spring, light means opener. Either way it's diagnosed before anything is replaced.
They come off as a pair. The other one is the same age and has taken the same salt. A new cable on one side against a frayed one on the other is how the door ends up crooked in the opening a month later.
A little. The door is often taller than the original, the opener is usually newer, and the salt exposure is the same as before. We've worked on plenty of them. The estimate covers whatever is actually there, not a guess from the phone.
Most days, the same day. A door stuck open, a door down with the car inside, or a door hanging crooked in the track goes to the front of the list.
No. The visit and the estimate are free, and you decide with the number in front of you.
LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie, Craftsman, Wayne Dalton, Clopay, Amarr and the rest, doors and openers both. If the label's gone, the motor housing usually tells us what it is.
Open 24 hours Sunday to Thursday, Friday 7 am to 5 pm, and closed Saturday. Send the form any time and we'll call back when the day starts.
Describe the fault and we'll give you an honest arrival time. The visit and the estimate is free, anywhere in Nassau County.
Easier to explain by phone? Call (929) 429-2429.
Tell us what the door is doing. The estimate is free either way.