Our home city. The shop is here in San Mateo, so this is the shortest drive we make.
The median San Mateo house dates to 1965. A door fitted with a house that age has either been replaced once already or is running on springs that used up their rating a long time ago. Springs are rated in cycles, not years. A 10,000 cycle spring on a door that opens four times a day is finished in about seven. Hold that against a 1965 house and you get five or six spring lifetimes.
Springs first, by a wide margin, and it isn't close. Cables second. They fray quietly for months before they part, which is why the ones caught during another job are the cheap ones. Third is openers from the 1990s and early 2000s that have chewed through their drive gears. The original openings around San Mateo Park and Baywood are wider than the post-war tracts further south, and a wider door takes a different spring than a standard single.
Springs are the job we price most often in San Mateo, and a single torsion spring is $200 to $330 installed. On a house from the 1960s the second spring is the same age as the first, so we quote the pair as well as the one and let you pick.
Garage door repair costs in San Mateo has the numbers for every job we price.
Every job below goes out to San Mateo: spring, cable and roller repair, opener repair and replacement, and new door installation when a repair has stopped paying for itself.
Not sure which one you have? Start from what the door is doing, or call (650) 376-6070 and describe it. Most problems are recognizable from the description, so we can usually tell you the likely range and whether it is today or tomorrow before we set off.
This is the shortest drive we make. Our shop is right here in San Mateo, and if you call before early afternoon it's usually a couple of hours.
Yes. The original openings around there are wider than the standard tract door, which rules out the off-the-shelf kit. We measure before quoting rather than after, so nothing arrives on the day that doesn't fit the opening.
Call before early afternoon and we can usually get out the same day.
Call (650) 376-6070