About OnPoint Pro Doors Wichita

A wide garage door is a big flat panel, and on the plains the wind leans on it often. Over the years that flexing loosens hinges and track bolts, cracks the top section where the opener arm attaches, and pulls the door out of square.

Struts across the sections and a properly braced opener arm keep a door stiff. When we see a door that bows in a gust, bracing it goes on the estimate, because the alternative is a cracked section or a door off its track later on.

Hail dents steel sections, and a hard strike near a hinge can kink a section so it binds in the track. Once one side drags, one cable ends up doing most of the lifting, and it frays. That is how a storm in spring turns into a snapped cable months later.

A dented door that still runs true is a cosmetic matter. One that binds, or sits lower on one side when closed, is worth a call now; the cable and roller page explains the fix.

Mid-century houses on the east side often still have a single door on extension springs, sometimes with no safety cable threaded through the spring to catch it if it snaps. Newer homes out west have wide two- and three-car doors on torsion springs and drums.

Parts for both ride on the truck. When the ceiling allows, an extension-spring door can be converted to a torsion spring for a smoother, safer lift. The spring repair page covers both systems.

Freezing rain glues the bottom seal to the slab. The opener pulls anyway, and either the seal tears or a cable jumps its drum. If the door won't lift on an icy morning, stop pressing the button and call; forcing it is how a simple thaw becomes an off-track repair.

You tell us what the door is doing and get a window. The technician calls ahead, then looks over the springs, cables, drums, rollers, hinges, struts, track and opener before touching anything.

You get a free estimate on paper, repair by repair, and you pick what gets done. Before the truck leaves, the door is checked three ways: it stays put when stopped partway by hand, it runs quietly under the opener, and it backs off when it touches something left in its path.

Dry, windy days blow dust into every garage. It collects in the grease on rollers, hinges and shaft bearings and turns it into grit, and before long the door grinds on its way up.

Sealed nylon rollers keep most of it out. A tune-up that cleans off the old grease and relubricates the moving parts quiets a noisy door and takes load off the opener, and it is often the whole fix when someone calls about noise.

Extension and torsion springs, safety cables, pulleys, lift cables, drums, struts, hinges, sealed rollers that shrug off dust, and bottom seals. Opener gears, boards, sensors and remotes for the brands most garages here run are on board as well.

Shops, warehouses and farm buildings around the county run tall sectional and roll-up doors that take the same wind and hail, on a bigger scale. They're inspected and estimated the same way a house door is, and a door that fails overnight falls under emergency repair.

No extension spring leaves without a safety cable. No door runs with one new spring and one old. No work starts before the estimate is approved, and no new door gets suggested when bracing and fresh parts will keep the old one going.

Call (316) 749-2780 or use the form. If the springs run along the tracks rather than across the top, mention it, so the right parts come along.