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Most garage door repairs can be made same day, if not within an hour or two. We want to get you moving again.
TipTop's Tip-Top Residential Garage Door Service.
Garage doors add style, functionality, and all-important security to your home. But underneath all the positives lies the danger. Without regular inspection, maintenance, and timely repairs, the plethora of moving components can be perilous.
With that in mind, it's essential to have a trusted garage door repair company to rely on.
Our team has over 50 years of experience fixing and installing garage doors of all kinds. We keep you firmly in the forefront of our minds, ensuring we ooze excellent craftsmanship, honesty, and transparency to give you the service you deserve.
Broken Springs
Top-Quality Garage Door Springs
Your garage door spring is one of the most integral parts of your door. Without a maintained spring, you risk getting trapped inside (or outside) your garage — and you can guarantee it'll occur at a highly inopportune time!
Our passionate garage door spring repair crew is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to provide affordable emergency replacements, repairs, or regular maintenance to your garage door springs.
Your search for an honest, hard-working garage door spring replacement company that always puts you first is over.
Keep Your Garage Door Safe with Same-Day Spring Repair
Your garage door spring won't time its break to fall within standard business hours. But when you choose TipTop, that isn't a problem. We're available 24/7 and never charge you for night or weekend callouts. After all, when we said we put you first, we meant it.
Once we receive your emergency repair call, we'll send one of our certified, reputable technicians round to your home or business to diagnose the issue. They'll produce a free price estimate after talking through your options, ensuring you're comfortable with the solution.
Then, they'll fix it on the spot! We carry everything we need for standard repairs in our truck so that you can get your life back on track as soon as possible.
People often believe it's the garage door opener that does all the heavy lifting. But while that's the most logical point of view, it's actually the garage door springs that do the hard toil.
Garage door springs can wear down much quicker than anticipated without regular maintenance, causing potentially dangerous situations. Thankfully, you've found us, your friendly neighborhood spring repairs and replacement team.
With over 50 years of combined industry experience, our crew has seen and solved all kinds of garage door spring problems. Take a look at our A-star services below or call us on 760-828-7831 for near-immediate spring repair!
Broken Tracks, Rollers, and Cables
Garage doors are able to be lifted because of two systems. The counterbalance system supports the door when vertical, and the tracking system supports the door when in the open or horizontal position. The cables attach the bottom of the door to the torsion tube which provides the lifting force making the door ideally weightless so you or a garage door opener can easily lift the door. While opening the weight of the door transfers onto the rollers when transitioning into the horizontal tracks. Rollers have either bearings or more commonly newer doors have rollers that have simple nylon bushings. These although slightly less functional, have almost no moving parts to wear out. But they are widely in use as they are significantly less expensive than true bearing rollers, and if neglected can last for years. Bearing rollers work tremendously better, but absolutely require lubrication annually or the bearings will seize.
Cables are normally 1/8’ thick and are typically what are referred to as 7x7 wound cables. This means that there 7 strands of wire per bundle, with 7 bundles wound into a wire rope. These are incredibly strong, and resilient, but need to be inspected for wear to catch them when they start to fray.
Garage Door Parts
Modern sectional garage doors consist of panels, tracks, and many parts such as hinges, bottom fixtures, top fixtures, flag brackets, jamb brackets, cables, drums, end bearing plates, center brackets, torsion tubes, loose bearings, and springs. All of these need to be inspected regularly, and lubrication annually to help prevent wear, reduce noise, and keep the garage door running smoothly, and safely.
At Tiptop Garage Door Service we carry at least one set of every replacement part on our service trucks at all times with the exception of garage door panels to save you time and save fuel from a return visit, but in the event that we are missing a part that we normally stock the customer doesn’t pay a return visit fee.
Panel Replacement
Sometimes garage doors malfunction causing the panels to become damaged, and sometimes WE malfunction causing panel damage ourselves. In either case, we can usually source new garage door panels as most manufacturers are still available. Doors can also sometimes be dented by others, especially in close parking situations such as townhomes, or condos. Or by delivery persons, or service workers. If a door becomes dented or creased, this can and will spread through all the sections if not remediated.
Most garage doors are manufactured with a roll form process that ensures they are strong enough to support their own weight even though the dynamic load when shifting into the open position, but not much extra. When a door becomes dented, or creased, the act of opening into the horizontal position very slightly flexes the door section and flexes back when closing. This back-and-forth motion further weakens the section causing it to spread right up, or down through the entire door. Envision bending a soup can lid back and forth until it snaps off. If cosmetic repairs aren’t a large consideration the panels can most of the time, be reinforced to prevent the dents from spreading if caught early. And really stops the damage in its tracks. But it must be done early. Of course as mentioned this does not correct the cosmetic damage, in which case the offending panel or panels would need to be replaced. Reinforcement costs a fraction of the cost of replacement panels. We at Tiptop are simply here to tell you about your options and perform the services you desire. Just know that whatever advice we give is strictly honest. We are not here to fix your garage door once and scoot, we are here to be your door, and gate service provider for life.
Safety Sensor Alignment
Back in 1994, in response to the safety concerns related to crushing deaths from garage doors, many states, and the Federal Government passed legislation, including UL325- requiring a noncontact safety device to be inherently installed on any garage door opener installed in the US, and more specifically, in California- Health and Safety Code Chapter 12.5. Prior to this, crushing deaths- while rare, were occurring with gruesome regularity. Since the passing of this requirement, there have been zero crushing deaths when equipped and installed properly. By all standards, one could say, the laws were a complete success!
However, since then safety sensors have become the bane of the garage door industry. They consistently get knocked out of alignment, become obstructed, get dirty, and just go bad. Of course, this always happens when you have absolutely no time to mess around with it. So we are doomed to leave our homes open and accessible all day right? Not so.
You see, when a wired wall control is equipped, these are designed to be able to override the sensors when malfunctioning. Simply hold the wall control firmly down until completely closed. Then when you return home the door should open normally as these sensors only prevent the door from closing as that is when they are the most dangerous. To align the sensors simply make sure that the lenses are pointing directly at each other. Make sure they are clean, and look for broken wires ( don’t worry, they are low voltage), and damage. If you just don’t have time to mess with it, give us a call. We are here for you, day or night- without the added fees!
