About us
Our approach to the work
Hartland Garage Door Service installs, repairs, and maintains garage doors for the houses, farms, lakeside buildings, and businesses of Lake Country. This page sets out the standards we work to.
Craft, in a trade that is often hurried
A garage door is not a complicated machine, and that is precisely why it is so often fitted and repaired carelessly. A door hung a quarter of an inch out of level will work. So will a spring copied from the one it replaces, a track fastened through drywall, or an operator set to maximum force to overcome a door that binds. Each will work for a time, and each stores up trouble.
We take the view that the difference between adequate work and good work lies in those details, and that the owner is entitled to the latter. The bottom section is set level, since everything above depends on it. Springs are calculated from the weight of the door. Track is braced on rigid angle. The top section is reinforced where the operator bears on it. Seals are adjusted to touch the door without dragging. None of this shows from the street. All of it shows in ten years' time.
We also hold that an owner should understand what is being done and why. We explain what we find, show the worn or broken part, and state the cost before the work is begun. Where there is more than one sensible course, we describe each.
Standards
What you may expect of us
An inspection before an estimate
We do not price work on doors we have not examined.
A stated price before work begins
You will know the cost and agree to it first.
Parts matched to the door
Chosen by measurement and calculation, not by resemblance to what was there.
Repair where repair will serve
We do not recommend a new door where the existing one has good years left.
Safety systems tested on every visit
Balance, photoelectric sensors, and contact reversal, whatever the reason for the call.
A clean site
Old parts, packaging, and debris are removed when we leave.
The district
Why the locality matters
Lake Country sets particular problems. Its houses span a century and a half of building, and a door must suit the one it is hung on. Its winters are severe, with frost that moves concrete, ice that bonds seals to floors, and salt that attacks the lower hardware. Its lakes mean boat houses in permanent damp. Its farms mean large doors on exposed sites. A firm that works here regularly comes to know these conditions and to specify for them.
About this website
A note on what is shown here
The photographs throughout this site are licensed stock images, chosen to illustrate the doors and the work described. The before-and-after comparisons are marked as illustrative. We have not published testimonials, awards, or figures that we cannot substantiate. If there is anything you would like to know about us before engaging us, please ask.
Estimates in Hartland and Lake Country
A question before you engage us? Please ask
Describe the door, the building, and what you would like done. We will reply with any questions and arrange a time to measure or inspect.
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