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Overhead Door Repair Guide

Residential garage with open overhead door

Today’s overhead doors are complex systems built for daily use and long-term reliability. Yet, it's easy to overlook them until something goes wrong. When your door doesn’t open as expected, the issue can often be traced to one of several critical components. In this article, we’ll break down thos...

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At A Better Garage Door, we know that many homeowners don’t think much about their garage door until something goes wrong. But one of the most important components of a functional garage door system is the springs. These heavy-duty mechanisms are responsible for counterbalancing the weight of the do...

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Whether you need a new garage door installation or you're looking for someone to perform necessary maintenance or repair work on your garage door, you must choose a company that knows what it's doing. One of the easiest and surest ways to determine if a garage door company is on the up and up is t...

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Painting a garage door white

A lot of today's garage doors are beautifully finished just as they are. In some cases, however, a homeowner may want to apply their own finish to the door in order to get a specific look. If that's you, you have three types of garage door coatings to choose from: paint, stain and faux stain. Whic...

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Two-car residential garage with misaligned white garage door

Updated on September 16th 2025

Garage doors are modern engineering marvels that make our lives safer and more convenient. But like all pieces of complex equipment, there's always the possibility, no matter how remote, that they're going to malfunction. In this guide, the garage door repair e...

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Snow falling outside gray two-car garage

There are a number of ways in which severe weather conditions can negatively affect your garage door, which is why we always recommend winterizing it before the really cold weather comes. If you have yet to do so, it is still not too late. Simply follow the advice in today’s guide and you should b...

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