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Most calls we get are for a broken torsion spring, a door that's come off its track, or an opener that's quit talking to the wall switch. We also handle panel replacement when a door's been backed into, roller and cable swaps, and full door changeouts when a repair isn't worth the parts cost anymore.

A lot of what we see traces back to the age of the housing stock in this area. Homes here were mostly built between 1976 and 2013, with the median landing around 1991, so a good share of the doors and openers we work on are originals or first replacements from that era - chain-drive openers that have outlived their circuit boards, and torsion springs rated for a winter load they've now carried for decades.

We're in a cold-climate zone with real winter severity, which matters more for garage doors than people expect. Cold makes springs brittle, shrinks seals, and thickens old grease on rollers and track until an opener strains to pull a door it used to lift fine. If your door sticks or groans more in January than July, that's not your imagination - that's the band we're in.

What we don't do: we're not going to sell you a new door when a spring swap and a tune-up will get you another several years. If a repair is the honest answer, that's what we tell you.

We work in and around Missoula, including Westside, Northside, the University District, Lower Rattlesnake, Upper Rattlesnake, Farviews/Pattee Canyon, Moose Can Gully, Grant Creek, Miller Creek, Franklin to the Fort, Western Montana, and Heart of Missoula - all within a few miles of downtown.

Farther out, we cover Orchard Homes (about 3 miles), East Missoula (about 4 miles), Bonner-West Riverside (about 6 miles), Wye (about 7 miles), and Lolo (about 8 miles). We also go out to Frenchtown (about 15 miles), Clinton (about 16 miles), Florence (about 17 miles), and Bonner (about 6 miles).

Across this service area there are roughly 7,500 households, with about 3,810 of those owner-occupied houses - the single-family stock most garage door work actually happens on. If you're not sure whether your street falls inside our range, call and ask; it's faster than guessing from a map.

We're a garage door repair company based at 101 E Front St in Missoula. No sales pitch about decades in business or a wall of certifications here - just the work, done on the doors and openers that are actually common in this area given when most of the housing went up.

The median household income across our service area is $81,591, which tells us something: most of the calls we get aren't people looking for the cheapest possible patch job, they're people who want it fixed right the first time and are willing to pay for a correct spring size or a properly adjusted opener rather than a shortcut that fails again in a year.

We'll tell you straight if a job is a quick fix, a bigger repair, or a replacement. We'll also tell you if we don't think it's worth doing - an old door on a detached garage that barely gets used doesn't always need the same fix as the main door you run twice a day.