Garage Door Repair in Covington, WA

Covington homes are at garage-door age

The typical Covington home was built around 1994, which makes the median house here about 32 years old.

A garage door, torsion spring, and opener installed when these homes went up are now decades into daily use, and that is the age where those parts wear out and fail.

Most of Covington's occupied homes are owner-occupied, about 79 percent, so the homeowner is usually the one who has to deal with a door that stops working, not a landlord.

What we fix

• Garage Door Repair for doors that stick, sag, or come off track.
• Garage Door Spring Repair, the part on a 1990s-era door most likely to break first.
• Garage Door Opener Repair for openers that have run for decades and quit.
• Renton Garage Door Co is licensed for garage door repair services in WA and the areas we serve, including Covington.

Older doors and safety

Garage door counterbalance springs are under high tension and are dangerous; a breaking spring can cause injury, so spring systems should be repaired only by trained professionals and not as a DIY job.

A door that is working right stays in place when stopped in any partly open position; a severely unbalanced door can crash to the floor, so a door that binds or will not stay balanced should be serviced by a professional.

Since 1993, federal law has required automatic openers to have an external entrapment-protection device, such as an electric eye mounted 4 to 6 inches above the floor, so the door reverses instead of closing on someone or something.

Serving Covington and nearby

Covington is home to about 20,957 people across roughly 7,499 housing units, so there are a lot of aging doors in one town.

With a median home value near $590,100 and a median household income around $126,730, Covington homeowners tend to keep their houses up rather than let a broken door sit.

We are based in Renton, WA and also serve Kent, Tukwila, Newcastle, Maple Valley, and Bellevue.

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