Garage Door Opener Repair & Installation in Denver, CO

We have done 105 opener jobs in Denver since 2020. Most ended with a new opener, often installed together with a new door. The rest were repairs, resets and reprogramming. If you are weighing the two, start with repair or replace.

Opener calls in Denver peak in August and October. We also install wall-mount openers for garages with no room on the ceiling, and commercial operators for Denver businesses.

Most opener calls start with one of these. Each links to what it usually means and what you can check before you call:

• The opener clicks but the door does not open.
• The motor runs but the door does not move.
• The opener is dead, with no lights and no sound.
• It hums or buzzes, or a LiftMaster light is blinking a code.
• The door reverses before it closes, usually the safety sensors.
• The remote or keypad stopped working.

An opener can only lift a door that is balanced, so our licensed and insured technicians check the door and springs first. In our records 48 of 186 opener repairs also involved springs, and 39 involved cables, rollers or track. Then we test the opener itself: safety sensors, gears and sprockets, the trolley, the chain or belt, the logic board, and the travel limits and force settings. See what we check on an opener repair visit.

Safety sensors are the most common opener repair we do: 47 of 186 opener repair jobs involved the photo-eyes. A typical repair visit is about 39 minutes on site, and 88 of 186 opener repairs were finished the same day. You approve one flat price before any work starts, and the work comes with our warranty. More on the most common garage door opener repairs.

An opener straining against a bent or dented door will keep failing, so we look at the door too. A bent garage door track can often be straightened or replaced on its own. A dented or creased panel can sometimes be replaced one section at a time; small dents and holes in a metal door are covered in how to fix a dented garage door panel.

Whether homeowners insurance covers a damaged garage door depends on your policy and what caused the damage. If hail did it, see replacing a garage door after hail.

A sensor, a gear or a set of limits is usually worth fixing. A new opener makes more sense when yours is older than about 15 years, fails more than once a year, has no safety sensors, or is loud under a bedroom. We will tell you which is the better value before you decide. See repair or replace a garage door opener.

Most of our Denver opener jobs ended with a new opener. We remove the old unit, mount the new one, align the photo-eyes, set the limits and force, and program every remote and keypad before we leave. Choices that matter:

• Belt or chain drive: a belt drive is quieter, a chain drive is the workhorse. Choose a quiet opener for a room above the garage.
• Wall-mount openers for garages with no room on the ceiling, and LiftMaster openers with app control.
• Battery backup so the door still opens in a power outage.
• A new door at the same time? See replacing the opener with a new garage door and new garage door installation in Denver.

We work across Denver, from Highlands and Berkeley to Capitol Hill, Cherry Creek and Central Park, out of our shop next door in Lakewood. We also cover Wheat Ridge, Golden, Littleton, Westminster and the rest of the metro. For door repairs, see garage door repair in Denver.