About OnPoint Pro Doors Pueblo

The wind here carries fine grit, and grit sticks to grease. Over time it turns the lubricant on drums, pulleys and rollers into a grinding paste that cuts grooves into the drums and eats through cable.

That is why a tune-up here starts by cleaning the old grease off before any new goes on. Skipping that step just feeds the paste. The cable and roller page shows what the wear looks like once it has gone too far.

Summer sun turns a west-facing garage into an oven. Grease thins, then dries out, bearings run bare, weatherstrip hardens and cracks, and dark doors fade unevenly.

An insulated door keeps the heat down and stiffens the door against the wind, and a fresh bottom seal keeps the grit out. The installation page covers the choices when a door is replaced.

A spring worn thin over the summer often breaks on the first hard freeze. Cold makes steel less forgiving, and a coil that's close to worn out chooses that morning to snap.

If the door won't lift and there's a gap in the coil above it, leave it closed and call. The broken spring page explains why both springs on a two-spring door are replaced together.

The older blocks near downtown and the steel mill have detached garages with single doors, many still hung with extension springs over the tracks. The brick and stucco ranches that fill much of the city have attached two-car doors on torsion springs.

Out west, big lots mean shops and RV garages with tall, heavy doors and long cables. Each type wears out differently, and parts for all three ride on the truck.

Plenty of garages near downtown still run openers old enough to predate the safety sensors every newer unit has. They may work, but they won't stop for a child, a pet or a bumper. When one of those gives out, the replacement is matched to the door's weight and comes with sensors, and the old unit leaves with us.

Newer openers fail too, mostly because a door out of balance makes the motor do the lifting. That's why the door gets balanced before any opener work is called finished.

When you call, you'll be asked about the symptoms and the garage type, and a window gets booked. The technician calls on the way, then checks the opener, track, hinges, rollers, springs, and the cables with their drums or pulleys.

The free estimate comes on paper, one repair at a time, and the choice is yours. Before leaving, the technician balances the door by hand, sets the opener, and tests the safety reverse against an object on the floor.

Torsion and extension springs, safety cables, pulleys, drums and cables in lengths for tall doors, sealed rollers and hinges, sun-proof weatherstrip, and bottom seals. For openers: gears, circuit boards, sensors, remotes and wall buttons.

Shop doors and RV bays are treated like any house door, only with bigger springs and longer cables. In town, businesses rely on sectional and roll-up doors all day, and when a commercial door won't close after hours, that's an emergency call.

We see the door before naming a repair. We replace springs in pairs. We don't touch anything that isn't on the approved estimate. We add safety cables to any extension spring that lacks them. And a new door never gets recommended when the old one can be put right.

Call (719) 662-8141 or send the form. If it's a shop or RV door, say how tall it is, so the right springs and cables come along.