Garage door repair in Morris County, NJ

Detached two and three bay garages sit at the end of long driveways, carriage houses stand behind the older houses of Morristown, Madison and Chatham, and the larger properties carry outbuildings with doors of their own. The practical fact of a Morris driveway is that a door that will not open strands the car at the bottom of it. We come to you and book by appointment at any hour.

Morris County runs from the rail towns of the east, Madison, Chatham, Morristown and Morris Plains, out through Parsippany, Randolph and Denville, and up into the larger wooded properties of Mendham, Chester, Kinnelon and Mount Olive. The eastern towns hold nineteenth-century houses with carriage houses and detached garages behind them, doors hung on framing that has had a century to move. The middle of the county is post-war suburbia with attached two car garages, and the western and northern reaches are estates and colonials where the garage is often a separate building, sometimes more than one. Winters here run colder than the counties to the east, and a torsion spring that was already tired tends to choose the first hard cold snap of the year to break. On a long driveway that is not an inconvenience, it is the household stuck at the bottom of it.

Detached garages and long driveways

A detached garage down a long driveway changes the job: the door matters to the whole household because the cars live there, and the building itself may be older than the door on it. Outbuildings, carriage houses and third bay additions often carry odd-sized openings and hardware hung on framing that has settled. The work starts with the framing, then the door.

Cold mornings break tired springs

Morris County mornings run colder than the counties east of it, and steel that is already fatigued breaks on the first deep cold snap more often than on any mild afternoon. A spring that snaps in January rarely fails without warning: it has been losing cycles for months. That is why a broken spring visit ends with the condition of the second spring on the table.

Local notes

• Morris County has 39 municipalities, from Morristown and Madison to Mount Olive and Kinnelon, spread over some of the most wooded residential land in northern New Jersey.
• Morristown National Historical Park, established in 1933, was the first national historical park in the United States, and the Georgian and Victorian housing around the Morristown Green dates from the same era of building.
• Morris County sits largely within the New Jersey Highlands, so detached garages and outbuildings sit farther from the house here than anywhere else in our area, at the end of longer driveways.
• Lake Hopatcong, the largest lake in New Jersey, lies partly in Morris County at Mount Arlington and Roxbury, where lake properties keep boats and gear in separate outbuildings with doors of their own.