Booking a Visit
Because the job starts from Cornelius, we schedule the Lake Norman of Catawba run as a dedicated trip rather than working you into a route that was built around closer stops. Tell us the door's rough opening and whether it's a single or double bay when you call - with a household income median of $106,836 in this area, a fair number of these garages are doubles, and we bring stock accordingly. We'll confirm the door style and spring size before we load the truck, so the first visit is the install, not a measuring trip.
Time on the Job
A straight installation on an opening that already has working track and header framing - which describes most of the roughly 3,871 households out here - usually runs a single visit. We pull the old door, check the track and jamb for square, and set the new door and spring to match. If the framing has shifted or the header needs reinforcing, which shows up more on builds pushing toward the earlier end of the 1999 median, that adds time. We'll tell you on site before we start, not after.
Can You Do This Yourself
A garage door is heavy and spring-loaded, and a torsion spring sized for a 1990s-era double door can hurt you badly if it lets go while you're working on it. We're not going to tell you it's impossible - some homeowners do swap panels or weatherstripping themselves - but setting a new door and spring on an opening you haven't worked on before, with hardware from a build year you don't know, is where people get hurt or buy the wrong parts twice. If you want to prep anything before we arrive, clear the garage and have the opener's model number ready. Leave the spring and track to the visit.
