Commercial garage doors built to keep your business moving

A door that cycles all day needs heavier parts

A home garage door might open a handful of times a day. A service bay or shipping door can open dozens of times before lunch. Standard springs are built for household use, and on a busy commercial door they wear out fast.

High-cycle springs are made with heavier wire and longer bodies so each spring works less on every cycle and lasts through far more trips up and down. They cost more at the start, but they mean fewer broken springs, fewer service calls and less time with a bay shut down.

The same goes for rollers, hinges, cables and drums. On a high-use door we look at the whole hardware package, not just the spring that happened to break.

Commercial operators sized for the work

Commercial operators come in several styles. Trolley operators hang from the ceiling like a larger version of a home opener. Jackshaft operators mount on the wall and drive the door shaft directly, which keeps the ceiling clear. Hoist operators add a manual chain for moving the door when needed.

What matters most is duty. An operator that runs a few times a day and one that runs all shift long are different machines. We match the operator to the door's size, weight and how often it cycles.

Controls round it out: three-button stations with open, close and stop, photo eyes or a sensing edge along the bottom of the door, and options like timer-to-close for doors that tend to get left open.

Sectional doors for every kind of building

Commercial sectional doors come insulated or non-insulated, with or without windows, in sizes well beyond anything on a house. For a heated shop in a Northern Michigan winter, an insulated door with good seals keeps the heat you're paying for inside the building.

Track layout matters as much as the door. High-lift and vertical-lift track raise the door higher along the wall, which keeps it clear of vehicle lifts, cranes and overhead lighting in service bays and warehouses. We plan the track around what happens inside the building.

We install doors from Haas Door, Safe-Way Door, Richards-Wilcox and Asta America, among others, with LiftMaster and Linear operators, and we quote every job free.

A stuck door costs more than the repair

When a loading door jams or a bay door won't close, work stops, heat pours out and the building sits unsecured. Commercial repairs are about getting you running again with as little lost time as possible.

Every truck rolls out stocked, and most repairs are finished on the first visit. We handle broken springs, frayed cables, bent track, damaged sections from a forklift or truck, failing operators and torn seals. Call the office Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm, and tell us what the door is doing.

If a door is hanging crooked, a cable has come off its drum or a spring has broken, stop using it and keep people clear. Those parts are under heavy tension, and a commercial door weighs far more than anything on a house. Leave the fix to a crew with the tools for it.

Planned service keeps doors off your repair list

Commercial doors fail the way home doors do, only faster, because they work harder. Regular service catches worn springs, loose hardware, stretched cables and tired rollers before they strand a truck at the dock.

Many facilities keep their doors on a regular maintenance schedule. Call the office and we'll talk through what makes sense for the number of doors you have and how hard they work.

A service visit covers the same ground on every door: springs and cables, rollers and hinges, track and fasteners, operator settings, safety devices and seals. You get a plain account of what's worn and what can wait.

Township garages and public buildings

Municipal buildings often have a little of everything: large sectional doors on equipment bays, rolling steel doors, counter shutters at service windows and rolling fire doors that need yearly inspection and testing. Handling all of it with one crew keeps things simple for whoever manages the building.

Because Tony and Jake are both fire door and rolling steel certified, we can service the overhead doors and look after the fire door inspection records on the same account.