Garage doors · Tuscaloosa, AL
Garage door repair in Tuscaloosa, answered day and night
Spring snapped with a bang? Door stuck halfway down? We replace springs and cables, get openers moving again and hang new doors across Tuscaloosa, Northport and the towns around them.
- Phones answered 24/7
- Tuscaloosa, Northport and West Alabama
- Springs, openers, new doors, commercial
Most stuck garage doors in Tuscaloosa trace back to a torsion spring that has run through its rated 10,000 or so cycles, a lift cable off its drum, or an opener that has lost its gear or its sensors. Each of those is a repair, not a new door. Call any hour and describe what the door is doing, and we will tell you what it most likely needs.
Garage services
Every garage door job, from a snapped spring to a new double door
Thirty-one services in five groups. Find the one that matches what your door is doing, or call and describe it.
Repairs & Emergencies
5 servicesDoors that will not open or close, came off the track, took a hit from a car or got pushed in by a storm.
Springs, Cables & Hardware
7 servicesThe springs, cables and rollers that carry the weight of the door and wear out on a schedule.
Openers & Access
6 servicesBelt, chain and wall-mount openers, the photo eye sensors, and the remotes and keypads that run them.
New Garage Doors
8 servicesReplacement doors in steel, wood, glass and carriage styles, plus insulated and wind-rated packages.
Commercial Doors
5 servicesSectional and rolling steel doors, the operators that drive them and the dock equipment beside them.
We service and install openers and doors from LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie, Clopay, Amarr and the other brands most Tuscaloosa garages already have.
- LiftMaster
- Chamberlain
- Genie
- Craftsman
- Clopay
- Amarr
- Wayne Dalton
- C.H.I. Overhead Doors
- Raynor
- Haas Door
- Hormann
- Martin Door
- Linear
- Marantec
Tuscaloosa garages
What West Alabama weather and housing do to a garage door
Tuscaloosa runs hot and wet, and a garage door feels both. The city averages 71 to 72 days a year at 90 degrees or above and about 53 inches of rain, so opener motors work hard all summer while bottom seals dry out and brackets rust. Add housing stock where 42 percent of homes were built before 1980, and plenty of doors are still riding on original springs and rollers. Storm season matters too: the April 2011 tornado crossed Alberta, Forest Lake and Holt, and spring storms still bend tracks and buckle panels.
New doors
Replacing the whole door? Start with the style
When the panels are rusted through, the door is out of square or the repairs keep stacking up, a new door is the cheaper fix over time. These are the styles we install most.
How it works
What happens after you call
You call, any hour
Tell us what the door is doing and where you are. We book a time and tell you what to leave alone until we get there.
We check the whole door
Spring balance, cables, drums, rollers, track and opener all get looked at, because one broken part usually has a reason.
You hear the price first
You get the price for the repair before any work starts, along with what can wait and what cannot.
Repair, test, clean up
We make the repair, test the balance and the auto-reverse, and take the old parts with us.
Where we work
Tuscaloosa, Northport and the counties around them
The Yellow Hammer service office sits in Berry, north of Northport in Fayette County, and the work runs from there down to Tuscaloosa and out across West Alabama.
Tuscaloosa and Northport
Most calls come from neighborhoods like Indian Hills, Taylorville, Forest Lake and NorthRiver, and from across the river in Northport.
East toward Birmingham
Along I-20/59 we cover Cottondale, Brookwood and Vance, and further out McCalla, Bessemer and Hueytown.
North, west and south
From the Berry office we reach Fayette County and Jasper, west into Pickens County, and south to Moundville and Hale County.
How we work
What you can expect from the visit
Price before work
The repair is priced at the door, before a wrench turns. If it is not worth fixing, you will hear that too.
Springs sized to the door
Torsion springs are matched to the weight and height of your door, not swapped for whatever is close.
Safety test every time
Every visit ends with an auto-reverse test and a check of the photo eye sensors at the bottom of the track.
Repair or replace, straight
If panels are rusted through or the door is out of square, we say so instead of selling you a string of repairs.
From the blog
Read this before you call, or while you wait
Broken Garage Door Spring: What to Do First
What a broken spring looks like, why the door will not lift, and what not to try.
Read the articleHow to Open Your Garage Door in a Power Outage
How the release cord works, when it is safe to use it, and how battery backup openers help.
Read the articleWhat Garage Door Repairs Cost in Tuscaloosa, AL
Sourced price ranges for springs, cables, openers and new doors, and what moves them.
Read the articleCommon questions
Questions Tuscaloosa homeowners ask first
Call and we will give you a time window on the phone, based on where the day's jobs are and where you are. The line is answered 24 hours a day. If the door is stuck open at night, tell us, because an open garage overnight is treated as urgent.
HomeGuide puts replacing both torsion springs at $150 to $350 and both extension springs at $120 to $200 nationally. Those are planning ranges, not quotes. We price your door after checking the springs, cables and drums.
On a two-spring door, usually yes. Both springs went up on the same day and have run the same number of cycles, so the second one tends to break soon after the first.
Better not. The spring is what carries the weight, so without it the opener and anyone lifting the door are fighting the full weight of the door. Leave it closed and call.
Yes. We repair and replace openers from LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie, Craftsman and the other brands common in Tuscaloosa garages, whoever put them in.
Yes. We cover Northport, Cottondale, Brookwood, Vance and Coaling, and further out to Fayette, Jasper, Bessemer and the counties around Tuscaloosa. The service area page has the full picture.
Both. We install steel, insulated, carriage house, wood, glass and wind-rated doors, and the openers that go with them, as well as commercial sectional and rolling steel doors.
Garage door stuck right now?
Call any hour. Tell us what the door is doing and where you are, and we will take it from there.
Reach us any hour
Based out of our Berry service office, we cover Tuscaloosa, Northport and the counties around them. Call any hour and tell us the address; we will say plainly whether it falls inside our area.
- Phone
- (205) 679-9076
- Hours
- Answered 24 hours a day, every day
- Coverage
- Tuscaloosa, Northport and West Alabama (see the full area)
- Head office
- 2929 Old Norcross Rd, Tucker, GA 30084
- Service office
- 18591 Highway 15 East, Berry, AL 35546