Full 25-point door and opener safety check with every visit - springs, cables, rollers, tracks, and your LiftMaster or Chamberlain opener included
You get a price before we start. It does not change when the truck arrives.
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A garage door that won’t open, sits crooked in its tracks, or screams when it moves can shut down your entire day. Since 2002, Marlow Garage Door Repair has fixed those problems for homeowners and businesses across the United States, with a process built around one idea: you should know exactly what the fix costs before anyone touches your door. Most repairs run $150 to $600-see our Garage Door Repair pricing for details-and we can usually get a technician to you the same day you call. Every job gets a written price before the first wrench turns, and every repair carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the fix fails within a year, we return and make it right at no charge. Call (512) 883-4374, or book online in under two minutes. Either way, the number on your invoice will match the number you agreed to. That’s how we’ve done it for more than two decades.
Garage Door Sensor Repair
Garage door sensor repair fixes the photo-eye sensors mounted near the bottom of your door tracks, the small devices that tell the opener to stop and reverse when something crosses the beam. When sensors fail or drift out of alignment, your door may refuse to close, reverse for no reason, or blink an error code at you. Marlow Garage Door Repair diagnoses the sensor, wiring, and opener logic in one visit, then repairs or replaces only what is actually broken. Sensor repair typically runs $120 to $320 depending on whether the fix is alignment, a wiring splice, or a full sensor replacement. You will see the exact price before we start.
When the Beam is Blinking
A blinking light on the sensor itself usually means the two units have lost sight of each other. Dirt, a small bump, or vibration from the door can knock them out of alignment over time. Sometimes the fix takes ten minutes; other times the sensor has failed internally and needs replacing.
Wiring Fails More Than Sensors Do
We often find that the sensor itself is fine and the real problem is a frayed wire where it runs along the track. Staples, pests, and years of vibration wear through insulation. Our techs test continuity before quoting a replacement, so you never pay for a part you don’t need.
Emergency Garage Door Repair
Emergency our Garage Door Repair in Los Angeles is also available for doors that are stuck open, stuck closed with your car trapped inside, or hanging dangerously off their tracks. A broken torsion spring, snapped cable, or bent track can turn a door into a 300-pound hazard, and leaving it unattended risks injury or property damage. Marlow Garage Door Repair answers the phone live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a real person who can dispatch a technician immediately. Emergency repair costs generally fall within our standard $150 to $600 range, with spring repairs at $180 to $340 and cable repairs at $130 to $250. The written quote you get before work begins is the price you pay, even at 2 a.m.
Three Problems We Treat as Emergencies
Snapped cables, broken springs, and doors that have come off their rollers top the list. All three put the full weight of the door into a state it was never engineered to hold. Shut the door if you safely can, disconnect the opener, and keep people and pets away until a tech arrives.
Night Service Without Night Pricing
A 24/7 phone line means little if the person on the other end just takes a message. Ours does not. The same flat-rate price book applies at any hour, and you approve the written number before any tool leaves the truck.
Garage Door Panel Replacement
Garage door panel replacement swaps out one or more damaged sections of your door without replacing the entire unit. If a car bumper, a stray basketball, or a windstorm dents or cracks a panel, the rest of the door often works fine. Replacing just the damaged section keeps the door balanced and weather-sealed for $250 to $500 per panel, a fraction of what a full door costs. Marlow Garage Door Repair matches the new panel to your existing door’s brand, model, and color where possible, and handles everything from sourcing to disposal of the old section. The written price covers the panel, labor, and hardware with nothing added at the end.
When a Panel Is Too Far Gone
Cracks through the steel, panels pulling away from the stiles, or damage near the hinge points usually mean replacement rather than patch work. A stressed panel flexes under load and can eventually pull the door out of alignment. We will tell you honestly if a repair would just buy you a few months.
Color and Brand Matching
Amarr, Clopay, and Wayne Dalton panels each have distinct profiles and paint codes, and we stock or order from those manufacturers directly. Close is not good enough for us. We match the panel to your door, not the other way around.
Garage Door Maintenance
Garage door maintenance is the scheduled inspection and tuning that stops most breakdowns before they happen. A door opens and closes more than a thousand times a year, and each cycle wears on springs, rollers, hinges, and tracks in ways you cannot see from the driveway. Marlow Garage Door Repair recommends an annual maintenance visit for most homes, which includes tightening hardware, lubricating moving parts, testing balance, and inspecting springs and cables for fatigue. Maintenance visits run $110 to $220 for roller care and up to $150 to $600 for full service that catches and corrects bigger issues. The 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every adjustment we make.
What a Tune-Up Actually Includes
We torque every bolt and hinge, check spring tension with the door in multiple positions, clean and lubricate rollers and tracks, test the auto-reverse function, and photograph everything before and after. Those before-and-after photos are part of The Relay Visibility Guarantee, and you receive them by text along with your invoice.
Yearly Checks Save More Than Money
A failing cable or rusted roller caught during a maintenance visit costs a small amount to fix. The same part failing at 7 a.m. on a Monday can trap a car in the garage and turn a $120 repair into an emergency call. One visit a year usually keeps the whole system predictable.
Garage Door Roller Replacement
Garage door roller replacement swaps out the small wheels that carry your door up and down the tracks. Steel rollers with worn bearings make a grinding noise and can bind against the track; nylon rollers wear quietly and quietly get sloppy. Either way, when rollers fail the door strains the opener and chews through hinges. Marlow Garage Door Repair replaces worn rollers before they damage the track, usually for $110 to $220 for a standard set. We inspect all rollers during the visit and only replace the ones showing measurable wear, so you never pay for parts the door doesn’t need.
Steel vs. Nylon Rollers
Steel rollers last for years but run loud as their bearings break down. Nylon rollers run much quieter and are gentler on the track. If noise is your main complaint, switching to nylon is one of the best-value upgrades a garage door tech can make.
Hinges and Rollers Fail Together
Worn rollers put lateral pressure on the hinges they are mounted to. By the time a roller visibly wobbles, the hinge often has play in it too. Our quote covers any hinge replacements we find during the inspection, with the full price in writing before we begin.
Commercial Garage Door Repair
Commercial garage door repair services docks, warehouses, loading bays, and any door that sees heavy daily cycling. Commercial doors run on longer springs, heavier cables, and reinforced tracks, and downtime is usually measured in lost shipments rather than inconvenience. Marlow Garage Door Repair maintains and repairs commercial doors with the same written-price standard and 365-Day Done Right Promise we offer homeowners. Repair pricing for commercial work typically falls in the $150 to $600 range for component-level fixes, with springs at $180 to $340 and full panels at $250 to $500. Larger structural work is quoted on site before any labor begins.
High-Cycle Springs for High-Cycle Doors
A door that opens forty times a day needs different springs than one that opens four. We install high-cycle spring sets rated for the door’s actual usage, which usually doubles or triples the time between spring failures. The upfront cost is modest; the savings comes from fewer emergency calls.
Minimal Downtime for Loading Bays
We schedule commercial work around your loading windows when possible, and our written quote includes a start time and a completion estimate. The Relay Visibility Guarantee applies to commercial clients too: live arrival tracking, before-and-after photos, and a digital invoice you can pay from a link.
Brands We Service
Our technicians train specifically on the eight brands most common in American garages, including Genie, Clopay, Amarr, and Wayne Dalton. For Genie openers, that means we know the screw-drive and belt-drive models, their common sensor failures, and which replacement boards each model needs. We have serviced enough Genie units to walk up to a door and know within minutes whether the problem is the opener, the travel limits, or the door hardware itself.
Clopay, Amarr, and Wayne Dalton doors each use slightly different track profiles, hinge patterns, and panel materials. Our techs arrive knowing which of those you have before they ring the bell, because the truck is stocked with parts for all three. Whether you have one of those brands or any other make, we can help. The truck rolls prepared.
Signs You Need a Pro Right Now
- The door only opens a few inches and stops. Your opener is sensing resistance, and it is almost always a spring, cable, or track problem. Forcing it risks burning out the opener motor, which turns a $200 repair into a $500 one.
- You hear a loud bang from the garage. That is the sound of a torsion spring snapping, and it releases a violent amount of stored energy. Do not stand near the spring line. Call us and leave the door alone until help arrives.
- The door is crooked in its tracks. A level door is a balanced door. A tilt means a cable has slipped, a track is bent, or a spring has lost tension on one side. Every cycle you run it makes the damage worse.
- The door reverses before it touches the ground. Your sensors are misaligned or blocked, and the opener thinks something is in the way. It is a safety feature doing its job, but it also means your garage is not closing or locking.
- One side of the door hangs lower than the other. That usually points to a failing spring or a stretched cable. When the door sits unevenly, the opener works against itself every single cycle, shortening its life fast.
Our Process, Step by Step
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Book online or call. You can schedule online in about two minutes, no phone call required, or call (512) 883-4374 any hour of the day. A real person answers the phone, every time.
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Track your technician live. Once a tech is dispatched, The Relay Visibility Guarantee puts a live arrival time on your phone. You see where the van is, who is driving it, and when they will pull up.
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Get a written price, not an estimate. The tech diagnoses the door, photographs what they find, and gives you a written line-item price. Nothing gets touched until you approve it. That number is final.
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Repair, test, and prove it. We fix the problem, then run the door through full open and close cycles while testing balance, reversal, and noise. Before-and-after photos are sent to your phone before the tech leaves.
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Pay from a link and get your warranty. The invoice arrives by text, and you can pay it from the link. Your 365-Day Done Right Promise starts the moment the job is complete, in writing.
How Much Does Garage Door Repair Cost?
A typical garage door repair runs $150 to $600, with the price determined by which component failed and how long the fix takes; The Complete Garage Door Repair Guide for Los Angeles Homeowners breaks down each repair type in detail. Spring replacement is the most common repair and falls between $180 and $340 depending on whether you need one spring or a pair and whether the door takes torsion or extension springs. Cable repairs run $130 to $250, opener repairs land between $120 and $320, and a full panel replacement costs $250 to $500. New door installation is a different category entirely at $700 to $2,200. We recommend replacing springs in pairs even when only one fails, because both have the same cycle count on them.
What swings the price within those ranges? Door weight and size affect spring cost. Opener age and brand affect part availability. Track damage costs more than track alignment, and a door with existing neglect always costs more than one that has been maintained. The way to avoid overpaying-along with knowing DIY vs Professional Garage Door Repair: What’s Safe to Do Yourself-is to get a written line-item quote before any work begins, which is exactly what we provide on every job. A free estimate tells you the price; our written quote locks it in. No surprises, no “while we’re in there” add-ons unless you approve them first, and no invoice that differs from the number you agreed to.
Where We Work
Marlow Garage Door Repair serves homeowners and businesses across the United States through a network of local crews. Founded in 2002 and part of the Relay Home Co. family, we operate as independently owned, locally run service teams held to one national standard. That standard includes the 365-Day Done Right Promise, written pricing before work starts, and live tracking on every service call. No matter where your garage is, the process is the same: book online, track your tech, approve a written price, and pay from a link when the job is done.
Frequently Asked Questions About Garage Door Repair
Garage door repair is the diagnosis and correction of problems with the door, its tracks, springs, cables, rollers, hinges, or opener. Most jobs involve replacing a worn or broken component and then testing the full door for balance and safety. Marlow Garage Door Repair covers every part of that system, from the torsion spring above the door to the photo-eye sensors at the bottom. Every repair is quoted in writing before work starts and backed by our 365-Day Done Right Promise.
Most repairs take between 30 and 90 minutes once the technician is on site. Spring replacement is typically a 45-minute job; cable repairs and roller replacements run a bit shorter. Panel replacement can take up to two hours because of the alignment and hardware work involved. We tell you the expected completion time in your written quote, and you never wait around guessing.
You will pay between $150 and $600 for most garage door repairs, with spring work at $180 to $340 and cable work at $130 to $250. The exact number depends on your door’s size, brand, and what failed. You approve the full written price before any work begins, so the final invoice always matches the quote. Call (512) 883-4374 and we will walk you through likely pricing based on what you are seeing.
Yes. We are certified to service all three, plus Clopay, Amarr, Wayne Dalton, Craftsman, and Raynor. Our techs stock common parts for each brand on the truck, so most opener repairs are done in a single visit. If a specific board or gear kit is needed, we source the right OEM part and schedule the follow-up for as soon as it arrives. Your written quote includes that timeline before you commit.
Yes, we offer same-day and emergency dispatch across our service areas, and a live person answers the phone 24/7. Broken springs, snapped cables, and doors stuck open get priority routing. Call any hour and you will speak to a human who can put a technician in motion, not a voicemail box.
If a repair we made is not right within 365 days, we come back and make it right at no charge. The guarantee is written, not implied, and applies to every component we touch. It covers both parts and labor for the full year. No hoops, no fine print, no prorating.
Clear the area around the door inside and out so the tech can work safely, and keep cars parked well clear of the track line. If you have pets, having them behind a closed door helps the visit go faster. Beyond that, just be ready to approve the written price on the tech’s tablet when they finish the diagnosis. Everything else is our job.
Schedule Your Garage Door Repair Service Today
You do not need a four-hour wait window or an invoice that changes at the door. Book online in minutes, track your technician live, and approve a written price before any work starts. Call (512) 883-4374 for a free, no-obligation estimate any time, day or night. Jaylen Ross and the Marlow Garage Door Repair team have delivered that standard since 2002, on every job, in every state we serve.
Written by Jaylen Ross, Owner at Marlow Garage Door Repair, serving homeowners and businesses across the United States since 2002.