QUAYLE & FENNER DOOR WORKS · MARBURY CORNERS & SELWYN PARK · SHOWROOM ON CORIANDER STREET
A garage door is one per cent of a house and thirty per cent of its face.
Quayle & Fenner have specified, hung and maintained garage doors on the Corners’ older streets since 1987 — insulated steel from R-12 to R-18, belt-drive openers quiet enough for the nursery above, battery backup fitted standard, and every spring matched to the door it actually carries, weighed on the day.
Showroom open Tuesday–Saturday · 2,600 doors hung since 1987 · (555) 046-2210 · sales@quaylefenner.example
The catalogue
Four ways a door leaves our shop
Everything below is installed price — measure, haul-away, hardware and the balance-test sign-off included. The showroom on Coriander Street holds working samples of all four lines; bring a photo of your opening and we will tell you in ten minutes which of them your house is asking for.
Insulated lines, R-12 to R-18
A polyurethane core injected between two steel skins: R-12 for the detached garage, R-16 where a bedroom sits over the bay, R-18 for the workshops we wire and heat. R-value measures how hard heat finds it to cross the door — doubling it halves what escapes.
Drives: belt for quiet, chain for weight
A steel-reinforced belt drive runs at conversation level — under sixty decibels, the choice whenever the garage shares a ceiling with a bedroom. Chain drive is the tougher, cheaper answer for a heavy wood door on a detached bay. We stock both and quote them side by side.
Restoration & re-hanging
The Corners are full of fifty-year-old doors with good bones on exhausted guts. We re-glue the joinery, re-hang on modern track and torque-matched springs, and fit a battery-backup opener without touching a single visible panel.
Installed prices, 2026 season
The catalogue card
The number beside each line is the whole job. Nothing is added at the driveway except parts you approve by name, in advance.
Raised-panel steel, installedfrom $1,720
8×7 single · 25-gauge skin · R-12 core option · old door hauled away
Insulated carriage overlay, installedfrom $3,150
R-16 core · five-section stamping · painted to your trim colour
Full-view aluminium & glass, installedfrom $3,600
Tempered clear or frosted · mill or bronze frame · thermal break
Belt-drive opener with battery backup$689
Installed and programmed · phone control · two remotes
Torsion spring pair, weighed & wound$272
Gauge matched to the door’s measured weight · both springs, always
Heritage re-hang & hardware kitfrom $740
Modern track under original panels · cycle-rated springs
Four movements
How an install runs, start to sign-off
The measure call
Forty minutes at your opening: width, height, headroom and side room to the sixteenth of an inch, plus what the garage shares a wall or ceiling with — that answer decides the R-value and the drive.
The specification sheet
You receive one page naming the door, the core, the drive, the spring pair and the finish. That sheet is what gets built and what gets signed — not a conversation anyone half-remembers.
Install day
Old door out by half past seven, track and drums into the studs, springs wound to the specification, photo-eyes tested with a two-by-four. One day, one crew, one truck taking everything away.
The balance test & handover
Opener off, door to waist height: it holds. You watch it, you sign the card, and the twelve-year warranty runs from that afternoon. The specification sheet goes home with you.
Why the shop exists
The door is furniture. It gets furniture care.
A garage door is the largest moving object in a house and the one most people buy from a laminated brochure. Quayle & Fenner started in 1987 as a two-bench repair shop on Coriander Street, and the rule from those years survives: nothing leaves this shop we would not hang on the front of our own. That is why the spring pair is always replaced together, why the battery backup is standard rather than an up-sell, and why every invoice names the wire gauge of the springs you now own.
The specification sheet is the contract
Door, core, drive, spring gauge, finish — one page, signed twice. If the door that hangs in your opening differs from that page, the difference is ours to make right, at our cost.
The 2025 — 2026 season
Recent installs
Six doors photographed at handover, nothing styled. Most of these households said yes to being a showroom reference — ask and we will ask them.
Audited each spring
The shop, in figures
Our bedroom sits directly over the garage, and for eleven years the opener was the alarm clock nobody set. Quayle & Fenner quoted the belt drive against the chain in plain figures, showed me the decibel card in the showroom, and hung an R-16 door over it because the room above is where our daughter sleeps. The first morning after install day I stood in that garage waiting to hear it close. Nothing. That silence was worth every dollar.
Neighbours
Three streets, word of mouth
The specification sheet won us over — one page, everything named, spring gauge included. The crew wound the pair, handed me the balance test to try myself, and the invoice matched the sheet to the dollar.
Power went out for two days in the February ice storm and the garage still opened — the battery backup we never would have thought to ask for was already in the quote. That is the difference between an installer and a specifier.
They re-hung our 1968 panels on modern track and you cannot tell from the street. From inside it is a different door — silent, balanced, and it holds at waist height like the card promised.
Before the showroom
Fair questions
The five we hear on every first visit. The showroom answers the rest, Tuesdays through Saturdays, and the phone between seven and six.
Is an R-16 or R-18 door worth it over plain steel?
If the garage shares a wall or ceiling with conditioned space, yes without argument — a higher R-value roughly halves the heat a door lets through, and the premium is a few hundred dollars across a door you will own for twenty years. A detached garage that holds nothing but cars can take the plain panel or R-12 happily.
Belt or chain drive — which do I need?
Belt where the garage sits under or beside living space: a steel-reinforced belt runs under sixty decibels, which is conversation, not machinery. Chain where the door is heavy wood and the bay is detached: it is tougher and cheaper and nobody is sleeping above it. We quote both side by side and let the floor plan decide.
What does a battery backup actually do?
When the street loses power the opener switches to its internal battery and keeps running — roughly twenty open-close cycles on a full charge. New openers require one in much of the country; we fit it standard regardless, because the week you need it is exactly the week nobody can come out.
Can you match a door from the sixties?
Often panel for panel — several classic stamps still run. Where they do not, we match the nearest profile and paint to your weathered sections from a colour sample taken in daylight. Bring a photo of the inside of a panel; we will tell you on the spot what exists.
How often does a finished door need service?
Once a year: the balance test, roller and hinge lubrication, hardware re-torque, and a photo-eye and auto-reverse check. It is a ninety-minute visit we schedule like a dentist — you get the card before the season, not after the failure.
Showroom on Coriander Street, Tue–Sat · (555) 046-2210 · sales@quaylefenner.example · free measure within both towns
Bring us the opening
Rough size, one photo, and what the garage shares a wall with — that is the whole measure call. The specification sheet that follows is the price you pay. sales@quaylefenner.example