Garage doors · Ferndale Crossing & Carraway Heights · Showroom on Delacorte Road
The biggest moving wall of your house, done properly.
Northgate sells, installs and repairs garage doors the way the factory meant them to run — torsion springs matched to the door's weighed pounds, three-point reinforced tracks, and a balance test you watch pass before our truck leaves your driveway. New doors installed from $1,640; broken springs repaired today.
SPRING SNAPPED? Broken torsion springs are replaced same-day across both towns — call (555) 032-8841 before noon and the truck is usually there before dinner, at the weekday rate.
Services & rates
Doors, installed from — and the repairs that keep them running
Installed prices, not starting-from teasers: the number beside each door is the whole job — measure, delivery, haul-away, hardware and the balance-test sign-off. Repairs are flat-rate and posted the same way, because a spring quote you cannot check is not a quote.
Raised-panel steel, installedfrom $1,640
8×7 single, 25-gauge skin, optional R-9 insulation; old door hauled away
Carriage-house overlay, installedfrom $2,980
Five-section stamping, faux strap hinges, painted to your trim colour
Full-view glass & aluminium, installedfrom $3,460
Tempered clear or frosted panels, black or mill frame, sealed-bearing rollers
Torsion spring pair, matched & wound$289
Wire gauge 0.207–0.250 chosen against the door's measured weight, never a chart
Opener upgrade, belt-drivefrom $528
Battery backup, phone control, old rail and motor recycled
Safety tune & 14-point inspection$89
Rollers, cables, drums, photo eyes — the balance test included and documented
Why doors fail early
Springs are arithmetic, not spare parts
Nine doors in ten that "die" were killed by a spring guessed off a wall chart — one gauge too light, wound two turns too few, hauling a door it was never rated for. Northgate puts your door on scale straps and buys the spring the scale says: wire gauge to the thousandth of an inch, turns calculated from measured torque. It is twenty minutes of math that buys a decade of opening.
The balance-test sign-off
Before we leave, the opener comes off and the door is lifted to waist height. A balanced door holds like a curtain on a rod. You watch it, you sign the sheet, and the ten-year warranty starts from that signature.
One day, one crew
Install day, hour by hour
A replacement door is a one-day job on almost every house in both towns — old door out at half past seven, the new one balanced and signed off before supper.
7:30 — Old door out
Tension released, sections and track come down, the opening re-measured to the sixteenth, everything hauled in our truck — not leaned against your garage.
9:00 — The springs are weighed
The new door rides the scale straps; springs are matched to its actual weight in wire gauge and winding turns. If the scale and the catalogue disagree, the scale wins.
11:30 — Track, drums & opener
Three-point bracket reinforcement into the studs, drums torqued to spec, opener rail set level to within a degree, photo eyes tested with a two-by-four.
Before we leave — the balance test
Opener disengaged, door lifted to waist height: it must drift less than a hand's width either way. You watch it hold, you sign the card, the warranty starts.
2025 — 2026
Recent installs
Six doors from the last two seasons, photographed at handover with nothing styled. Half of these homeowners will show you theirs in person if you ask us to ask them.
The shop, in figures
Neighbours
Two towns, word of mouth
The old door took two people and a prayer to lift. Northgate weighed it, showed me the number, and the new steel runs on a spring pair sized to the pound. The installer made me do the balance test myself — it held at waist height like a magic trick.
Three outfits quoted the glass door; Northgate was the only one who asked what the garage faces. West sun, they said — tempered frosted panels, not clear, or the workshop would cook. They were right, and the install was one day exactly.
Spring snapped at 7 a.m. with both cars inside. Called, they pulled the red-release trick over the phone so I could at least get to work, and had the pair replaced — the pair, not the one — by one in the afternoon. Card price, to the dollar.
Before you call
Fair questions
The five we hear on every first call. The showroom on Delacorte Road answers the number below between seven and six, Saturdays to noon.
How do I know my springs are going?
Lift the door with the opener disengaged. A healthy door rises smoothly and holds wherever you leave it. One that crashes down, flies up, or takes two hands is telling you the springs — not the opener — have had it. That test is free and takes ten seconds.
Why replace both springs when only one broke?
They were wound the same day, so the survivor is weeks behind the dead one — running it is borrowing a second service call at emergency rates. We replace the pair at one flat price, and the new pair is matched to the door's weighed pounds, not to whatever was in the wall.
Insulated or plain steel?
If the garage shares a wall or ceiling with living space, insulated, always — it is a few hundred dollars on a door you will own for twenty years. A detached shed of a garage can take the plain panel happily. We quote both and let the thermometer decide.
Can you match a door that is thirty years old?
Often, panel for panel — the big manufacturers still run the classic stamps. When they do not, we match the profile as close as it comes and paint to your weathered sections. Bring a phone photo of the inside of a panel; we will tell you on the spot.
What opener do you sell?
Two brands, belt-drive standard, and we will talk you out of the horsepower upgrade nobody needs — a balanced door opens by nearly hand anyway. Battery backup and phone control are worth having; the rest is shelf appeal.
Free measure at the showroom or your driveway · (555) 032-8841 · sales@northgatedoor.example
Get the installed number
Rough opening size, one photo of the door, and whether it is a replacement or a fresh hole in the wall — that is all a fixed quote needs. The measure is free and the number does not move after it is written. sales@northgatedoor.example