When a garage door jams, sags, or screeches on a rainy Vancouver morning, we come to you — Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, the West End, or Dunbar — and get it rolling smoothly and locking securely again. Off-track doors, snapped cables, worn rollers, and stubborn seals, sorted on-site.
A garage door is the biggest moving object in most homes — and in Vancouver it takes a beating from wet winters and coastal damp. When it comes off its track, drops a spring, or grinds to a halt, we diagnose the real cause on-site and fix it in a single visit, then check that the door still locks up tight.
We're a licensed mobile locksmith first, which means we look at your garage door the way a security tech does: not just "does it open," but "does it close, seal, and lock the way it should." A door that won't seat properly is a door that leaves your garage — and everything in it — exposed. We repair the mechanical faults that stop a door working and make sure the latch, lock bar, and closing action are all sound before we pack up.
Safety note on springs: torsion and extension springs are under extreme tension and store enough energy to cause serious injury. We do not recommend DIY spring work under any circumstances — this is a pro-only repair with the right winding bars and clamps. If your door won't lift, feels impossibly heavy, or you heard a loud bang from the garage, leave it down and call us.
| Repair | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Track realignment / off-track reset | $120–$260 |
| Roller replacement (full set) | $90–$220 |
| Lift cable replacement (pair) | $110–$240 |
| Torsion spring replacement (single) | $180–$340 |
| Torsion spring replacement (pair) | $260–$480 |
| Panel / section repair or replacement | $180–$500+ |
| Weather seal & bottom-seal replacement | $80–$180 |
| Tune-up, balance & lubrication service | $90–$160 |
Ranges cover parts, labour, and on-site adjustment. Heavy insulated doors, oversized double doors, and premium hardware sit at the upper end. We confirm a firm range on the phone once you describe the door and the symptom — no vague guessing, no surprise total when we finish.
Tell us the symptom — won't open, off the track, loud bang, won't seal — plus roughly how old the door is and whether it's single or double. We give you a firm price range on the call.
A mobile tech inspects the tracks, springs, cables, rollers, and balance. We show you exactly what's worn or broken and what it costs before we touch a tool — no upsell, no scare tactics.
We complete the repair, re-balance the door, and cycle it several times to confirm it opens, closes, seals, and locks correctly. You watch it work before we leave.
Vancouver garages take a beating from the coast's wet winters — months of Pacific rain work on every moving part of a door. That constant damp is hard on garage doors: bottom seals crack and let water pool inside, steel rollers and hinges rust and start to squeal, and cables corrode where they meet the drum. If your door has started grinding through the winter or you're seeing water track under it, that's the coast doing its work. We replace seals with weather-rated rubber, swap corroded rollers for sealed nylon, and lubricate the moving parts with a grease that doesn't wash out in the wet — so the door still runs quietly next November.
We cover the whole city for garage work: the older detached garages up in Dunbar and Point Grey, the lane-access garages around Mount Pleasant and Commercial Drive, the big double doors in Kerrisdale and Oakridge, and the strata garages downtown and through Yaletown and the West End. Wherever the door is, we bring the parts and the tools to it — no towing a door anywhere, no waiting days for a specialist to route out.
A garage door that won't close flush, won't lock, or sits crooked on its track isn't only annoying — it's the single largest unsecured opening on the house. Many Vancouver garages connect straight into the home, so a door that won't seal is an open invitation. Because we're a full locksmith, we don't just make the door move again; we make sure the slide lock, lock bar, or deadbolt engages and that the interior connecting door is properly secured too. If you want to go further, we can add a dedicated garage door lock or upgrade the entry between the garage and the house on the same visit.
Garage doors are one part of what we do. Everything else — on the same truck, same licensed tech.
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