Garage door repairs across the Illawarra and South Coast

Doormec charges $170 for a standard service call or basic repair, plus parts if any are required. That covers travel, diagnosis and the labour on straightforward work. Larger jobs like spring, cable or motor replacement are quoted before we start. Emergency after-hours callouts are priced differently and we tell you the figure on the phone.

Broken springs, by a clear margin. A residential torsion spring is rated at around 10,000 cycles, roughly ten years at four openings a day, and once it goes the door becomes far too heavy for the opener to lift. Second most common is lift cables, which corrode internally and are the dominant failure in coastal suburbs.

Often yes, particularly for common faults where we carry the parts on the van, which covers most spring, cable, roller, hinge and remote work. Where a specific panel, curtain or motor has to be ordered we secure the opening first and complete the repair when the part lands.

Repair is almost always cheaper while the door is straight, the panels or curtain are sound and failures are isolated. Replacement becomes the better spend once failures start arriving in sequence, once rust has perforated the curtain or bottom rail, or once the repair cost approaches a meaningful share of a new door. We give you both numbers rather than steering you.

Yes. Commercial doors are specified and serviced differently because of much higher cycle counts and workplace safety requirements including safety edges and beams. We work the Unanderra and Port Kembla industrial areas regularly and run 24-hour emergency callout for premises that cannot be secured.