Kent Garage Door Co
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Call Kent Garage Door Co at 12535598636 or visit 20024 85th Ave S. See what we repair, what we don't, and which nearby areas we cover.
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Local detail
Who Does the Work
When you call, you get someone who works on doors, springs, openers, and tracks day in and day out - not a dispatcher reading from a script. We're based out of 20024 85th Ave S in Kent, and that's where the trucks load up each morning before heading out to a job. Most calls start with a description of what's wrong: a door that won't open, a spring that snapped, an opener that grinds but doesn't lift. We ask a few questions on the phone so whoever shows up already has a rough idea of the part involved, rather than guessing on the driveway.
We don't run a call center that routes you to a different contractor depending on your zip code - the person you talk to on the phone is connected to the person doing the repair. If a job needs a part we don't carry on the truck, we'll tell you that up front rather than let you find out after a wasted visit. That's the whole setup: a shop, some trucks, and people who fix garage doors.
The area
The Work We Take On
A lot of the houses we get called to were built somewhere between 1962 and 2005, with a good chunk from right around 1983 - that median-era stock across the 43 named areas we work in means we see a predictable mix of original torsion springs, older extension-spring setups, and openers that have been swapped once or twice since the house was built. Our winters sit in a cold, moderate band, which is hard on springs and rollers that were fine in fall and stiff by January; we get a steady run of spring and cable calls once the cold sets in. We work on residential garage doors and openers - springs, cables, rollers, tracks, panels, and the opener units themselves - for houses in Kent and nearby areas including Lakeland North, Des Moines, Fairwood, Covington, SeaTac, Lake Morton-Berrydale, Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Normandy Park, Algona, Bryn Mawr-Skyway, East Renton Highlands, Lakeland South, Maple Valley, Burien, Pacific, Hobart, Newcastle, Black Diamond, White Center, Milton, Ravensdale, Sumner, Edgewood, Vashon, Mirrormont, Mercer Island, Fife, Bonney Lake, Waller, and Medina.
What we find
What We Will Not Do
We don't work on commercial rolling steel doors, gates, or fencing - if that's what you've got, we'll say so on the phone instead of sending a truck out to turn the job away. We also won't quote a repair over the phone sight unseen when the door is old enough that the parts might not be standard anymore; on a house from the early 1960s end of our area's housing range, hardware sometimes doesn't match anything we stock, and we'd rather look at it in person than guess a price and be wrong. If a spring or track has failed enough times that replacing the whole door makes more sense than patching it again, we'll tell you that too, even though a full replacement is a bigger job for us.
We're not the right call for new construction installs where the opening hasn't been framed yet - that's a different trade's work before a door ever goes in. And we don't offer financing or extended service plans; we do the repair, you pay for the repair.
How we work
How to Reach Us
Call 12535598636 and describe what the door is doing - or not doing. That's the fastest way to get a truck scheduled. If you'd rather stop by, the shop is at 20024 85th Ave S, Kent, WA 98031. Median household income across the service area runs around $115,750, and we quote jobs plainly rather than padding them, since most owners calling us are trying to fix one thing, not remodel a garage.
With 228,944 households and 118,902 owner-occupied houses spread across the wider area we cover, we can't promise a specific arrival window on the phone before we've seen the door, but we'll give you a realistic idea of timing once we know what's broken. If you're outside the areas listed in the section above, ask when you call - some edge cases depend on which crew is closest that day. You can also find basic details on our [home page](/).
Questions
Common questions
Do you come out the same day I call?
It depends on what's broken and where you are in the service area. A snapped spring on a double door usually gets priority scheduling; a cosmetic panel issue might wait a day or two. Call 12535598636 and we'll give you a realistic window based on the day's schedule, not a blanket promise.
Do you work on doors outside Kent proper?
Yes - we cover a stretch of nearby areas including Des Moines, Covington, Fairwood, and others within roughly a five to sixteen mile radius of our Kent shop. If your address isn't on the list we gave, call and ask; coverage can depend on the day's routing.
My house is from the 1970s - will you have the parts?
Often yes, since a lot of the housing stock we deal with dates from the 1960s through the 2000s, with plenty from the 1980s. Older torsion setups and some original hardware can still be tricky to match, so we'd rather look at the door in person than quote parts blind.
Do you install new garage doors or only repair them?
We handle repairs and replacements on existing residential garage doors and openers - springs, cables, tracks, panels, rollers. We don't do new-construction installs where the opening hasn't been framed yet; that's earlier-stage work than what we do.
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Kent Garage Door Co repairs and installs garage doors, springs and openers in Kent, WA and the surrounding area.