All Pro Door Repair

08/21/2026

If your garage door has a working automatic opener, you probably don't need a manual lock on it. The opener's trolley already holds the door down, and a latch somebody forgets to retract can bend panels and strip the opener's drive gear. Doors you open by hand are a different story. Here's how to tell which one you've got.

A garage door lock does nothing for a door with a working opener, and can wreck it. Here's when a lock helps and what really secures your garage.

08/16/2026

Here's what trips people up when they order a garage door: width is always listed first. A 9x7 is nine feet wide and seven feet tall, and it's ordered to match your finished opening exactly, not a little smaller. Most double doors around DFW are 16 by 7, but headroom, backroom, and sideroom are what decide if a new door will actually fit.

Standard garage door sizes explained: common widths and heights, how to measure headroom and backroom, and what actually fits a full-size truck.

08/14/2026

Most of the bad driveway gate setups we get called out to around DFW weren't bad products. They were the wrong operator for that gate, or the right one with the safety hardware left off. Match the opener to how your gate moves first, swing or slide, then to its weight and length, then to the power you can actually get out to the entrance.

An automatic gate opener has to match your gate's style, weight, length, and power supply. Here is how to pick one that lasts in North Texas heat.

08/11/2026

A glass garage door looks sharp on a DFW house, but the glazing you pick matters more than the showroom photo. Insulated low-E glass handles Texas heat fine. Clear single-pane facing west in August doesn't, and since the glass changes what the door weighs, the springs and opener have to be matched to it.

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08/07/2026

Most people blame the opener when the garage door starts rattling and jerking, but it's usually the rollers. Builder-grade sets tend to wear out in roughly five to seven years, and they announce it with grinding, shuddering, flat spots, and wheels that wobble side to side. Swapping them isn't a DIY job either, since the door is under spring tension and the bottom brackets are under cable tension.

Garage door rollers cause most noisy, jerky doors. Learn the warning signs, how long they last, and why DFW heat and clay soil wear them out fast.

08/07/2026

If your opener is straining, grinding, or reversing partway up, the motor might be fine. On a lot of our Dallas-Fort Worth service calls the real problem turns out to be springs that lost their lift, so the door got heavy and the opener has been losing that fight. Here's how to tell a repair from a replacement, plus the balance test you can safely do yourself.
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07/31/2026

Thinking about a smart garage door opener? Most homes don't need to swap out the whole opener to get phone control, an alert the second the door opens, and a log of who came and went. A small Wi-Fi controller wired into the opener you already own does the same job with a lot less fuss.

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07/30/2026

Your opener doesn't actually lift the door. The torsion springs do, and a properly balanced door should feel like it weighs about 8 or 10 pounds at the handle once you disconnect the opener. Belt, chain, and wall-mount aren't three grades of the same product either, so here's what actually separates them for a DFW garage.

The best garage door opener for most DFW homes is a belt drive with a DC motor. Here is how belt, chain and wall-mount openers really compare.

07/24/2026

If your garage door jumps off its track, the first thing to do is stop pressing the button. The door still has spring tension loaded into it, and running the motor again is what turns a one-roller problem into a bent track and panels that need replacing. Here's why doors come off track and what to do first.

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07/23/2026

A dented bottom panel doesn't always mean a whole new garage door. If your door's a newer sectional in good shape and that exact panel is still made, you can often just swap the one bad section. Past 15 years old, or two or more sections wrecked? A full replacement usually makes more sense, and our guide breaks down how to tell.

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