Work We Turn Down
We don't take every call. If a door is original to a house built before the 1952 start of the main building wave here, parts can take weeks to source, and we'll tell you that up front instead of quoting a job we can't finish on time. We also don't install the cheapest big-box door on a frame that's already racked or rotted - that's a carpentry job first, and we'll say so rather than bolt a new door to a bad opening.
We don't do new home construction installs as a standing line of work, and we don't chase jobs outside the towns and neighborhoods we actually know, which is why our service radius stops around Kent and Ravenna rather than stretching further. If your door needs a structural header repair before it needs a garage door tech, we'll tell you that instead of working around it.
We also won't sell you a full replacement when a torsion spring and a tune-up will get you another decade out of the door you have. Given the median household income of $80,612 across this service area, most of our customers would rather spend on the repair that fixes the actual problem than on a door they didn't need replaced.
Plain Answers
Akron Garage Door Pros works out of 2 E
Exchange St, Akron, OH 44308. Call (330) 902-8513 and you get someone who can talk through what's wrong with your door before a truck ever leaves.
The area we cover runs from the in-town neighborhoods
Downtown - out through Portage Lakes, Tallmadge, Munroe Falls, Mogadore, Silver Lake, Fairlawn, Lakemore, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Norton, Stow, Montrose-Ghent, Brimfield, Green, New Franklin, Kent, Uniontown, Peninsula, Sharon Center, Wadsworth, Hudson, Boston Heights, Doylestown, Clinton, Richfield, Greentown, Hartville, Canal Fulton, Streetsboro, and Ravenna.
Across those 195,121 households, 107,063 are owner-occupied houses
And that's who calls us - people who own the garage, not a landlord three states away. Most of the doors we open up are on houses built somewhere between 1952 and 2004, with the heaviest concentration from the 1960s and 70s. That matters for parts: a door from that era usually has standard hardware, which keeps a repair quick and keeps the bill down.
- 195,121 households
The Work We Take On
Broken torsion springs are the call we get most, and cold winters make them worse - a steel spring under tension loses give in low temperatures, and this area sits in a climate band rated cold-severe, which puts more stress on springs and cables than a milder zone would. We replace springs, cables, rollers, and the hinges that hold a sectional door together panel to panel.
Openers are the second biggest piece of the work: chain and belt drive units that have worn out their gears, or units that are simply old enough that the logic board has quit. We also handle track realignment, which is common on doors in older housing stock where the slab has settled a little over sixty-plus years.
Panel replacement is part of the job too, especially after a car backs into a door or a section rusts out at the bottom - common on houses built in the 1960s and 70s where the original steel wasn't galvanized to current standards. We don't try to match a fifty-year-old panel color exactly; we tell you when a full section swap will look different and let you decide if that's acceptable before we order the part.
