Garage Door Repair in Waltham, MA

Waltham runs the gamut from triple-deckers near Moody Street to split-level ranches up around Prospect Hill, and the garage doors across town are just as mixed. We get calls from the same streets for very different reasons: a torsion spring that let go on a 1960s single-car garage, an opener on a newer two-car door in a Warrendale colonial that stopped responding to the remote, a commercial roll-up door off Winter Street that is sticking halfway down. The common thread is that nobody wants to wait three days for someone to show up.

AB Garage Door is based in Bellingham and works this part of the Route 128 corridor regularly. We are licensed and insured in Massachusetts and New Hampshire ({LICENSE_MA}, {LICENSE_NH}), and we carry spring stock, cable, rollers and common opener parts on the truck so most Waltham repairs get finished in one visit.

Garage door service in Waltham

Most calls here fall into a short list: a broken torsion spring, a snapped cable, a door that is off its tracks, or an opener that runs the motor but will not move the door. Torsion springs sit on a shaft above the door and store enough tension to lift a 150 to 250 pound door. When one breaks, you will usually hear a bang from the garage, and the door will feel immovable or wildly heavy on one side. That is not a part to work on yourself. The spring and the shaft are under load even when the door is sitting still, and we have seen what happens when someone loosens the wrong bolt. We handle the full repair on site, including resetting the drums and cable so the door is balanced again before we leave.

What we do in Waltham

We cover repair and installation on residential and commercial doors, from a single garage in Bleachery to a loading door at a business park off Fourth Avenue. There is no separate Waltham-specific service page for each job type, so for the detail on how each service works, use the links below to our main pages.

Garage door repair

Spring replacement, cable repair, broken roller swaps, bent track straightening, panel replacement after a car backs into a door, and opener diagnosis and repair. If the door reverses before it touches the floor, the safety reversal sensors or the close-force setting usually need adjusting, and we check both rather than guessing.

Garage door installation

When a door is old enough that parts are no longer made for it, or the insulation is gone and the garage is cold half the year, replacement is often cheaper over time than another round of repairs. We install steel and insulated doors sized for both the older narrow openings common in Waltham’s pre-war garages and the wider two-car openings in newer construction.

Garage door service

Yearly service covers lubricating rollers and hinges, checking cable wear at the drums, confirming the door is still in balance, and testing the auto-reverse safety feature. A door that has gone out of balance makes the opener’s motor and gears do work the springs are supposed to be doing, which is the most common reason we see openers fail years before they should.

Emergency or same-day garage door repair

A broken spring or a car trapped behind a dead opener does not wait for a convenient day. We take same-day calls in Waltham whenever the schedule allows and we will tell you honestly on the phone if that is not realistic before you commit to anything.

Commercial garage door service

Waltham has a lot of light industrial and office park space along Winter Street, Fourth Avenue and the Totten Pond corridor, much of it with roll-up or sectional commercial doors that see heavier daily cycles than a home garage. We service and repair these doors, including higher-cycle springs and commercial operators, and we work around your business hours rather than shutting a bay down mid-shift without warning.

The homes here

Waltham’s housing stock spans a lot of decades. Near Moody Street and the river you get older two- and three-family homes with narrow single-car garages, some still running doors and hardware that predate current safety standards. Out toward Warrendale and Prospect Hill there are mid-century ranches and colonials with attached two-car garages, and newer construction near Bentley and off Trapelo Road tends to have wider doors and heavier insulated panels. We stock parts for both standard 7-foot and 8-foot door heights because Waltham has plenty of each, and older garages sometimes need a repair built around a non-standard opening rather than an off-the-shelf part.

None of this changes how we approach a call. We still ask what the door was doing right before it failed, because that tells us most of what we need to know before the truck even leaves Bellingham.

What it costs

Cost depends on what actually failed. A single torsion spring replacement is a different job from a full cable and drum repair, and a new insulated door is a different conversation again from a $200 roller swap. We give a price over the phone once we know what is wrong, or a firm quote on site before any work starts, not an estimate that changes once the truck is in your driveway.

Got Questions?

Common questions

My garage door spring snapped with a loud bang. Is that dangerous?

The bang is the spring itself failing, not an explosion risk, but the shaft and remaining tension around it are dangerous to handle. Keep the door down, do not try to open it manually, and call for a spring replacement. Do not attempt this repair yourself.

Do you work on both older and newer garages in Waltham?

Yes. We regularly repair the narrower single-car doors common on older Waltham properties near the river as well as the wider two-car doors on newer homes near Bentley and Trapelo Road, and we carry parts sized for both.

How fast can someone get to Waltham for a broken door?

We take same-day calls in Waltham when the schedule allows. Call 508-794-7439 and we will tell you honestly what the timing looks like before you commit to anything.

Can you fix a commercial roll-up door at a Waltham business park?

Yes, we service and repair commercial sectional and roll-up doors, including heavier-duty springs and operators built for higher daily cycle counts, and we schedule around your operating hours.

Garage door service in Waltham, done right the first time

We would rather spend five minutes on the phone working out what actually broke than send a truck out for a guess. If you can tell us whether the door is stuck open, stuck shut, making a bang, or just not responding to the opener, we can usually tell you what to expect before we arrive.

Request a Free Quote

Call 508-794-7439 to describe the problem and get a quote, or reach out through our contact form and a technician will call you back. We serve Waltham along with the rest of the towns south and west of Boston from our Bellingham base.