Two-car doors, aging openers, and springs that have been cycling since the Reagan administration. We cover Dunwoody daily — same-day repair, 24/7 for emergencies.
Our base in Chamblee is a short run down Chamblee Dunwoody Road, so we are in Dunwoody most days of the week already.
Dunwoody’s core housing stock went up between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s — Dunwoody Club Forest, Village Mill, Redfield, Wyntercreek and the streets around them. Those homes are now hitting the point where the second generation of garage door hardware is wearing out at roughly the same time.
If the original opener was replaced once in the early 2000s, that replacement is now twenty-plus years old. Stripped drive gears, worn trolleys, and photo-eye sensors that drift out of alignment every few weeks are the classic symptoms. A door that reverses for no reason is almost always a sensor or a travel-limit problem, not a possessed door.
A sixteen-foot double door is heavy, and the torsion spring carrying it has a finite number of cycles. On a house where the family has been opening it four to six times a day for decades, the spring is the part that goes first — usually with a bang loud enough that neighbors hear it.
Extremely common in Dunwoody’s two-story colonials, and the reason we bring up belt-drive and jackshaft openers so often here. A chain drive transmits vibration straight into the floor joists above. A belt or wall-mount unit is dramatically quieter for whoever sleeps up there.
An uninsulated steel door facing the afternoon sun turns the garage into an oven, which matters if the space holds a freezer, a workshop, or anything you would rather not bake. Insulated doors with a solid perimeter seal are the fix, and they help in January too.
Many Dunwoody subdivisions have covenants on door style and color, and newer builds around Dunwoody Village frequently have a two-car plus a single. When one door is replaced and the other is not, the mismatch is obvious from the street — worth planning for before you order.
Every service below is available across Dunwoody and the surrounding cities, with stocked trucks so most jobs finish on the first visit.
The loud bang you heard was almost certainly a torsion spring. The door is now far too heavy to lift safely. We replace torsion and extension springs the same day and offer high-cycle upgrades.
Learn more →Springs are rated in cycles, not years. When one goes, we replace in pairs so the door stays balanced and the second one does not fail a month later.
Learn more →Grinding motors, dead remotes, sensors that will not stay aligned. We service LiftMaster, Genie, Chamberlain and Craftsman, and install belt-drive and wall-mount units.
Learn more →Insulated steel, carriage style, and custom finishes, with removal and disposal of the old door included.
Learn more →Door stuck open, snapped cable, off the track. We answer nights, weekends and holidays because an open garage is a security problem.
Learn more →Frayed cables, flat rollers, and bent track are the quiet causes of most doors that bind, jerk, or come off track entirely.
Learn more →If your street is not listed, it does not mean we do not come there. Call and ask.
ZIP codes served in Dunwoody: 30338, 30346
Straight answers to what people in Dunwoody actually call and ask about.
Nine times out of ten it is the photo-eye safety sensors near the floor — knocked out of alignment, dirty, or catching direct sun. The other common cause is a travel or force limit that has drifted on an aging opener. Both are quick fixes and neither means you need a new door.
A belt-drive opener is a large improvement over a chain for a modest price difference. A wall-mounted jackshaft unit is quieter still, because the motor comes off the ceiling entirely and stops using the joists as a soundboard. In a house with a room above the garage we almost always recommend one of the two.
It is measured in cycles rather than years. A standard spring is generally rated around 10,000 cycles — for a Dunwoody family opening the door four or five times a day, that lands somewhere near seven to ten years. High-cycle springs are rated substantially higher and are worth the upgrade on a wide double door.
Yes. We will provide manufacturer spec sheets, color chips, and window layout options so you can get approval before anything is ordered. If you are only replacing one of two doors, tell us the make of the existing one and we will try to match rather than approximate.
Yes, including buildings with shared or gated entry. Let us know at booking if we will need access arrangements or a management contact and we will sort it out ahead of the visit.
5 Star Garage Door Repair is a mobile service business based in Chamblee, GA 30341. We come to you — there is no walk-in showroom.
Dunwoody (30338, 30346) plus Chamblee, Doraville, Brookhaven, Dunwoody, Tucker, Sandy Springs and nearby north-perimeter communities.
Tell us what it is doing — the noise it made, whether it moves at all, what brand the opener is — and we will tell you what it likely needs before we quote anything.
