Roll-up door repair for shops and restaurants
Rolling steel doors have a hard life by the water: salt on the slats, sand in the guides, a kitchen door that goes up and down all service. When one sticks, we find out whether it's the curtain, the guides, the spring in the barrel or the motor, and give you the time on site before we start.
- On site: 1 to 3 hours for most repairs
- License CGC15***68
How a roll-up door warns you
- The curtain comes down crooked, or one end hangs lower than the other.
- It grinds or catches in the side guides, usually where sand and salt have built up.
- Slats are dented, rusted through at the bottom, or popping out of the guides.
- It feels heavy by hand or won't stay up: the spring in the barrel is losing tension.
- The motor hums, yet the curtain stays put, or the chain hoist slips. Same idea as a garage door opener, built heavier.
Salt, sand and the barrel
On Fort Myers Beach, where many restaurants and shops were rebuilt after Ian, and along the river in the River District, salt air works on the slats, the bottom bar and the axle inside the barrel. We clean and set the guides, replace the slats that are worn through, check the bearings and the spring tension, and show you what we found before we change anything.
When the power goes out
Most motorized roll-up doors can be run by hand with a chain hoist or a crank. If yours has one, we test it while we're there and show whoever opens up in the morning how to use it, so an outage doesn't lock the kitchen or the stockroom. If it's missing or seized, we tell you.
Storage units, by the row
Self-storage buildings have rows of small roll-up doors that take the same beating: bent bottom bars, broken latches, springs that lose tension. Send the unit numbers and a photo of each problem door, and you get the time on site for the whole list. Replacing a roll-up door takes a permit and a Florida Product Approval that fits the site, and a building that faces open water needs a door rated for more wind pressure. How permits work in Lee County.
Questions about roll-up door repair
Most roll-up door repairs take 1 to 3 hours on site. Slats or a bottom bar that have to be ordered mean a second visit to install them.
Yes, if it has a chain hoist or a hand crank: switch it over as the label on the operator explains and run it by hand. If it has neither, don't force the curtain up. Call us.
No. The spring inside the barrel holds the weight of the whole curtain under tension and can spin the barrel or the tension wheel without warning. Lock the door closed, keep people clear and call.
Yes: bottom bars, latches, springs and bent slats on storage unit roll-up doors. For a facility, send the unit numbers and a photo of each door so we can plan one visit instead of several.
Tell us what the door is doing
A person answers, day or night. Describe the door or text a photo, and you'll hear what it probably is, how long the fix takes and when a truck can get to you.