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Completed a comprehensive 5-year City and Guilds apprenticeship in carpentry and joiner.
Bringing 50 years of industry experience.
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Garage door repairs Chepstow
- By paul easton
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- 30 Jul, 2019
When price matters and your repair is a third of the price when using a local company like Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs Chepstow
Looking for garage door repairs near me in Chepstow, Caldicot or Magor ?
This is how it can pay to shop around and use a local business.
The photograph above is a repair to a Garador garage door spring box unit by Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs Chepstow, that we did yesterday.
These garage doors were initially fitted with a spring box unit fitted above the garage door that came from the factory pre-tensioned.
This lady in Portskewett had made an inquiry about a repair after her cable had broken, only to be told that she would require a new spring box unit at a cost of £195.00 plus fitting, total cost nearly £300.00.
This was from a national company who didn't even bother to look at the job first.
She was told that the old unit could not be repaired.
Its not surprising though that she was told this, as when you look at this video on you tube showing how to repair them it doesn't actually show you anything on how to get the springs back in position as you can see from the comments left below it
https://youtu.be/xRloVElK_uw
In itself the video is actually fine, its not misleading, its in point of fact a video on how to fit cables to a pre-tensioned unit.
So you can see why a lot of fitters and companies simply replace the entire spring box unit due to the problem and danger of getting these springs back in position in order to feed the cables through as not only is it far easier and much faster for them to carry out this repair your paying the extra cost.
Garador themselves on their instructions say that you can get the springs back in position by pulling on the cables.
Well not unless your superman you can't.
Trust me i'v tried and with 40 years experience i can categorically tell them it can't be done. In fact i tried it with two of us and we just and i mean just managed to do it but it was incredibly hard to do and took us a long time.
Plus If the cables slip off the rollers as your doing it you have to start all over again as well.
So don't bother buying the cables thinking you can do this yourself it can't be done without special tools and a lot of experience.
I was able to fit new cables inside the existing spring box unit for her at a cost of £95.00 which is a third of the price she was quoted for this repair.
It always pays to have at least two quotes for a repair like this if your unsure and it seems to be expensive.
Try to get a locally based business like Paul Easton Garage door repairs where we are based in Chepstow and local to you to quote for repairs, as our reputation and business depends on customers recommending us and passing on our name, so we are very conscious of the fact that price matters, especially where the elderly are concerned, as in this case the lady in question was in her eighties.
She made a saving of £200 for exactly the same job and was left with a perfectly working garage door.
The other thing is that a lot of people over estimate their skill level and the tools required to do these jobs, by the time you take off the cost of the cables she actually was only paying £75.00 for the repair.
The one thing that everyone forgets as well is that very often on these older doors the rollers need replacing and that can only be done at the same time as the tension is removed from the springs.
we carry spare rollers for all types of garage doors so that they can be replaced at the same time as we repair your cables.
Your door won't work correctly unless you have rollers that actually roll and that are not worn out.
If you look at this post on our facebook page it shows an on site repair to a obsolete roller part on these older type doors.
www.facebook.com/chepstowlocksmiths
We can service and repair most obsolete and older type garage doors.
For more detailed information on our garage door repair service go to this page on our website www.pauleastonlocksmiths.com/Chepstow-garage-door-repairs
Looking to save money ?
Try Paul Easton Garage door repairs in Chepstow for a free no obligation quote on all types of garage door repairs.
Telephone us on 01291 625540
One word of caution these doors and springs are extremely dangerous to work on and in our next article we will talk about the dangers of DIY repairs to garage doors.
This is how it can pay to shop around and use a local business.
The photograph above is a repair to a Garador garage door spring box unit by Paul Easton Locksmiths and Garage door repairs Chepstow, that we did yesterday.
These garage doors were initially fitted with a spring box unit fitted above the garage door that came from the factory pre-tensioned.
This lady in Portskewett had made an inquiry about a repair after her cable had broken, only to be told that she would require a new spring box unit at a cost of £195.00 plus fitting, total cost nearly £300.00.
This was from a national company who didn't even bother to look at the job first.
She was told that the old unit could not be repaired.
Its not surprising though that she was told this, as when you look at this video on you tube showing how to repair them it doesn't actually show you anything on how to get the springs back in position as you can see from the comments left below it
https://youtu.be/xRloVElK_uw
In itself the video is actually fine, its not misleading, its in point of fact a video on how to fit cables to a pre-tensioned unit.
So you can see why a lot of fitters and companies simply replace the entire spring box unit due to the problem and danger of getting these springs back in position in order to feed the cables through as not only is it far easier and much faster for them to carry out this repair your paying the extra cost.
Garador themselves on their instructions say that you can get the springs back in position by pulling on the cables.
Well not unless your superman you can't.
Trust me i'v tried and with 40 years experience i can categorically tell them it can't be done. In fact i tried it with two of us and we just and i mean just managed to do it but it was incredibly hard to do and took us a long time.
Plus If the cables slip off the rollers as your doing it you have to start all over again as well.
So don't bother buying the cables thinking you can do this yourself it can't be done without special tools and a lot of experience.
I was able to fit new cables inside the existing spring box unit for her at a cost of £95.00 which is a third of the price she was quoted for this repair.
It always pays to have at least two quotes for a repair like this if your unsure and it seems to be expensive.
Try to get a locally based business like Paul Easton Garage door repairs where we are based in Chepstow and local to you to quote for repairs, as our reputation and business depends on customers recommending us and passing on our name, so we are very conscious of the fact that price matters, especially where the elderly are concerned, as in this case the lady in question was in her eighties.
She made a saving of £200 for exactly the same job and was left with a perfectly working garage door.
The other thing is that a lot of people over estimate their skill level and the tools required to do these jobs, by the time you take off the cost of the cables she actually was only paying £75.00 for the repair.
The one thing that everyone forgets as well is that very often on these older doors the rollers need replacing and that can only be done at the same time as the tension is removed from the springs.
we carry spare rollers for all types of garage doors so that they can be replaced at the same time as we repair your cables.
Your door won't work correctly unless you have rollers that actually roll and that are not worn out.
If you look at this post on our facebook page it shows an on site repair to a obsolete roller part on these older type doors.
www.facebook.com/chepstowlocksmiths
We can service and repair most obsolete and older type garage doors.
For more detailed information on our garage door repair service go to this page on our website www.pauleastonlocksmiths.com/Chepstow-garage-door-repairs
Looking to save money ?
Try Paul Easton Garage door repairs in Chepstow for a free no obligation quote on all types of garage door repairs.
Telephone us on 01291 625540
One word of caution these doors and springs are extremely dangerous to work on and in our next article we will talk about the dangers of DIY repairs to garage doors.
