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Need garage door repair in Silver Spring, MD? GarageWiz serves Silver Spring and all of Montgomery County with a stocked van and a friendly local tech minutes away, covering Downtown Silver Spring, Woodside, Four Corners and the surrounding streets. Snapped torsion spring, opener that won’t respond, or a door off the tracks? We’ll diagnose it, quote a flat price, and most often fix it the same day.
Garage door repair built for Silver Spring
Silver Spring is an older inner suburb, and its garages show it. Streetcar-era and postwar pockets like Woodside, Sligo Park Hills, and Northwood are full of 1920s-to-1950s bungalows and Cape Cods, many with narrow single-car doors or detached garages set back off the driveway. Those older doors run lightweight panels and simple openers that wear out quietly until a spring finally lets go. Closer to downtown and Four Corners, newer builds bring wider two-car doors and modern openers into the mix. We keep parts for both, so an off-track door or a tired opener usually gets fixed the same day.
Same-day and emergency garage door repair in Silver Spring
We answer the phone day or night, and most Silver Spring jobs are handled the same day you call, with a call before mid-afternoon giving the best chance of that afternoon. Detached garages set back off the driveway raise the stakes on a stuck door, because there is no way to reach the car through the house and no easy way to leave it out overnight on a narrow street. Tell us it is urgent, and the tech will make the door safe on arrival before quoting the garage door repair.
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Garage doors in Silver Spring
Silver Spring is one of the inner suburbs, and its garages are older than almost anything else we work on in Montgomery County. Woodside, Sligo Park Hills, Indian Spring and Northwood came in through the streetcar and interwar years, and Forest Glen adds more of the same period. Bungalows and Cape Cods from the 1920s through the 1940s often kept a detached garage set well back off the driveway, reached down a strip of concrete barely wider than a car.
Those buildings were sized for a smaller car and a lighter door
Those buildings were sized for a smaller car and a lighter door. Openings run narrow, headroom is limited, and the original doors were single-panel or lightweight sectionals with simple hardware. Openers came later as retrofits, sometimes bolted to framing that was never designed to carry them. The failure pattern is quiet rather than dramatic: the door gets heavier and noisier over years until a garage door spring replacement is the only thing that will bring it back to balance.
Then there is the other Silver Spring
Then there is the other Silver Spring. Downtown has gone vertical, and the blocks around Four Corners and Seven Oaks mix postwar ramblers with infill and renovation, bringing wider two-car openings and modern insulated doors into the same zip code. On that newer stock a garage door opener repair is more likely to be a control board or a sensor than a worn gear. We carry for both, which matters here more than in most of the county.
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We work the whole city
We cover Silver Spring from the downtown blocks outward: Woodside and Woodside Park, Sligo Park Hills, Indian Spring, Northwood, Forest Glen, Four Corners and Seven Oaks, along with the streets running off Colesville Road, Georgia Avenue and University Boulevard. Detached and alley-set garages are the normal round here rather than an exception.
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