New Garage Door Installation for Granite's 1981-Era Homes

We work out of Sandy, three miles from Granite, so getting a crew out for a new install doesn't take much lead time. Call and tell us the width of your opening and whether it's a single or double door - on a lot of Granite's 1981-built houses that's a 16-foot double on the front of an attached garage, which is the most common size we quote out here. We'll set a time to come measure, because even houses built the same year can have openings that are an inch or two off from the standard, and that inch matters when you're ordering a new door instead of patching an old one. No need to pull the old door down before we arrive - we handle removal as part of the job.

For Granite jobs we bring insulated steel sections in both 16-foot and single-car widths, since both show up on these 1981-era lots, along with new track rated for the colder end of our winters here - this area sits in a severe cold climate band, and track hardware that's been outside for four decades is usually pitted enough that we replace it rather than reuse it. We carry torsion springs in a range of wire sizes rather than one default, because a door sized for a 1981 opening often weighs different than what's sold today. We also bring weather seal and a new bottom astragal, since the original rubber on a door this age is usually cracked through.

We don't post a flat number here because door size, insulation level, and what we find behind the old track all move the price - and on a 1981-era Granite garage, track and header repair is common enough that it's worth budgeting for. What we can tell you is that Granite's median household income runs lower than the wider Sandy service area, and we quote the same door and labor rates here as anywhere else we drive to - the only added cost is if your jamb needs rebuilding, and we'll show you that before we order materials, not after.

Once the old door's off, we check the opening square, replace any track or header hardware that's worn past spec, then set the new door section by section, mounting new torsion springs matched to the door's actual weight. For a double door on a house this age, that's almost always a full spring and cable swap, not a reuse of what's there - the originals are long past their cycle count. We finish with weather seal, balance the door by hand before the opener ever touches it, and walk you through the manual release in case of a power outage, which still matters in a severe cold climate where an opener going down in January is worse than any other month.