Well Well

One day as I was leaving to go to work, I noticed that one side of the garage door didn’t go down completely.  There was about a 8 inch gap on the right side, but the left side went down completely.  When we got home from work, we looked at it, and saw that the bottom wheels of the door weren’t in correctly.  So, I fixed that, then made the door go up and down again.  It still wasn’t working correctly.

Kim then noticed that the assistant spring on that side of the door had broken.  We decided to just put both cars outside, close the door, and call an overhead door company to come replace the spring. 

As the door was closing that last time, the garage staggered down violently.  One side would go down without the other, then get in a bind, then the other side would come forcefully down to allieviate the bind.  I think this happened twice before the whole right side of the garage came out of the wheel track and started just dangling/hanging.

I put the garage door back together the best I could with it in the down position, and waited for the repair man the next day.  Now, some of this expense probably wasn’t necessary.  The first thing the guy said is “Well, we should probably replace both springs because usually the other one isn’t far behind.” 

Fine, that sounds reasonable.

“We will have to replace these couple of hinges that bent when the door was coming down.”

Ok.

“These wheels look old.  We should probably replace those too.”

No thanks.  I had to put the brakes on it somewhere.  It’s like he was just seeing how far he could go before I would stop him.  I would have had a new door by the time he stopped.  All in all, I spent $302.20.  I suspect that the home warranty would have covered it, but I didn’t want to wait on them, and that wouldn’t have met the deductible anyways.