Clay-shifted or bumped tracks set straight again — across Preston Hollow, University Park, Highland Park, North Dallas, Lake Highlands, Addison, Richardson.
Garage door tracks hold a tolerance of millimeters, and North Dallas sits on soil that refuses to hold still. Blackland Prairie clay swells with every wet spring and shrinks through every drought summer, and the garage slab and framing ride that cycle — until the tracks that were parallel in March are pinching by August. It's the quiet cause behind half the 'opener problems' in this city.
The sudden causes fill out the ticket: a bumper tap in a tight alley approach, a ladder stored against the rail, a storm-slammed door mid-cycle. We straighten what's safe to straighten, replace what's kinked past saving, and re-anchor the run into solid framing — set for the slab this garage actually has, not the one on the blueprints.
Expansive clay is the patient enemy of alignment: the slab lifts and settles by season, anchors work loose a fraction at a time, and travel roughens in ways owners blame on the opener. We re-anchor into sound framing, true the channel with the door's current geometry, and set the roller gap exactly — so the door runs free through the next swell-and-shrink cycle instead of fighting it.
Plumb, level, gap and parallelism measured down the full run of both tracks.
Straighten versus replace decided per section, one approved price.
Sections trued or replaced, brackets upgraded, anchors set to hold.
Full cycles with roller seating checked at every height.
Tell us what your door is doing and we'll call you right back. No prices online — cost depends on the door, parts, and size, so we give an exact on-site quote.