Garage Door Repair in Lynbrook, NY

About Lynbrook

Lynbrook incorporated as a village in 1911. Its name is a play on Brooklyn — the two syllables swapped — in honor of the many early residents who had moved out from there. Fowler Avenue, the street used for Everybody Loves Raymond, is a real street in the middle of the village, and the Lynbrook station sits off Sunrise Highway between Peninsula Boulevard and Broadway.

The village borders Malverne to the north, Valley Stream to the west, Hewlett to the southwest, East Rockaway to the southeast and Rockville Centre to the east.

Lynbrook Garages

Like Rockville Centre, Lynbrook has many homes from the first half of the 20th century, with detached garages behind them and a mix of post-war houses with attached garages. Our most common Lynbrook calls:

• Original extension springs on older doors, often without safety cables.
• Openers in tight detached garages — a job for a wall-mount.
• Doors bumped out of their tracks on narrow driveways.
• Springs on attached two-car doors that have simply run out of cycles.

Safety Cables on Extension Springs

An extension spring that breaks without a safety cable through it can fly across the garage. Many older Lynbrook doors still have them. Whenever we work on one, we make sure safety cables are in place; replacing a pair with new cables, or converting the door to torsion springs, removes the risk.

Lynbrook's Neighbors

Lynbrook is our closest neighbor to the west. Also see Rockville Centre, Malverne, East Rockaway and Hewlett.

Older detached garage? Read pre-war detached garages.

Tight Driveways, Bumped Tracks

Many Lynbrook houses sit on narrow lots with a long, single-width driveway to a garage at the back. Backing out a little off-line is easy, and a mirror or bumper that clips the vertical track will push it out of plumb. The next time the door rises, rollers pop out and the door jams at an angle.

If your door has started rubbing on one side or leaning, call before it comes off completely. Straightening a track (from $129) is a far smaller job than re-hanging a fallen door (from $170).

Openers for Detached Lynbrook Garages

Detached garages often have low ceilings, exposed rafters and only one outlet, if any. A wall-mount opener on the spring shaft needs almost no headroom and keeps the ceiling clear for storage. A keypad by the door (from $145) is handy when the garage is a walk from the house.

No outlet yet? An electrician has to add one first; meanwhile we can make sure the door is balanced and easy to lift by hand.