Get in touch
Call 1 (651) 401-2178 and you'll reach the shop directly. We're based at 1650 Beam Ave, Maplewood, MN 55109, a few minutes off Highway 36, which puts most of the service area within a short drive.
We cover Maplewood itself and the ring of towns around it: North St. Paul and Little Canada about two to three miles out, Vadnais Heights and Oakdale a few minutes further, and we'll go as far as Lino Lakes, Afton, or Inver Grove Heights for the right job.
If you're not sure whether an address is in range, call and ask before you book - it's a thirty-second answer and saves everyone a wasted trip. We don't run a storefront with walk-in hours. The phone is the front door.
Leave a address and a description of what the door is doing (or not doing) and we'll tell you honestly whether it sounds like a same-day fix, a part we need to order, or something bigger.
Our limits
We don't do new garage construction or framing - that's a carpenter's job, not ours. We also won't patch a door that's cheaper to replace than repair; a lot of the original steel sectional doors from the 1960s and 70s housing stock in this area are worth replacing outright once the galvanizing has gone and the panels are rusting from the inside, and we'll say so instead of billing you for a spring job on a door that's structurally done.
We don't stock every opener part on the truck for every brand and vintage. If a house still has its original 1970s-era opener and the board is fried, that part may need to be special-ordered, and we'll tell you the lead time up front rather than promise a same-visit fix we can't deliver. We also don't do insurance paperwork or act as a general contractor on storm or fire restoration jobs that involve more than the door itself - that work needs a different trade and we'll say that plainly instead of taking the job and farming it out.
Our services
Most of the houses we work on went up between 1950 and 2002, with the bulk of that stock dating to the 1960s and 70s across the 41 named areas in this part of the county. That means a lot of torsion springs sized for doors nobody makes anymore, side-mounted hardware on older one-piece doors, and openers that have been swapped once or twice since the house was built but still sit on original track. We work on broken torsion and extension springs, bent or off-track doors, worn rollers and cables, opener replacement and repair, and panel swaps where the rest of the door is sound.
Winters here sit in a cold, moderate climate band, and cold is hard on springs and on the grease in old rollers - most of our calls in that season are spring failures and openers that won't cycle in the cold. With median household income in this service area around $93,233 and roughly 101,384 owner-occupied houses out of 224,155 households, we see a wide range of doors, from older single-car units to newer double-wide insulated doors, and we price and recommend repairs based on what the door in front of us actually needs, not a standard package.
Questions
Yes. We cover the surrounding area out to roughly a ten to thirteen mile radius, including North St. Paul, Little Canada, Vadnais Heights, Oakdale, Roseville, and towns like Afton and Inver Grove Heights further out. Call with your address and we'll confirm you're in range before scheduling.
Sometimes. A lot of homes in this area still have openers from the 1960s-70s building boom, and parts for those boards aren't always on the truck. We'll check what's wrong first; if it needs a special-order part, we'll tell you the lead time instead of guessing.
Yes, and we'll say so. If the steel panels are rusted through or the door is old enough that replacement parts cost more than a new door, we'd rather tell you that up front than sell you a repair that won't hold.
No. We'll repair or replace the door itself, but we don't manage insurance paperwork or act as general contractor on broader storm restoration work - that needs a different trade.
Ready when you are
Maplewood Garage Door Pros repairs and installs garage doors, springs and openers in Maplewood, MN and the surrounding area.
