Alturas is a small town to work in, and an old one: 1,384 homes altogether, 83% of them finished before 1980. Age does not change how a door works, though — it hangs on tracks, it is counterbalanced, and when it stops, one part of that has given out. Working out which one is the job. Ring us whenever it suits you and we will come and look at it.
Spring, opener, roller, cable and track work in Alturas, Modoc County, seven days a week, and in nearby Tulelake, Susanville and Dorris.
📍 We cover all of Alturas — ZIP codes 96101, and the rest of Modoc County.
Dispatch and service seven days a week · (833) 991-3899
Tell us where you are and what the door is doing, and we will call you back.
| Monday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Tuesday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Thursday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Friday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Saturday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Sunday | 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM |
| Emergency | 24/7 |
Identify what your door is doing before you call. If it is one of these, do not keep operating it.
Your torsion spring has snapped under intense torsional load. Forcing the opener to lift the door without spring assistance will burn out the motor or snap the drive belt.
A stripped internal nylon drive gear or a blown starting capacitor. We carry complete carriage gear rebuild kits in our trucks to repair your system immediately.
Don't let a snapped spring, snapped cable, ripped weather seal, or a defective remote keep you locked inside. Our expert teams carry fully stocked dispatch trucks. We regularly perform comprehensive garage door maintenance (inspection, lubrication, adjustment, and component testing) to keep your system safe. We serve Alturas and the cities around it.
The first two checks here are both at floor level. One is how high the safety sensors sit either side of the opening: DASMA's rule is that they must not be mounted higher than six inches above the garage floor, and a sensor that has drifted out of true — or been raised on purpose to stop a door reversing on nothing — has stopped covering anyone lying on the floor.
The other is what is carrying the door's weight, which nothing about an Alturas address will tell you. Out of 1,384 homes counted here, 438 date from the 1970s and 292 from 1939 or earlier, and the sampling error on that pair — 166 units — is wider than the 146 between them, which is the census refusing to rank the two rather than a finding that they are equal. What it does settle is the clock: the median build year is 1969, four years either way, so a door still on its original hardware has been going up and down for fifty-seven years.
None of that says what is holding the weight up. It could be a torsion spring wound on a shaft above the opening or a pair of extension springs stretched back along the tracks — both are ours to work on — and which one is over a given door gets read off the door, not off the year the house went up. Alturas also runs 195 nights a year at or below freezing in NOAA's 1991-2020 normals; what that does to a given spring nobody publishes, so it gets measured rather than assumed.
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96101. That is the ZIP code area that covers Alturas itself. We also work the rest of Modoc County, so ask even if yours is not on the list.
Yes. Alturas is one of the cities we cover in Modoc County, and we work across the county lines around it too — the nearest cities we cover are listed at the bottom of this page, whichever county they fall in.
No. There is no extra charge for evening or weekend work.
Yes — California license #1138150, bonded and insured.
We cover the cities nearest Alturas for garage door repair and emergency dispatch.
