Expert Garage Door Repair,
Service, & Installation in
Bakersfield, CA

Bakersfield's housing count is 133,876 units, and the largest single period on the census table under it, 2000 to 2009 at 29,637, is a little over a fifth of that. 47,199 of them, better than a third, were finished before 1980, and 16,705 of those before 1960. The median build year is 1989, and it sits inside a three-decade block the census cannot separate: 1970 to 1979 holds 19,504 units, 1980 to 1989 holds 20,959 and 1990 to 1999 holds 20,010, and no pair of those is further apart than the margin on the difference — 1,455 against 1,576 at the widest, 506 against 1,763 at the narrowest. That is 60,473 units of the city's housing on which nothing published ranks one decade against another. A door still hanging where the builder left it at that median has been in service 37 years, and with a margin of two years published on the median itself that is a round figure rather than an exact one. What the spread costs is not shelf space, it is certainty about what comes off the shelf. DASMA's data sheet on component substitution is direct about that: a part that looks similar may not offer the same strength or functionality as the original, and differences may exist in material thicknesses too small to be visually identified. Fitting one that is not identical, it says, may weaken the overall assembly. So the hinge, the roller, the bearing plate or the bracket gets identified against the door it is going on, at the address, before it goes on. And where an original door is still up on one of the older garages, DASMA's history of the trade has most doors produced in the 1940s and 50s built of wood, which is not the steel that began taking the residential market in 1980.