Review from Penelope L.
Published:over 9 years ago
Instead of fixing it, Crawford wrote an estimate of $1400 for a new steel door. They asked for $600 down so they could order the new door, since mine is a non-standard size (15 x 7). They said the door would come in a week, and meantime I wouldn't be able to access my garage. Then I had second thoughts and called another company, Overhead Door. Their guy didn't know I had already talked with Crawford Door. He said, I see nothing broken, not even your cable - it's only detached. He rewound the cable around the drum, got the wheel back in its track, and lubed everything. All done in a half hour, and it's working like a charm. He also tightened the tension of my springs, so the cable detachment problem wouldn't happen again. Crawford also had told me that my heavy wooden door would soon wear out the garage door opener, because inside was a coiled nylon rope which was doing the lifting, and was bound to break. Better to have a new light weight door, he said, so the opener could last longer. His competitor, the Overhead guy, said that's wrong; the nylon cord does not do any lifting, the springs do it. Crawford also had told me that all metal parts were rusty, and the springs would probably break soon, which could damage my car, or me. Overhead guy disagreed with that. I asked both guys for probable cost of replacing a broken spring, just in case it should happen. Crawford guy said $3-400 for two, Overhead guy said $229 for two. On the positive side,Crawford did mail back my $600 check for down payment, but they kept the $89 for what turned out to be an estimate rather than a repair call. Estimates are usually free.
Services Rendered: I thought I had a broken cable on one side of my heavy wooden sectional garage door. Creaford raised and lowered the door manually for me so I could get my lawnmower out. Said they could fix it for $150 but said I would soon need a new door, so might as well buy one now instead of wasting money on repairing this one. Charged me $89 for the "service" call.