What That Noise in Your Garage Door Is Actually Telling You

Most houses in Celina went up between 1982 and 2015, with a heavy concentration right around 2003. That matters because it means a lot of doors, openers, and springs in this town are the same age, built by the same handful of manufacturers who supplied production builders during that stretch. When one neighbor's door starts grinding, chances are good the house two doors down is on the same clock.

A rhythmic thump on the way up is usually a roller that's worn flat on one side, not round anymore. A sharp bang, once, is almost always a torsion spring letting go. A steady squeal that gets worse in cold weather points to a track or hinge that's dry and hasn't seen lubricant since the house was built. None of these are mysterious. They're wear patterns that show up on schedule once a door crosses somewhere past the ten to fifteen year mark, and across the 19 named areas that make up this service territory, that's where most of the housing stock sits right now.

What's not on this list: foundation settling, poor installation, or anything dramatic. Almost every noise call we'd expect to get in Celina traces back to a part that simply ran out of miles.