You can confirm a garage door technician is legitimate in about two minutes, and you should do it before anyone comes inside. Look at the vehicle for company markings, ask for photo identification and the name of the company, and ask to see a work order that matches the appointment
A rock bottom garage door repair ad is not automatically a scam, but it is almost never the price you end up paying. The advertised number is a visit fee, not a repair fee, and everything after the diagnosis is priced separately. In a bait-and-switch, the technician arrives, performs a
You can confirm a garage door company’s website is real in about five minutes using free tools. Compare the phone number on the site against the company’s Google Business Profile, drop the street address into Google Maps and look at Street View, read the domain name letter by letter for
Scammers impersonate a trusted garage door company by copying the parts of it you can actually see. They build lookalike websites with local phone numbers, buy search ads on the real company’s name, answer the phone without ever stating a business name, and show up in unmarked trucks with no
A garage door that will not open usually comes down to one of eight causes, and the right first move depends on what you hear when you press the button. If nothing happens at all, check power to the opener and make sure the manual lock is not engaged. If
A garage door that starts to close and then goes back up is almost always a safety-system message, not a broken door. Nine times out of ten the cause is the two photo-eye safety sensors near the floor: they are misaligned, dirty, or blocked, so the opener refuses to close
