# Garage door repair in Bear, DE > Townhouse rows and 1990s single-family homes along the US-40 corridor: springs, openers and new doors in Bear. Page: https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/bear-delaware Blue Hen Garage Doors repairs and installs garage doors in Bear from our Dover office, straight up DE-1, which has its own interchange at US-40 in Bear. We repair springs, cables, openers and doors that have come off track, and we install Haas steel and aluminum doors. Bear began as a crossroads where US-40 and DE-7 now meet, and local legend says the name came from a tavern there with a bear on its sign. In the late 1980s and 1990s, housing developments and shopping centers spread along US-40, and Census estimates put the median build year at 1996. - County: New Castle County, Delaware - ZIP codes: 19701, 19702 - Permits: New Castle County Department of Land Use (https://www.newcastlede.gov/landuse). Bear has no town government, so building permits for its subdivisions come from New Castle County's Land Use office (87 Reads Way, New Castle; 302-395-5400). If your community has an HOA, its approval is a separate step. ## Bear housing: townhouses, 1990s singles and manufactured homes Bear's housing is a three-way mix. Census estimates count about 32 percent of homes as single-family detached, about 28 percent as attached townhouses and nearly 19 percent as mobile homes, and about 65 percent are owner-occupied. Communities include Becks Woods, the Village of Becks Pond, Wellington Meadows, Raven Glen at Wellington Woods, Kings Croft, Meridian Crossing and Glasgow Pines, which sits inside the Bear census boundary despite its name. In a townhouse row, the garage door is part of a shared front, so a replacement often has to match the neighbors in panel style, color and window layout if your HOA sets rules. On the 1990s singles, doors and openers are about 30 years old, and at that age it pays to check the springs, rollers and bottom seal together instead of fixing one part at a time. ## Freezing mornings at the door bottom Cold mornings are hard on Bear garage doors. NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Wilmington airport station, about 4 miles from Bear, average about 92 nights a year at or below 32 degrees and about 14 days when the high never gets above freezing. On those mornings a rubber bottom seal can freeze to the driveway, and an opener that keeps pulling can strain its gears, cables and springs. Worn seals also let meltwater and leaves blow in under the door. ## Services - [Garage door seal replacement](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-seal-replacement): On Bear driveways that freeze, a cracked bottom seal sticks, tears and lets in water, so we replace bottom seals and the weatherstripping along the sides and top. - [Garage door opener repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-opener-repair): If your opener hums but will not lift on a cold morning, or reverses for no reason, we check the motor, force settings, photo eyes and remotes. - [New garage door installation](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-installation): For a townhouse row that needs a matching door, we help choose a Haas steel door in the panel style and color your HOA specifies and measure the opening for a clean fit. - [Garage door spring repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-spring-repair): A broken spring on a 1990s single-family door leaves the opener trying to lift the full weight of the door, so we replace the springs and balance the door first. ## Neighborhoods and nearby areas Becks Woods, Village of Becks Pond, Becks Landing, Wellington Meadows, Raven Glen at Wellington Woods, Glasgow Pines, Kings Croft, Meridian Crossing, Rutledge, St Andrews, Village of Fox Meadow, Heather Woods, Wynnefield Hunt, Castlebar ## Questions ### Is Bear a town with its own permit office? No. Bear is a census-designated place in unincorporated New Castle County, so the county's Department of Land Use issues building permits there. Its office is at 87 Reads Way in New Castle, phone 302-395-5400. Part of the Bear area carries Newark 19702 mailing addresses, but that does not put you inside Newark's city limits or under its permit office. ### Can a new garage door match the rest of my townhouse row? Usually you can get close. Bring your HOA's written rules on door style, color and windows, or a photo of the neighbors' doors, and we will look for a Haas steel door with a matching panel design and color. We also check the opening, headroom and side room before ordering, so the new door lines up with the rest of the row. ## Contact Blue Hen Garage Doors, 110 Lafferty Ln, Suite F, Dover, DE 19901. Phone (302) 735-0046. Email Dalton@bluehengaragedoors.com. Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm.