# Garage door repair in Claymont, DE > Postwar streets, Darley Green townhomes and century-old worker housing on the Pennsylvania line: garage door repair across Claymont. Page: https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/claymont-delaware Blue Hen Garage Doors repairs and installs garage doors in Claymont, the unincorporated community in Brandywine Hundred where Delaware meets Pennsylvania along the river. We handle springs, cables, openers, photo eyes and seals, and we install steel and aluminum doors, Haas among them, for homes and businesses. Claymont started on Naamans Creek and took its present name in 1856. A steel mill employed residents from 1916 until it closed in 2014, and its 450-acre site is being rebuilt as First State Crossing. The 2020 census counted 9,895 people and 4,319 homes in the Claymont census-designated place. - County: New Castle County, Delaware - ZIP codes: 19703 - Permits: New Castle County Department of Land Use (https://www.newcastlede.gov/landuse). Claymont is unincorporated, so building permits come from the county's Land Use office at 87 Reads Way in New Castle, (302) 395-5400. Inside the 0.6-square-mile Claymont Hometown Overlay, development and redevelopment applications also go before a design review advisory committee. ## Claymont homes: worker housing, postwar streets and Darley Green Claymont's housing is mostly postwar but unusually mixed. Census estimates put the median home at 1964, with about a quarter built in the 1950s alone, and only about 41 percent are detached houses, with 22 percent attached and about 31 percent in buildings of five or more units. Two neighborhoods are older. Overlook Colony was built before World War I by the General Chemical Corporation for its workers, and Hickman Row, brick townhomes finished in 1919, housed African-American steelworkers and their families. Knollwood and Addicks Estates are single-family streets near the train station. The newest layer replaced the Brookview Garden Apartments: Darley Green, whose first homes were finished in 2009, is planned as a mix of 831 townhomes, apartments and shops, and about 14 percent of Claymont's homes now date from 2010 to 2019. A Darley Green door hung in 2009 has well over a decade of daily lifts on its springs, while the opener on a 1950s Claymont house may predate 1993, when federal rules began requiring an extra safety device such as photo eyes or an edge sensor. ## Flash floods and hail in Claymont Flash flooding and hail are what Claymont's garage doors have to handle. FEMA's flood map keeps Claymont's neighborhoods largely outside the mapped floodplain, which follows Naamans Creek and the Delaware River shore, yet NOAA storm records show flash floods that closed I-95 at the state line and washed out part of Manor Avenue in August 2020, stranded at least 20 vehicles in June 2023, and flooded Philadelphia Pike at Alcott Avenue in July 2025. That water reaches bottom seals, brackets and the bottom rollers. NOAA also logged half-dollar hail in Claymont in August 2011 and golf-ball hail in May 2014 that punctured a plastic table at one home. ## Services - [Garage door seal replacement](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-seal-replacement): After street flooding like the June 2023 storm that stranded at least 20 vehicles in Claymont, a torn bottom seal lets water and silt into the garage. We replace bottom seals, retainers and side weatherstripping and check the bottom rollers and brackets. - [Garage door opener repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-opener-repair): The CPSC says photo eyes belong 4 to 6 inches above the floor, which puts them first in line when flash-flood water reaches a Claymont garage. We repair or replace eyes and wiring, motors, remotes and keypads. - [New garage door installation](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-installation): If hail like the golf-ball storm NOAA recorded in Claymont in May 2014 leaves a steel door pocked, we can design a replacement with you in steel or aluminum, insulated or not, from Haas. - [Commercial garage doors](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/commercial-garage-doors): North Claymont is turning the old Tri-State Mall site into a logistics center and the former steel mill into First State Crossing, with light industrial space planned. Commercial overhead doors are part of what we repair and install. ## Neighborhoods and nearby areas Darley Green, Overlook Colony, Hickman Row, Knollwood, Addicks Estates, Ashbourne Hills, Claymont Addition, Worthland, Woodstream Gardens, Society Hill ## Questions ### Does a garage door job in Claymont need a county permit? It depends on the opening. In Claymont, New Castle County's Department of Land Use issues building permits, and its home-improvement list requires one for relocating or creating new windows, doors or steps of any kind and for moving or replacing walls, so changing a garage opening needs a permit. For electrical work, such as a new outlet for an opener, the county says to check with the State at (302) 744-4504. Permit questions go to (302) 395-5400. ### What should I check on my garage door after a Claymont flash flood? Start at the floor. Flash floods in Claymont have stranded cars and washed out part of Manor Avenue, and water at the slab reaches the bottom seal, bottom brackets, bottom rollers and the opener's photo eyes, which the CPSC says belong 4 to 6 inches above the floor. Once it dries, lay a 2 by 4 flat under the door and close it; federal opener rules say the door must reverse on contact. ## 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.