# Garage door repair in Dover, DE > Dover is home, from The Green's alley garages to the new builds in Eden Hill Farm. Page: https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/dover-delaware Blue Hen Garage Doors repairs and installs garage doors across Dover from its office at 110 Lafferty Lane, Suite F. That covers torsion and extension springs, lift cables and drums, openers, photo eyes and keypads, doors off track, and new steel and aluminum doors, Haas among them. Dover is also a city of very different garages. Alley lots in the Victorian blocks west of The Green, homes from the 1960s and 1970s annexation boom, and new houses still going up in Eden Hill Farm and Patriot Village each bring their own repairs. Estimates for new doors are free and next-day, and the office is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm. - County: Kent County, Delaware - ZIP codes: 19901, 19902, 19903, 19904, 19905, 19906 - Permits: City of Dover Department of Planning and Inspections (https://www.cityofdover.gov/departments/Planning/planning-and-inspections). The city's permit brochure lists windows and exterior doors among work that needs a building permit, so call (302) 736-7010 before replacing a door. Inside the Historic District Zone, Architectural Review Certification is part of the building permit. ## Dover garages: alley lots, annexation-era homes and new builds Dover's garages fall into three groups. In the Victorian Dover Historic District, most blocks are bisected by alleys, and the city's historic design guidelines say garages usually sit at the rear of the lot, especially on alley lots. Inside the Historic District Zone, Architectural Review Certification is part of the building permit, so pick a carriage-style or paneled door that suits the house. The second group came with annexation. Dover grew from about 1,000 acres in 1960 to 12,287 by 1971, and Census estimates put about a third of today's homes in the 1960 to 1979 range. The city plan calls West Dover's Fox Hall, Woodmill and Heatherfield, and South Dover's Sherwood, Woodbrook, Mayfair and Crossgates, long established. An opener made before January 1, 1993 predates the federal entrapment protection standard, so if yours has no photo eyes or edge sensor, replace it. The third group is still going up. Planned neighborhoods such as Village of Westover, Village of Cannon Mill and Lexington Glen use smaller lots and alleys so garages do not dominate the street, and Eden Hill Farm, the city's first Traditional Neighborhood Design, held over half of the roughly 105 homes Dover finished in 2024. ## Dover weather, wind and low ground Heat, cold snaps, hard wind and low creek ground all reach Dover garage doors. The city averages about 25 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter, roughly 15 nights below 20 degrees and about 47.6 inches of precipitation, which is hard on bottom seals and weatherstripping. Wind is the sharper risk: a 70-knot thunderstorm gust, about 80 mph, did roughly $1.5 million in damage in Dover in June 1998, and on August 4, 2020 a tornado from Hurricane Isaias crossed the city with damage rated EF1. Low ground along the St. Jones River, Silver Lake and Puncheon Run flooded in April 2007, and the city's 2024 code update keeps an 18-inch freeboard for building in flood zones. ## Services - [Garage door opener repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-opener-repair): In Dover homes from the 1960s and 1970s, check the opener's age first. We repair motors, photo eyes, remotes and keypads, and if a unit predates the 1993 federal safety standard, we will tell you plainly to replace it. - [Garage door spring repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-spring-repair): If you own rentals in Dover, where Census estimates show more than half of occupied homes are rented, a broken spring can trap your tenant's car inside. We replace torsion and extension springs, check the cables and drums, and rebalance the door. - [New garage door installation](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-installation): For a house in the Historic District Zone or a new build in Eden Hill Farm, we help choose panel style, color, windows and hardware, then quote steel or aluminum Haas doors with insulated options. - [Commercial garage doors](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/commercial-garage-doors): Businesses along Dover's US-13 corridor and at the Garrison Oak Business and Technology Center can call us for commercial overhead door repair and installation, not just homeowners. ## Neighborhoods and nearby areas Victorian Dover Historic District, Fox Hall, Woodmill, Heatherfield, Sherwood, Woodbrook, Mayfair, Crossgates, Towne Point, Village of Westover, Village of Cannon Mill, Lexington Glen, Eden Hill Farm, Patriot Village ## Questions ### Do I need a permit to replace a garage door in Dover? Ask the city before you order. Dover's permit brochure lists windows and exterior doors among the work that needs a building permit, and Planning and Inspections at City Hall, 15 Loockerman Plaza, takes permit questions at (302) 736-7010. In the Historic District Zone, Architectural Review Certification is part of the building permit, so confer with the City Planner about the door style first. ### What should a Dover landlord have checked on a garage door between tenants? Start with access. Clear old remotes and keypad codes from the opener so a past tenant cannot get in, then test the auto-reverse and photo eyes, look over the springs, cables and rollers, and replace a torn bottom seal. With more than half of Dover's occupied homes rented, according to Census estimates, that check belongs in every turnover. ### How do estimates for a new garage door work in Dover? They are free, and we schedule them for the next day. Call (302) 735-0046 or email Dalton@bluehengaragedoors.com, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4:30pm; the office is at 110 Lafferty Lane, Suite F. A photo of the front of the house, or of the alley side for a rear garage, helps us talk through panel style, color, windows and insulation. ## 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.