Garage door repair in Greenwood, DE

Garage doors for Greenwood's railroad-era streets, the farm buildings around town, and record-setting snow.

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White pole barn with two brown carriage-style garage doors with window tops on a new concrete apron

Blue Hen Garage Doors

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Job site: Greenwood, DE 19950
Route: South on US-13 from our office

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Garage doors in Greenwood

Greenwood garage doors are repaired and installed by Blue Hen Garage Doors, working from our Dover office. We take care of springs, cables, openers, sensors, seals and doors that have left their tracks, and we put up Haas doors in steel or aluminum for houses, businesses and farm buildings.

Greenwood grew up around the Delaware Railroad, which reached the area in 1858. Simeon Pennewell laid out Market Street, Minor Street and the cross streets on his land, and the station made Greenwood a market town while the older village of St. Johnstown faded. Greenwood Trust Company opened here in 1911 and later became Discover Bank. The town is still small, 990 people on 0.7 square miles, in a district first settled as prime farmland.

Railroad-era houses and working farm buildings

The 1868 atlas shows Greenwood organized around the railroad, with a depot, store, hotel and homes within a few blocks of the track, and the town still keeps that compact shape. A 1928 fire destroyed a number of commercial buildings, and the town then built a water system with an elevated tank for fire protection. If your house on Market, Church, Beaver or Broad Street (Broad was once Maple) has an old detached garage, check the size of its opening first, since an outbuilding that old may not take a stock-size door.

Out past the town limits, the doors get bigger. Greenwood's early economy ran on orchards and row crops, along with a forge, a gristmill, a sawmill and a cannery, and farm buildings around town still need openings wide and tall enough for equipment. For a pole barn or machine shed, we size and hang tall Haas steel doors and service the heavy springs and cables behind them.

Record snow, frozen seals and field dust

Greenwood holds Delaware's official snow depth record: 28 inches, measured near town on February 7, 2010, after the blizzard of February 5 and 6. Snow that deep packs against the bottom of a door and can freeze the seal to the slab. If the door will not lift in a freeze, stop pressing the opener button; forcing it can strip the opener's gear or bend the top panel. Free the seal first, then try again. The rest of the year, dust from the farmland around town collects in the tracks and on the photo eyes.

What we do in Greenwood

Pole barn garage doors in Greenwood
Pole barns, post-frame and metal buildings
Farm buildings around Greenwood need wide, tall openings; we install Haas steel doors on pole barns and metal buildings and keep their springs, cables and rollers in working order.
Garage door opener repair in Greenwood
Motors, sensors, remotes, keypads
After a hard freeze, a door stuck to the slab can strip an opener's drive gear; we replace gears, logic boards and sensors and reset the force and travel limits.
Garage door seal replacement in Greenwood
Bottom seals, retainers, weatherstripping
A bottom seal that froze and tore in a Greenwood winter lets snowmelt and field dust in; we replace the seal and retainer and adjust the door to close evenly.

Every garage door service we offer

South on US-13 from our office

Around Greenwood

Landmarks and main roads: US-13 (Sussex Highway), DE-16 and DE-36 (Market Street), Delmarva Central Railroad, Greenwood Public Library.

Blanchard
Scotts Corner
Staytonville
Adamsville
Oakley
Adams Crossroads

Real Blue Hen installs

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Three black doors with window tops on a metal-roof home.
A wood-look carriage door on a new build.
White carriage doors on a cedar-shake garage.

Greenwood questions

My garage door is frozen to the floor. What should I do?

Stop pressing the opener button. Free the bottom seal gently with a plastic scraper and clear snow and ice out of the tracks, then try the opener once more. If the door still will not move, or a cable or spring looks wrong, leave it and call us. Greenwood holds Delaware's snow-depth record, 28 inches in 2010, so a healthy bottom seal is worth keeping up.

Is Greenwood in Blue Hen's service area?

Yes. We serve the town and the farms and crossroads around it, such as Staytonville and Blanchard. Pole barn doors included, every new-door estimate is free and next-day; the office is open weekdays from 8am to 4:30pm.