# Garage door repair in Pike Creek, DE

> Townhouse rows and 1980s single-family homes in Pike Creek: springs, openers and doors that match the neighbors.

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Blue Hen Garage Doors repairs and installs garage doors in Pike Creek from our Dover office, by way of DE-1, DE-273, Red Mill Road and Polly Drummond Hill Road.

Pike Creek is not a town. The Census splits the area into two unincorporated census-designated places, Pike Creek and Pike Creek Valley, and mailing addresses read Wilmington 19808, Hockessin 19707 or Newark 19711. Most of the housing went up in the 1980s and 1990s, near White Clay Creek State Park and the Middle Run Natural Area.

- County: New Castle County, Delaware
- ZIP codes: 19808, 19707, 19711
- Permits: New Castle County Department of Land Use (https://www.newcastlede.gov/landuse). Pike Creek and Pike Creek Valley are both unincorporated, so New Castle County's Land Use office (87 Reads Way, New Castle; 302-395-5400) handles building permits for either one. Check your community's door rules separately.

## Pike Creek homes: 1980s townhouse rows and single-family streets

About 82 percent of homes in the Pike Creek CDP were built in the 1980s and 1990s, and attached townhouses (about 42 percent) nearly match detached houses (about 49 percent), by Census estimates. Owners occupy about 87 percent of them. Limestone Hills and its sections, Mendenhall Village, The Ridge, Dennison Ridge, Walden, Winding Bridge and Wood Creek all sit inside the CDP line.

That age and layout drive most garage door decisions here. A door from 1985 or 1995 is likely due for springs, rollers, cables or an opener, and in a townhouse row it also has to look like its neighbors, so read your community's rules on design and color before you choose. On the single-family streets, an insulated Haas steel door is a sensible upgrade for an attached garage.

## Cold-weather strain on older doors

Winter is the hard season for Pike Creek garage doors. NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Newark Ag Farm station, about 5 miles south, average about 10 days a year when the high never gets above 32 degrees, on top of regular freezing nights. Cold stiffens the grease in old rollers and hinges, so a worn door makes the opener work harder, and torsion springs that have been cycling since the 1980s have little left to give. Bottom seals that have gone hard let cold air straight into an attached garage.

## Services

- [Garage door spring repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-spring-repair): When a spring breaks on a Pike Creek townhouse door, the door is often stuck closed with the car inside; we replace torsion springs and check the cables, drums and balance.
- [Garage door opener repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-opener-repair): If the opener in a 1980s or 1990s house strains, reverses for no reason or ignores the remote, we repair the motor, photo eyes, remotes and keypad, or replace the unit.
- [New garage door installation](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-installation): In a townhouse row, we match the neighbors' panel design and color with a Haas steel door and give you the model and dimensions your community asks for.

## Neighborhoods and nearby areas

Limestone Hills, Mendenhall Village, The Ridge, Highlands at the Ridge, Dennison Ridge, Hillside Glen, Morningside, Silverwood, Spring Meadow, Walden, Winding Bridge, Wood Creek, Pike Creek Valley

## Questions

### Pike Creek or Pike Creek Valley: who issues my permit?

The county, either way. The Census Bureau counts Pike Creek and Pike Creek Valley as two separate census-designated places, but neither is an incorporated town, so New Castle County's Department of Land Use issues building permits for both. Its office is at 87 Reads Way in New Castle. A Wilmington, Newark or Hockessin mailing address does not change that.

### Do I have to match the other doors in my townhouse row?

Often, yes, if your community sets rules for exterior changes. Ask for those rules in writing before you shop, since they may spell out panel design, color and window layout. We can match a neighbor's door with a Haas steel door and hand you the model, color and dimensions to submit. Even where the rules are silent, a matching door keeps the row looking right.

## 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.