# Garage door repair in Smyrna, DE > Townhouse rows, 2000s subdivisions south of Lake Como and a Victorian downtown: Smyrna garage doors, up DE-1 from Dover. Page: https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/smyrna-delaware Blue Hen Garage Doors comes up DE-1 from Dover to repair and replace garage doors in Smyrna. Springs, cables, openers, off-track doors and full replacements are all part of the job, from townhouse rows to the old houses downtown. Smyrna changed fast once DE-1 was built between 1988 and 2003. The population nearly doubled, from 5,679 in 2000 to 10,023 in 2010, and the town counts 2,652 homes built or under way since 2000, nearly all of them south of Lake Como, out toward Rabbit Chase Road and Brenford Road. - County: Kent County, Delaware - ZIP codes: 19977 - Permits: Town of Smyrna Building and Inspections (https://www.smyrna.delaware.gov/160/Permits-Applications). Smyrna's permit list includes windows, doors, garages and pole barns; call Building and Inspections at (302) 653-3486 before starting. Historic district work also uses a Historic District Permit Application reviewed by the Historic District Review Board. ## Smyrna's townhouses, 2000s subdivisions and Victorian core About three in ten Smyrna homes are attached, roughly double Dover's share, Census estimates show. Townhouses took over during the recession: in 2009 the town saw only 9 single-family houses built against 49 townhouses and 76 apartments. The bigger wave came in the 2000s, when about a third of today's homes went up, much of it in subdivisions annexed south of Lake Como between 2000 and 2007, such as Hickory Hollow, Worthington, Brenford Station II and Bergmont Woods. A door that came with one of those houses has been running for close to 20 years or more. Older Smyrna is a different job. Grid streets of single-family homes spread out in the 1950s and 1960s, in places like Lake Como Gardens and Cottage Dale Acres, and the Smyrna Historic District counts about 850 contributing buildings, most from the mid to late 1800s. ## Smyrna sits high on Duck Creek, but wind gets in Smyrna is only about six miles from the Delaware Bay, yet its historic core sits high on the banks of Duck Creek, well outside the floodplain, and the town plan records no significant flooding in more than 250 years. Only six homes, one mobile home and two commercial buildings in town lie in the 100-year floodplain along Duck Creek and Mill Creek. Storms are the real threat here. A 56-knot thunderstorm gust, about 64 mph, hit Smyrna in July 2014, and hail up to 1.5 inches fell in June 2002, according to federal storm records in the county's hazard plan. ## Services - [Garage door opener repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-opener-repair): In Smyrna's townhouse rows, a rattling or failing opener is heard next door. Quieting it can mean new rollers or a motor repair, and sometimes a new opener makes more sense than another fix. - [Garage door spring repair](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-spring-repair): If a door south of Lake Como still runs on springs from the 2000s, they have carried a lot of cycles. The federal opener rules warn that weak or broken springs can let a door fall fast, so if one snaps, leave the door down and let us replace it. - [New garage door installation](https://www.bluehengaragedoors.com/garage-door-installation): For downtown houses in the Smyrna Historic District, we help settle panel style, panel count, color and windows, the same details the town's historic district permit form asks about. ## Neighborhoods and nearby areas Smyrna Historic District, Lake Como Gardens, Cottage Dale Acres, Green Meadows, Woodland Manor, Eagle Chase, Schoolhouse Village, Sunnyside Village, Bon Ayre, Bombay Woods, Hickory Hollow, Worthington, Brenford Station II, Bergmont Woods ## Questions ### Which Smyrna office signs off on a garage door, and is there a historic review? Building and Inspections handles permits. The town's permit page lists windows and doors among the modifications that need one, questions go to (302) 653-3486, and since 2026 applications run through an online portal. Downtown, exterior work also goes on a Historic District Permit Application reviewed by the Historic District Review Board, whose door checklist covers steel or wood, panels, color and windows. ### Can I pick any garage door for my Smyrna townhouse? Pick within your community's rules. About three in ten Smyrna homes are attached, and if yours is in an association, ask for its door guidelines and get approval in writing first. Then we can match panel style, color and windows to the rest of the row, in steel or aluminum, and price it with a free next-day estimate. ### Do you serve the part of Smyrna in New Castle County? Yes. Smyrna sits in both Kent and New Castle counties, and much of the land annexed north of Duck Creek since 2002 is on the New Castle side. Either side is in our service area. ## 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.