Automatic Garage Door Corporation repairs and installs residential garage doors and commercial rolling steel doors for clients throughout the Greater Bay Area. The company also sells a variety of LiftMaster openers and offers preventive maintenance services for all types of garage doors. All its models come with a one-year warranty on parts and labor and incorporate basic safety features to protect children, pets, and possessions.
President Mark Griffin has more than 40 years of experience in the automatic door industry. A longtime Bay Area resident, Mr. Griffin says his extensive knowledge of San Francisco and its surrounding communities allows him to understand the special needs of his customers. "My crew of professional installers has been with me for many years, and they exercise the same commitment to quality and meticulous care on every job."
Automatic Garage Door Corporation's San Francisco showroom displays many different brands and styles of garage doors, all of which can be customized with window panel and top section designs. To see extensive examples of the company's past projects, Mr. Griffin invites potential customers to visit www.automaticgaragedoorsf.com.
“Our work ethic is built on the basic principles of common courtesy: We show up on time, call if we're going to be late, and keep our trucks and equipment clean and organized. We're very meticulous with our installations, and customers can expect us to perform timely warranty work after their jobs are complete. If they experience any problems with their garage doors, we'll be there to take care of them.”
If you ignore maintenance on your garage door, don’t be surprised when it breaks.
People get the brakes on their car checked. They get their car’s oil changed. Yet they completely ignore their garage door, the single largest moving object in their house.
“It goes up and down constantly, and no one does maintenance on it. It’s one of those things people just take for granted,” says Mark Griffin of Automatic Garage Door. The result is that the garage door may break much sooner than they should.
Whether you need your garage door repaired or replaced, Mr. Griffin recommends you find a journeyman with at least four years’ experience repairing and installing garage doors.
The key to a long-running and smooth-operating garage door, says Mr. Griffin, is proper balance. When an experienced professional comes to service your garage door, his first step should be to balance it. He should put the door on its manual setting, adjust the spring tension and oil the parts.
There are two types of doors that should not be serviced, says Mr. Griffin. First is a door without the safety sensors that are mandatory in newer doors. The second is an older, one-piece door that flips up and, because of its dangerous side springs, creates a safety risk. If you own one of these one-piece models, he recommends you keep all its parts well oiled, stay clear of the springs and purchase a new folding door as soon as possible.
Another piece of advice to anyone looking for a company to service their garage door: Visit its showroom—the very existence of which tells you the company is established. Trust your instincts. If the showroom looks and feels professional, that should help reassure you that the company is a trustworthy choice.
Mark Griffin has been in the garage door industry for more than 30 years. His company, Automatic Garage Door, repairs and installs residential garage doors and commercial rolling steel doors for homes and businesses in the Bay Area.
The company completes all jobs in a single day–"installed, double checked and triple checked," according to Mr. Griffin. All jobs result in a "delighted" client, he says, and problems are rare and immediately remedied.
You can count on Automatic Garage Door to perform timely warranty work along with new installations, Mr. Griffin says. Should warranty issues arise, he handles them quickly and personally.
A long-time resident of the Bay Area, Mr. Griffin's extensive knowledge of San Francisco's neighborhoods equips him to understand the special needs of his customers. His company's work ethic is built on the basic principles of common courtesy: show up on time or call if you're running late; keep trucks and equipment clean and organized; exercise the same commitment to quality and meticulous care that you would if installing your own garage door.
The overwhelming majority of calls handled by the company (90 percent) result in repairs rather than replacements. The only doors the company can't service are those deemed unsafe: doors lacking sensors to reverse their direction when they encounter a blockage, and one-piece doors with dangerous side-springs. Under those circumstances, Mr. Griffin will recommend the homeowner install a new door as quickly as possible.
Automatic Garage Door has a complete showroom where you can view many styles and brands. Its two full-time secretaries are fluent in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese.
