A garage door that won't close is an open invitation, and one that won't open can trap your car exactly when you need it. SwiftLocksmith repairs garage doors and openers of every make and model across NYC: sectional doors, one-piece tilt-ups, and the roll-up doors common on Brooklyn and Queens driveways and commercial garages.
The two most frequent calls we run are broken torsion springs. You'll usually hear a bang from the garage, and then the door is suddenly far too heavy to lift, and openers that hum, click or grind but no longer move the door. Torsion springs are under enormous tension and are genuinely dangerous to replace without the right winding bars and training; this is one repair you should not attempt from a video. We also fix snapped lift cables, doors that have jumped their tracks, bent panels after a bumper tap, worn rollers that make the door scream, and misaligned safety sensors that make a door reverse for no reason. Since a garage is an entry point into your home, we treat it like a locksmith would: we can add or repair the garage door lock itself and secure the emergency release against the coat-hanger bypass burglars use.
Repairs typically run $150 to $1,200 depending on the fault. A sensor realignment sits at the bottom of that range, a two-spring replacement with new cables near the top. We service every day from 7 AM to 9 PM, with emergency response for doors stuck open, and we stock parts for all major door and opener brands so most repairs finish in a single visit.