About Christerfuglesang

The Garage That Also Has to Be a Shop

Christerfuglesang works on garage doors across Long Beach, and the jobs we get called to most often come from the same place: somebody is trying to use their garage as a workshop and the door is in the way. We are on Ximeno Ave in the 90808 ZIP.

That is a narrower thing than general garage door repair, and it is deliberate. A door in a shop garage lives a different life. It gets opened and shut more, it gets left partly open for air, and it shares a room with a bench, a table saw, a bike on a stand and a rack somebody is trying to hang from the joists.

Why the Ceiling Comes Up First

Almost every conversation starts at the ceiling. A trolley opener puts a steel rail down the middle of the bay and a motor head at the far end of it, and that is the same strip of ceiling a storage rack, a hoist or a lift wants. People buy the rack, get it home and discover the rail runs through it.

A jackshaft opener mounts on the wall beside the torsion shaft and drives the shaft directly. No rail, no motor over the car. That one change is usually what turns an impossible layout into a workable one, and it is why it appears on almost every quote we write.

The Door Takes a Beating

A shop garage inflicts damage a family garage never does. Sheet goods get walked into panels. A dolly finds the bottom section. Grinding sparks pit the paint, and this close to the water pitted paint on a steel door means corrosion within a season or two.

So we spend as much time on protection as on openers. Struts across sections that flex, heavier hinges where a light door is being cycled far more than it was specified for, a rub rail or a pair of bollards where the same corner keeps getting hit.

What We Will Not Do

We will not tell you a lift fits before we have measured it. The numbers either work or they do not, and the tape settles it in ten minutes.

We also will not fit a wall mount opener to a door that is out of balance. It will run, briefly, and then the cable tension monitor will trip and you will be calling about a new problem. The balance gets fixed first or the job does not go ahead.

Call (562) 581-0494.