Bent, rubbing, out of plumb — trued and tight — across Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills, Western Springs, Oak Brook, Burr Ridge, Willowbrook, Downers Grove, La Grange.
Tracks are the door's railroad, and they only get noticed when the train derails: a scrape at the same spot every cycle, a shudder at the curve, a roller riding the track lip, or a door that jams cocked at knee height. The causes here are wonderfully local — a car mirror's love tap in a tight village garage, lag screws working loose from a century-old framing member, a slab lifted by frost heave, or a track slowly pushed out of plumb by years of vibration.
We true tracks with gauges, not eyeballs: correct roller clearance top to bottom, plumb verticals, matched horizontal radius, and anchors reset into sound wood. Sections too creased to trust get replaced rather than persuaded. It is unglamorous millimetre work, and it is the difference between a door that glides for years and one that eats rollers every season.
Frost heave is the quiet culprit in this county. The slab lifts a little every hard winter and settles again in spring, and the track anchored to the wall beside it does not move with it — so alignment drifts a fraction each season until a roller finally rides the lip. Add a hundred-year-old garage whose framing has its own opinions about humidity, and track work here is preventive medicine. We re-anchor into sound wood and set clearances to gauge so the fix holds through the seasons instead of one.
Plumb, gauge and radius measured end to end — and the cause found: impact, settlement or fatigue.
Truing, re-anchoring and any section replacement in one approved number.
Rails straightened or replaced, anchors reset into sound wood, spacing set to gauge.
Door cycled end to end, clearances rechecked under load, quiet confirmed.
Tell us what your door is doing and we'll call you right back. No prices online — cost depends on the door, parts, and size, so we give an exact on-site quote.