Most of the houses we get called to in Fenton went up somewhere between 1950 and 1994, with the bulk of that stock dating to the 1960s and 70s. That matters because a lot of those garages still carry original hardware, or a mismatched replacement from whoever worked on it last. We spend our days on torsion springs that have gone soft, openers that grind instead of lift, and tracks that have racked out of square on doors that are older than the cars parked in front of them.
We run out of Fenton and cover the towns around it: Lake Fenton is about three miles from us, Linden is roughly four, Holly sits at five, and Argentine shows up twice on our coverage map, once at six miles west and again closer to eight. We also get out to Deerfield, Hartland, Grand Blanc, Byron, Swartz Creek, Goodrich, Vernon, Ortonville, the Village of Clarkston, Durand, Milford, Howell, Davison, Brighton, Flushing, and Davisburg. Some of those runs are quick, some take a while, but the truck goes where the calls are.
This is a cold-climate area, and that shows up in the work: brittle springs in January, openers that hesitate in the cold, seals that give out. We plan the day around distance and weather more than anything else.