Fair Price on Garage Door Work?

[MileHigh]

So my new home came with the garage door/standard rails and nothing else.

I had the guy who did my dad's garage come give me a bid to make it open High Bay style and go mostly straight up and to install Liftmaster 3800. Bid came in at about 500 for parts (replace drums and weak Wayne Dalton torsion system) and labor to make the door and rails go up high and another 500 for the LM3800 and installation.

So sitting right around 1k total. Seems pretty fair but this is my first place with a garage!

Thoughts? Future plan includes a lift, hence wanting to take the door straight up as much as possible.

 

[nova65ss]

Sounds fair to me. It takes almost all day, it is very time consuming running all the wires and changing out the tracks and springs.

 

[Kevin54]

Sounds good to me. I paid a few hundred just to have my garage doors "tuned up". That consisted of readjusting the springs, lubing everything, and replacing any bad rollers.

BTW..that consisted of a 16' garage door and two 9' x 7' doors.

 

[slip knot]

Sounds about right for my area. For some reason garage doors are a specialty around here and very few companys work on tracked doors anymore.

 

[Gary S]

Sounds right. If you refuse to do the work yourself, be prepared to pay the guy who will.

 

[hockey88fan]

Sounds right

 

[mooman]

I just got a quote today to install a 3800 and it was $600.