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iMessage for garage door repair

A broken garage door usually means a car is trapped and someone is late. It is an emergency trade with a genuine safety dimension and a bad reputation for overcharging — all three shape what you send.

6 min readUpdated August 24, 2026By industry

Garage door work sits at an awkward intersection: it is urgent, the customer cannot assess it, some of it is genuinely dangerous, and the industry has a well-earned reputation for quoting a spring replacement at four times what it should cost. Messaging is how a legitimate operator separates itself.

Price the common jobs in writing, before you go

transparent quoting
export const quote = {
  spring: (c: Ctx) =>
    `${c.company}: sounds like a broken torsion spring — very common. ` +
    `${c.springPrice} for the pair fitted, about an hour. ` +
    `We do both even if one's gone; the other is the same age and ` +
    `replacing one is false economy. ${c.tech} can be there ${c.eta}.`,
 
  opener: (c: Ctx) =>
    `${c.company}: could be the opener or the sensors. ` +
    `${c.diagnosticPrice} to diagnose, waived if you go ahead. ` +
    `Sensor fix is usually ${c.sensorPrice}; a new opener is ${c.openerPrice}.`,
};

Explaining why you replace both springs pre-empts the upsell accusation

Customers have read that this is a scam. One sentence of reasoning — same age, same failure window, the labour is the cost — turns the thing that looks like padding into evidence you know what you are doing.

Safety warnings that are actually warnings

Torsion springs store enough energy to kill someone. Customers watch a video and decide to have a go. A blunt message is appropriate here in a way it rarely is elsewhere.

safety
export const safety = {
  doNotAttempt: (c: Ctx) =>
    `${c.company}: please don't try to release it yourself. A broken ` +
    `torsion spring is under enormous tension and it takes fingers off. ` +
    `Leave the door down, park on the drive, ${c.tech} will be there ${c.eta}.`,
 
  carTrapped: (c: Ctx) =>
    `${c.company}: if you need the car out before we arrive, pull the red ` +
    `emergency release cord and lift by hand — but it'll be HEAVY with a ` +
    `broken spring, so get someone to help. Don't do it alone.`,
};

Never talk a customer through a spring adjustment by text

There is a real difference between telling someone how to release a door to get a car out and coaching them through work on a tensioned spring. The first is helpful; the second is how people get badly hurt and how you get sued.

The maintenance message nobody else sends

Garage doors are entirely forgotten until they fail. A single annual message — balance check, roller and hinge service, sensor alignment — is unusual enough in this trade to convert well, and it is genuinely useful.

One message a year, tied to the anniversary of the repair, referencing the specific door. That is the whole programme. Anything more and you become the company that texts about garage doors, which nobody wants.

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