GARAGE DOOR REFINISHERS, LLC

Fantastic. The door looks better than it was when new.

I’ve been stewing over this for months now and finally am too angry to not say anything. After the owner promised me our garage door would look brand new I paid him the $300 in cash. I can tell you it looks worse and I’ve had people comment now about it. He PROMISED. Those were his Words, not mine. When I called him to say it looks horrible and worse he told me that wasn’t possible and was quite rude to me honestly. He was arguing with me that it wasn’t possible for the door to look worse!!! Trust me, when people asked me about it, I knew it was worse that before he touched it. When I called him, he had nothing but excuses and his words to me were “that’s not possible”. Trust me, it is more than possible. So now I’m $300 in the hole and a garage door that looks terrible and had to deal with a rude owner who doesn’t stand behind his work. Don’t use this guy or company. Waste of a a lot of money and stress and anger!

Initially is went super. I was very satisfied with my door. They did a great job, but in the process of refinishing this door they removed all my weatherstripping, vowing to replace and install new. When the job was finished, they were struggling to find a stock stripping to fit the bottom of the door and couldn't locate it. So, they left. The owner/manager said he would continue to pursue and return to install after completing other jobs. I never heard back so contacted to follow up and was completely blown off. I received a curt response I told you I do not want to get involved with this. Now I am left with a problem I did not cause.

Steve, the owner, answered all my questions through phone and e-mails. After the first day, one of the workman suggested also new stoppers for the door. I agreed they also needed replacing and grateful he suggested. Steve immediately sent me an updated quote which was reasonable. The whole process took 4 days. All the workman were friendly and professional. If you have an older wood door, I would highly recommend Garage Door Refinishers.

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Steve was prompt with all communications. He was professional and attentive to our needs and preferences. The entire process took 5 days: Day 1- removed door and hardware. Stripped, sanded, reinstalled door and applied stain to door and sidelights. Day 2- Applied 1st coat of sealer. Day 3- Applied 2nd coat of sealer. Day 4- Applied 3rd coat of sealer. Day 5- Repainted trim, reinstalled hardware and trim. I was exceptionally pleased with the process, the outcome and the fact that my beat up 23 year old door looks better now than it did when it was new. I highly recommend Garage Door Refinishers.

Worked out exceptionally well. We had 2 large wooden 2-car garage doors that had gone a couple of years longer than they should have before being refinished. The wood had become fairly soft to the touch. They stripped and refinished the door. Those doors now look as close to new as possible. We also had a broken wooden panel that they were not sure about fixing but gave it a try. The new wooden panel looks great. They will work with you to determine a custom stain for your garage door, so be sure to have an idea which color stain and appearance you want. I let them determine the appropriate stain shade as I had no idea. They also suggested refreshing our front entry door and window panels. I am very glad they suggested that because that doorway is very expensive and had also slowly deteriorated over the years. It was very low cost for that and the doors looks better than new. The only negative is they are inflexible about scheduling. They work on their schedule not yours. I would suggest you give them a call now instead of putting it off as I did. Your wooden garage doors will only get worse and be harder to bring back to life. I should upload a few photos but don?t have time. The doors look like new or better.

I really wish I took before and after pictures. The results were fantastic. My doors were really bad, the stain was worn off by the sun / weather over the years. The doors were original to the house, so about 30 years old. I was debating replacing them, but decided to have them refinished. Steve's team of workers were so very nice and very professional. They came nearly every day for nearly two weeks. Each crew had different responsibilities. First they sanded the two front doors down to the finish. They removed all hardware, and gave them to me so I could polish the brass handles. Where one handle was too worn to do anything with it, Steve had a spare one and offered it to me at no additional charge. Steve would arrive on site to see how things were progressing. He then worked with me to choose my stain color. They then came and applied a coat each day and finally the final finish. They always cleaned up the area each day, so no mess was left behind. After the staining of the doors, they painted the trim around the door, replaced the hardware and screen doors. They ensured I had a completed project vs. just doing the doors, and leaving the trim for me to hire someone else to do. I really appreciated that. Same process for the garage doors. I have a 3 car garage, so three doors. They had to replace the bottom panel on two of the doors. After sanding it down to the finish and applying the stain, they put in new rubber weatherstrip. Adjusted the doors, and ensured everything was cleaned up. They then painted the wood around the garage doors, so that everything look fresh and new. Each day, they laid out tarps to ensure debris wouldn't be left on my drive or sidewalks. All work has a 2 year warranty. Steve assured me if I call him at least every 2-3 years for a protective coat, I shouldn't have to refinish for a very, very, long time. Great team, would definitely use them again

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did a good job and was neat and even came back after being paid to repaint trim around garage doors.

Steve is a master craftsman at his business. I had him refinish my garage door and stain the front and side doors to the house as well as the door on our shed. They did an amazing job. Everything looks brand new! I wouldn't look any further if you need someone to refinish your garage door. Steve and his team are simply the best at what they do.

Before you start this, you need to be able to be present for about an hour each time they come to put on a new gel coat. I trusted them enough on one day to just leave the garage door unlocked so they could gain entrance to the front door. All crew members are thorough, they clean the site before leaving, and are pleasant. My experience was first rate.

I spent about $1000 on that work. My experience with them was very good. I liked that they seemed to care about what they were doing.

Based upon a good referral, I contacted Steve, the owner, and he came out to give an estimate for five garage doors that were to be re-stained and re-sealed and to discuss his process. My job is to hire trade persons and services for clients. So, I've met with many trade people and have some basis to stand on with respect to making comparisons. Steve was immensely knowledgeable and very thorough in his discussion and proposal, and he really emphasized the quality of the stain he uses and ability to arrive at the precise staining color my client wanted, particularly expressing that he will take the time to do as many applications as necessary, and appropriate, to reach the right choice. He gave me a very nicely prepared, very extensive, list of references and jobs (hundreds) that he had done and then gave me a very detailed, professionally prepared estimate, which he printed out right there on site via his notebook computer and portable printer. After comparing estimates from a few other sources over a few days, after looking at Steve's very impressive website, I scheduled with Steve to go ahead and do my client's garage doors. The available time or scheduled date to do the job may have been a bit further out than some people might like, since I think Steve groups his projects by neighborhood to improve upon crew efficiency and travel time. Also, weather can be a huge factor in impacting schedules. So, in our experience, at least, until our neighborhood was in line, I think we had to wait a bit, maybe two or three weeks. However, do not get me wrong, he said he could accommodate ASAP projects if necessary, and he was immensely accommodative of our needs. But, this scheduling worked fine for us, and I actually think this type of job site grouping is smart and helped the success of the job. Regardless, on our scheduled date, Steve and his crew showed up promptly at the scheduled time, and most important to me, one of the main things I request of any trades doing work, is to is to keep me very informed of crew arrival times and length of time estimates. And, out of all of the trades I have dealt with, Steve was probably the best I have worked with in this respect. He kept me very informed about the entire scheduling over the multi-day project length. Anyhow, once on site at the scheduled time, he introduced me to his crew chief, and his crew proceeded to strip the doors, which is a very messy process. After hours of hard work and stripping, I was impressed with the cleanup for that first stage of work. Also of note, while his crew worked, Steve was on site as appropriate, maybe about one-quarter to half the time on average, sometimes leaving to check other jobs, which is an efficient trait I find among some of the better trades I have hired. It shows the company is busy, i.e., they are probably good, and they are confident and experienced in their process. So, again, I thought this just reinforced the professionalism of his work that I had seen thus far. Once the doors were stripped, the next day Steve and his crew began staining which is a multi-day, several-step process. On this point, I will only say that Steve was 100% true to his word of helping us get the right stain color. Our color coordinating was a bit complicated because we had several exterior stain colors to coordinate, and Steve was immensely patient in helping us get the right choice. He gave us good guidance and suggestion, and it was very clear he knew the nuances that might result with certain stain applications. But, he was also not forceful or desiring to just slap something on to get the job done. This was the most impressive point about his work. In essence, what he described and promised in his proposal to get the color right was 100% exactly what he delivered. In fact, my clients liked the resulting stain color far better than the original color. The doors looked great. Also, along the way, he repaired some dings and dents in the trim, and again, made everything look very nice. After the job was done, he outlined what we needed to do to maintain the staining and sealing. I paid an amount exactly as proposed and discussed. And, again, it was a great job.

Steve came by the very day I called to analyze my doors, talk through options, and give his estimate. He walked me through their approach in great detail and I was sold. Steve and his gang know this stuff cold. The first day, they did a great job stripping, scraping, and sanding the existing finish off of the door. They were VERY neat and tidy, and put out a tarp such that there was ZERO mess on driveway during or after the project. It's as if they were never there, mess-wise. The team used several coats of high end commercial products, applied over multiple days, to stain and seal the wood. Steve was very helpful in guiding my choice of stain colors. I'm sure many people feel overwhelmed by this part of the process, but Steve's color charts and common sense explanations took the risk out of the decisions. His expertise is getting things to a color you specify. So long as you remember that he can "darken anything" and "lighten nothing", you'll be in business. After the stains and sealers went on, Steve and team put new, high quality metal and rubber weatherstripping footers on the bottom of both doors. They also cleaned up our original door hardware. Finally, they even repainted the trim around the doors, ensuring that any stain spills or knicks from the door work didn't affect the look and feel of the surrounding trim. All in all, I was very, very happy with Garage Door Refinishers from start to finish. I've hired a fair number of contractors and workers over the years, and these guys are a class act at a fair price.

This company completely transformed our garage which had been bungled by our general contractor. We built a beautiful home with a three car garage with wooden doors. we were ashamed of the doors for a year and no solution was provided until GDR showed up. They look great and it was a nice ending to our home construction story. Highly recommend.

Steve generated a copy of his estimate from his printer in the truck. He gave me some recommendations and indicated that my garage door was not in bad shape (no cracks or peeling). He recommended a sealer that had a slight butternut color to it. He also recommended two coats. His price was very reasonable and we agreed for him to do the work. He had to wait two days because of rain but called on the third day and asked if he could come out. He came out personally along with four helpers and they finished the first coat on the garage and the front door in about two hours. He then came back the next morning to second coat the garage door. No messes and the doors look great.