What It Costs
The truck ride to Montgomery is about 8 miles from our Savannah base
Which keeps the job itself the main cost driver rather than travel. What actually runs the bill up on a roller job here is which rollers you've got. A lot of the roughly 1,874 households in this part of the service area are in houses built around 1984, and doors from that era were commonly fitted with steel rollers on steel stems - cheap to replace one at a time, but they rattle and wear the track faster than nylon. If you're swapping all ten rollers plus the stems because the originals are worn oval instead of round, that's a different job than popping in three new nylon rollers on a door that's otherwise sound. We'll tell you which one you actually have before we quote anything over the phone.
- 8 miles
- 1,874 households
We don't invent a number here that isn't tied to what's on your track
A roller job on a steel-roller door with worn stems costs more than one where only the rollers themselves are shot, and we won't know which until we're looking at it.
Why This Fails Locally
Montgomery sits in the stretch of the service area where the housing stock runs mostly 1980s-90s, and a door built in 1984 has had four decades of Savannah's mild-with-occasional-freeze climate working on it. That's not harsh weather by national standards, but it's enough freeze-thaw cycling on the hardware that steel rollers pit and stems bend slightly out of true over the years - not enough to notice by eye, enough to make the door bind on one side of the track. On a lot of these original installs the track itself was never upgraded, so a worn roller in an undersized or slightly misaligned track grinds instead of rolling, which is usually what gets a homeowner calling us about a 'noisy door' when the real fix is rollers, not the opener they assumed was dying.
The DIY Question
Swapping a single nylon roller on a modern track is a reasonable weekend job for someone comfortable with a ladder and vice grips. Swapping rollers on a 1980s steel-stem setup is a different animal - the stem often sits under spring tension at the bottom bracket, and on these older installs the brackets themselves can be rusted or bent enough that removing one roller shifts the whole panel. We won't tell you it can't be done at home. We will tell you that on doors from this build era, the most common DIY mistake we get called to fix is a cracked panel from forcing a bent bracket back into place. If the rollers are original to a 1984 door, replacing the whole set at once usually costs less in the long run than doing it one at a time as each one fails.
