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Marietta garage door opener repair.

Diagnose first. Fix today.

Most "dead" openers in Marietta are one inexpensive part away from working, and Metro proves it with a multimeter diagnostic before any quote. Same-day across Sandy Plains, the Powder Springs Rd corridor, Stilesboro, Sope Creek, and the Square, with common LiftMaster and Genie capacitors, boards, and gears already on the truck. If repair won't hold, we tell you straight.

(770) 526-1214
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Metro Garage Doors branded service van, Marietta, GA same-day garage door repair, since 1979
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Opener quit in Marietta? It's usually one part.

Metro Garage Doors repairs LiftMaster, Genie, Chamberlain, and Marantec openers same-day across all six Marietta ZIPs, dispatched from our Douglasville shop about 25 minutes away via I-20. Roughly 40 to 60 percent of failures are a capacitor, a 30-minute fix far cheaper than a new unit. Diagnostic first, quoted in writing, W-2 techs, never subcontracted, since 1979.

Six ZIPs. One company.

East Cobb upscale, West Cobb growth corridor, downtown historic, northeast Cobb, Powder Springs corridor, all six Marietta ZIPs covered same-day from one Douglasville shop. No franchise carve-ups, no out-of-town call centers.

Same day. Every day.

Phones answered 24/7. Marietta is on every morning's dispatch route. Call before noon and a real Metro tech is usually at your door within 2–3 hours. or any Cobb ZIP.

Real Metro techs

When Metro answers the phone, a Metro tech shows up, never a subcontractor. Every tech is W-2, drives a branded truck, and trained in our Douglasville shop. The name on the door matches the name on the paycheck.

Marietta Isn't One Place

Three different Mariettas, three different fix stories.

Marietta sprawls across six ZIPs and a hundred years of housing. The garage door problems are dramatically different from East Cobb to the Square to West Cobb, and that's why the company that knows all three matters.

East Cobb (30062, 30068), Indian Hills, Sope Creek, Mountain View, the Walton/Lassiter/Pope HS feeders, is mostly upscale 1980s–2000s housing. Two recurring call types: first or second torsion spring failures from the 15-year cycle limit, and aesthetic-driven replacements from homeowners trading up to carriage-style, Wayne Dalton 9700-series, or wood-look composite doors. East Cobb is also where we install the most insulated double doors with R-18 polyurethane cores, the difference shows up on the power bill.

Downtown Marietta (30060) and the Square are an entirely different problem set. Many of these are 1920s–1940s homes with detached carriage-house garages or single-bay attached garages with low headroom. We do period-appropriate recessed-panel and carriage-style installs here that fit the architecture, recessed-panel and carriage-style doors work beautifully on bungalows and Victorians around Roswell St, Whitlock Ave, and Kennesaw Ave. Track and torsion-spring fits get tighter in low-headroom situations; that's a measurement we want to make in person, not over the phone.

West Cobb (30064) along Dallas Hwy and Stilesboro is the newer growth corridor, Hillgrove HS feeder neighborhoods, the Kennesaw Mountain–adjacent subdivisions. Most homes here are 1990s–2010s, which means 15-year-old LiftMaster and Genie openers are dying right on schedule and the original springs are starting their second cycle. Bigger bays (24-ft doubles), so we go heavier on torsion-tube specs and dual high-cycle springs. Northeast Cobb (30066) up toward Sandy Plains is similar.

30062 / 30068 East Cobb · Indian Hills · Sope Creek · Walton / Lassiter / Pope 30060 Downtown · Marietta Square · Whitlock · Roswell St 30064 West Cobb · Dallas Hwy · Stilesboro · Hillgrove 30066 / 30067 NE Cobb · Sandy Plains · Powder Springs corridor
Common Marietta Calls

What a dying opener sounds like across Cobb.

Don't assume the unit is dead, most of these are single-part fixes. Call (770) 526-1214 and describe the sound, we've probably already got the part on the truck.

"Motor hums but the door barely moves."
The signature capacitor failure

The number-one opener call from northeast Cobb's Sandy Plains subdivisions and West Cobb's 1990s builds, where LiftMasters and Genies from 2005 to 2018 are aging into capacitor failures right on schedule. The hum is the motor trying to break inertia without its voltage boost. Five-minute multimeter confirmation, roughly 30 minutes to swap, and typically the cheapest opener repair we do.

"Remote does nothing, wall button still works fine."
A logic board or pairing fault

Atlanta's summer lightning is the top killer of opener logic boards, and the Powder Springs Rd corridor and 30067 take their share of surges every storm season. Sometimes it's a five-minute remote re-pair, sometimes a fried receiver chip. We diagnose which before quoting, and LiftMaster and Genie boards are usually replaceable as a unit rather than forcing a whole new opener.

"Door opens fine but won't close, LED blinks ten times."
Safety sensors, usually just alignment

Every modern opener throws the 10-blink code when the floor-level photo eyes read blocked. In garages from Indian Hills to Whitlock the culprit is usually a spider web, lawn debris, or a sensor nudged by a bike, and both LEDs must glow solid before the door will close. Realignment is the common fix, a new sensor pair only when one has actually failed.

Services in Marietta

Every garage door service, every Cobb ZIP.

Repair, replacement, openers, springs, commercial, all in-house, all from the same Douglasville shop, all backed by The Metro Promise.

Recent Marietta Jobs

Doors we've put back on Cobb County homes.

A few of the recent jobs across East Cobb, West Cobb, and the Marietta Square. Every door we touch is one we'd put back on our own house.

Real Metro Techs

Marietta calls handled by the same crew, every time.

When Metro answers the phone, a Metro tech shows up. Never a subcontractor. Every tech trains in our Douglasville shop and works the Cobb routes week after week, East Cobb subdivisions, the Hillgrove corridor, and the historic Marietta Square.

Jake Wilson, Metro garage door service technician serving Marietta and Cobb County, GA
Jake WilsonSenior Service Tech · 8 years
Brandon Horne, Metro garage door service technician serving Marietta, GA
Brandon HorneService Tech
Dewayne Hunter, Metro garage door service technician serving Marietta, GA
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Pricing You Can Trust

Every job quoted in writing.

Every door is different, especially in Marietta where we work everything from 1920s carriage doors to 24-ft East Cobb doubles. We don't publish flat-rate prices. What we do guarantee: an upfront written number before any work starts, the same hourly rate every day, and a repair backed for life.

Quoted in writing

Every Marietta job priced before we start, in writing. The number on your estimate is the number on your invoice. No surprises, no add-ons after the fact.

Real Metro techs every visit

Every Metro technician is a W-2 employee. Never a subcontractor. Trained in our Douglasville shop, dispatched in branded Metro trucks. The name on the door matches the name on the paycheck.

Backed for life

Every repair is covered by The Metro Promise, lifetime workmanship plus a 90-day make-it-right guarantee. If our work fails, we come back at no charge.

What you see is what you pay, same price every Cobb ZIP, backed for life.

What Marietta Says

Reviews from across Cobb.

★★★★★

"Replaced both 24-ft double doors on our Indian Hills house, carriage-style doors with windows, dual LiftMaster 8500W. Jake measured Saturday, doors arrived in two weeks, installed in one morning. The crew was clean, professional, and the price came in exactly where the written estimate said it would."

★★★★★

"1937 home off Whitlock, needed a single carriage-style door that looked like the house, not a Home Depot special. Metro understood it immediately. Recessed-panel recessed-panel in solid black, perfect proportions, kept the original hinge hardware exposed. Real craftsmen."

★★★★★

"Spring snapped at 6:45 AM, called Metro at 7. Brandon was at our Stilesboro house by 9. Both springs swapped to 25,000-cycle high-cycles, gone by 10:30. No upsell on a new opener even though our 2008 Genie clearly has a year or two left. That's the company you want."

Based on 1,200+ reviews across both Metro locations, 4.9★ on Google, A+ on BBB, 4.9★ on HomeAdvisor, 4.9★ on Thumbtack · Read all reviews →

Find Us From Marietta

25 minutes via I-20, or call us out today.

Our Douglasville showroom is the closest place to see carriage-style, wood-look composite, and recessed-panel doors in person. Free parking. Open six days a week.

Marietta FAQ

Opener repair questions from every corner of Cobb.

Don't see your question? Call us, we love nerding out on doors.

Can you fix my opener the same day I call from Marietta?
Usually, yes. Marietta is on our morning dispatch route from Douglasville, about 25 minutes via I-20, and every truck stocks common LiftMaster and Genie capacitors, logic boards, drive gears, and sensor pairs. Most repairs from East Cobb to Stilesboro finish in one visit. Rare or discontinued parts, older Marantec, early-2000s Genie, get sourced within 24 to 48 hours.
How do you decide between repairing and replacing an opener?
Three signals, checked on-site. Age, units under 15 years are usually worth repairing, past 18 they're near end-of-life. Failure mode, one bad component points to repair, several at once point to replacement. And parts availability. West Cobb's 1990s-to-2010s subdivisions are full of openers sitting right at that line, so we show you the diagnostic and tell you straight.
Which opener brands do you repair?
LiftMaster, Genie, Chamberlain, and Marantec, plus most legacy brands still hanging in Cobb garages, including old Craftsman units. We're a LiftMaster ProVantage Dealer, which helps with parts. If a discontinued brand has no parts left anywhere, we'll say so plainly and quote a replacement instead of pretending a repair will hold.
What does opener repair cost in Marietta?
It depends entirely on the failed component, a capacitor swap is a fraction of a logic board, which is a fraction of a full unit. We don't publish flat rates. Every repair is quoted in writing after the on-site diagnostic and before any work begins, and if the call ends in a replacement instead, the diagnostic isn't separately billed.
My opener died after a storm, is that repairable?
Often, yes. Lightning surges, common across Cobb every summer, usually take out the logic board while leaving the motor fine, and boards on LiftMaster and Genie units are typically replaceable. A completely dead unit with no indicator lights is the classic sign. Worth adding a surge protector afterward, cheap insurance for houses around Sandy Plains and Shallowford where the storms roll through hard.
Do older garages around the Square have different opener problems?
They do. Detached carriage-house garages off Whitlock and Roswell St see more moisture, which is hard on logic boards, and many are low-headroom spaces where an aging rail opener was shoehorned in decades ago. We repair what's there when it's viable, and when it isn't, the wall-mounted LiftMaster 8500W is usually the better fit for those garages.

Don't buy a new opener
until we've looked at it.

Most opener calls end in a repair, not a replacement. Call now and a Metro tech diagnoses on-site, quotes in writing, and usually has your Marietta door running again the same day.

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