Most of the calls we get track pretty closely to the housing stock out here. Homes built between 1943 and 1987 - median right around 1963 - tend to have original or near-original hardware: single torsion springs wound tighter than today's doors call for, steel tracks that have shifted slightly over sixty years of settling, and openers that have been swapped once or twice but never matched properly to the door weight.
The climate here runs on the moderate-heat side, which isn't brutal on doors the way a harsher climate would be, but steady heat still dries out lubrication on rollers and hinges faster than people expect, and it can warp thinner wood panels over the years if they're not sealed.
With a service area that includes 83,946 owner-occupied houses and a median household income north of $100,000, a fair number of owners are weighing repair against full replacement on doors that are decades old - and for a lot of them, a clean spring and roller job is enough to get another decade out of the door. We'll tell you honestly which side of that line your door's on.