Trolley, jackshaft, hoist. Sized to your duty cycle.
Light-duty jackshaft for sectional commercial doors. Smart facility access built in.
Light-duty wallmount for rolling steel doors and grilles. Self-storage and small warehouse standard.
Medium-duty jackshaft. The bread-and-butter of warehouse and retail commercial doors.
Moderate-load jackshaft for standard, high, and vertical-lift sectional doors. Floor-mounted manual disconnect.
Heavy-duty jackshaft with patented Hoist-a-Matic® self-engaging chain hoist. Workhorse of industrial bays.
Robust industrial belt-drive reduction operator. Bridges the gap between standard jackshaft and gear-head models.
Most commercial garage door problems come back to the same root cause: an opener that was sized correctly for a residential door but not for the cycle count of a working commercial operation. A residential opener might be rated for 25 cycles a day. A commercial loading dock might run 200. The opener doesn't fail dramatically — it just wears out years before it should, and takes the gear, the chain, and sometimes the door itself with it.
We size operators to your actual operation. We ask the questions most installers don't: how many cycles a day, what's the door weight, what are the wind loads, what are your access integration requirements. Then we recommend an operator that's right — not just whatever's cheapest in the catalogue.
Mounted on the wall beside the door rather than overhead. Ideal for high-bay warehouses, automotive shops with cathedral-ceiling bays, and any commercial space where overhead clearance is at a premium. LiftMaster's commercial Jackshaft line is our most-installed commercial operator across Richmond.
Heavy-duty operators designed for very large or very heavy doors, including industrial sectional and roll-up doors. Available in 1/2 to 5 HP, 1- and 3-phase power, with cycle ratings into the hundreds of thousands.
The commercial-grade equivalent of residential ceiling-mount openers, but with heavier-duty motors, gears, and cycle ratings. Used for sectional doors where a Jackshaft isn't feasible.
Slide gate, swing gate, and barrier-arm operators for strata parkades and commercial access points. We install BEA, LiftMaster, and HySecurity operators with key-fob, transponder, and integrated access-control systems.
Fair question — and we hear it. Here's the honest answer:
It didn't take 5 minutes. It took 17 years to learn how to do it in 2 seconds. A torsion spring under 250 lb of tension is one wrong turn away from a hospital visit. The speed is the value — and the reason your door isn't a news story.
What you're actually paying for, beyond the part itself:
· Parts at trade pricing. Steel, springs, openers — tariffs and supply costs have gone up across the board. We don't mark up parts to fairy-tale levels, but we don't get them for free either.
· A real business, not a side hustle. WCB coverage, $5M liability insurance, GST, employer payroll taxes, technician wages that keep good people around, fuel, the wrapped van, the cost of actually answering the phone when you call.
· A two-year labour warranty. If anything we touched fails, we come back. For free. That promise has a cost baked into every job.
· Same-day response in Richmond. A truck stocked with every common spring size so we fix it on the first visit — not "we'll order the part and come back Tuesday."
We'll always tell you the price before we start. No surprises. Just an honest number for honest work.
Full LiftMaster commercial line — jackshaft (J/H series), trolley operators, hoist operators for high-lift doors, and Manaras Opera for industrial applications. We size the operator to your door and cycle count.
Often, yes. LiftMaster myQ Smart Facility Access works with most existing commercial operators. We'll check compatibility on the call.
Code-compliant safety devices on every install — photo eyes, safety edges, and audible/visual warnings as required for your application.
Yes — we service every major brand. If parts are available, we can fix it. If it's beyond saving, we'll tell you straight.
Whether it's an emergency this morning or a project for next month.