Florissant, MO · Garage Door Service
New garage door installation for Ferguson's 1957-era single-car openings, sized and hung by a crew that drives the 4 miles from Florissant for the job.
Most houses in Ferguson went up around 1957, a good six years ahead of the median build year across the wider Florissant service area. That era means single-car garages far more often than two-car, with openings run narrow by today's standard - a lot of them built for an 8-foot wood door rather than the 16-footers you see in newer subdivisions. The original doors were often one-piece wood slabs on side-mounted track, or an early steel replacement hung on hardware that nobody manufactures anymore.
Swapping one of these out for a new door isn't a drop-in job the way it is on a house built in the 1990s. The rough opening has to be measured against what a modern steel or insulated door actually comes in, and sometimes that means a custom width order instead of a stock size off the shelf. We size the new door to the opening you have, not the other way around, and we tell you up front if that means a longer lead time than a standard install.
Given the climate here runs cold enough in winter that an insulated door earns its keep, most Ferguson jobs we quote lean toward a insulated steel panel over a bare single-layer door, especially on an attached garage where that wall backs onto living space.
The call we get from this part of Ferguson is rarely "my door won't open." It's usually "the door still works but it's had it" - a wood slab that's swelled and split at the bottom panel, or a steel door from a decades-old replacement that's rusted through at the seams and won't seal against the weather anymore. On a house from 1957, that's the second or third door that opening has seen, and by now the track and hardware have usually been patched enough times that starting fresh is the honest call rather than another repair.
A narrower single-car opening also shows its age in a different way: homeowners come to us wanting a wider door to fit a bigger vehicle, and that's a framing conversation, not just a door swap. We're straightforward about that going in - reframing an opening is carpentry work, and depending on what we find once the old jamb comes off, it can add a day and a subcontractor to a job that started as a straight installation.
We run this job out of Florissant, four miles up the road, so there's no branch or truck sitting idle in Ferguson waiting on a call - we schedule the drive same as we would any other job on the board. That's worth knowing going in: this isn't a same-hour walk-in service, it's a scheduled install, and custom-width doors for narrower 1950s openings take longer to arrive than a stock size.
When you call, have the rough opening measurements if you've got them, or we'll take them on the first visit before ordering anything. We don't quote a new door sight unseen on a house this age, because the opening size and the condition of the framing behind the old trim both change what we order.
The most common surprise on a Ferguson install isn't the door, it's what's behind it. Pull the old trim off a 1957 opening and you sometimes find the jamb has shifted or the header's been shimmed more than once over the years. That's not something we can price from a phone call - it's why we look at the opening in person before we commit to a number.
The honest limitation here: if the framing needs real carpentry - not just trim work, but structural repair to the header or jamb - that's outside a standard door installation and we'll say so rather than force a door into an opening that isn't square. We'd rather flag it and bring in the right fix than hang a door that binds in six months.
On the ordering side, a custom width for a narrower single-car opening can push the timeline out past what a stock 16-foot double door would take. If you're working around a move-in date or a sale, ask about that lead time before you lock in a date.
Often yes, but not always. Many Ferguson garages from the 1950s were built for narrower doors than today's stock sizes, so we measure the opening first and order a door to match it rather than assume a standard width will work. If the framing has shifted over the decades, that's a separate conversation before we install anything.
No. We run installs out of Florissant, about four miles away, and schedule the drive like any other job. There's no local depot or standing crew in Ferguson, so this is a booked appointment rather than a walk-in service.
On an attached garage in this climate, most homeowners here choose an insulated steel door over a bare single-layer panel, especially if the garage wall backs onto living space. It costs more upfront but does real work keeping the cold out through a Missouri winter.
Longer than a stock size. If your 1957-era opening needs a non-standard width, factor extra lead time into your schedule before you set a date, particularly if you're working around a closing or move-in deadline.
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