Last updated: October 2026
Lake Elmo has more oversized and detached garages per house than almost anywhere else in Washington County, a legacy of large lots and the new construction that has filled in around them. Outbuilding doors, tall RV doors, and three-car detached garages are routine here and they are not routine for every contractor.
A taller or wider door carries more weight, which means heavier springs, more cycles of stress, and a worse outcome if someone guesses at the spring size. This list ranks five companies serving Lake Elmo on founding year, Better Business Bureau records, published hours, and how their technicians are trained.
Quick Comparison: Lake Elmo’s Best Garage Door Companies
Lake Elmo’s top garage door companies include Rise and Shine Garage Doors, A-Doorable Garage Door Co., Northern Door Company, Precision Garage Door, and All American Door Co..
| Company | Key Strength | Pros | Cons | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rise and Shine Garage Doors | Technicians trained in-house, not on your door | Techs trained in a dedicated facility; fixed pricing up front; 5.0 across 4,000+ reviews | Not the cheapest bid; can book out after a hard freeze | Owners who want a trained tech and a fixed price |
| A-Doorable Garage Door Co. | Based in Cottage Grove, second-generation owner | Cottage Grove based since 1991; A+ BBB rated; second-generation owner | Smallest service area here; no weekend or after-hours coverage | Owners who prefer the small local shop |
| Northern Door Company | Raynor dealer with a commercial contracting arm | Locally owned since 1978; Raynor dealer; commercial contracting division | Weekdays 8am to 4:30pm only, closed weekends; no BBB file found | Planned weekday replacements and commercial work |
| Precision Garage Door | Franchise backing and a live phone at any hour | Live phone 24 hours; employee technicians; no service call fee with repair | Premium franchise pricing; local start year unpublished; ratings pooled across four regions | Middle-of-the-night calls where you want a live human |
| All American Door Co. | Owner-founded in 2005, same-day on most jobs | Owner-founded 2005; A+ BBB accredited 2007; same-day on most repairs | BBB complaints describe quotes rising on site; get it in writing | Same-day repair, if you lock the price first |
1. Rise and Shine Garage Doors: trained technicians and a fixed price up front
Rise and Shine heads the Lake Elmo list because technicians train in a dedicated facility rather than on customer doors, and the price is fixed before any work begins.
Company Overview
The company carries a 5.0 rating across more than 4,000 reviews from all of its Google locations and covers springs, cables, rollers, openers, panels, and full replacement on residential doors of any size.
Washington County addresses get the same scheduling and the same fixed pricing as the inner suburbs. You can see the full local service list on the Lake Elmo garage door service page.
What Sets Them Apart
Spring sizing on an oversized door is where inexperience shows up as a door that will not stay open or a spring that fails inside two years. Rise and Shine trains technicians on real doors and real hardware in its own facility before they work a house, and quotes a fixed price once the door has been measured. On a tall detached garage, both of those matter more than they do on a standard double.
Services Offered
Torsion spring replacement sized to the door, cable and drum repair, roller and hinge work, opener repair and installation, panel replacement, track realignment, and full replacement including oversized and detached garage doors. Call 612-886-9606.
Pros
- Technicians trained in a dedicated facility, not on your garage
- Upfront, fixed pricing quoted before any work starts
- 5.0 rating across more than 4,000 reviews
Cons
- Not the cheapest bid
- Can book out after a hard freeze
Best For
Homeowners who want an honest diagnosis and a fixed price before work starts.
Contact Information
- Phone: 612-886-9606
- Website: callriseandshine.com/service-areas/lake-elmo/
- Service area: Lake Elmo, MN and the surrounding Twin Cities metro
- Hours: 7 days a week, same-day service available
2. A-Doorable Garage Door Co.: the Cottage Grove shop with a second-generation owner
Stan and Jeanette Waidelich started this Cottage Grove company in 1991, and their son Shawn took over daily operations in 2023, which makes it the closest-based option on this list for Lake Elmo. Cottage Grove is twenty minutes south, and the company lists the city by name.
Thirty-five years in one community is worth something, and the BBB has rated the file A+ even though the company has never paid for accreditation. Estimates are free, and the crew covers both residential and commercial doors.
This is a small operation, and it reads like one. The published service area covers the south and east suburbs and little beyond, and there are no weekend or after-hours hours posted anywhere.
Pros: Based in Cottage Grove since 1991, A+ rated at the BBB, now run by the founders’ son, free estimates, and both residential and commercial work.
Cons: The smallest service footprint of the five, with no published weekend or after-hours coverage.
Best for: South and east metro homeowners who would rather hire the small local shop than a regional operator.
- Phone: 651-458-3488
- Website: adoorablegarage.com
- Service area: Cottage Grove and the south and east suburbs
3. Northern Door Company: a Raynor dealer with a commercial arm
Family owners have run this White Bear Lake shop since 1978, and it is the closest thing Lake Elmo has to a neighborhood door company with commercial contracting behind it. The Buerkle Road shop is a fifteen-minute drive north.
The company started in Stillwater and now works out of 1803 Buerkle Road. It is a Raynor dealer, which matters if you want a door brand that the big national outfits in this list do not carry, and it keeps a separate division for commercial door contracting.
What you give up is availability. The office keeps weekday hours, 8am to 4:30pm, and closes Saturday and Sunday, so this is a company you plan around rather than call in a crisis.
Pros: Locally owned since 1978, a Raynor dealership you will not find elsewhere on this list, and a commercial contracting division alongside the residential work.
Cons: The office keeps weekday hours only, 8am to 4:30pm, and closes Saturday and Sunday. A spring that breaks on a Friday night waits for Monday. No BBB file turned up either.
Best for: Planned replacements and commercial jobs where you can book a weekday appointment and want a Raynor door.
- Phone: (651) 490-1599
- Website: northerndoor.com
- Service area: White Bear Lake and the north and east metro
4. Precision Garage Door: franchise backing and a live phone at any hour
This is the local arm of the national Precision Door Service network, and it answers the phone with a live person at any hour of the day, including from Lake Elmo. The Woodlynn Avenue office in St. Paul is the nearest dispatch point.
The national brand dates to 1999, the St. Paul office sits on Woodlynn Avenue, and the company uses its own employee technicians and installers rather than subcontracting. It publishes a dedicated page for nearly every suburb in the metro and installs LiftMaster openers.
Two things to weigh. Franchise pricing tends to land at the premium end of the market. And the star ratings on those city pages come from the company’s own review platform rather than Google, pooled across the Twin Cities, Rochester, La Crosse, and western Wisconsin, so a city figure is not a city figure.
Pros: A live operator 24 hours a day, employee technicians rather than subcontractors, national franchise training and warranty backing, and no service call charge when you go ahead with the repair.
Cons: Franchise pricing tends to land on the premium end. The ratings on its city pages come from its own review platform rather than Google, and they are pooled across the Twin Cities, Rochester, La Crosse, and western Wisconsin, so a city figure is not a city figure. The local franchise does not publish the year it opened.
Best for: Anyone who wants a human on the phone at 2am and does not mind paying a premium for franchise process.
- Phone: (877) 820-5135
- Website: precisiondoormn.com
- Service area: St. Paul and most of the Twin Cities metro
5. All American Door Co.: owner-founded in 2005 with same-day coverage
Shaun and Briana Moore started this company with one truck in 2005, and it now publishes a service page for Lake Elmo and most other Twin Cities suburbs. Spring Lake Park is the far side of the metro, so ask what same-day actually means for your address.
The BBB has carried an A+ accreditation since September 2007, which is a twenty-year record you can check rather than take on faith. The company says most repairs can be done the same day you call.
Read the complaint file before you book. Several BBB complaints describe a low quote followed by a much larger final bill, including one about a $300 charge added for resetting and rebalancing a door. Ask for the price in writing and ask what happens if the technician finds more work on site.
Pros: Trading since 2005 under its original owners, A+ BBB accreditation since 2007, same-day service on most repairs, and service pages covering most of the metro.
Cons: Several Better Business Bureau complaints describe a low estimate followed by a much larger final bill, including one about a $300 charge added for resetting and rebalancing. Get the quote in writing.
Best for: Homeowners who want same-day repair across a wide area and are willing to pin the price down in writing first.
- Phone: (763) 244-1605
- Website: allamericandoormn.com
- Service area: Spring Lake Park and most Twin Cities suburbs
How We Evaluated Lake Elmo’s Garage Door Companies
We ranked these companies on facts a reader can check: how long they have traded, what the Better Business Bureau file says, whether prices are quoted in writing, who actually turns up at the house, when they answer the phone, and how wide the service range is. No company paid for placement.
- Track record you can check: We took founding years from BBB records or the company’s own published statement, and we say so when a company publishes no year at all.
- BBB standing: Letter rating, the date accreditation actually began, and any complaints closed in the last three years. An A+ earned in 2005 is worth more than one earned last December.
- Clear pricing: Whether prices are quoted upfront and in writing, whether a service call fee applies, and whether the pay model creates pressure to upsell.
- Who does the work: Companies that send their own background-checked employees scored higher than those that lean on subcontractors or decline to say either way.
- When they answer: Published hours, not marketing hours. Several companies advertise 24/7 and mean a 24-hour call centre, so we read the fine print and report the difference.
- Service range: Springs, cables, openers, panels, full replacement, commercial doors, plus warranty and financing terms.
We left competitor star ratings and review totals out on purpose. Several of these companies publish figures that contradict each other between their own pages, and others pool one number across a dozen markets in two states, so a city-level count is not a city-level count. Our own rating is stated below and you can check it on Google yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does garage door repair cost in Lake Elmo?
Most garage door repairs in Lake Elmo land between $150 and $350, and Angi’s 2026 figures put the Minneapolis average at $242, below the $265 national average.
Spring replacement, opener repair, and cable work make up most of that range. A full door replacement is a different order of cost and depends on the size, the material, and whether the opening itself needs work. The useful question to ask on the phone is whether the number you are quoted is the price or an estimate, and whether a service call fee applies if you decline the work.
Why do garage door springs break in Minnesota winters?
Cold does not break a healthy spring. It finishes off a spring that was already near the end of its cycle life, which is why so many fail on the first properly cold morning.
A torsion spring is rated in cycles, usually around 10,000, and one cycle is one open and one close. At four cycles a day that is about seven years. When the temperature drops, the steel contracts slightly and the lubricant on the shaft stiffens, so the spring works harder on the same door. A spring with 500 cycles left will spend them faster in January than in July.
What warranty should I expect on a garage door repair?
One year on labor is the common floor, and parts carry whatever the manufacturer offers, which on springs and openers can run to a lifetime.
Ask whether the labor warranty is in writing and whether it survives the technician leaving the company. Ask too whether the manufacturer warranty is passed to you or held by the contractor, because a lifetime parts warranty is worth nothing if the only company that can claim on it has stopped trading.
Why does this list not show each company’s review count?
Because the published numbers do not hold up. Several of these companies show different review totals on different pages of their own websites, and others pool one figure across a dozen markets in two states.
One company on this list publishes three different totals, one in its visible copy, one on its homepage, and a third in its page code. Another shows a city-level rating that is actually pooled across the Twin Cities, Rochester, La Crosse, and western Wisconsin. Ranking on figures like those would be ranking on marketing. So this list uses founding years, Better Business Bureau records, published hours, and who employs the technicians, all of which you can check yourself.
How do I choose between garage door companies in Lake Elmo?
Ask three questions: are the technicians your employees or subcontractors, is the price fixed before work starts, and what year did you start trading.
The answers sort the field quickly. A company that cannot say when it started has nothing you can check. A company paying commission has a built-in reason to find more work on your door. And a company using subcontractors cannot tell you who will be standing in your garage. None of these are trick questions, and a good company answers all three without hesitating.
Conclusion
For Lake Elmo, Rise and Shine is the pick for a trained technician, a measured quote, and a fixed price. A-Doorable Garage Door Co. is twenty minutes away in Cottage Grove and has worked this corner of the county since 1991, and Northern Door Company is the choice for a planned weekday replacement with a Raynor door.
On an oversized or detached garage, ask how the spring will be sized. The answer should involve measuring the door, not reading a chart.