The Houses Here
This is where Seguin breaks from the rest of our coverage area. Housing across our service area generally dates from 1984 to 2014, with a lot of stock from the 80s and 90s - but Seguin itself sits right at the early end of that, with a median build year around 1984. That's a full decade or more older than newer pockets closer to San Marcos. Doors installed on houses from that era are often on their second or third opener already, and the original torsion springs - if anyone's still running them - are long past due. Steel construction from the mid-80s also tends to run lighter gauge than what's gone in since, and tracks from that period were more often installed with less clearance than current framing allows. None of that means a Seguin door is in worse shape than a newer one - plenty have been replaced or updated over 40 years - but when we show up we're not surprised to find original hardware still bolted to a house from the Reagan administration.
When We Can Get There
The climate here is mild with occasional freeze risk, which is kinder to garage door hardware than a lot of the country gets, but it's not nothing. A hard freeze a few times a winter is enough to stiffen grease in an old opener chain or make a worn cable brittle enough to finally snap on a cold morning. Because Seguin is the far end of our run, we try to bunch service calls out there rather than making one-off trips, which keeps the trip worth making for both of us. If you're not in an emergency - a noisy roller, a door that's slow to close - it's worth mentioning that on the phone, since it lets us slot you into a Seguin day instead of paying for a special trip. We won't tell you we can beat a same-day emergency response to your street when we're driving 20 miles to get there; that's just honest math on distance.
