Doing It Yourself
A double garage door on a 1998-era home is a two-person, several-hour job at minimum, and that's before you account for the drive if something's missing from your kit. The panels aren't the hard part - it's setting torsion spring tension correctly on a door this size and this age of track hardware. Get the winding bars wrong on a double-door torsion spring and you're looking at a trip to the ER, not a returned tool.
If you're handling the trim, weatherstripping, or a simple opener swap yourself, that's reasonable. Where we'd tell you to stop is the spring, the cable, and anything involving removing the old door section from a loaded track. We won't talk you out of DIY work you're capable of, but a 12-mile round trip to fix a rushed DIY spring job costs more than just calling first would have.
How Long It Takes
A standard double-door replacement on a home built around 1998 runs a straightforward single visit - the framing and opening sizes at this age are predictable enough that we don't run into surprises with jamb rot or non-standard header heights the way we sometimes do on much older stock. Add the 12-mile drive from Orem on each end and the appointment window runs a bit longer than a job inside city limits, which we account for when we schedule your slot.
What stretches the timeline isn't the install itself, it's custom orders. If you're going with a non-standard color, an insulated glass insert, or a wood-look composite door instead of stock steel, that's a special order with its own lead time from the manufacturer, and we can't compress that by scheduling sooner. We'll give you the real number as soon as we know it rather than a guess.
What It Costs
We don't have a published price list for Alpine specifically, and giving you a number without seeing the opening, the door style, and whether it's a special order would be a guess, not a quote. What we can tell you is that with median household income in this part of the service area running well above the wider region's, we see more Alpine jobs land on upgraded door and opener packages than the base-model install - insulated glass, higher-cycle openers, better weatherstripping. None of that changes the honest answer: we quote after we see the job, and we'll break out labor from parts so you know what the special-order pieces are actually costing versus the install itself.
How We Fix It
For a new install, that means measuring the opening on site, confirming spring size against the actual door weight rather than a catalog default, and mounting the opener bracket to solid framing - not just wherever it's easiest to reach. On a double door this size, we set torsion tension in stages and test travel before we call the job done, because a door that looks balanced at rest can still bind halfway up if the drums aren't matched.
Given the drive from Orem, we load the truck for the specific door and opener combination you've ordered before we leave, not a generic kit. If something turns up wrong on site - an out-of-square jamb, a header that won't hold the bracket as-is - we'll tell you what it takes to fix it properly rather than force a stock door into an opening that needs shimming first.
