Parts We Carry
Doraville sits 19 miles from our Woodstock shop, which is far enough that we load the truck before we ever get a street address - nylon rollers, steel ball-bearing rollers, and the stems and bearings that go with both, because a roller call here rarely turns out to be one roller. Houses in this part of the service area were mostly built around 1972, which means the original hardware was whatever the builder's supplier had that year, usually plain steel rollers riding directly in the track with no bearing at all. Those have long since worn oval, and they're noisy before they fail outright. We carry 7-ball and 10-ball bearing rollers in both 4-inch and 2-inch stem lengths, plus nylon quiet-rollers for anyone who wants less racket at 6 a.m. We don't stock every stem length in the truck for unusual hinge setups - if your door has a non-standard hinge pattern, that can mean a short delay while we get the right part.
What You Pay
We don't have a posted price list for roller work, and we're not going to invent one here. What a roller job costs depends on how many rollers need replacing, whether it's nylon or steel ball-bearing, and whether the track needs adjustment or replacement alongside it. Doraville's median household income runs lower than the service area's overall figure of $91,308, and we price the same hardware and the same labor here as anywhere else we drive to - the travel distance doesn't change what's on the invoice, it just changes how we route the day.
What the Repair Takes
On a standard double door with eight to ten rollers, full replacement with steel ball-bearing hardware is usually a single visit. If the track on a 1972-era door has warped from decades of a worn roller riding sideways in it, that's a second part and a longer job - we'll tell you on site if that's what we're looking at, not after the fact. Doraville's housing stock falls on the older edge of this service area's 1964-2007 range, so track wear shows up here more often than it does on newer builds a few miles over.
How Long It Takes
Because the drive out from Woodstock is part of every Doraville call, we schedule roller jobs in blocks rather than fitting them between closer-in appointments. Once the truck is on site, a straightforward roller swap on a double door runs under two hours including the alignment check. Jobs that turn up a bent track or a bottom bracket issue take longer, and we'd rather tell you that up front than squeeze a second trip into the same afternoon.
