Garage Door Repair in Palmer, Burlington

Palmer is mature central Burlington at its most characteristic: large lots, mature tree-lined streets and spacious homes between Upper Middle Road and Mainway. The housing runs to four-level side-splits, four- and five-level back-splits and bungalows, with condominium townhomes, semis and links filling in around them. Fifty-eight percent of dwellings date from 1961 to 1980, 19 percent from the 1980s, 10 percent from the 1990s and 6 percent from 2001 to 2005, and single-detached houses account for 62 percent of the stock.

The detail that matters most for door work is the setback. Detached homes in Palmer are set back from the road on their large lots, and local descriptions contrast that directly with the newer subdivisions further north where more dwellings are fitted onto smaller parcels. Deeper setbacks mean longer driveways, more room to work, and a garage that is a genuine part of the house rather than a box pushed to the property line. Row houses account for 15 percent of dwellings and low-rise condominium 11 percent, so a share of the neighbourhood runs townhouse-width doors on shorter frontages.