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Middlesex County
Lexington is mostly detached houses, 74% of units, with 9% 1-unit attached, 5% in two- to four-unit buildings and 13% in larger buildings (ACS B25024). Eighty percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied. The median home dates to 1965; 21% of units predate 1940 and 23% were built in 2000 or later, a large share for an inner suburb (ACS B25034).
The MHC inventory lists Battle Green, Hancock-Clarke and Munroe Tavern as local historic districts designated in 1956, plus the East Village district added in 1982. Minute Man National Historical Park also runs through town MHC inventory. In a local district, state law counts the type and style of doors visible from a street as exterior architectural features (MGL c.40C §5 and §6), so a garage door facing Massachusetts Avenue or the Green is a historic-commission matter before it is a garage-door matter. We bring panel and window options that suit an older carriage barn when we quote.
With almost a quarter of homes built since 2000, many Lexington garages have wide double doors, heavy insulated panels and wall-mount openers. Those doors carry more spring tension than a 1960s door, so a spring replacement is sized to the door's actual weight. Wall-mount openers also suit garages with high ceilings or a storage loft.
Between the old center and the new builds sit thousands of 1950s and 1960s houses with one- or two-car garages, where the usual work is a broken spring, new rollers or a quieter opener.
A sticking or slamming door on a big newer house is often a balance problem, not an opener problem; we test balance first.
We source doors from Clopay, Garaga, Wayne Dalton and Amarr and repair openers of every brand, including LiftMaster, Chamberlain and Genie.
Lexington is in Middlesex County. Nearby towns: Arlington, Bedford, Burlington, Lincoln, Winchester, Woburn. See carriage house doors. Call (781) 602-0737, or see emergency service.
