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Bristol County
Raynham's housing is among the newest in this area. The median year built is 1986, a quarter of units (25%) date from 2000 or later and only 8% predate 1940 (ACS B25034). Detached homes are 68% of units, buildings of five or more units 20% and two- to four-unit buildings 4% (ACS B25024). Seventy-eight percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied.
With most houses built since the late 1970s, a typical Raynham garage is an attached two-car bay with a sectional steel door and its original or second opener. The parts that wear first are the torsion springs, the rollers and the opener's drive gear. Openers from the 1990s and early 2000s also tend to have weak safety sensors and no battery backup. A smart opener or belt-drive opener fixes both, and is quieter under a bonus room. On a door that still runs but sounds rough, a tune-up with new rollers and balanced springs is often all it takes.
One in five Raynham units is in a building of five or more, so some garage doors belong to an association. We confirm the association's door model and color before ordering a replacement or a panel.
The state's home-improvement chart lists garage door replacement as a "maybe" for a building permit and new door installation as a "yes" (mass.gov). Check with the Raynham building office on your specific job. The Massachusetts Historical Commission inventory lists no local historic district in Raynham.
The state's historic inventory (MACRIS) records 43 Raynham properties, none with a designation, among them the Timothy Jones House on Pleasant Street (1715) and the Gushee House (1779). It also maps two surveyed residential areas, Broadway - Center Street and Carver Street. A listing there brings no design review, but on an old farmhouse or barn-style outbuilding the openings are often narrow or out of square, so we measure before quoting a door.
With nearly four in five occupied homes owner-occupied, most Raynham calls come straight from the person who uses the garage every day. That makes it easy to talk through options on the spot: a repair to keep a sound door going, or a new insulated door and opener if the old ones have reached the end of their life.
We install doors from Clopay, Garaga, Wayne Dalton and Amarr and repair LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Genie and other openers.
Raynham is in Bristol County. Nearby towns: Bridgewater, Easton, Middleborough, Taunton, West Bridgewater. See broken spring repair. Call (781) 602-0737, or see emergency service.
