Every figure on this page links to the organization that produced it, and each was re-checked against that source before publishing. How U.S. garage door companies work, win customers and use video: our YouTube Data API read of the 458 most-viewed ‘garage door repair’, ‘garage door spring’ and ‘garage door installation’ videos and the channels of door makers and repair franchises, our counts of garage doors approved under Florida’s hurricane code and Miami-Dade’s product control, and our count of garage door phrases in 10-K filings; how many garage door technicians and businesses there are and what they earn (including Florida and Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties), the federal opener safety standard, Florida’s product approval, licensing and grant rules, Google’s advanced verification, what door makers and franchisors disclose, the injury record, and where the popular garage door numbers came from.
Garage door businesses posted 17.2% of YouTube’s 458 most-viewed garage door repair, spring and installation videos and drew 10.4% of their views; one 26-second warning to leave springs to professionals holds 29.6% of that, and without it garage door businesses drew 7.6% (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios)See details
DIY and homeowner channels drew 36.6% of those views and other trades 26.2%; videos of 60 seconds or less were 24.9% of the videos and drew 36.3% of the views. (Mark Studios)See details
Two garage door repair franchise brands posted 405 videos on YouTube in the year to November 5, 2026, about 4 times the 99 posted by 13 door and opener makers’ channels combined (our read). (Mark Studios)See details
U.S. employers had 27,120 mechanical door repairers, the occupation that includes garage door technicians, on payroll in May 2025 at a median wage of $55,720, and BLS projects the occupation to grow 6.4% from 2025 to 2035. (BLS)See details
Florida’s product approval system listed 114 approved sectional garage door applications under the 2023 code, 43 of them for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, and Miami-Dade listed 141 Notices of Acceptance for sectional garage doors (our count and Miami-Dade’s, November 2026). (Mark Studios)See details
Florida has had a state-certified garage door installation specialty contractor licence since May 5, 2024. (State of Florida)See details
CPSC’s latest update to the federal garage door opener standard takes effect December 29, 2026, adopts UL 325:2025 and brings battery-powered openers under the rule. (CPSC)See details
CPSC counts about 73 children trapped and killed under automatic garage doors since March 1982, and its epidemiologists estimated 94 opener-related deaths of all ages from March 1982 to June 1992. (CPSC)See details
Garage door replacement recouped 268% of its cost in Remodeling magazine’s 2025 Cost vs. Value report, up from 70% in 2010, but the resale value is an estimate from an online survey of over 6,000 Realtors, not a measure of home sales. (Zonda (Remodeling))See details
Who makes the most-viewed garage door videos on YouTube?
Homeowners and DIY creators do, not garage door companies. On November 5, 2026 we read YouTube's 200 most-viewed search results for each of "garage door repair", "garage door spring" and "garage door installation" through the YouTube Data API, with no country filter. The three lists held 458 unique videos from 290 channels with 507.9 million lifetime views (our count). We sorted every channel by hand from its own title, description and video text.
DIY and homeowner channels posted 36.0% of the videos and drew 36.6% of the views (our count). Garage door businesses, the 38 channels whose own text names garage door installation, repair or service for customers anywhere in the world, posted 17.2% of the videos and drew 10.4% of the views (our count). Other trades and builders, many of them filming entry-door, window and trim installs that the "installation" search also returns, drew 26.2% of the views from 10.5% of the videos.
The single most-viewed video was a 34-second garage door seal replacement by Royce Renovations, a Minnesota couple's DIY channel, with 22.8 million views, or 4.5% of all views in the sample (our count). Media and viral channels posted few videos, but their median video had 1,038,303 views (our count). The median garage door business channel had 1,015.5 subscribers, against 41,300 for DIY and homeowner channels and 231,500 for other trades and builders (our count). 22 of the 290 channels had 1 million or more subscribers, and none of them was a garage door business (our count). The 10 most-viewed channels drew 34.3% of all views (our count).
How much of the garage door video audience reaches garage door companies?
About a tenth of it, and a third of that came from one video. A 26-second warning to leave garage door springs to professionals, posted by State 48 Garage Doors of Phoenix, had 15.7 million views; without it, garage door businesses drew 7.6% of the remaining views in the November 2026 sample (our count). The business with the most videos in the sample was SOS Garage Door Service in California's Inland Empire, with 9 (our count).
Garage door businesses that name a U.S. place on their channel or in the video text posted 8.7% of the 458 videos, from 20 channels (our count). Counting also businesses whose channel country is set to the United States, U.S. garage door businesses drew 8.9% of the views (our count). Three of the 38 businesses also run their channels for a following, with a YouTube-only tune-up offer, DIY tips or opener reviews; the other 35 drew 8.5% of the views (our count). 1 garage door business in the sample named a Florida place: Anytime Garage Door Service of Orlando, with 2 videos (our count).
The share depends on the search. Garage door businesses drew 22.9% of the views in the "garage door spring" list, 15.5% in "garage door repair" and 9.3% in "garage door installation" (our count). DIY and homeowner channels led every list.
Which garage door topics get the views on YouTube?
Springs and openers lead the titles. In the November 2026 sample, 22.9% of the 458 videos named a spring, torsion spring, TorqueMaster or EZ-Set in the title, and 38 of those 105 came from garage door businesses (our count). Openers, motors, keypads, remotes or an opener brand appeared in 21.8% of titles, but myQ, "smart", Wi-Fi or an app in only 2.6% (our count).
Money comes up in 19.2% of titles or descriptions (a dollar amount, cost, price or saving money) (our count). Only 1 title named a hurricane, wind load or impact rating: a hurricane brace installation from a product seller (our count). The "installation" search mixes in other doors: 35.8% of all views went to videos whose title does not mention a garage, garage door or roller door (our count).
Do short garage door videos get more views?
Yes, in this sample. Videos of 60 seconds or less were 24.9% of the 458 videos and drew 36.3% of the views; the median short video had 552,904 views against 392,425.5 for longer ones (our count). Garage door businesses lean short: 45.6% of their videos ran 60 seconds or less (our count). The median video overall ran 254.5 seconds and had 429,385.5 views (our count).
Newer videos hold more of the audience: 28.4% of the videos were published in 2024 or later and they drew 56.7% of the views (our count). Channels set to the United States posted 62.2% of the videos (our count). The median video had 7.8 likes per 1,000 views (our count).
What do garage door makers and franchisors post on YouTube?
The repair franchises post far more than the makers. In the year to November 5, 2026, the two franchise brands we read, Precision Garage Door and A1 Garage Door Service, posted 405 videos, about four times the 99 posted by 13 door and opener makers' channels combined (our count). Precision's channel posted 188 videos with a median of 2,564.5 views each, and A1's posted 217 with a median of 675 (our count).
The 7 door makers' channels (Clopay, Wayne Dalton, Overhead Door, Amarr, Raynor, C.H.I. and Hörmann North America) posted 40 videos between them, with a median of 165.5 views each (our count). Hörmann North America posted 25 of them. Clopay's channel posted 8, with a median of 665.5 views (our count). The 6 opener makers' channels posted 59 videos, 39 of them from Chamberlain Group's myQ channel (our count). Chamberlain Support's median new video had 1,570.5 views (our count).
3 of the 15 organisation channels posted nothing in the year: Amarr (last upload November 2024), C.H.I. Overhead Doors (2018) and ChamberlainDIY (2023) (our count). We found no YouTube channel for the International Door Association or DASMA; the 15 channels we read had 138,302 subscribers combined (our count). 8 of them had at least one video among the 458 most-viewed search results (our count). Makers' own channels drew 2.7% of the sample's views, and online parts and spring sellers, mostly with spring-replacement how-tos, posted 5.5% of its videos (our count).
How did we read YouTube for this page?
We used the YouTube Data API: search.list sorted by view count, 4 pages of 50 for each of the three searches, global, on November 5, 2026, then videos.list and channels.list the same day. 109 videos appeared in two or more of the three lists and 25 in all three (our count). None of the 458 carried YouTube's altered or synthetic content field; 1 video came from a channel that says its Shorts are AI-generated, and 1 was marked made for kids (our count). This is YouTube's own view-sorted ranking on one day, not a census of garage door videos. View counts are lifetime snapshots and include ad views. The video and channel lists, with each channel's class and the reason for it, are published as youtube-videos.csv, youtube-channels.csv and youtube-organisation-channels.csv.
How many garage doors are approved for Florida's hurricane code?
Florida's statewide product approval system listed 114 approved applications for sectional garage doors under the 2023 Florida Building Code when we read it on November 5, 2026 (our count). The Florida Building Commission's public search files garage doors as "Sectional Exterior Door Assemblies" in the Exterior Doors category; each application (an FL number) can cover several models and widths, so this counts applications, not door models. Counting every status, 117 applications sat in the subcategory (our count).
43 of the 114 approved applications were also approved for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, Florida's strictest wind zone, which covers Miami-Dade and Broward counties: 37.7% (our calculation). 114 were approved for use outside that zone, and 87 were listed as impact resistant (our count). Rolling doors, used mostly on commercial and storage openings, are a separate subcategory: 65 approved applications, 32 of them for the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (our count).
Most garage door approvals rest on an engineer's paperwork rather than a lab listing. 110 of the 114 approved sectional door applications used an evaluation report from a Florida-registered architect or professional engineer as the compliance method (our count). 84 were revisions of earlier approvals rather than new products (our count).
Which companies hold Florida's garage door approvals?
32 manufacturer names held Florida's 114 approved sectional garage door applications in November 2026 (our count), but a few door makers dominate. Overhead Door Corporation and its Wayne-Dalton division (both owned by Japan's Sanwa Holdings) held 30, about a quarter (our count). The search lists the makers as they filed; the counts are approval files, not sales or market share.
How many Miami-Dade product approvals (NOAs) cover garage doors?
Miami-Dade County's Product Control search listed 141 current Notices of Acceptance for sectional doors on November 5, 2026, and every one describes a sectional garage door (Miami-Dade County Product Control). A Notice of Acceptance (NOA) is the county approval that the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone requires; each one covers a model family up to a stated width and design pressure. The county also listed 49 NOAs for rollup doors (Miami-Dade County Product Control).
Clopay held 48 of the 141 sectional door NOAs, Amarr 30 and Overhead Door with Wayne Dalton 26; 13 applicants held them all (our count). 123 were for steel doors, and 141 of 141 were rated for both large and small missile impact (our count). 53 carry a positive design pressure of 50 pounds per square foot or more (our count). NOAs expire: 28 of the 141 run out in 2027, so the list turns over as makers renew (our count). For rolling doors, Cornell Iron Works and The Cookson Company held 14 NOAs each (our count).
What does Florida's My Safe Florida Home program pay toward garage doors?
My Safe Florida Home, the Florida Department of Financial Services' hurricane mitigation grant program, puts the average cost of a garage door at $1,050 to $1,725 and caps its grant at $10,000 per home (My Safe Florida Home). The program does not say how it computed the average. Hurricane-rated garage doors are one of the opening-protection upgrades a grant can pay for, alongside windows, exterior doors and roof work; the program publishes no count of garage door grants.
Program-wide, 58,796 grants had been obligated and over 32,000 homeowners paid by March 2025, according to a Florida Senate President's memorandum (The Florida Senate). The Legislature had appropriated $576 million for grants and funded inspections for 178,184 homes (The Florida Senate). Earlier, between November 2022 and December 2023, the program inspected more than 94,000 homes and approved more than 23,000 grant applications, per a Florida House staff analysis citing the department (Florida House of Representatives). The department told the House that over 73 percent of homeowners who finished the grant process saw premiums drop or stabilize; no sample size was given (Florida House of Representatives). The first version of the program, from 2006 to January 2009, awarded 39,000 grants (The Florida Senate).
How many garage door technicians are there in the U.S., and what do they earn?
U.S. employers counted 27,120 wage-and-salary mechanical door repairers in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). That occupation, SOC 49-9011, is the federal code for garage door technicians; it also covers workers who service automatic, revolving and hydraulic doors. Their mean annual wage was $57,540 (BLS OEWS) and the median was $55,720 (BLS OEWS). The lowest-paid tenth earned less than $38,490 (BLS OEWS) and the highest-paid tenth more than $78,260 (BLS OEWS). These figures come from the OEWS employer survey, so they leave out self-employed technicians and owner-operators. BLS says OEWS estimates are not built for year-over-year comparison.
Counting every class of worker, BLS's Employment Projections program put the occupation at 28.4 thousand jobs in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections). Only 3.9% of those workers were self-employed in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections). BLS lists a high school diploma and moderate-term on-the-job training as the typical way into the job, and it publishes no Occupational Outlook Handbook profile for this occupation.
Will there be more garage door technician jobs by 2035?
BLS projects 30.3 thousand mechanical door repairer jobs in 2035 (BLS Employment Projections), growth of 6.4% from 2025 (BLS Employment Projections). That is faster than the 3.5% BLS projects for all U.S. occupations over the same ten years (BLS Employment Projections). BLS expects an average of 2.1 thousand openings a year for the occupation from 2025 to 2035, counting both new jobs and the need to replace workers who retire or leave the occupation (BLS Employment Projections).
How many garage door technicians work in Florida and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area?
Florida employers counted 1,770 wage-and-salary mechanical door repairers in May 2025 (BLS OEWS), 6.5% of the U.S. total (our calculation). Florida's location quotient for the occupation was 1.02, so the occupation's share of Florida jobs was about the same as its share nationally (BLS OEWS). The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties) counted 490 (BLS OEWS). BLS published no May 2025 estimate for the occupation in the Port St. Lucie metro area (St. Lucie and Martin counties).
The Florida median was 10.2% below the national median in May 2025 (our calculation), but the metro area that includes Palm Beach and Broward paid a median 16.2% above Florida's and above the national median too (our calculation). All three are OEWS employer-survey estimates for the same occupation and month.
Which kinds of businesses employ garage door technicians?
Specialty trade contractors employed 19,510 of the nation's mechanical door repairers in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). The largest single group, building finishing contractors (NAICS 2383), employed 10,710 (BLS OEWS), 39.5% of all payroll technicians (our calculation). That group includes the finish carpentry contractors to which Census assigns residential garage door installation. Building equipment contractors (NAICS 2382) employed 8,320 (BLS OEWS), and 8,170 of those were in other building equipment contractors (NAICS 238290), the industry for commercial and industrial overhead doors (BLS OEWS). Building material and supplies dealers (NAICS 4441), the group that includes garage door dealers, employed 5,030 (BLS OEWS). These are wage-and-salary counts from the OEWS industry estimates; they do not include the self-employed.
Which industry do garage door companies belong to?
Garage door installers have no industry code of their own: Census's 2022 NAICS manual splits them by type of door. Commercial- and industrial-type garage and overhead door installation is classified in 238290 Other building equipment contractors (NAICS 2022 manual). That industry covers installing or servicing building equipment other than electrical, plumbing and HVAC equipment, and its illustrative examples also include elevator and escalator installation, automated and revolving doors, conveyors, millwrights and machine rigging. Residential-type garage door installation is classified in 238350 Finish carpentry contractors, alongside cabinet, trim and millwork installers (NAICS 2022 manual). Garage door dealers fall under 444180 Other building material dealers (NAICS 2022 manual), and opener makers under 335999 All other miscellaneous electrical equipment manufacturing (NAICS 2022 manual). Every business count below is therefore shared context: it includes garage door companies but is not limited to them.
How many businesses are in the industry that installs commercial garage doors?
BLS's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages counted an average of 12,772 private establishments of other building equipment contractors (NAICS 23829) in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from 11,051 in 2019 (BLS QCEW), a rise of 15.6% (our calculation). They averaged 162,470 jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW). Average annual pay was $101,316 in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from $79,324 in 2019 before inflation (BLS QCEW). That pay average covers the whole industry, including elevator and escalator mechanics, so it is not a garage door technician wage; the occupation's own median is $55,720. QCEW counts only businesses that report jobs under unemployment insurance, so one-person shops without payroll are not in it.
Census's own counts use a different frame. County Business Patterns counted 8,107 employer establishments in NAICS 238290 in 2023 (Census CBP), and 3,728 of them, 46.0%, had fewer than five employees (Census CBP; share is our calculation). The 2022 Economic Census counted 7,725 employer establishments (Census Economic Census) with receipts of $42,421,304 thousand (Census Economic Census). Census's 2022 product lines for this industry are reported by type of building, not by trade, so no published figure isolates garage door work.
Census also counted 24,724 nonemployer businesses, firms with no paid employees and mostly sole proprietors, in NAICS 23829 in 2024 (Census Nonemployer Statistics), up from 23,863 in 2023 (Census Nonemployer Statistics). Against the 2023 County Business Patterns count, that is 2.9 nonemployer businesses for every employer establishment (our calculation, same year). Census does not publish nonemployer counts for 238290 alone or for 238350 at the five-digit level.
How big is the industry that installs residential garage doors?
QCEW counted an average of 32,462 private establishments of finish carpentry contractors (NAICS 23835) in 2025 (BLS QCEW), with 158,288 jobs (BLS QCEW). County Business Patterns counted 32,219 employer establishments in 2023 (Census CBP). Residential garage door installers are a part of this industry, which is dominated by cabinet, trim and millwork contractors; no federal source publishes how many of these firms install garage doors.
How many of these businesses are in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?
Florida averaged 876 private establishments of other building equipment contractors (NAICS 23829) in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from 748 in 2019 (BLS QCEW), with 10,510 jobs (BLS QCEW). Florida employer establishments in NAICS 238290 reported receipts of $2,298,723 thousand in the 2022 Economic Census (Census Economic Census). Florida also had 4,654 private finish carpentry establishments (NAICS 23835) in 2025 (BLS QCEW).
The three counties held 17.7% of Florida's NAICS 23829 establishments in 2025 (our calculation from QCEW). All columns are shared context: NAICS 23829 also holds elevator, escalator, conveyor and other building equipment contractors, and residential garage door installers file under finish carpentry instead. QCEW (BLS, 2025 annual averages) and County Business Patterns (Census, mid-March 2023) differ in frame and period, so their counts do not match.
How much do U.S. factories make in garage doors and openers?
U.S. manufacturers reported $2,099,299 thousand of residential iron and steel garage doors in the 2022 Economic Census (Census Economic Census), made at 38 establishments (Census Economic Census). The line was 10.8% of the receipts of metal window and door manufacturers (NAICS 332321) (Census Economic Census). The same industry reported $1,186,042 thousand of overhead, swing and other industrial iron and steel doors, a line that mixes commercial overhead doors with other industrial doors (Census Economic Census). Census does not publish garage door openers on their own: the product line that names automatic garage door openers also includes amplifiers and other electronic systems, and it totaled $4,523,335 thousand in 2022 (Census Economic Census). Aluminum and wood garage doors are reported inside broader door lines, so these figures are not the whole garage door market.
How big is the largest U.S. garage door maker, and where do its sales come from?
Griffon Corporation's Home and Building Products segment, which is Clopay, had revenue of $1,584,182 thousand in fiscal 2025 (the year to September 30), of which $907,556 thousand was residential doors and $676,626 thousand commercial doors (Griffon 10-K, fiscal 2025). Clopay calls itself the largest maker of residential and commercial garage doors in North America. Griffon sells into this market, so every figure here is the company's own account of its business.
Residential repair and remodel was the biggest end market at $771,585 thousand, against $135,971 thousand from residential new construction (Griffon 10-K). By our calculation that is 48.7% of segment revenue from repair and remodel in fiscal 2025, close to the 50.3% of fiscal 2019 (our calculation). Griffon notes that the split between new construction and remodeling rests on management assumptions about customers and products.
Revenue was flat in fiscal 2025: price and mix added 2% while volume fell 2%, mainly in residential doors (Griffon 10-K). Segment adjusted EBITDA fell 1% to $494,576 thousand (Griffon 10-K). Doors made up 63% of Griffon's consolidated revenue, up from 59% in fiscal 2023 (Griffon 10-K). Over a longer span, segment revenue was $873,640 thousand in fiscal 2019 (Griffon 10-K, fiscal 2019), so fiscal 2025 revenue was 81% higher (our calculation).
Clopay reaches homeowners two ways: through over 3,000 independent installing dealers and through home centers. It is the exclusive garage door supplier to Home Depot and Menards in North America and has supplied Home Depot for 40 years (Griffon 10-K). Its main plants total 1,625,000 square feet in Troy and Russia, Ohio, with smaller plants in Pennsylvania and Arizona (Griffon 10-K); none is in Florida, and the 10-K has no hurricane or wind-code language for the door business. Griffon's company-wide advertising costs rose 33% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2025 (our calculation), but the 10-K does not split advertising between doors and its tools and storage products.
What do the other big garage door makers disclose?
Nucor, a steelmaker, bought C.H.I. Overhead Doors on June 24, 2022 for approximately $3.00 billion net of cash acquired (Nucor 10-K, fiscal 2022). Most of the price was for intangibles: Nucor booked $2,389,180 thousand of other intangible assets and $1,037,173 thousand of goodwill, against $117,392 thousand of plant and equipment (Nucor 10-K). C.H.I. has two manufacturing locations, and Nucor says its door businesses also serve the garage door repair and replacement market (Nucor 10-K, fiscal 2025). Nucor does not report C.H.I.'s sales on their own.
Overhead Door Corporation, which makes Overhead Door doors and Genie openers, belongs to Japan's Sanwa Holdings, which files no reports with the SEC. Sanwa's own integrated report puts its North American sales at $1,615 million in 2025, against $597 million when it bought the business in 1997 (Sanwa Integrated Report 2026). Door products made up $1,118 million of that and door operators $333 million (Sanwa Integrated Report 2026). Amarr's owner, ASSA ABLOY of Sweden, also files no 10-K, and Chamberlain (LiftMaster, myQ) is private, so neither appears here.
Installed Building Products, a national installer best known for insulation, earned $172.9 million from installing and servicing garage doors in 2025, 6% of its net revenue (IBP 10-K). Aftermarket service was about 22% of that garage door revenue, and the company says garage doors are the only product it installs with ongoing service work (IBP 10-K). Gentex, the mirror maker, bought HomeLink, the in-car transmitter that opens garage doors, in 2013 (Gentex 10-K).
How many garage door repair franchises are there, and what do franchisors say they earn?
Precision Garage Door Service had 147 franchised businesses in the U.S. at the end of 2025 and no company-owned ones, by its 2026 franchise disclosure document filed in Minnesota (Precision Garage Door Service FDD 2026). It added a net 15 outlets in 2025 (Precision FDD 2026), and had 102 at the start of 2021 (Precision FDD 2024), 44% growth over five years (our calculation). Florida had 10 of its outlets at the end of 2025 (Precision FDD 2026). It projected 6 new franchised outlets for the next year (Precision FDD 2026). These are the franchisor's own figures, written to sell franchises; no government agency checks them.
The franchisor's Item 19 tables group businesses by territory size. The 19 businesses with the smallest territories averaged $1,382,488 in annual gross sales and the 10 with the largest averaged $11,791,975, in the period the document labels 2025 (Precision FDD 2026). The 116 reporting businesses averaged $1,213 in gross sales per job, against $808 for 2023 in the 2024 document (Precision FDD 2024): 50% higher (our calculation), though the reporting businesses differ between years. These are franchisee-reported averages per job, not a price for any one repair.
A second franchisor, Access Garage Door & More, had 24 outlets at the end of 2025, up from 14 a year earlier (Access Garage Door & More FDD 2026), and 4 times the 6 it had at the start of 2023 (our calculation). Its ten franchised units with a full year reported averaged $458,708.03 in 2025 gross sales, with a median of $318,389.25 (Access Garage Door & More FDD 2026). A1 Garage Door Service had no registration on Minnesota's CARDS database when we searched it on November 5, 2026.
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How often do U.S. public companies mention garage doors in their annual reports?
537 Form 10-K annual reports filed from 2001 to 2025 contained the phrase "garage door" or "garage doors" in the SEC's EDGAR full-text search (our count). That is between 16 and 29 filings a year. The count peaked at 29 in 2003, and 26 such 10-Ks were filed in 2025 (our count). We counted distinct 10-K filings per filing year, excluding amendments, and queried singular and plural separately before merging them; a filing counts once however often it uses the phrase.
The mentions come from a small, shifting group. 154 different SEC registrants filed at least one matching 10-K over the 25 years, and Griffon Corporation, Clopay's parent, is the only one that matched every year (our count). Chip and component makers that sell parts for openers were frequent filers in the early 2000s; since 2021 the growth has come from homebuilders and installers. Construction-sector registrants filed 32 of the matching 10-Ks in 2021-2025, against 7 in the fifteen years 2001-2015 (our count), among them Installed Building Products, TopBuild, LGI Homes, Landsea Homes, Meritage Homes and KB Home.
The narrower phrase "garage door opener" or "garage door openers" peaked at 16 10-Ks in 2002, fell to 4 in 2018 and 2019, and appeared in 7 in 2025 (our count), including Gentex (HomeLink), Griffon, Nucor and two homebuilders.
These counts measure what public companies write, not the size of the garage door trade. Most of the industry files no 10-K: Chamberlain (LiftMaster) is private, Overhead Door's owner Sanwa and Amarr's owner ASSA ABLOY are foreign companies, and installers and franchisors are private. A hit can be any context, such as a homebuilder's list of standard features or a lubricant maker's product uses. The year is the filing year, so 2025 mostly means fiscal 2024 reports. The yearly counts are in edgar-garage-door-phrase-counts.csv and the filer list in edgar-garage-door-filers.csv.
How many U.S. homes have a garage?
About two in three. The last national figure that can be read on a public page is from the Census Bureau's 2017 American Housing Survey: 66% of all occupied U.S. housing units had a garage or carport (U.S. Department of Energy, from Census AHS). Ownership makes the big difference: 81% of owner-occupied homes had one, against 39% of rented homes, and 74% of homes under two years old had one (DOE, from AHS 2017). The 2023 survey asks the same question, but its garage table is only available through the Census Bureau's interactive Table Creator.
New construction keeps adding doors. The Census Bureau counted 1,005,000 single-family homes completed in 2025 (Census Characteristics of New Housing). In 2025 sales, 5% of attached new homes in the South had no garage or carport (Census).
What size garage do new U.S. homes get?
Two cars, mostly. In 2024, 65% of newly completed single-family homes had a two-car garage, according to the National Association of Home Builders' analysis of the Census Survey of Construction (NAHB). Three-car-or-larger garages fell to 15%, down from a peak of 24% in 2015, while one-car garages rose to 9%, their highest share in three decades. Another 9% of new homes had no parking facility and 1% had a carport (NAHB).
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Two-car garage, highest division (West South Central; lowest East North Central 54%)
For garage door dealers the South is the volume market. Door + Access Systems, the trade magazine of the door makers' and dealers' associations, reported from the same Census tables that 401,000 new homes in the South were built with two-car garages in 2024, against 75,000 in the Midwest (Door + Access Systems).
How many households own a smart garage door opener?
11% of U.S. internet households owned a smart garage door opener in Parks Associates' 2026 access-control research, the same share as own a smart lock (Parks Associates). In October 2022 the firm put ownership at 7-9% (Parks Associates). Parks Associates is a research firm, not an opener maker, and its releases give no sample size or field dates.
Owning one is not the same as using it. In the 2022 study, 20% of smart opener owners had a device that was not connected to the internet, and 42% of those had never set up the smart functions (Parks Associates). Moving house is the main trigger: nearly half of households planning a move in the next six months said they planned to buy a smart garage door opener (Parks Associates).
What do cost guides say garage door work costs?
Most national guides put a typical repair between $150 and $350. Every source in this table is a lead marketplace or lead site that sells homeowner leads to garage door companies; none publishes the number of quotes, the dates or the places behind its ranges, so the figures are national guides, not local prices.
HomeGuide calls spring replacement the most common garage door repair, but publishes no count behind the ranking (HomeGuide). Angi's garage door cost pages refused scripted reads, and HomeAdvisor's robots file bars AI agents, so neither is used here.
How big is the fake garage door listing problem?
No study has measured it for garage doors alone. The closest evidence is Google's own enforcement. In June 2023 Google sued a Los Angeles operator who, it said, posted more than 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and propped them up with more than 14,000 fake reviews, then sold the callers as leads (Google). Door + Access Systems reported that the profiles included garage door repair listings, one of them a fake cleaning service renamed "Gold Garage Door Repair". These are allegations in a lawsuit, not findings.
Across all business types, Google said it stopped 20 million attempts to create fake Business Profiles in 2022 and protected more than 185,000 businesses from further abuse (Google).
Google has required advanced verification for U.S. garage door advertisers since early 2018. Door + Access Systems reported that Better Business Bureau complaints against one group of companies trading as "Garage Door Repair" fell 20% in 2018, the first year of that requirement (Door + Access Systems, citing BBB). That figure covers one company group and comes from the trade press, not from the BBB itself.
What do trade bodies and software sellers report about garage door businesses?
The International Door Association, the dealers' trade body, said in its 2026 advertising prospectus that it has close to 1,000 members, and that its magazine has more than 15,000 subscribers (IDA). Both are the association's own figures in a document selling ads.
Consolidation shows up in software sellers' case studies. ServiceTitan, which sells field-service software to garage door companies, says Guild Garage Group has grown to more than $250M in revenue, 900+ employees and 25 brands since joining its platform in 2023 (ServiceTitan case study). That is one customer's self-reported figure in vendor marketing, not an industry measure.
How many children have garage doors killed?
About 73 children aged 2 to 14 were trapped and killed under automatic garage doors from March 1982 to about 2011, according to reports received by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, roughly three a year (CPSC Pub. 523). These are deaths reported to CPSC through death certificates, news clippings and investigations, so they are a floor, not a national estimate. CPSC has not published a newer total.
The count rose through each CPSC release: 43 deaths between 1982 and June 1989 (CPSC, March 1990), 46 confirmed deaths by December 1990 (CPSC, June 1991), 48 by December 1991 (CPSC), and approximately 60 by May 1997 (CPSC recall release). The deaths are what Congress answered in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 1990, which required entrapment protection on residential openers made on or after January 1, 1991; CPSC added further entrapment requirements for openers made from 1993.
CPSC's epidemiologists also made a national estimate. A July 1992 staff memorandum estimated 94 deaths involving automatic garage door operators from March 1982 to June 1992, or about 9 a year, with a 95 percent confidence interval of 74 and 114 deaths (CPSC staff memorandum). Of those, 75 were entrapments, and 69 of the entrapment deaths were children aged 2 to 14; another 19 deaths across all ages were not entrapments. The reported (not estimated) count behind it was 51 child entrapment deaths. The same memo logged 66 reported injuries and 103 consumer complaints about potential hazards over those ten years.
What went wrong in the garage door accidents CPSC investigated?
CPSC staff counted 62 deaths and 49 injuries to children under 15 associated with automatic garage doors and openers reported from March 1982 to November 1996, plus 75 consumer complaints about potential entrapment (CPSC staff memorandum, 2003). An October 2003 update added 23 entrapment incidents involving death or injury of a child under 15 reported between December 1996 and June 2003; those that occurred from December 1996 to December 2001 caused 4 deaths and 7 injuries.
Springs: at least 6 of the incidents in the 2003 update involved a broken or detached spring, and CPSC staff tied Two deaths and 2 injuries to broken springs.
Reversal: at least 5 incidents involved a reverse mechanism that failed to stop the door.
Sensor height: in 2 cases the electric eye was mounted at 21 inches instead of about 4 to 6 inches above the floor, resulting in 1 death and 1 injury; in one of them the father had installed the sensor.
All of these are incidents reported to CPSC, not national estimates, and CPSC's staff memos were not reviewed by the Commission. CPSC does not publish a current national estimate of emergency-room injuries from garage doors in a citable report.
How often are garage door openers recalled?
Rarely. The largest recent one came in February 2023, when Chamberlain Group recalled about 96,400 LiftMaster myQ garage door control panels in the U.S., plus about 19,300 in Canada, because the secondary entrapment protection could fail and let the door close on an obstruction; no U.S. injuries were reported (CPSC recall notice). In February 2014 The Genie Company recalled about 10,000 screw-drive openers in the U.S. and 8,000 in Canada after four reports of control boards overheating (CPSC recall notice). Unit and incident counts in recall notices come from the recalling firm.
The Puerto Rico program followed the death of a 4-year-old boy caught in a swinging door whose reversing sensor did not work. Stanley had sold its garage door division, so its 1991 notice offered no remedy and told owners to unplug and discard the openers.
What do medical studies say about garage door spring and opener injuries?
A 2023 case series from Massachusetts Eye and Ear described seven patients, seen from 2008 to 2023, whose eyes were ruptured (open globe injury) when a garage door spring dislodged while they were trying to repair the door (Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina). Their final vision ranged from 20/125 to no light perception. The authors conclude that repairs by people inexperienced with garage doors carry this risk. It is one hospital's cases, not a rate.
Older research tested the openers themselves. A 1996 study in Pediatrics found at least 85 U.S. children had suffered permanent brain injury or died since 1974 in accidents involving automatic door openers, drawing mainly on CPSC and Underwriters Laboratories data (Pediatrics). When the authors tested 50 openers, 88% reversed on a block of wood but 40% failed to reverse when closing on a child-sized CPR mannequin.
What does the federal safety standard require of garage door openers?
Every residential garage door opener made for U.S. sale since January 1, 1993 must meet the Consumer Product Safety Commission's entrapment standard, 16 CFR part 1211 (eCFR). A closing door must start to reverse within 2 seconds of hitting an obstruction and go back to fully open (16 CFR 1211.7). In the lab the floor obstruction is 1 inch high, and the opener pulls with 25-lbf or its rated pull, whichever is greater (16 CFR 1211.7). It has to pass 50 open-and-close cycles at maximum force (16 CFR 1211.7), plus 10 more obstruction cycles after adjustment (16 CFR 1211.7). A door stopped while opening cannot move down again until the opener has reversed it at least 2 inches (16 CFR 1211.7).
A second layer of protection is also required, usually a photo-eye. It is tested against a white target 6 inches high by 12 inches long (16 CFR 1211.11), on doors from 7 feet up to 20 foot wide unless the maker says otherwise (16 CFR 1211.10). Openers check for that device once or more on every close cycle, and the door will not run if it is missing or faulty, the CPSC explains (CPSC, Federal Register 2026). Openers that close on their own, such as timer-to-close, must flash and sound an alarm for at least 5 seconds before the door moves (16 CFR 1211.14), at no less than 45 dB measured 10 feet away (16 CFR 1211.14).
What must opener instructions tell installers and owners?
The federal rule fixes the wording of the safety instructions in the box. Installers are told to mount the wall button at least 5 feet up, out of children's reach (16 CFR 1211.16). Before fitting an opener they are told to install only a balanced door and to have a qualified service person repair cables, spring assemblies and other hardware (16 CFR 1211.16). That is the federal source of the "don't fix the springs yourself" warning many garage door videos repeat. Owners are told to test the opener monthly: the door must reverse on a 1-1/2 inch object or a 2 by 4 laid flat (16 CFR 1211.16).
Opener makers must also date-mark every opener and its box, a requirement that goes back to openers made from January 1, 1991 (16 CFR 1211.19). They must keep certification test records for at least three years (16 CFR 1211.31).
How did UL 325 become federal law, and how often does it change?
Congress made the rule in 1990. Section 203 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act required openers made from January 1, 1991 to meet the entrapment rules in UL 325, third edition, as revised May 4, 1988 (Pub. L. 101-608 sec. 203). It also set a second step: openers made from January 1, 1993 had to meet any added UL requirements. If UL had not added a further protection device by June 1, 1992, the CPSC was to write the rule itself (Pub. L. 101-608 sec. 203). The CPSC first codified part 1211 on June 19, 1991 (Federal Register). It added UL's extra entrapment provisions on December 21, 1992 (Federal Register).
Since then the federal rule has followed UL. A UL 325 revision becomes part of the federal rule unless the CPSC objects within 30 days of UL's notice (Federal Register). The CPSC rules adopting UL 325 updates are listed below.
The 2026 rule, published October 30, 2026, takes effect December 29, 2026 unless the CPSC receives significant adverse comments by November 30. It brings battery-powered openers, including battery back-up units, into the rule and moves the reference to UL 325:2025 (Federal Register). Until then the rule incorporates UL 325 Supplement SA, Seventh Edition, dated May 19, 2017 (16 CFR 1211.40).
What does Google require of garage door advertisers?
Google restricts garage door repair ads in the United States. Advertisers must apply for and pass advanced verification before their ads run; locksmiths are the only other U.S. category under this rule (Google Ads policy). Garage door businesses must also pass Advanced Verification to show in the Local Services ads unit, even after Google's Local Services background and license checks (Google Ads Help). Google says verification typically takes around 6-8 weeks (Google Ads Help), and an appeal also takes about 6-8 weeks (Google Ads Help). One step is a video call with a Google agent, held to confirm on camera that the business exists and where it is (Google Ads Help). These are Google's stated typical times, not measured averages.
What have state regulators done about garage door repair scams?
Few garage door cases have reached state enforcers' press pages, and the ones that have show the same pattern: deposits taken, work not done. In August 2022 Ohio's attorney general sued the operators of a Cleveland-area garage door company. The suit alleged they took nearly $182,000 in down payments and delivered no doors or other service (Ohio Attorney General). The office had received 33 consumer complaints about the company between April 27, 2021 and January 3, 2022 (Ohio Attorney General). These are allegations in a lawsuit, not a judgment.
In April 2025 Connecticut's Department of Consumer Protection asked the public for complaints after it received 23 about garage door repair services in about a year (Connecticut DCP). The most common were poor workmanship, companies misrepresenting who they were, and missing contracts or receipts. The department reminded consumers that garage door services in the state need an active Home Improvement Contractor registration (Connecticut DCP). It also warned that most legitimate companies do not promise immediate or 24/7 service (Connecticut DCP). Both counts are complaints received, not proven fraud.
How does Florida regulate garage doors for hurricanes?
In Florida a garage door is a wind-rated building product. State law lists exterior doors, the category garage doors fall under, among the products that need statewide approval. It also bars marketing a product as hurricane or windstorm protection unless it is approved (Fla. Stat. 553.842). The Florida Building Commission's rule lists roll-up and sectional door assemblies as subcategories of exterior doors (Fla. Admin. Code 61G20-3.002). It charges $500.00 per subcategory for a state approval (Fla. Admin. Code 61G20-3.007). For applications based on a certification or evaluation report, staff must check that the file is complete within 10 business days (Fla. Stat. 553.842). The rule accepts ANSI/DASMA 108-2012, the door makers' trade association's wind-pressure test for sectional and rolling doors, as equivalent to the 2005 edition (Fla. Admin. Code 61G20-3.015).
The Florida Building Code is rewritten every 3 years by law (Fla. Stat. 553.73). The current 8th Edition (2023) applies to permit applications filed on or after December 31, 2023 (Charlotte County). Replacing a garage door on an existing one- or two-family home or townhouse does not need sealed drawings from an engineer or architect if four conditions are met (Fla. Stat. 553.73). The new door must be the same size, go in the same opening and be installed to the maker's instructions for the wind zone. It must also meet the current design pressure. Palm Beach County's building department defines the wind-borne debris region as land within 1 mile of the coast where the design wind speed is 130 mph or more, plus anywhere it is 140 mph or more (Palm Beach County PZB). The department says All of Unincorporated Palm Beach County lies inside that region (Palm Beach County PZB).
What is a Miami-Dade NOA for a garage door?
Miami-Dade County's Product Control Section issues Notices of Acceptance (NOAs) for products designed to meet the Florida Building Code, including its High Velocity Hurricane Zone provisions. One example is a Clopay steel sectional garage door up to 18 feet 2 inches wide, approved on June 18, 2026. Its NOA rates the door at design pressures of +38/-42 psf, and the door is rated for large and small missile impact (Miami-Dade NOA 26-0313.11). That NOA expires on December 21, 2027 and is invalid after that date unless renewed (Miami-Dade NOA 26-0313.11). Miami-Dade's application form estimates 60 days to process an NOA (Miami-Dade Product Control).
Does Florida require a licence to install garage doors?
Yes. Florida has a state-certified garage door installation specialty contractor licence. It covers fabricating, installing, adjusting, repairing and servicing every type of garage door, its hardware and its operating devices (Fla. Admin. Code 61G4-15.100). These contractors may run low-voltage safety wiring and cord-and-plug connections. Other electrical work, such as new receptacles, lights and switches, must go to a licensed electrical contractor. The rule that created the category took effect on May 5, 2024 (Fla. Admin. Code 61G4-15.100).
Small jobs under $2,500 in total are exempt from contractor licensing. The exemption does not cover anyone who advertises as a contractor or splits a larger job to avoid the law (Fla. Stat. 489.103). Unlicensed contracting is a first-degree misdemeanor. It becomes a felony of the third degree for a repeat offence or one committed during a declared state of emergency (Fla. Stat. 489.127).
Can My Safe Florida Home grants pay for a garage door?
Yes. Garage doors are named in the law as an opening protection improvement the program may fund, next to exterior doors, windows and skylights (Fla. Stat. 215.5586). The state pays $2 for every $1 the homeowner puts in, up to a state contribution of $10,000 (Fla. Stat. 215.5586). Low-income applicants can get up to $10,000 with no match (Fla. Stat. 215.5586). The program may require all openings, garage doors included, to be protected before it reimburses a grant (Fla. Stat. 215.5586). The home must have an insured value of $700,000 or less (Fla. Stat. 215.5586). It must also have been built before January 1, 2008 (Fla. Stat. 215.5586). The law sets these rules; it does not say how many garage doors the program has paid for.
What do the popular garage door numbers really say?
Five figures turn up again and again on garage door company websites. We traced each one back to the oldest source we could find and checked what that source measured. The ROI figure is real but is an estimate from a survey of agents. The 10,000-cycle figure came from an industry design standard that no longer states it. The other three have no measurement behind them.
"A new garage door recoups 268% of its cost, the best ROI of any project"
The claim as repeated. Door makers and dealers repeat the latest Cost vs. Value figure each year. Clopay, a door maker, wrote in September 2025 that garage door replacement topped the list with a 268% return at resale (Clopay). Haas Door turned that into "for every $1,000 you invest in a garage door, $2,680 is added to the value of your home" (Haas Door). A1 Garage Door Service, a franchisor, printed the 2024 figure unrounded as 193.9% (A1 Garage). DASMA's trade magazine said garage doors have "consistently ranked in the top five" since they were first included (Door + Access Systems, 2025).
Where it came from. The source is Zonda's Cost vs. Value report, published by Remodeling magazine and the Journal of Light Construction. In the 2025 edition the national average garage door replacement cost $4,672, had an estimated resale value of $12,507 and recouped 268% of its cost, first of 28 projects (Cost vs. Value 2025). The resale value is not a sale price. It comes from an online survey of over 6,000 Realtors (Cost vs. Value methodology). They were shown a description and the construction cost and asked "What value does each of the 28 remodeling projects add to the sale price of a home?" (methodology). The project is a single defined job: remove a 16×7-foot door and its tracks and fit a new four-section insulated steel door, reusing the existing opener (project description).
How it changed. The figure stayed under 100% for years and then jumped. The report's own national tables show:
In 2010 and 2014 several projects ranked above the garage door, so "top five since first included" does not hold for every year. In 2023 an HVAC electrification project edged it out. Older repeats used the figures of their time. In 2018 Clopay promoted a 98.3 percent return on an upscale door (Clopay, 2018), and a Texas dealer wrote in 2017 that mid-range doors returned 91.5% (Plano Overhead). In 2024 Clopay's blog moved to "an astounding 194% return on average nationwide" (Clopay, 2024). Zonda says the door took first place for the second year in a row in 2025, and puts the jump down to a tight market for existing homes rather than to the doors (Cost vs. Value key trends). Clopay also cites its own survey of agents, who estimated a new door could raise a home's list price by one to four percent (Clopay). That survey is a door maker's, its sample is not published, and it measured agents' reactions to photos, not sales.
What to use instead. Quote the figure as "Cost vs. Value's 2025 national estimate," with the year, and say that it is agents' estimates of value. A second estimate exists. The National Association of REALTORS' 2022 Remodeling Impact Report put cost recovery for a new garage door at 100%, level with roofing (NAR, 2022). It priced the door at $2,000 in both cost and value (NAR, 2022), half the Cost vs. Value job cost for the same year. NAR's 2025 edition left the garage door out of its cost-recovery chart and gave it only a joy score, 7 out of 10 (NAR, 2025). The two reports price different jobs, and neither tracks what homes actually sold for.
"Garage door springs last 10,000 cycles, or 7 to 10 years"
The claim as repeated. A1 Garage Door Service says springs "typically last 7–10 years or 10,000 cycles for standard models, based on 3–4 daily uses" (A1 Garage). A Texas dealer calls 10,000 cycles the standard cycle life (Plano Overhead). Garaga, a door maker, gives the same cycle count as 5-7 years (Garaga). HomeGuide, a lead marketplace, says 7 to 14 years or 10,000 to 20,000 cycles (HomeGuide). A 2023 peer-reviewed case series on eye injuries from garage door springs repeated a "6-10 years life span" from a repair company's blog (Shah et al., 2023).
Where it came from. The oldest source we found is the 2004 edition of ANSI/DASMA 102, the door makers' standard for sectional doors. It said door systems "shall be designed to operate at a minimum of 10,000 cycles" when properly selected, installed, operated and maintained (ANSI/DASMA 102-2004). That was a design minimum for the whole door, not a measured spring life. The same standard defined a residential door as one expected to run less than 1,500 cycles a year (ANSI/DASMA 102-2004), which is where "3 to 4 uses a day" fits.
How it changed. The current edition, recognised on July 19, 2018, no longer states a 10,000-cycle minimum or the 1,500-cycle definition. It sends cycle-life testing to a separate test method (ANSI/DASMA 102-2018). DASMA's data sheet on springs warns that spring cycle life "may not necessarily coincide with door cycle life" and that ANSI/DASMA 109 tests door cycle life (DASMA TDS-190). The year ranges are conversions. Each site multiplies its own guess at daily use against 10,000, so the same rating becomes 5, 7 or 14 years.
What to use instead. Quote the cycle rating stamped on or quoted for the spring that was fitted, not a year range. A door that runs more often than the old 1,500-a-year residential ceiling will wear through a 10,000-cycle spring sooner.
"The garage door is the largest moving object in your home"
The claim as repeated. Haas Door opened its 2025 safety post with "the largest moving object in your house is your garage door" (Haas Door). An Architect magazine review called it the largest moving device in a house, used at least two or three times a day (Architect). Garaga's blog says it is the main way in for more than 70% of homeowners, citing only a "National survey" (Garaga, 2017), and that it can "command SIX TIMES more space than the front entry door" (Garaga).
Where it came from. The oldest form we found is DASMA's consumer safety page, archived in May 2000: "A garage door is the largest moving object in the home" (DASMA, 2000 capture). It was a safety warning written by the door makers' trade body, not a measurement. DASMA's current tips hedge it: the door is "probably the largest moving part in your home" (DASMA).
How it changed. By 2002 a newspaper column had it as the "largest and heaviest" moving object (The Vindicator, 2002). The same column said doors open and close about 1,000 times a year (The Vindicator). By 2024 a Tampa dealer, citing Forbes, said almost 1,500 times a year (Overhead Door of Tampa Bay). That is the 2004 standard's upper bound for a residential door, not a count of real doors.
What to use instead. Say "the door makers' trade body calls it probably the largest moving part in a home." No public survey we found measures how often U.S. garage doors are used.
"The garage door makes up 30 to 40 percent of a home's facade"
The claim as repeated. Garaga's blog says garages "can take up approximately 40%" of a house's facade (Garaga).
Where it came from. The oldest dated form we found is a fall 2005 syndicated column by Michael Walsh, reprinted in Door + Access Systems. It said it is "not at all unusual" for a garage door or doors to make up 30 to 40 percent of a home's facade (Door + Access Systems, 2005). It was a columnist's rule of thumb for homes with street-facing garages, not a measurement of houses.
What to use instead. If the share matters, measure the house in question: a two-car door on a narrow lot is a large share of the front, and a side-entry garage is none of it.
"35,000 people are injured by garage doors every year"
The claim as repeated. The 2023 eye-injury case series says "around 35,000 people get injured due to garage doors each year" (Shah et al., 2023).
Where it came from. The paper's source is not the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It cites a web page from The Insider Exclusive, a TV segment about a personal-injury lawyer's garage door case. That page says "more than 30,000" people a year are injured by automatic garage doors and names no source (The Insider Exclusive). The paper dates it 1992, the year of the case; the page was first archived in 2017. We found no original for either number.
What to use instead. No current national estimate of garage door injuries was readable to us: CPSC's NEISS injury database, the right source for one, refused automated requests during this check. For deaths, use CPSC's own entrapment counts in the safety section of this page, and say what years they cover.
"Video lifts conversions 80%"
The claim as repeated. Treehouse Marketing, a contractor marketing agency, told contractors in 2020 that "according to Eyewide Digital" a landing-page video can raise conversion by up to 80% (Treehouse Marketing). The source it means is EyeView Digital. We found no garage-door marketing page that prints the figure.
Where it came from. EyeView made and tested videos for its clients. A blog post of December 4, 2008 said visitors to eToro's site who viewed EyeView's video were 20% more likely to download the product, comparing viewers with non-viewers who chose for themselves (EyeView, 2009 capture). The first 80% figure we found is from February 10, 2009: viewers of EyeView's videos for UMOO were 80% more likely to become depositing users, the same kind of comparison (EyeView). In November 2009 a TutorVista manager said the first test on one landing page "boosted conversion by over 80 percent" (EyeView). EyeView's case study gave that one A/B test, with the video autoplaying for first-time visitors, as an 86 percent increase (EyeView).
How it changed. EyeView's 2010 white paper said that "in some cases" the boost was over 80% (EyeView white paper). It reported the eToro split test, earlier told as 20%, as almost 32 percent (EyeView white paper). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that "a study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%" (Unbounce, 2010 capture). That dropped "in some cases" and the single-client scope.
What to use instead. Unbounce later looked at about 35,000 of its customers' landing pages in each of three periods from late 2020 to early 2021 (Unbounce). It found in August 2021 that video had a minimal or negative effect on conversion, whatever the page's goal (Unbounce). Garage door companies were not broken out. A garage door company that wants a number for its own site needs its own test: the same page with and without the video, shown to visitors at random.
We started from the questions people search for about garage door video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 413 figures from 48 publishers.
On November 5, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections (bls.gov pages through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API) and the 2022 NAICS Manual; 16 CFR part 1211 on eCFR and its Federal Register history, Florida Statutes and the Florida Administrative Code, Miami-Dade’s Product Control pages, Palm Beach County’s building pages, Google’s advertising help pages and the Ohio and Connecticut consumer agencies; the 10-K filings of Griffon, Nucor, Installed Building Products and Gentex, Sanwa’s integrated report and the franchise disclosure documents of Precision Garage Door Service and Access Garage Door & More in Minnesota’s public CARDS database; CPSC press releases, recall notices and staff memos (Internet Archive copies where cpsc.gov refused automated requests) and peer-reviewed studies (PubMed abstracts re-read through the National Library of Medicine’s E-utilities); Parks Associates, NAHB, Census and the cost guides of HomeGuide, Thumbtack and Fixr; and the pages behind each popular claim. Our approval counts come from the Florida Building Commission’s public product approval search and Miami-Dade’s NOA search, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API. We left out HomeAdvisor, UpCodes, Broward County and dallasnews.com (robots rules), Angi’s cost pages and Chamberlain’s newsroom (bot walls), the ICC code library (refuses automated reads), the Remodeling Cost vs. Value site (blocks automated reads) and CPSC’s NEISS query tool (refuses automated requests).
We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.
Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:
(sum of views where channel_class = garage door business (53,049,112) minus the top such row (15,729,012)) / (all views minus that row) x 100; that row / class views x 100 = 29.6
rows where channel_class = garage door business and class_flags contains us: count (40) / 458 x 100; views (32,223,529) / 507,850,571 x 100; distinct channels (20)
rows where channel_class = garage door business and class_flags contains us or uscountry: count (55) / 458 x 100 and views (44,992,831) / 507,850,571 x 100
rows where channel_class = media / viral / compilation: count / 458 x 100; views / 507,850,571 x 100; median of views (17 rows) and the same for garage door business (79 rows)
rows where channel_class = general creator: count (47) / 458 x 100 and views (40,547,434) / 507,850,571 x 100; count where channel_class = educator / trade body / government
rows where in_garage_door_repair = True: sum of views where channel_class = garage door business / sum of views x 100 (and the same for DIY / homeowner and for counts); median of views
rows where in_garage_door_spring = True: sum of views where channel_class = garage door business / sum of views x 100 (and the same for DIY / homeowner and for counts); median of views
rows where in_garage_door_installation = True: sum of views where channel_class = garage door business / sum of views x 100 (and the same for DIY / homeowner and for counts); median of views
count of rows with status_contains_synthetic_media other than 'not present' (0); rows whose class_flags contain synthetic; rows with made_for_kids = True
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Limitations
No federal count of garage door companies alone. Census assigns commercial garage door installation to NAICS 238290, shared with elevator, escalator and conveyor contractors, and residential garage door installation to 238350, shared with cabinet and trim carpenters, so every industry count on this page is shared context. The payroll surveys (OEWS, QCEW) leave out self-employed technicians.
Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 458 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for ‘garage door repair’, ‘garage door spring’ and ‘garage door installation’ (the top 200 of each), sorted by views with no country filter, on November 5, 2026. It is not a census of garage door video, view counts are lifetime snapshots that include views from ads, and we sorted 290 channels by hand from their public text. One video holds 29.6% of garage door businesses’ views, so we give their share with and without it.
Approval counts count paperwork. A Florida product approval or a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance can cover many door models and sizes, and one maker can hold several; the counts measure filings, not doors sold or installed.
Prices and franchise figures come from sellers. HomeGuide, Thumbtack and Fixr sell garage door leads, and their cost guides use their own data and methods; franchisors’ disclosure documents describe their own systems. They are third-party figures, not Mark Studios prices.
The injury record is old. CPSC’s death counts for garage door entrapment run from 1982 to 2003, and CPSC publishes no current estimate of emergency-room injuries from garage doors that we could read. No source we found measured whether video wins garage door customers.
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author = {{Mark Studios}},
title = {{Garage Door Video Statistics}},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
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note = {Last verified 2026-11-05}
}
Our calculations and the evidence table are free to reuse with attribution and a link to this page. Each underlying figure remains the claim of its original publisher, and some publishers ask for a link when their figures are reused.
Door + Access Systems (trade magazine), citing Better Business Bureau statistics, Bad Bob losing ground? (Fall 2019) (2019-09-01). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2025 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2025). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), Methodology (2025 Cost vs Value) (2025-09-18). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2010 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2010). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2014 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2014). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2018 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2018). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2022 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2022). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2023 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2023). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2024 Cost vs Value Report: National Averages (2024). Accessed 2026-11-05.
Zonda (Remodeling magazine / JLC Cost vs. Value report; publisher, sells advertising to building-product makers), 2025 Cost vs. Value Report: Key Trends (2025-09-15). Accessed 2026-11-05.
National Association of REALTORS Research Group (with NARI), 2022 Remodeling Impact Report (2022-04-19). Accessed 2026-11-05.
National Association of REALTORS Research Group (with NARI), 2025 Remodeling Impact Report (2025-04-09). Accessed 2026-11-05.
A1 Garage Door Service (garage door franchisor; sells spring repairs), Broken Garage Door Springs (2025). Accessed 2026-11-05.
DASMA (Door & Access Systems Manufacturers Association; door and opener makers' trade body), Safety Tips: Garage Door Systems (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-05.
EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), EyeView - The new "Conversion" game (2008-12-04). Accessed 2026-11-05.
EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Another video conversion success story (2009-11-10). Accessed 2026-11-05.
EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Case study: TutorVista (2009). Accessed 2026-11-05.
We re-verify every figure quarterly and when a major source publishes a new edition. The next scheduled review is February 2027. Corrections go to contact@markstudios.com.
Nov 5, 2026: First published with 413 figures from 48 publishers, each checked against its original source.
Frequently asked questions
How many garage door technicians are there in the U.S.?
U.S. employers counted 27,120 wage-and-salary mechanical door repairers, the federal occupation that includes garage door technicians, in May 2025. Counting the self-employed, BLS put the occupation at 28.4 thousand jobs in 2025.
How much do garage door technicians make?
The median annual wage for U.S. mechanical door repairers was $55,720 in May 2025 and the mean $57,540. In Florida the median was $50,020, and in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area $58,110.
Do you need a licence to install garage doors in Florida?
Florida has a state-certified garage door installation specialty contractor licence, created by a rule effective May 5, 2024. Florida exempts only casual, minor work under $2,500 total from contractor licensing.
What does the federal garage door opener safety rule require?
Under 16 CFR 1211.7, a closing residential garage door must begin reversing within 2 seconds of hitting an obstruction, tested with an object 1 inch high. A CPSC update taking effect December 29, 2026 extends the rule to battery-powered openers.
Can garage door companies advertise on Google?
Yes, but Google restricts garage door repair ads in the United States: advertisers must pass advanced verification first, which Google says typically takes around 6-8 weeks.
How many smart garage door openers are there?
Parks Associates found in research released in March 2026 that 11% of U.S. internet households own a smart garage door opener, up from 7-9% in its October 2022 report.
Do garage door companies post on YouTube?
Some do, but they are a minority of the most-viewed results: garage door businesses posted 17.2% of YouTube’s 458 most-viewed garage door repair, spring and installation videos in November 2026 and drew 10.4% of the views (our read).
Does a new garage door really pay back more than it costs?
Remodeling magazine’s 2025 Cost vs. Value report put garage door replacement at 268% of its cost, but the resale value comes from an online survey of over 6,000 Realtors, not from home sales. NAR’s 2022 report put cost recovery for a new garage door at 100%; its 2025 edition gave no garage door cost-recovery figure.
