F & S Garage Doors

Since Lisa B reviewed her garage door guys, I should give kudos to mine.
Back at my old house on Chicago’s NW side, I used to live half a block away from Schoewe’s. He wasn’t just my garage guy, he was my neighbor. We would wave to each other as his van would turn down the alley at the end of the day. I also used to see him in church every Sunday.
I got to know owner Rudy Schoewe maybe a month or 2 after moving into my home. One Friday night around 7:30 PM, I had a gear fail inside the drive mechanism and the door jammed in the upright position. I could not get it to close or even budge. So I took a 1-​minute walk to his storefront business, which doubled as his home on the 2^nd floor. Though he was closed, the light was on and he was in his office doing some paperwork. I introduced myself and he offered to look at it right away. He came with a small box of tools and walked down the alley to check it out. Within minutes, my door was closed and he told me he would make me his first service call the next day.
He and his son came back to fix it again when a spring broke once and the time my wife whacked the door track and misaligned it.
When we moved to our Park Ridge home in 2005, the German-​made, silent chain-​driven Marantec unit we inherited failed due to cold weather. Luckily, Rudy was smart enough to recognize the problematic unit was headed for the dump. I got a top-​of-​the-​line Raynor door opener with a 1-​year warranty. About 3 months after his son installed it, he even called me out of the blue and asked how it’s working! Now entering its 3^rd year, the garage door opener remains trouble-​free. And if it ever hiccups, I know who to call.