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One month. Then it's your business.

Most people in this trade spend years as somebody else's employee before they get a shot at owning anything. We compress that into thirty days: you learn the work from technicians who do it, and you finish with a business in your name — the brand, the website, and the phone ringing.

$200Total tuition

1 monthStart to finished

12Training modules

51States mapped for licensing

How the month runs

You apply

No degree, no trade background, no tools. The trade cares whether you show up and whether you respect a spring. We will tell you straight if it isn't for you.

You train for a month

Twelve modules, taught by working garage door technicians out of their own offices. Door anatomy, torsion and extension counterbalance, cables and drums, track and hardware, all four opener types, sensors and force settings, the federal safety standard, commercial sectional and rolling steel, fire doors, dock equipment, diagnostics, and how to quote and run a job.

We set the business up

You finish as an owner, not a graduate holding a certificate. Your business gets a name, a brand and a presence — the part most new technicians never get past, because they are busy learning the work.

We build your website

Built for you, not a template you are left to figure out. It is the thing a homeowner checks before they call a stranger to their house, and it is why your first customer trusts you at all.

The work starts coming

Leads come to you. You are not knocking doors or buying ads on day one — you are on the truck doing the job you just spent a month learning.

What you get

Training by people who do the work

Every instructor is a working technician teaching from their own office. You learn what actually happens on a Tuesday morning service call, not what a textbook says should happen.

Your own brand and website

We build it. A homeowner deciding between you and the van with no website is not really deciding — you want to be the one who looks real.

Leads sent to you

The hardest part of starting alone is the silence. Work comes to you from the start so you are learning on real jobs with real customers.

Your state's rules, already mapped

Nobody else hands you this. We publish the licensing, permit and code requirements for every US state, county and city — each one linked to the official source it came from and dated. You will know exactly what your state demands before you take your first paid job.

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A directory of the whole trade

Over ten thousand verified garage door companies across all fifty states, with phone numbers, sorted by city and county. Useful for finding work, for knowing your competition, and for finding the supplier down the road.

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The trade's news, every day

Recalls, injuries, code changes, price moves and what the manufacturers are doing — the same wire the rest of the industry reads, updating every second.

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The work you will be doing

Spring replacement

The bread and butter. Torsion springs have a cycle life and every one of them eventually breaks — usually on a cold morning when somebody needs to get to work.

Opener repair and install

Chain, belt, screw and jackshaft. Boards fail, gears strip, sensors drift out of alignment, and every unit made since 1993 has to meet a federal reversal standard.

Cables, drums, rollers and track

The unglamorous repeat work that keeps a truck busy between the big jobs.

New door installation

The highest-ticket residential job, and the one that changes the whole front of a house.

Commercial and rolling steel

Warehouses, storefronts and loading docks. Higher ticket, service contracts, and far fewer technicians who can do it properly.

Fire doors and drop testing

Labelled fire doors need periodic testing by someone competent. It is specialist, recurring, and most residential techs will not touch it.

Straight answers

Do I need experience or tools?

No. The programme assumes you have never touched a garage door. What goes in your pouch and what can wait is covered in the training.

Why is it only $200?

Because we are selling training and a start, not a territory. We teach you the trade, put your business on its feet and send you work.

Is this a licence to skip my state's requirements?

No, and be careful of anyone who suggests otherwise. Several states require a contractor licence before you can legally take a paid garage door job, and some have a classification specifically for overhead doors. We publish what your state requires and link to the board that says it. Meeting it is on you. See for yourself ›

How dangerous is this work really?

A torsion spring stores enough energy to kill, and the CPSC has recorded 73 children aged 2 to 14 killed under automatic garage doors since 1982. The training treats springs and entrapment protection as the core of the job rather than a chapter at the back, because a technician who respects them is the only kind worth hiring. See for yourself ›

What do you not promise?

Income. There is no earnings claim anywhere on this site, because we have nothing we could substantiate and you should not trust a number that nobody can back up. We will tell you what the work is, what it costs to learn, and what we provide.

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Training runs out of our instructors’ own offices around the country. The main hub is at 4360 8th Mile Road, Camino, California.

Check what your state requiresAll 51 US jurisdictions, sourced and dated. Know this before you spend anything — on us or on anyone else.Read the full curriculumAll twelve modules, the safety material, the certifications that genuinely exist, and what the trade actually pays.