Overhead Door Company of Clearwater

Overhead Door Company of Clearwater Overhead Door Company of Clearwater is a COMPLETE LINE GARAGE DOOR COMPANY. Sales-Service-Install WE SPECIALIZE IN HURRICANE DOORS. DO-IT-YOURSELF?

Overhead Door Company of Clearwater offers a variety of residential and commercial garage doors and garage door openers. We provide installation of new products and hurricane reinforcement fabrics, precision service and repairs on broken automatic operators, springs, cables, tracks and rollers. We are the industry leader through the strength of our product innovation, superior craftsmanship and ou

tstanding record of customer satisfaction. RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
Residential Garage Door Installation – We install replacement and new construction residential garage doors in a wide variety of sizes and styles:
- standard steel,
- insulated steel,
- steel courtyard carriage house doors,
- custom wood doors and more. Residential Opener Installation - We stock and install automatic openers by Overhead Door Corporation and Chamberlain/Liftmaster. Models include:
- chain drive,
- belt drive with battery backup,
- jackshaft openers and more. Residential Repair Service - We work on all makes and models of garage doors and openers. We can reinforce your existing garage door with a customized hurricane upgrade. We replace broken springs, cables, rollers, damaged sections, bottom weather stripping, tracks, opener circuit boards, drive gears, remote controls, chains or belts, safety beams and more. COMMERCIAL SERVICES
Commercial Garage Door Installation - We install replacement and new construction commercial garage doors in many styles:
- rolling steel,
- sheet doors,
- sectional doors,
- fire doors,
- strip doors,
- counter doors and more. Our General Contractor license allows us to cut a hole in your existing building, weld in new framework and install a door wherever you need one. Commercial Opener Installation - We use only the best commercial grade openers from Overhead Door Corporation and Chamberlain/Liftmaster including trolley openers, jackshaft openers, and hoist openers. Loading Dock Equipment including:
- Dock levelers,
- dock bumpers
- and truck restraints. Commercial Repair Service - Our trucks are stocked and equipped to handle all your problems including broken springs, cables, rollers, and more. Our commercial service trucks have welding equipment to provide on-site welding repairs. We have commercial preventive maintenance programs available. We replace damaged slats and sections, work on all types of commercial openers, commercial garage doors, grilles, dock levelers and do annual drop tests required for fire doors. We have a huge inventory of repair parts available over-the-counter.

24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE
This service is available for residential and commercial. Our after-hours phones are answered by employees, not an answering service. OUR LOCAL HISTORY
Overhead Door Company of Clearwater was started in 1984 as a part of Yakle Lumber in Palm Harbor. In 1994, before selling the lumber yard, we spun-off the garage door company and relocated it to Clearwater. OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
We are committed to meet or exceed all your expectations by providing quality products, professional installations and precision repairs and a friendly, upbeat staff. WE DO NOT USE SUBCONTRACTORS. We feel that our employees, from the office to the shop to the field, are the best in the business. Many have been with us for 10 to 20 years or longer. OVERHEAD DOOR CORPORATION
Most of the products we sell and install are provided by Overhead Door Corporation. The Company has been an industry leader for over 90 years. They give us unlimited support as well as a nationally recognized name. On numerous occasions, we have been awarded the coveted “Eagle Award” by the Company. These awards are proudly displayed in our office and showroom. FLORIDA GENERAL CONTRACTOR LICENSE # CBC 1253682
St. Petersburg: (727) 561.9090 | Clearwater: (727) 524.1000 Palm Harbor: (727) 789.6877 | Oldsmar: (813) 855.5069 Hudson: (727) 848.2386 | Spring Hill: (352) 684.3600

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When comparing prices, perhaps this story justifies the value of Craftsmanship.Around 1920, an enormous generator at one...
05/30/2026

When comparing prices, perhaps this story justifies the value of Craftsmanship.

Around 1920, an enormous generator at one of Henry Ford's plants broke down, dragging an entire production line to a halt. Every idle hour was costing a fortune.
Ford's own engineers went at it for days. They checked every wire, tested every connection, consulted every manual. Nothing. The machine kept its secret.
So Ford called in the one man he thought might crack it: Charles Proteus Steinmetz.
If you've never heard the name, picture this—a man barely four feet tall, his spine curved by a lifelong condition, who could run staggeringly complex electrical calculations in his head. They called him "the Wizard of Schenectady." Even Thomas Edison held him in awe.
When Steinmetz arrived, he didn't bark orders or demand blueprints.
He asked for a notebook—and quiet.
Then he did something that baffled the watching engineers.
He listened.
For two full days and nights, he stayed beside that silent machine, taking measurements and filling pages with calculations, learning the generator's secrets the slow, patient way that only decades of study make possible.
Finally, he asked for a ladder, a tape measure, and a piece of chalk.
He climbed up, took one careful measurement, and drew a single chalk mark on the side of the casing.
"Open the panel here," he told them. "Remove the plate, and take out sixteen windings from the field coil at this spot."
The engineers were skeptical. That's it? Just there?
That was it.
They opened it up—and behind the chalk mark was exactly the fault he'd described. They made the repair, and the great machine roared back to life.
Days later, Ford received the bill.
Ten thousand dollars.
(A staggering sum in 1920—well over a hundred thousand dollars in today's money.)
Ford, a man famous for scrutinizing every cost, balked. He wrote back asking for an itemized statement—exactly what, he wanted to know, was he paying ten thousand dollars for?
Steinmetz sent back a bill with two lines:
Making chalk mark on generator: $1.
Knowing where to make the mark: $9,999.
Ford read it. And paid it in full.
In that one exchange lives a truth that outlasts the story:
You don't pay an expert for the moment you watch.
You pay for the thirty years that made that moment possible.
Anyone can draw a chalk mark. Anyone can swing a hammer or turn a wrench or glance at a contract.
The value was never in the mark.
It was in knowing exactly where to put it.
The plumber who stops your leak in ten minutes isn't overcharging—he's sparing you the flooded basement. The doctor who names your condition in minutes isn't rushing—she's compressing decades of training into the answer you needed.
So the next time expertise looks expensive, try asking the other question:
What would it cost if they didn't know?
Anyone can make the mark.
Not everyone knows where it goes.

05/29/2026

Address

12855-A Daniel Drive
Clearwater, FL
33762

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+17275241000

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