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Henry Clay's namesake town, once called Uniontown and later the balloon capital of the world.
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15 jobs and service calls in Ashland since 2022. Most common: Spring repair, garage door repair and garage door service.
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Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Garage door opener work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Garage door work by our local technician for Tressa in Ashland.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Ashland.
Commercial garage door work for a business in Ashland.
Older garage door jobs by our team in Ashland, newest first.
Ashland serves as seat of Ashland County, and both city and county take their name from Henry Clay's home in Kentucky. With 19,225 residents in 2020, it anchors a micropolitan area that covers the whole county. The city's 8,939 housing units held 8,140 households, 60.1% of occupied homes were owner-occupied, and the homeowner vacancy rate was a low 1.3%.
Owners who stay put keep their garage doors a long time, and sooner or later the springs, cables and openers need attention. We repair them, replace doors that are finished, and our technicians are on call with same-day service on most calls, often within 1 hour. We're available 24/7.
If your door is dented, rotting or just dated, we can hang a new Amarr, Clopay or Wayne Dalton model in steel, carriage-house or modern styles, insulated for attached garages. Details at replacing a door.
We also fit Chamberlain and LiftMaster openers with battery backup and phone control; see choosing an opener.
William Montgomery laid out the town in 1815 as Uniontown. In 1822 it had to take a new name because Ohio already had a Uniontown, and supporters of Kentucky congressman Henry Clay chose Ashland, after his estate near Lexington. Pioneers from here who went west to Oregon in the mid-1800s named a settlement there after their hometown.
In 1878 the German Baptist Brethren Church opened Ashland College with financial help from the city, and Ashland grew into an early manufacturing center. In 1870 brothers Francis E. and Philip A. Myers began selling farm equipment and running a repair shop, and they patented a double-action pump that delivered water in a steady stream instead of spurts. By 1915 their works employed 800 people, the largest of the 47 factories in Ashland. Then in 1912 Ashland native Harry Ross Gill worked out how to make cigar-shaped balloons, which until then had only been round. The industry he started made Ashland known as the balloon capital of the world, and the city still celebrates that heritage every year at BalloonFest.
The houses built during those factory decades are still here, many with a single garage door or a detached garage out back, alongside newer homes with attached two-car garages. Whatever the age of the house, our trucks carry the parts to keep its door running, from original extension springs to modern torsion systems and smart openers.
North-central Ohio winters mean long stretches below freezing and slush that refreezes overnight. That is when a tired spring finally lets go and an opener strains against a door stuck to the slab.
Free the seal before you press the button, and if the door feels heavy, stop and phone us. An autumn balance-and-lube visit sets the spring tension before the hard weather.
Ashland University and Ashland Theological Seminary were both founded by the Brethren Church, an evangelical Protestant church in the Anabaptist tradition that still has its headquarters in Ashland. The Ashland City School District, with three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, enrolled 3,192 students in the 2017-18 school year. The Ashland Public Library keeps every program free, runs two bookmobiles and no longer charges fines.
The city parks department looks after 360 acres of parks, playgrounds and hiking trails, the county park district, founded in 2002, now has 18 parks, and Ashland has been a Tree City USA since 1984. The Ashland County Airport sits northeast of the business district. Astronaut Robert C. Springer, screenwriter Ernest Cline, baseball catcher John Roseboro, college football coach Ron Zook and Cleveland Guardians broadcaster Matt Underwood all have Ashland roots.
Excellent, quick, and professional service! I highly recommend.
Mervat N. · September 2026
Poactive was very professional and stayed late to repair our springs so there was no problems. Highly recommend!
Robin L. · September 2026 · Spring repair
Fast and honest repair. Great service and advice. Next day service !
Derek G. · September 2026
Very friendly and knowledgeable with our door problems. Clearly able to do work professionally. Highly recommend Proactive!
John M. · September 2026
Installed new door & opener. Great service from initial service appt to installation.
Beth P. · September 2026 · Opener
We called proactive they came on time and great service and wonderful to work with the company
Narsimha K. · September 2026
We do. Student rentals and faculty homes near campus get the same service, and we can deal directly with the landlord.
They are. We measure and have a door built to fit, or rework the framing when that is the better fix.
Ashland County’s rural roads are covered too, barns and machine sheds with sectional overhead doors included.
Our Ashland technicians also cover:
By the university, downtown or out on a county road, a call gets a technician moving toward your Ashland garage.
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