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Once the biggest cheese producer in the United States, now a Tree City between Akron and Cleveland.
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55 jobs and service calls in Aurora since 2022. Most common: Garage door repair, spring repair and garage door service.
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Garage door spring work by our local technician for Mike in Aurora.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Aurora.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for Lorri in Aurora.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for Kari in Aurora.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for a customer in Aurora.
Garage door opener work by our local technician for a customer in Aurora.
Garage door opener work by our local technician for Ruth in Aurora.
Garage door opener work by our local technician for Neal in Aurora.
Garage door work by our local technician for Anthony in Aurora.
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Aurora is a city in northwestern Portage County, a suburb halfway between Akron and Cleveland, and it counted 17,239 residents at the 2020 census. Nobody is quite sure where the name came from. Some say Major Amos Spafford named it after his daughter; others credit Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn. The city covers the whole of the former Aurora Township and has been named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
It is also a city of homeowners. At the 2020 count, 82.8% of Aurora's occupied homes were owner-occupied, 62.5% of households were married couples, and the median age was 47.4. Garages here tend to be attached, wide and used every day. When a door in one of them fails, we answer 24/7 and are often at the house within 1 hour, ready to repair the spring, cable, roller or opener, or to measure for a new door.
A three-car garage is a big part of a house's face. Carriage-house doors with window tops, long-panel steel or a modern flush design from Clopay, Amarr or Wayne Dalton can change the whole front, and insulated construction holds heat and dampens noise. Measuring, ordering, installing and disposal of the old door are all handled by us. Browse door installation.
For openers we install LiftMaster and Chamberlain belt-drive and wall-mount models, with battery backup available. See opener installation for options.
Ebenezer Sheldon, a Revolutionary War veteran, settled here in 1799 and built a cabin on East Pioneer Trail before bringing his family from Connecticut. In 1807 alone, 72 settlers arrived, and two years later Aurora had its first frame house. Most early residents lived along three roads, the Cleveland-Warren road, the Chillicothe Turnpike and the Old Mill road, and inns and stores went up where they met. By the mid-1800s the Chillicothe road was lined with shops, hotels, taverns and a school.
Aurora stayed small for a long time. The census counted 222 people in 1880 and 571 in 1950. Then suburban growth took hold: 4,049 residents in 1960, 6,549 in 1970, 13,556 in 2000 and 15,548 in 2010. Aurora became a village in 1929 and a city in 1971. By 2020 there were 7,103 housing units and 6,679 households, and the homeowner vacancy rate was just 1.1%.
That growth shows in the garages. Houses from the 1960s and 70s often have their original tracks and a two-car door that has been through two or three openers. Newer subdivisions have three-car garages with heavy insulated doors and high-lift torsion springs. We balance each door to its real weight, because a spring sized for the wrong door wears out the opener too.
Northeast Ohio winters test every garage door in Aurora. Doors that open several times a day in January, with cold grease on the rollers and ice at the threshold, are the ones most likely to break a spring or strip an opener gear.
If the door stops partway or the opener hums without moving it, stop pressing the button and call us. The best prevention is a tune-up each fall: moving parts get lubricated, springs and cables get inspected, and the opener's force and safety reverse get set correctly.
Aurora was once a cheese town. Frank and Elisha Hurd built the Silver Creek Cheese Factory, one of the first, in 1862, and Aurora Station opened in 1872 as a busy commercial stop. In 1904 Aurora's factories produced four million pounds of cheese, the most of any place in the United States, and a year later a stone sidewalk ran all the way from Aurora Station to Town Center.
Parts of central Aurora form the Aurora Center Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. A golf course where the Chagrin's Aurora branch wound through most of the holes has become the Paddock River Preserve.
Geauga Lake straddles Aurora's northern line with Bainbridge, and people have come there for recreation since before 1887. On the Bainbridge side, the amusement park's Big Dipper coaster ran for 82 years from 1925, and SeaWorld Ohio operated on the Aurora side from 1970 to 2001. The park closed for good in 2007.
Aurora's city schools include Leighton, Craddock and Miller elementaries, Harmon Middle School and Aurora High School, where the Greenmen won the Division III state football championship in 2008. Aurora's public library is a county branch. Coach Blanton Collier and players Gary Collins and Dick Schafrath all lived in Aurora during their Cleveland Browns years.
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
Absolutely: both doors and both openers get looked after on one appointment.
It needs springs sized to its actual weight. We weigh the door and fit matching springs, often high-cycle ones for a busy household.
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