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Once a 600-acre amusement park, now a village of houses around two lakes.
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3 jobs and service calls in Silver Lake since 2022. Most common: Garage door repair and garage door service.
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Residential garage door on a Proactive Garage Door Repair job
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Silver Lake.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Silver Lake.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Silver Lake.
Garage door lift cable and cable drum, Proactive Garage Door Repair job
Garage door opener serviced by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door spring repair by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door spring repair by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door exterior at a Proactive Garage Door Repair customer home
Mostly surrounded by Stow and Cuyahoga Falls, with a short border on Munroe Falls, the village of Silver Lake counted 2,516 people at the 2020 census. At the 2010 count the median age was 49.9, and 69.9% of the 1,004 households were married couples, so most of our calls here come from long-settled homeowners.
Whether a spring snapped overnight or the opener stopped answering its remote, we'll send someone to your street, and we also replace worn-out doors and openers. Repairs cover springs, cables, rollers, track and the opener itself.
If your house came with a one-car garage, a single door with a row of windows keeps its period look. If you want more light in the garage, choose a glass section; if you want quiet and warmth, an insulated steel door with a thick core is the better pick. We install Amarr and Clopay doors cut to your opening. See door replacement options.
Replacing an old chain-drive opener with a Chamberlain belt drive makes the whole house quieter. Our opener installation page shows what comes with it.
Ralph H. Lodge acquired the lake in 1874 and then bought the land around it. It began as a spot for picnics and swimming and grew into the 600-acre Silver Lake Amusement Park, with animal exhibits, a roller coaster, a dance hall and a hotel. In its prime it drew more than 10,000 visitors a day. The park was sold in 1917 and divided into lots for homes, and the village incorporated in 1918.
Long before that, the water was known as Wetmore Pond or Stow Lake, after the Wetmore family, who built a home near a Seneca settlement here in 1808. Houses went up in waves: 642 residents in 1940, 1,040 in 1950 and 2,655 by 1960. On a garage that old, we check the wood around the opening before hanging a new door, because brackets and springs are only as solid as what they are fastened to.
The village takes in two lakes, Silver Lake and Crystal Lake. Morning fog and dew off the water settle on the steel parts of a garage door, from hinge pins to cable drums, and rust on a torsion spring's coils shortens its life. Salt carried in on tires all winter makes it worse.
A drop of garage-door lubricant on the hinges and rollers in spring and fall keeps things moving. For the springs and cables, leave the work to us: our yearly tune-up measures balance, checks cable wear and tests the opener's safety reverse.
Silver Lake is part of the Cuyahoga Falls City School District. The Bike & Hike Trail passes through the village on its way from Stow and Munroe Falls north toward Brandywine Falls. From 1902 to 1917 the park ran a 15-inch gauge miniature railway started by the Lodge family; one of its locomotives, the Little General, is now on display at Travel Town Museum.
The whole village shares ZIP code 44224 with Stow.
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
A little more than people inland. Moist air speeds up rust on springs, cables and hinges. We replace rusted parts and can fit a better bottom seal to keep water from wicking in.
Sometimes. It depends on the framing and the header over the opening. We look at it, tell you what’s possible, and quote the door and any carpentry separately.
Yes. Steel and composite doors come in carriage-house and raised-panel styles with window rows, so the garage can match the house without the upkeep of wood.
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Near the lake, along the trail or on a side street near Crystal Lake, one call brings a technician to Silver Lake.
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