The Stewart family business

Our story

Started in Kent. Stayed in Kent.

Garry Stewart was born in the Kent Valley in 1952 and lived in this city his whole life. In 1978 he started fixing and installing garage doors, incorporated The Doorman Service Co. in 1980, and built it into the company Puget Sound has trusted with its doors ever since. We moved into our first commercial shop in the 1980s, right around the corner from where we are now, and settled into our current home on Railroad Ave in 1994.

Shawn Stewart, Garry's youngest son, grew up in the business and took over daily operations in 2015. When Garry passed away in 2024, the company he built kept doing what it has always done: residential and commercial doors, installed and repaired the right way, by people who answer their own phone.

Same family. Same city. Same standard.

Garry and Shawn Stewart at the IDA Expo, 2020

An industry legacy

Garry Stewart did not just run a garage door company. He helped lead the industry.

Garry served on the board of the International Door Association and was elected its president, serving from 2003 to 2005. He joined the Institute of Door Dealer Education and Accreditation as a director in 2006 and served as IDEA's president in 2014, making him one of only two people ever to lead both organizations.

He was among IDEA's first Accredited Door Dealers, Sanctioned Trainers and Master Technicians, and from 2014 to 2020 he volunteered as faculty for IDEA's two-day schools, teaching the next generation of door professionals across seven IDA Expos.

That standard of professionalism is the one this company was built on, and the one Shawn carries forward as he takes up the same industry service today.

• 2003–05President, International Door Association
• 2007IDA Globe Award
• 2006Director, Institute of Door Dealer Education and Accreditation
• 2014President, IDEA
• 2014–20Volunteer faculty, IDEA two-day schools, seven IDA Expos
• 2015Jerry R. Reynolds Volunteer Leadership Award
• 2019Dan R Apple Commitment to Professionalism Award

Who we are today

The whole life of your garage door

We handle everything a garage door needs: helping you choose it, installing it precisely, keeping it running with honest repairs, and stocking the parts it needs along the way. Residential or commercial, a single spring or a whole warehouse of dock doors, it is the same crew and the same standard. We have always done both.

We are proud to be a Clopay Master Authorized Dealer, Clopay's highest dealer tier, held by a limited group of installers the factory itself vouches for, and we also install and service Amarr, SteelCraft, Wayne Dalton, R&S Manufacturing and LiftMaster products.

We are dedicated to providing professional garage door and opener installation and services, delivering prompt, courteous service.

• Founded 1978, incorporated 1980, family-run ever since
• Residential and commercial, always both
• Clopay Master Authorized Dealer
• Licensed, bonded and insured, WA DOORMS*205PC