Garage doors are the largest moving item in your home. They can be very dangerous and should only be serviced by professionals.

About Madden Door & Sons, Inc.

For over 29 years, we at Madden Door & Sons have been family owned and operated in the business of providing quality garage door systems for Contra Costa, parts of Alameda and Solano Counties.

Our Past:

Established in 1976, and as a licensed and insured company in 1977, Madden Door & Sons was originally started by Kevin Madden in his garage. Kevin grew up in Contra Costa County, and knew contractors who wanted to make a better home using quality subcontractors for each trade.

Madden Door - the early years

Kevin had always worked with wood, and in 1975 stumbled into garage doors when a friend introduced him to Ted Danciart, owner of a small garage door company in southern California called "Dandy Doors". Ted made Kevin an offer he couldn't refuse: "You come work for me for 3 months for free, and I'll feed you and teach you everything about garage doors". Kevin was in his 20's and knew he had an opportunity work taking.

Over that three months, he struggled with the "wrongs" and "rights" of how to build and service garage doors, learning tricks-to-the-trade, so to speak, so that he could get a start on his own. He got a small loan from his great uncle who saw promise in Kevin. With that, he was able to obtain a small 1976 Chevy Luv-truck with a rack in order to haul his wood materials to and from customer's homes. He had no advertising - every job he obtained was from referrals. He knew he had to get it right to continue receiving referrals, so he never "cut a corner".

Over the course of a few years, Kevin Madden made Madden Door into a well-respected local garage door company in Contra Costa County. Soon, contractors and homeowners were calling on Kevin to the point where he had to hire on some help; first, his brother, then a good friend. Within the first five years, Kevin had grown his company to the point of opening a shop with a display door located in Lafayette. The business continued to grow. Kevin had to hire and train garage door installers, and was fortunate to find a few quality service technicians who had been in the industry from back in the mid-west. (Currently our #1 service technician, Mr. Sacho, continues to perform garage door service for us - he is the best service technician in the Bay Area!).

Kevin also found Bernie Fuller in 1985, who has worn virtually every hat in the business, and who has been an integral part of Madden Door's growth over the years training field technicians, office personnel and managing employees. His dedication to the team has been unparalleled.

In 1986, Kevin hired on his son Scott O'Neill, so as to continue the "family-business" approach. From assembling nuts and bolts, to the final adjustment in garage door installations, Scott learned every aspect of garage door installations as to better serve our customers. After being trained in installations and service, Scott was a customer service rep for several years, and then was promoted to Sales Manager. He currently writes for a prominent industry magazine as well as counsels several manufacturers in responsible product design and development.

The business continued to grow during the building boom of the 1980's flourishing economy. Madden Door made it a priority to grow the company at a controlled but improved professional rate. That controlled rate helped us through the tough times of the early 90's.

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Our Present:

Madden Door - today

The industry has grown and with that has come competition. Competition brought to the garage door industry both positive and negative results: The positive was that it made companies compete to offer the best products at the best prices. The negative was that many companies used ways of cutting corners to gain business. Kevin's, Bernie's, Scott's and all of our family's premise always has and continues to be to strive for providing the clearest, most informative garage door sales, emphasizing a quality job over a "quick-and-dirty" one so people get what they expect to get, a quality, lasting garage door system.

Madden Door & Sons relocated to Martinez, where property was more affordable in order to build a complete demonstration showroom. There are working models of steel and wood garage doors, and all of the garage door operators as well. This has created the environment for complete understanding of the differences between each brand and model of garage doors, so as to provide every customer with the appropriate door in the appropriate price range.
Now in 2006, Madden Door has this web site to further answer and help customers, both old and new, to get that garage door repaired or replaced. Kevin, Scott and all of Madden Door's staff are here to help. Let us help you.

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