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About Kooler Garage Doors

Learn about Kooler Garage Doors, your local experts dedicated to providing reliable, secure, and stylish garage door solutions. Meet our team and discover our K.

Kooler Garage Doors is a family-led garage door company that has served Grand Junction, Montrose, and the Western Slope of Colorado since 2015. We repair, install, and maintain residential garage doors, springs, and openers — built on Kraftsmanship, honest up-front pricing, and a guarantee that never expires.

The Kraftsmen

Initiated, not just hired.

Every Kraftsman who works on your home has walked through this ceremony — a pane of glass between who they were and who they are at Kooler. They earn the orange-handled hammer, sign the Kooler Breakthrough Code, and step into the agreement we make with every family we serve.

Everyone we send to your home has already been trusted in ours. If we wouldn't send them to our own house, we won't send them to yours.
Matt Kuehlhorn — Founder + Kraftsman
Founder
Matt Kuehlhorn
Founder + Kraftsman
From the founder

In 2012, I filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy. I lost the certainty that hard work was enough. In 2015, a phone call I made created a second chance in a trade, and Kooler is what I built from the other side of that fault. Technicians get hired. Kraftsmen get initiated.

The glass-breaking ceremony isn't a gimmick. It's the moment a new Kraftsman declares — in front of the team — that the old way of doing this work ends here. From that day forward, every door, every spring, every call gets the standard we put on the wall: We do it right the first time. Because we don't have time to do it twice.

Read the full story in The Return of Kraftsmanship →
The Krew

The people who show up at your door.

Background-checked. Bonded and insured. Tax-current. Every one of them has earned their hammer.

Taylor — Installer Kraftsman
Taylor
Installer Kraftsman
Jason — Lead Install Kraftsman
Jason
Lead Install Kraftsman
Cody — Lead Install Kraftsman
Cody
Lead Install Kraftsman
Pascual — Location Manager · Grand Junction
Pascual
Location Manager · Grand Junction
Cesar — Service Kraftsman
Cesar
Service Kraftsman
Dillon — Service Kraftsman
Dillon
Service Kraftsman
Cameron — Service Kraftsman
Cameron
Service Kraftsman
Carson — Customer Experience Manager
Carson
Customer Experience Manager
Tristan
Apprentice Installer
Joredan
Director of Sales
Destiny
Director of Operations
Marj
Social Media Manager
IDEA-certified Kraftsmen
Individual IDEA technician certifications, earned in the field. Raynor Premier Authorized Dealer.
Background-checked
Every Kraftsman has been trusted in our home before yours.
Bonded + insured
Bonded, insured, and tax-current — every job, every truck. (Colorado doesn't license garage-door contractors.)
Guarantee never expires
The Kraftsman's Guarantee on every install, for as long as you own the door.
Who's doing the work

IDEA-certified Kraftsmen on staff

Colorado doesn't license garage-door contractors — so the credential that matters is the one the technician earns. Our Kraftsmen carry individual IDEA certifications from the Institute of Door Dealer Education and Accreditation, the certification arm of the International Door Association. Kooler is a Raynor Premier Authorized Dealer, an IDA Preferred Provider, bonded and insured.

It's our standard to certify every Kraftsman within their first 12 months. They start in our apprenticeship, then work toward certification — IDEA certifies a technician for residential after a year in the field, and the same for commercial.

Master-certified on staff. When a Kraftsman stacks all three IDEA certifications — Residential Sectional, Commercial Sectional, and Commercial Rolling — they become a Master Certified Technician. Pascual Ramos holds all three — one of only two Master Certified technicians on the Western Slope.

The company's credentials

Raynor Premier Authorized Dealer
Raynor Premier Dealer
IDA Preferred Provider
IDA Preferred Provider
International Door Association Member
IDA Member

Certifications our Kraftsmen earn — held by individual technicians, not the company

IDEA Certified Residential Sectional Door Systems Technician
IDEA Residential Sectional
IDEA Certified Commercial Sectional Door Systems Technician
IDEA Commercial Sectional
IDEA Certified Commercial Rolling Door Systems Technician
IDEA Commercial Rolling
For the homeowners we know best

The Krew shows up already knowing your door.

That happens because we keep the connection open. The Golden Key Membership is how — annual inspection, priority scheduling, parts and seals on a schedule, a Kraftsman who has been to the house before.

A gift from Matt

The Return of Kraftsmanship

A short book about a trade that has lost something, and a company trying to put it back. Read it in an hour. Free download, no email required.

Ready to work with us? Book online.

Pick a time that works. We confirm in minutes and your kraftsman calls ahead before he heads your way.

Or call 970-660-3456

The booking window opens on top of this page — pick a slot and you're set.