Every year, people across this region get a say in who does the best work. Sacramento Favorites, hosted along with the Sacramento Bee, opens up voting across a long list of categories. Food, beverage, home services and much more. Nobody is nominated by a panel. Neighbors vote for the businesses they actually use, and the results get published in a magazine in the Sacramento Bee.
That is what makes this contest different, and that is what makes this year’s result mean so much to us. In November 2026, the 2026 winners were released, and Overhead Door Company of Sacramento was named the Gold winner in the Garage Door Company category.
“We are honored to have won Gold in the Garage Door Company Category For Sacramento Favorites. Thank you for your votes and continuing to trust us with your garage door needs.” said Melonie San Filippo of Overhead Door Company of Sacramento.
We have been part of this contest before. Silver in 2023. Silver in 2024. Silver again in 2025. Gold in 2026. We are proud of every one of those, because each of them came from the same place, which is customers taking a minute out of their day to put our name down.
A garage door is not something most people think about very often. It is the largest moving part of a house, it goes up and down several times a day, and when it works, it is invisible. People usually call us on a bad day. The door will not open and a car is stuck inside. A spring let go. An opener quit in the middle of a Sacramento summer. Nobody is excited to be making that call.
So when those same customers go out of their way later to vote for us, that tells us something about how those calls went. It tells us the technician showed up, explained what was wrong in plain language, and fixed it. That is the only thing a vote like this can really be measuring.
This was a team win. From our sales staff to our technicians, this award belongs to the whole company. The person who answers the phone when a door comes off its track is part of it. The person who walks a homeowner through door styles in our showroom on Franklin Boulevard is part of it. The technician out in Elk Grove, Roseville, Rocklin, Folsom, Lincoln, Davis or Fairfield, on a truck, in somebody’s driveway, is part of it. No single department wins a vote like this. It adds up over thousands of service calls and installations.
We have been a local family owned and operated company since 1953. That is seventy some years of working in the same region, with a lot of the same families, and in plenty of cases the same houses. We are the only local authorized dealer of the Overhead Door brand, and that is not a label we take lightly. The Genuine. The Original. It means the product that goes on your house is the real thing, installed and serviced by people who were trained on it.
Awards do not change how we do the work. The schedule on Monday morning looks the same as it did the week before. But recognition that comes directly from customers is worth pausing on, because it is the one kind you cannot buy, lobby for or manufacture. Somebody had to decide we had earned it.
To everyone who voted, thank you. To everyone who has called us, met us at the showroom, or trusted us with a new door or a repair over the years, thank you as well. You can see the full list of 2026 winners at Sacramentofavorites.com.
If you need a garage door, an opener, service or a repair, our showroom is at 6756 Franklin Boulevard in Sacramento and you can reach us at (916) 421-3747.
