Sukkot 2026: Our Holiday Hours and When We Are Back

Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, begins at sundown on Friday, September 25, 2026. Its first two days, Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, are full holiday days, and our team is observing them, so our phones and our schedule are quiet until Monday morning. Below are our exact hours, a short explanation of the holiday, and a few fall checks you can run on your own garage door before the weekend.

Our Sukkot 2026 Hours

• Saturday, September 26: closed, as on every Saturday. The holiday begins the evening before, with candle lighting in Metro Detroit at 7:06 PM on Friday, September 25. Friday itself is a normal Friday for us, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
• Sunday, September 27: closed all day for Sukkot. On a normal week we are open Sundays from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, so please note the change. The first two days of the holiday end in Metro Detroit at 8:03 PM.
• Monday, September 28: back to our regular hours from 9:00 AM. Monday is one of the intermediate days of the festival, and a regular working day for us.

Our regular schedule is Sunday through Thursday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Friday from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and we are closed every Saturday. It is also listed on our hours page. If you need garage door service, please call us at (313) 236-4558 once we reopen on Monday morning.

What Is Sukkot?

Sukkot means "booths." It is the Jewish harvest festival, and it begins on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, five days after Yom Kippur. It lasts seven days, and this year it falls in the year 5787.

The holiday takes its name from the sukkah, a small temporary hut with a roof of branches or leaves, built in a backyard, on a porch or on a driveway. For the week of the festival, families eat their meals out in the sukkah, often with guests, to give thanks for the fall harvest and to remember the huts the Israelites lived in on their way through the desert.

Here in Metro Detroit, candles are lit at 7:06 PM on Friday, September 25, and the first two days of the holiday end at 8:03 PM on Sunday, September 27 (times from Hebcal). They shift by a few minutes from one part of the area to another, so check the times your own community publishes.

The greeting for the holiday is "chag sameach," a happy holiday. To everyone celebrating, we wish you a joyful Sukkot and many good meals in the sukkah.

A Few Fall Checks Before the Holiday

Two days is a long time to live with a garage door that is not behaving, and Sukkot comes just as Michigan turns to fall, with falling leaves, cooler nights and a lot of coming and going through the garage. None of the checks below needs tools, and all of them are safe to do yourself.

• Run the door once, all the way up and down. If it hesitates, binds or reverses on its own, park outside for the holiday weekend rather than risk the car being shut in behind it.
• Sweep the leaves away from the door. Fall leaves pile up along the bottom of the door and at the foot of each track. Clear them so the door can close all the way and the bottom seal sits flat on the floor.
• Look at the springs and cables, but do not touch them. With the door closed, look at the springs above the door and the cables along each side. A gap in a spring coil or frayed strands on a cable are reasons to stop using the door. Both are under high tension, so leave any adjustment to a technician.
• Wipe the safety eyes. The two small sensors near the floor on either side of the door should face each other. A leaf, a folding chair or a box of sukkah decorations in the way is a common reason a door will not close.
• Keep the sukkah gear clear of the door. If the panels, poles and folding tables come out of the garage for the week, lean whatever stays behind against a side wall, away from the tracks and the path of the door.

If anything on this list does not look or sound right, make a note of it and give us a call when we reopen.

See You Monday

From our team to yours, chag sameach, and a happy Sukkot to everyone celebrating. To all of our customers across Metro Detroit, thank you for your patience over these two days. We are back on Monday, September 28 at 9:00 AM.