The door is heavy, and the spring is what makes it feel light. When the spring breaks or weakens, your opener ends up hauling a slab it was never built to haul. Replacing the spring fixes that. Here is how we do it and what it costs.
How you know the spring has gone
Usually it's loud: a bang from the garage, then a door that won't rise. Sometimes it's quieter. The door feels heavy by hand, drifts down when you stop it halfway, or the opener groans and gives up. A tired spring can act like that for a while before it lets go.
If you think the spring has broken, leave it alone. It's wound under tension, and that tension is why this isn't a job for a borrowed wrench in the driveway.
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What's going on above the door
The spring sits on a torsion shaft over the opening. It's wound up, and that stored twist offsets the door's weight. Every open and close works it, and eventually the metal gives out.
The same hard freezes that stress slabs and buried pipes here are part of what your door lives with. We pay attention to the hardware around the spring while we're up there.
What we do on the job
The old spring comes out, and the new one goes onto the shaft facing the correct way. Winding happens a quarter turn at a time until we reach the turn count the spring's manufacturer lists. We don't wind it by feel.
The kit is plain: a stepladder and an adjustable wrench. The job comes down to the right spring, the correct number of turns and steady hands.
A spring swap won't repair a damaged door itself. Door replacement is a separate conversation with a separate quote.
What it costs
Spring replacement for one garage door, parts and labor included, typically runs $150 to $325.
Any change to the price gets raised with you first, before the work continues. We won't promise a finish time in advance, because what's at the shaft sets how long the job runs. We'll give you a realistic window when you call.
Calling us
Tell us what you heard or saw, what size door you have, and whether it's stuck open or shut. Don't try to lift a door with a broken spring by hand or with the opener. If a car is trapped inside, tell us that first.
What Goes Into the Work
On a typical job, steps like these come up:
- Use winding bars to release the remaining tension from an unbroken spring before removing spring hardware.
- Remove the old spring from the torsion shaft and slide the correctly oriented replacement spring onto the shaft.
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