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Broken garage door spring repair

If your door won't lift and you heard a loud bang from the garage, a spring has probably snapped. Don't try to force the door up; text a photo of the springs above the door and you'll get a repair price back.

When you need this

• A loud bang from the garage
• A visible gap in the spring above the door
• The door is very heavy or only opens a few inches
• The opener hums but the door barely moves

What's involved

Most garage doors are lifted by torsion springs on a bar above the door. The springs do the heavy lifting, not the opener. When one breaks, the door suddenly weighs a couple hundred pounds and the opener can strain or burn out trying to lift it.

Springs wear out with use. Many standard springs are rated for roughly 10,000 open-and-close cycles, so a door used several times a day can wear one out in a handful of years. Cold snaps are when a lot of tired springs finally let go.

Replacing springs is the most dangerous repair on a garage door, because a wound spring holds a lot of energy. It takes winding bars and the right spring for your door. Most of the time both springs get replaced together so the door stays balanced.

What it costs

[SPRING PRICE] The price you get by text holds as long as the job matches your photos.