Los Angeles County
Garage door spring repair and replacement in Los Angeles
A broken spring is one of the most common reasons a garage door stops lifting, and it is the one part a homeowner should never handle. Our technician diagnoses the door, gives you a written price, then installs the replacement with its cycle rating on the invoice.
If the door dropped, there was a loud bang, and now it will not lift, the spring is the first thing to look at. Springs carry almost the whole weight of the door; the opener only guides it. Every other part moves because the spring did the work, so the spring wears out first. A snapped spring is one of the faults we see most.
Do not touch a broken spring
A torsion spring holds serious stored energy, and the cables and drums it feeds are loaded with it. Do not pull the emergency release and try to lift the door, do not pry at a hanging cable, and do not attempt to wind or unwind a spring yourself. If the door has also come off its track, leave it where it is and keep people and vehicles clear until our technician has it under control. A door left in that state is emergency work.
Torsion and extension, in plain terms
Torsion
A torsion spring sits on a steel shaft above the opening and works by twisting. Closing the door winds it; opening lets it unwind and lift. It is the more controlled of the two systems and is what most modern doors use. A failure usually shows as a clean gap of an inch or two in the coil.
Extension
Extension springs run along the horizontal tracks either side of the door and work by stretching. They are common on older single doors across the city, and they are the reason safety cables matter: a spring that lets go without a cable threaded through it can travel across the garage. If your door has extension springs and no safety cables, say so when you call.
Cycle rating is a specification, and it goes on the invoice
Springs are rated in cycles, and one cycle is one full open and one full close. Standard springs are commonly rated at around 10,000 cycles, and higher-cycle springs are made in the same sizes. A household opening the door four times a day runs through roughly 1,460 cycles a year, so the number has a real consequence. We tell you the rating of the spring we intend to install before we install it, and the part goes on your invoice with its specification.
Why both springs are usually replaced together
On a door with two springs, the surviving spring is the same age as the one that broke and has taken the same number of cycles. Installing one new spring against a worn one puts the door out of balance and shortens the life of the new part. A matched pair keeps the travel even and the load where the opener expects it. We explain that before starting, and no additional work is carried out without your authorization.
What our technicians carry
Our technicians carry the parts normal garage door service calls for, which on spring work means common residential torsion and extension springs along with the cables, drums, rollers, bearings and fasteners that fail alongside them. Springs are specified by wire gauge, inside diameter and length, and a door that needs an unusual size, or a particular higher-cycle rating, can mean special-ordering the spring. Once the door is measured we tell you whether yours is on the van or has to be ordered.
What else gets checked
A break rarely stops at the spring. Cables, drums and rollers absorb the shock, and a door forced open with a broken spring often has track damage as well. We check the balance by hand with the opener disconnected, and look at the cables and tracks and at how the opener has been coping. Spring work sits inside our wider garage door repair service across Los Angeles County.
Cost, and when a new door is the better question
Inspection and estimate are free, and they stay free whether or not you go ahead with the repair. You can ask about financing, and what affects the price sets out the variables. If this is the third failure on an old door inside a year, it is fair to price a new door next to the repair, and you can see one on your own house first. Request a free estimate when you are ready.
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The price is written down before anything is touched, and it holds. Nothing else is done without your say-so.