What You Need To Know About Garage Door Springs

Posted by Ross Grs on November 26th, 2018

Torsion Spring: These types of springs are generally mounted directly above the door. When installed appropriately, torsion springs should balance the door. The term “balanced” here means that the garage door must take the same volume of load to open & close. An appropriately balanced garage door must be effortless to lift.

Extension Spring: In most cases extension springs are mounted on top of the overhead door track. Sometimes they might require to be mounted on the sides perpendicularly. They employ the pulling force of the spring to lift the door up against gravity.

How do you know if your garage door springs are going bad?

Torsion Spring: Age & life expectancy play an important part in confirming whether your torsion springs are going bad. The standard life of a torsion spring is 8-10 years. However, with overhead door being used more and more, the springs may last only 5-6 years. There are two crucial tests you can take to determine whether your torsion spring is working fine or not:

• The door must remain in the up position when released from the opener in the up position. Some movement is normal. If either one of the bottom rollers moves past the line between the horizontal and vertical track and remains below the line then the springs are “failing” and should be re-tensioned.
• Pull the garage door to mid level position. The door must stay in that place, not moving up or down being supported completely by the strength of the springs.

Extension Spring: Extension springs for garage doors also possess an age & lifespan of 8-9 years. However, alongside the symptoms articulated above with respect to “failing”, extension springs can usually “fail” but never break. If you ever notice gaps between the coils of your spring, they are failing.

What to do when your garage door springs go bad?

Springs lift your overhead door with the assistance of all the other machineries on your door: cables, drums, tracks, rollers, and even the hinges play a role in the smooth function of your garage door.

Torsion springs are most dangerous, but even extension springs can be risky – when they’re extended they are expanded to potentially brutal force. Don’t forget that these springs lift a 400-pound garage door which is perhaps the heaviest item in your home.

Costs for garage door spring replacement generally start around , and that is much affordable in comparison to a hefty hospital bill. Furthermore, if you don’t replace your improperly functioning spring there’s a greater chance of other components on your overhead door to have problems.

Why take such life and financial risk when you can take the assistance of a professional Garage Door Company in Langley. Professional garage door technicians know what it needs to fix a broken Torsion spring better than anybody else. Let them do their work and you do yours!

This article is written by GVA Garage Doors – an emergency garage door repair services in and around Langley.