Inside EdgeSpring repair
- Part
- Torsion spring
- Usual time on site
- Typically 60 to 90 minutes
- Permit
- We tell you before we start
- Call or text
- (954) 947-4016
Garage door spring repair in Pembroke Pines, measured first
Garage door spring repair means swapping the broken spring for one sized to your door's weight, then balancing the door so it rises evenly. Before anything is replaced, you see the break and the measurements of the old spring. Until then: door closed, opener unplugged.
Signs a spring has let go
- A crack like a firecracker went off in the garage, and nothing seems to have fallen.
- Look up over the door while it's shut: the coil wrapped around the steel bar now shows a gap a few inches wide.
- You hear the opener groan; the door climbs a hand's width, then quits or sinks back.
- Both side cables hang slack, which often happens right after a spring lets go; see cable and track repair.
- Older door with long springs stretched along the ceiling tracks? One of them snapped or dangles.
- Unsure what failed? Try the troubleshooting guide. Door stuck open after the spring went, with the house unsecured? Call for emergency repair.
Torsion spring, shaft and center bracket
The torsion spring is the tight coil wrapped around the steel shaft over the door. Winding it stores the force that raises the door, while the opener just steers. In the loop, the coil, the shaft and the bracket holding them at the center glow, so you can compare them with the hardware over your own door.
Torsion or extension: which one you have
Garage doors are lifted by one of two spring types. A torsion spring rides a shaft over the opening and twists as the door travels. Extension springs stretch alongside the horizontal tracks each time the door closes, and every one of them needs a safety cable through its center so a break can't send it flying across the garage. A door may carry one torsion spring or a pair. With a pair, we inspect both, since they've lived through identical trips.
Sized by weight, not by a sales label
Three numbers pick a spring: what the door weighs, how tall it is, and the size of the drums its cables wrap around. We measure wire size, inside diameter and length on the broken spring, then check whether it ever suited your door. Impact-rated doors with wind struts are heavier than plain doors of equal size, so they call for stronger springs. That is where storms and springs meet, and nowhere else.
Maybe someone has offered you "hurricane springs." Against wind, what matters is the door's approval, its struts and its anchoring; a spring only lifts. If a quote lists a special storm spring, ask for its measurements and the door weight it was matched to. Text us a photo: the quote and the spring side by side, and we'll go over them with you.
What you see before it's replaced
The broken spring and its measurements are in front of you before anything leaves the shaft, and the price is written out for you before a single tool comes out. Springs wear by cycles; one trip up and one trip down make a single cycle. A door cycling many times a day burns through them sooner, so if the garage is your main entrance, ask about a higher-cycle spring.
Why this isn't a weekend project
That coil is wound tight on purpose. Its stored twist lifts a door heavier than one person can hold. Adding or releasing it takes two steel winding bars and a strict order of steps, and a screwdriver in the wrong spot can spin out of your grip. Keep it simple: loosen nothing on the shaft and nothing at the door's lower corners. Should a spring snap with the door raised, leave that red cord alone: the opener may be the only thing holding the door.
What changes the job
- One spring or two
- Two-spring doors run a matched pair. If one breaks, its partner has made exactly the same trips, so you see how it looks and decide whether it goes now or waits.
- What the door weighs today
- Insulation, wind struts, windows and impact-rated sections all add pounds. The replacement is matched to the door's weight now, which may differ from the day it was hung.
- Torsion or extension
- Extension springs work in pairs, each with its safety cable. Converting an older door to torsion is possible; we explain it and do it only if you ask.
- Cables and drums
- A spring break often throws the cables off their drums. A frayed cable or a worn drum joins the job, and you see it first.
Replacing a spring is work on the door's hardware, not on the frame or the opening. Repairs that don't touch the frame or the opening usually don't change the permit picture; when one does, we tell you before we start. Whole-door replacements are covered in our Pembroke Pines permit guide.
Questions about this
One spring broke. Do both need replacing?
No, the broken spring can be replaced alone. Its partner, though, is just as old and has done every trip the broken one did, so we show you its condition and the timing is your call.
Is it worth fixing a garage door spring?
Usually, yes, as long as the sections and tracks are in good shape. A spring is one part; sections, tracks and the opener can keep going long after it's swapped. If the door itself is failing, we tell you so, and why.
Will a garage door still work with a broken spring?
Not safely. The opener might raise it a little or not move it at all, and lifting by hand puts the door's full weight in your arms. Keep it shut, unplug the opener and call.
Is DIY torsion spring replacement safe?
No, and we advise against it. Once wound, a torsion spring stores enough force to lift the whole door, and unwinding it takes proper bars and practice. Safe homeowner jobs: lubricating the coil and watching how the door moves.
Are hurricane garage door springs a real thing?
Not as a separate product we know of. A spring's job is lifting the door; wind resistance comes from the door's approved design, its struts and its anchoring. An impact door does need springs sized for its extra weight, and that is sizing, not a special part.
Call, or text us a photo first
A person answers 24/7. If it isn't urgent, a photo of the torsion spring helps us bring the right part.