Loud bang, door won't lift, crooked door, visible gap in the spring: how to tell if your garage door spring is broken and what to do next in Kissimmee and Orlando.
Torsion springs do the heavy lifting on your garage door. The opener only guides the door; the springs counterbalance its weight. When one breaks, the door effectively weighs 150 to 300 pounds, and both you and the opener will struggle with it. Here is how to recognize a broken spring before anything else gets damaged.
The classic sign. A torsion spring releasing its tension sounds like a firecracker or something falling. Homeowners often think someone broke in.
Most openers have a force limit. When the spring no longer carries the weight, the opener lifts a few inches, senses resistance and stops or reverses.
Look at the spring above the door. A healthy torsion spring is a tight coil. A broken one has a clear 1 to 2 inch gap where it snapped.
On doors with two springs, if one breaks the door lifts unevenly and can twist in the tracks, pulling a cable loose.
Slack cables often mean the spring they were tensioning has failed.
Pull the emergency release and try to lift the door. If you can barely move it, the spring is broken or badly out of adjustment.
An opener fighting a broken spring pulls on the top section, which bows the panel. Stop using the opener before it cracks.
Do not try to lift the door, do not keep pressing the remote, and do not attempt to replace the spring yourself. We replace springs the same day across Kissimmee, St. Cloud and Orlando, in pairs, with high-cycle springs sized to your door.
We strongly advise against it. The door can weigh 200 pounds or more without the spring, and lifting it risks injury and further damage.
About an hour for most residential doors, and we carry the common sizes on the truck.
Yes. They have the same age and cycle count. Replacing only one almost always means a second service call within months.
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