How To Fix Garage Door Extension Springs

Repair almost always means replacement but you might only need to balance the door and lubricate the springs.

How to fix garage door extension springs.

Garage door springs cost. How to replace a garage door spring. Garage door springs alone cost 30 to 100 for a torsion spring and 20 to 50 for an extension spring. Garage door spring replacement costs 140 to 350 for torsion springs and 120 to 200 for extension springs.

Let s get into it. But we ll show you garage door spring replacement on the more common torsion springs the kind that mount on a bar above the garage door. Doors with extension springs have two sets of pulleys which are sometimes called sheaves. Garage door springs offset the weight of the door and allow it to open and close with ease.

Garage door spring repair costs 40 to 150 for a tune up or replacing cables. Following are the steps necessary to replace one or more of these springs while taking safety precautions. Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more. One at the end of each spring and one at the top of the vertical door track they also have two cables on each side.

We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story. One cable attaches to the bottom of the door runs up and over the pulley above the door and around the spring pulley and then attaches to the door track bracket. Extension springs the other kind of garage door springs are torsion springs run alongside the upper garage door tracks the ones that run parallel to the ceiling and stretch or extend out and back to help lift the garage door. With the door closed unplug the garage door opener.