Garage Door Spring Repair and Replacement in Mandurah

It comes down to what your door actually runs. A single spring supplied and fitted is the smallest job; a matched pair costs more but less than two separate visits, and larger, heavier doors carrying three or four springs step up again. If the springs themselves are sound and the door has simply lost tension, a re-tension needs no new parts at all and is priced accordingly. We quote the exact figure once we've seen which case yours is, and it's confirmed before any work starts.

A snapped spring can't be welded or joined — the steel has fatigued through, so the repair is a new spring of the right wire size, length and diameter, wound to the door's weight. It's almost always worth doing: the spring is a small part of the door's value, and once it's replaced the rest of the door usually has years left. The exception is a door that also has rusted-through panels or a failing motor, where we'll price the spring and the bigger picture side by side.

Please don't. A wound torsion spring stores enough energy to cause serious injury, and the failure mode of a DIY attempt is sudden and violent — winding bars slipping under load, cones letting go, or the door dropping once tension is released. It's the one garage door repair where the danger is genuinely not exaggerated. A professional replacement is a short job, quoted before we start; hospital time costs a great deal more.

Usually not safely. The spring carries most of the door's weight — without it, a double sectional door is far heavier than it feels when it's balanced, and even if two people can heave it up, nothing is holding it there: it can slam back down without warning. If you must free a car before we arrive, call us first and we'll tell you whether your particular door can be safely propped — and never leave a spring-less door raised. If it happens late, that's what our after-hours emergency call-outs are for.

Springs are the single most common garage door failure, and they're rated in cycles rather than years — one open and one close is a cycle. A family door that moves several times a day works through a standard spring well inside a decade, and weather shortens it further: damp and salt pit the steel, and pitted springs fatigue early. If your door is well into its second half-decade on original springs, the bang is a matter of when.

You can, but on a two-spring door we'd rarely advise it. Both springs have flexed the same number of cycles, so the survivor is close behind — and doing the pair together costs meaningfully less than two separate single replacements with two visits. The exceptions are single-spring doors and pairs where one spring was recently replaced; we'll tell you honestly which case is yours once we see the door.

Torsion springs sit on a shaft above the door and twist to lift it — they're what most modern sectional doors in Mandurah run, and what fails with the classic bang. Extension springs stretch along the horizontal tracks on older and lighter doors, and should always have safety cables threaded through them so a break can't whip. Either way the springs work with the lifting cables, so we check both — and if a cable has gone too, cable repair happens on the same visit.