Service
Garage Door Spring Repair, Sized for Lubbock's Older Doors
Torsion and extension spring repair for Lubbock homes built mostly between 1963 and 2003. We carry sizes that fit this area's older door hardware.
What Happens When You Call
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Call or Request a Quote
Tell us what the door is doing and roughly how old the house is - that alone points us toward the likely part before a truck leaves.
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On-Site Diagnosis
A tech checks the spring, cables, tracks, and opener in person and tells you plainly what is actually wrong.
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Straight Price, No Surprises
You get a number before any work starts. It covers parts and labor, nothing added after the fact.
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Fixed the Same Visit
Most repairs are done in one trip. If a part needs sourcing, we tell you that upfront instead of guessing.
What the Repair Takes
A torsion spring job starts with the door locked down on the track so nothing under tension can move while we work. We unwind the old spring with winding bars, pull the shaft, measure wire diameter and wind length against the door weight, and set the new spring to match. Most single-door setups run one torsion spring on a center shaft; double doors usually carry two, and if one has gone, we check the other because they wear on the same clock.
Extension spring jobs are a different animal - two springs over the horizontal tracks, connected to a pulley and cable system, and we replace both even if only one snapped, for the same reason. Either way, we balance the door after the swing: lift it by hand to waist height and it should hold there on its own. If it drifts up or drops, the spring tension isn't right yet and we adjust before we call the job done.
We don't do this with the opener carrying the load. A garage door opener is not built to lift a door against a broken or unbalanced spring, and running it that way is how you burn out a motor on top of the spring problem you already had.
Why It Happens Here
Housing in this service area mostly went up between 1963 and 2003, with the median build year around 1967. That matters for springs specifically: a lot of these doors are on their second or third spring already, and the torsion hardware itself - the shaft, the center bracket, the drum sizing - was set for door weights and wind patterns that were standard in the 1960s and 70s, which is when most of the stock in areas like Maxey Park, Caprock, Bayless Atkins, and Arnett Benson was built out.
The other half of it is the climate. Lubbock sits in a cold-moderate band, and that means real swings between a hard winter morning and a hot afternoon.
Steel spring wire contracts in the cold, and a spring that's already fatigued from twenty or thirty years of cycling is more likely to let go on a cold morning than in the middle of summer. We see the call volume shift that way every year - more snapped springs on the first genuinely cold mornings than on any other day.
A spring doesn't fail because of one bad day. It fails because it's been through thousands of open-close cycles on hardware that's older than the warranty sticker suggests, and the cold is just the day it finally lets go.
Parts We Carry
We stock torsion springs across the wire diameters and wind lengths that fit the door weights common to this housing stock - the 16- and 18-gauge steel doors typical of builds from the 1960s through the 1990s, plus the heavier insulated panels that came later, through 2003 and after. We carry standard extension spring sets too, for the older tracked systems that never got upgraded to torsion.
What we don't stock on the truck: springs built for doors installed before 1963, or custom architectural doors outside the standard residential sizes. Those are special-order, and if that's what you've got, we'll tell you on the first visit instead of after we've opened things up. It's a small share of calls, but it happens, especially on original garages that never had the door replaced.
We also carry the center brackets, cable drums, and bearing plates that go bad alongside a spring - a spring rarely fails in isolation on a door this age, and replacing just the spring on worn hardware means a second call within a year.
What You Are Seeing
A snapped torsion spring usually announces itself with a bang - loud enough that people call thinking something fell in the garage. After that, the door won't lift, or it lifts a few inches and stops. If you look at the spring above the door and see a visible gap in the coil, that's your answer.
A spring that's failing but not yet broken shows up differently: the door feels heavier than it used to, it doesn't stay put when you stop it partway, or the opener strains and groans on the way up. Cables that look slack or frayed near the bottom bracket are often a sign the spring tension has already dropped off, even before it snaps outright.
If your door drops fast on its own once it's above head height, stop using it and call. That's a spring problem, not an opener problem, and running the opener against it will wear the motor out trying to compensate for tension that isn't there anymore.
Talk to a Technician Before You Book
Describe what the door is doing and get a straight answer on what it likely needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if it's the spring and not the opener?
If the door won't budge, or only moves a few inches before stopping, and you hear a loud bang beforehand, that's almost always a broken spring, not the opener. Openers fail quietly - they hum, click, or the light blinks. A spring failure is sudden and loud, and the door will feel dramatically heavier or completely stuck afterward.
Can I just replace one spring on a double torsion setup?
You can, but we don't recommend it. Both springs on a double door wear on the same cycle count, so if one has failed, the other is close behind. Replacing both at once means one visit instead of two, and matched tension on both sides instead of one new spring fighting one worn one.
Why did my spring snap on a cold morning?
Steel spring wire contracts in cold weather, and a spring that's already fatigued from years of daily cycling is more likely to give out when it's tightest. We see more spring calls on the first cold mornings of the season than any other time of year in this climate.
What if my house is older than the standard springs you carry?
If your garage door predates the early 1960s stock most of this area was built on, the spring size may be special-order. We'll check the door and hardware on the first visit and tell you straight if that's the case rather than assume a stock size fits.
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