With everyday use, springs on a steel rolling door will eventually wear and break. This tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to replace steel rolling door springs.
From time to time, someone with an older one-piece garage door will contact us. Usually, they want to know if we can modify a spring that has one end tapered, such as the one shown below.
In years past, manufacturing costs were much lower, and there were more of these doors.…
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Manufacturers make garage door springs from wire. Garage door springs break because every time you open or close the door, the wire bends.
This is easy to understand if you have ever bent a small wire or a paper clip in order to break it.…
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Clients frequently ask us, “Why is one of my garage door springs slinky and the other tight?” Or, “Why is one spring stiff and the other loose?” The answer lies in the pitch of the torsion spring wire.
When a spring coils, the wire normally winds at a 90-degree angle from the spool or rod it is wound around.…
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Sometimes a customer will order the incorrect spring, and we will try to offer the least expensive solution. If the spring is too long, one option is to shorten and bend the spring. This can be performed with a torch or a hand grinder, such as a Dremel tool.…
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Most installers eyeball or guess at where to install the spring anchor bracket. As a result, I’ve seen many where the center support bracket mounts one or two inches too high. Doors will work for years this way. However, the poor installation may result in the torsion shaft binding or fatiguing and actually breaking.…
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Garage door extension springs stretch as the door closes and contract as the door opens. Also designated as “stretch springs,” these usually mount above the horizontal tracks, but sometimes they extend beside the vertical tracks.
Over the years, there have been requests for better extension springs because customers’ existing springs have not lasted as long as they had hoped.…
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When upgrading to longer life torsion springs, it is often better to convert to four smaller springs. This is especially true when the torsion springs are for heavier garage doors.
On a standard two spring system, both torsion springs normally mount back to back to the spring anchor bracket off-centered above the door.…
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At DDM Garage Doors, we go to great lengths to help our customers select the correct springs. Sometimes customers order the wrong springs, the garage door doesn’t balance, and they contact us for help.
On standard lift and industrial vertical lift garage doors like you find in businesses and homes, there are three common scenarios.…
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The video is here live! All the steps for how to replace garage door torsion springs on a two-spring system are given in clear, sequential steps. Therefore, decide whether this is something you would like to try as a DIY project.…
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