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The quickest way to tell if your garage door spring is broken is to look at the metal shaft directly above your closed door. If you see a visible 2-inch separation or gap in the coiled black steel spring, or if you heard a loud gunshot-like sound and the door will only lift 2 to 6 inches, the spring has snapped.
Garage door springs do not last forever. They are mechanical counterbalance devices engineered for a finite cycle rating—typically 10,000 cycles for standard residential springs. Every time your door opens and closes constitutes one cycle. Over 5 to 7 years of normal daily usage, metallurgical fatigue weakens the high-carbon steel until the coil fractures under load.
Many homeowners assume their electric opener has failed when a spring breaks. However, garage door openers are only designed to guide a balanced door; they do not have the horsepower to lift 150 to 350 pounds of dead-weight steel panels. Running the opener with a broken spring strips the internal drive gears.
If safe homeowner checks indicate broken springs, stripped gears, or off-track door panels, call our Texas dispatch line at (800) 240-4326 for same-day technician matching.
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