A broken garage door spring is the single most common emergency in this trade — and in St. Louis, it has a season. Torsion springs do the real lifting, cycling thousands of times a year, and Midwest cold snaps make aging steel brittle: the loudest bang in your garage usually happens on the coldest morning of January. When a spring snaps, the door becomes dead weight — far too heavy to lift safely, and heavy enough to burn out an opener that tries. We replace springs in matched pairs, rated for your door's exact weight and height, and balance-test the door before we leave.
We inspect the full system and quote the exact price before any work begins — no surprises, no pressure.
Your technician completes the work with parts matched to your door, tested as we go.
Every job ends with balance, force and safety-reversal checks, plus a photo-eye alignment test.
We show you what was done, register your warranty, and leave the garage cleaner than we found it.
Spring steel loses flexibility as temperatures drop, and a spring near the end of its cycle life is most likely to let go on the coldest nights. St. Louis cold snaps in January and February are peak broken-spring season across the metro — it's physics, not bad luck.
Please don't try. Without the spring, a typical door weighs 150–300 pounds, and the opener isn't built to lift it — forcing it can burn out the motor and bend the top panel. Keep the door closed and call us; spring jobs are priority dispatches.
We recommend replacing both. Springs are installed in matched pairs and wear at the same rate — when one snaps, the other is usually near the end of its life too. Replacing both now costs far less than a second emergency visit in a few months.
Standard springs are rated around 10,000 cycles — roughly 7–10 years for an average household, less for busy multi-car homes. High-cycle springs rated 25,000+ cycles are a smart upgrade if your door opens many times a day.
Yes — genuinely. A wound torsion spring holds enough stored energy to cause severe injury, which is why this is the one garage job we tell every homeowner to leave to a technician with the right winding bars and training.
