5 Signs Your Garage Door Spring Is About to Break
The spring does the heavy lifting every time your door opens. When it's on its way out, the door usually tells you first — if you know what to listen and look for.
The door feels heavy or won't stay open halfway
A balanced door should hold its position when you lift it by hand with the opener disconnected. If it slams down or takes real effort to raise, the spring is losing tension.
You hear a loud bang from the garage
A torsion spring snapping makes a sound like a firecracker or a heavy pipe dropping. If you heard one and the door won't open, don't force it — the door is now unbalanced and heavy.
A visible gap in the spring coil
Look at the spring above the door. A two-inch gap where the coils separated is a broken spring, full stop. It needs replacing before the door is used again.
The opener strains or reverses
Openers are sized to move a balanced door, not lift its full weight. If yours grinds, hesitates, or reverses, the spring may be failing and forcing the motor to do work it wasn't built for.
Jerky or crooked movement
One weak spring on a two-spring door makes the door rise unevenly or judder. Both springs are usually replaced together so the pair wears evenly.
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