Garage Door Spring Repair and Replacement in Perth

It comes down to what your door actually runs. A single spring supplied and fitted is the smallest job; a matched pair costs more but less than two separate visits, and larger, heavier doors carrying three or four springs step up again. If the springs themselves are sound and the door has simply lost tension, a re-tension needs no new parts at all and is priced accordingly. We quote the exact figure once we've seen which case yours is, it's confirmed before any work starts, and there's no call-out fee.

Please don't. A wound torsion spring stores enough energy to cause serious injury, and the failure mode of a DIY attempt is sudden and violent — winding bars slipping under load, cones letting go, or the door dropping once tension is released. It's the one garage door repair where the danger is genuinely not exaggerated. A professional replacement takes under an hour and is quoted before we start; hospital time costs a great deal more.

Usually not safely. The spring carries most of the door's weight — without it, a double sectional door can weigh well over 100kg dead, and even if two people can heave it up, nothing is holding it there: it can slam back down without warning. If you must free a car before we arrive, call us first and we'll tell you whether your particular door can be safely propped — and never leave a spring-less door raised.

It's the single most common garage door failure — springs are rated in cycles (typically 10,000–15,000 for standard springs), and a family using the door four to six times a day works through that in seven to ten years. Weather shortens it further: damp and salt pit the steel, and pitted springs fatigue early. If your door is past its seventh year on original springs, the bang is a matter of when.

On a two-spring door, almost always yes. Both springs have flexed the same number of cycles, so the survivor is close behind — and doing the pair together costs meaningfully less than two separate single replacements with two call-outs. The exceptions are single-spring doors and pairs where one spring was recently replaced; we'll tell you honestly which case is yours once we see the door.

Torsion springs sit on a shaft above the door and twist to lift it — they're what most modern sectional doors in Perth run, and what fails with the classic bang. Extension springs stretch along the horizontal tracks on older and lighter doors, and should always have safety cables threaded through them so a break can't whip. We repair both systems and will tell you which yours is from a photo.

As soon as you notice a snapped coil, a visible gap in the spring, a door that will not stay open or feels unusually heavy, jerky movement, or a loud bang from the garage. Do not keep using the door in the meantime: running the opener against a broken spring can burn out the motor and bend panels, turning a straightforward spring replacement into a far bigger repair. Springs are under extreme tension and are the most dangerous part of a garage door to handle, so replacement is a job for a technician with proper winding bars. We replace torsion and extension springs across all of Perth, from Yanchep to Mandurah, any day of the year.