Lakewood Park, Port Saint Lucie

Garage Door Spring Repair for Lakewood Park Homes

Spring repair for Lakewood Park homes built around 1988, where original torsion hardware is now past its service life. Travel from Port Saint Lucie, 18 miles out.

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A broken torsion spring is on a metal rod above a garage door.

The Symptom

The door won't lift, or it lifts a few inches and stalls, or it slams down instead of lowering. Sometimes you hear a bang from the garage before any of that starts - that's the spring letting go, not the opener failing. On a double door it's often one torsion spring doing the work of two, because the other side already broke and nobody noticed until this one went too.

In Lakewood Park, most of the houses around here went up near 1988, which puts the original torsion springs at well past the point where metal fatigue takes over. A torsion spring is rated in cycles, not years, but a 35-year-old spring on a door that's been opened and closed a couple of times a day has usually burned through its rated life regardless of the math. If your garage still has the factory spring from that era, it's not a question of if it breaks, it's which week.

Questions

Common questions

How do I know if it's the spring and not the opener?

If the opener motor runs but the door barely moves, or doesn't move at all, that's almost always the spring, not the motor. A healthy spring system lets you lift the door by hand, smoothly, at about ten pounds of force. If it feels like lifting a car, the spring is gone or going.

Can I drive on the broken spring until someone gets out here?

No. A broken torsion spring means the opener is doing all the lifting against the door's full weight, which burns out the motor and can snap the cable next. Leave the door down, don't force it, and wait for the tech.

Do you carry spring sizes for older Lakewood Park doors?

Torsion springs are wound to a door's specific weight and track length, so the tech brings a range of stock sizes and wire gauges in the truck rather than one universal part, since 1980s-era doors vary more than newer standardized models.

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