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What does garage door repair cost, and what has usually failed?

Garage door repair is priced by the part rather than by the door. Springs, cables, rollers and the opener fail in roughly that order of cost, and the symptom names the part: a door that is heavy to lift by hand is a spring, and a door that reverses on the way down is usually the photo eyes.

Ranges come from the same pricing engine a real task is quoted against. A bent panel or a door off its track is assessed on site, because a door that has come down hard usually needs more than the part that broke. How we price

What a garage door visit should cover

A door that works and a door that is safe are two different results, and the second one takes about ten more minutes.

It is almost always the spring, and that is the part not to touch

A double garage door weighs well over a hundred kilograms, and the springs above it carry that weight so the opener does not have to. When a torsion spring breaks, the motor is suddenly trying to lift the whole door on its own — which is why the first symptom is a door that struggles, stops partway, or is impossible to raise by hand. Winding a torsion spring stores that weight back onto a bar using a pair of rods, and the bar will take a hand off if it gets away from whoever is holding it. Rollers, hinges, seals, alignment and opener work are ordinary tasks. The springs are the line, and a quote that treats them as ordinary is the wrong quote.

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What a GTA winter does to a garage door

The bottom seal is a strip of rubber sitting on a concrete slab that gets wet, and when the temperature drops the two freeze together. The opener then pulls against a door stuck to the floor, reads the resistance as an obstruction, and reverses — which reads as a broken opener and is a frozen seal. The same cold thickens the grease in old rollers and finishes off a spring that was already near the end of its cycles, which is why these failures cluster in January instead of spreading through the year. Replacing a brittle seal in the autumn and lubricating the rollers and hinges is a short visit that prevents most of it, and it is the most skipped piece of maintenance on the outside of a GTA house.

Questions

Garage door repair questions

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The opener hums and the door will not move. What is it?

Almost always a broken spring. Pull the release cord and try lifting the door by hand: if it feels like the full weight of the door, the spring has gone and the opener is not the problem. Say that in the post, because it changes what the visit has to bring.

Should both springs be replaced if only one broke?

On a two-spring door, yes. They went up on the same day and have run the same number of cycles, so the second is close behind. Doing both at once is one visit instead of two, and it keeps the door balanced, which is what protects the opener.

The door reverses just before it closes.

Look at the photo eyes near the floor first — a knocked bracket, a web across a lens or low sun will do it, and both indicator lights should be steady. If the eyes are clear, the closing force or the down limit is set wrong. In winter, check whether the seal has frozen to the slab.

Repair or replace the door itself?

Springs, cables, rollers and openers are worth repairing on any door in reasonable condition. Replacement starts to win with a panel bent by a bumper, a door that has come off its track, or rot at the bottom of a wood door — and on an attached GTA garage, insulation is a separate comfort question from the repair.

What should I put in the post?

The symptom rather than the diagnosis, plus whether the door is single or double and whether it is wood, steel or insulated. If you have tried lifting it with the opener disconnected, say how heavy it felt. That one sentence routes the task to somebody who carries winding bars rather than a screwdriver.

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