Garage Door Spring Repair Santa Barbara

First, we would like to make it clear, that a busted garage door tension spring, or any other issue with a garage door can be dangerous. No matter if it garage door in Santa Barbara, or garage door in Los Angeles. A busted overhead door, whether it is a torsion tension spring repair, or extension tension spring replacement should not be used, until a qualified garage door technician will fix the door and replace or repair the tension springs.
Did you ever wonder how it can be so easy to manually lift and open even the heaviest garage doors in Santa Barbara? How is it possible that a door that weight few hundred pounds can be opened with one hand without too much force from you side? The answer is in the garage door mechanism, and of course the tension spring system which is like the heart of the garage door’s mechanism.
Whether your garage door in Santa Barbara is equipped with extension torsion tension spring system, or with torsion tension spring system, many calculation were made by those who designed the garage door, so the right tension spring will move the door, and keeping the gentle balance that keep the door up when you open it, and keep down when you close it. There are many overhead doors in Santa Barbara, and although all may seem the same to you, they are equipped with different tension springs.
Since the garage door tension springs are under a lot of tension, and sometime being used few times a day, a snapped garage door tension spring in Santa Barbara is not a rare problem, and definitely not an issue that require to replace the whole door, you just need to find someone who repair garage door tension spring in Santa Barbara, to come and replace the busted tension spring for you.

Extension tension spring Repair Santa Barbara

If you own an overhead door in Santa Barbara, and you look at your garage door, you should see that the tension spring are installed on top of the tracks (Attached to pulleys and cables), it means that your garage door is moving by extension tension spring system. When extension tension spring snap, and it doesn’t matter if it is a garage door in Santa Barbara, or an overhead door repair in Los Angeles CA, it can be risky, and can put people, the overhead door itself and other objects near the door at risk. Based on many years of servicing garage doors around California, No Springs Detached offer you to make sure that there are safety cables installed in your door, in case the tension spring will break.
You should know that every garage door near Santa Barbara is unique, and not every tension spring will fit every garage door! So if you plan to do the replacement by yourself, make sure you have the right tension spring, and that you know exactly what you are doing. Do not assume that a tension spring that looks like your tension spring, or almost the same size will work. Unless you use the right exact and specific tension spring for overhead door in Santa Barbara, the door will not be safe to use.

Safety Cables (Extension springs only)

Although they have no part in making the door working better or worse, and the door will work the same way with or without the safety cables, it is important to install safety cables, to protect the area which surrounding your garage door if the tension spring will snap one day. If you need to replace the tension springs for your overhead door in Santa Barbara, make sure that the installer will also include safety cables. If you own a garage door in Santa Barbara, and you are not sure if there are safety cables included in your tension spring system, look at your tension springs, if you see a metal wire which enter from one side of the tension spring, and exiting from the other side, it mean that you have them. If you do not see them (Do not confuse them with the cables which actually connected to the tension spring and wrapped around the pulley), you can install them by yourself, or you can contact us door same day garage door service in Santa Barbara.

Torsion Tension spring Repair Santa Barbara CA

If your garage door in Santa Barbara is working with the help of torsion tension spring system, and one or both of them snapped, do not try and use the door, because it is dangerous. A torsion tension spring replacement is not an easy project, and it should be performed by a trained repairman, who can fit the right tension spring for the door, and that will know how to replace the tension spring in a safe way. There are a lot of different sizes of garage door’s springs in Santa Barbara, and not every tension spring can make every door work. For every overhead door, there is a set of tension spring that will make it work, and do not expect an overhead door in Santa Barbara or even a garage door in Los Angeles, to work properly with the wrong set of tension springs.
Do not attempt to try and replace the tension spring by yourself. We know that there are many Videos online which explain how to replace a torsion tension spring “do it yourself”, and if you read more along this article you will learn why it is not recommended.

Overhead Tension spring Repair Santa Barbara

Before we continue explaining about the tension spring repair process, we would like to make it clear that a busted garage door tension spring, whether in Santa Barbara or any other overhead door in California, can be dangerous, and it is best if you avoid operating the door until the busted tension spring will be replaced.
There are few steps that included in a professional tension spring replacement in Santa Barbara. The first is of course to locate the right tension spring for your garage door, and the second part is the installation. As we explained earlier, the garage door tension springs are under a lot of tension, and being near one when it snap is not a pleasant experience. It may followed by a loud noise of the snapped tension spring, and it may make you wonder if your garage door is totally lost. But do not worry, since replacing garage door tension spring in Santa Barbara is what we do, a technician from No Springs Detached can be there today and take care of your busted overhead door.

Do it yourself tension spring repair Santa Barbara

If you will search online for a garage door tension spring repair, you will find a large collection of tutorials and articles that explain how to replace a garage door tension spring by yourself. And when you will watch the tutorial, it may seem simple to replace the tension springs, just locate local garage door supplier in Santa Barbara, purchase the tension spring and replace the old one. But, and this is the important part: Every garage door is unique, in terms of the place where it is installed, and the way it is operating (And of course the size and the weight). And what work for the garage door repair you watched on the Video you watched, will not necessarily work for your garage door, and here is where the problem begin. You need to understand that every garage is unique, and so is your garage and its door. And in order to fix it, following the garage door repair tutorial you watched won’t necessarily make it easy for you to replace the busted tension spring.

Be careful!

Repairing a garage door by yourself can be risky. In case you are not sure that you purchased the right part, if you don’t have the right tools for the job; or if you don’t have the knowledge which garage door repair demand, please contact a garage door installer in Santa Barbara to do the repair for you. Replacing a torsion tension spring is not a simple job that require certain knowledge that without that knowledge can turn the repair to dangerous and sometime impossible.
And no matter what, avoid unnecessary risks! No garage door repair worth that you will get injured. Hire a local expert who carry the parts, the tools and who has the experience to deal with garage door spring replacement.

Tips for do it yourself spring replacement

If you think that you can perform the task of replacing garage tension spring by yourself, and not use a garage door vendor in Santa Barbara, make sure that you have the right tension spring for your door, that you have the right tools (Never replace the required torsion sticks with another tool), and that you got all the knowledge which require to replace a busted tension spring.

Here is what you SHOULD and SHOULDN’T do:

Make all the safety arrangements which are required.
Make sure you have the right tools.
Make sure you have the right parts.
Avoid removing, releasing or even touching parts you are not sure about.
Contact a garage door specialist in Santa Barbara for any questions.

 

Commercial Garage Door Tension spring Santa Barbara

If you need a commercial overhead garage door repair in Santa Barbara, DIY is off the table. Replacing commercial overhead door’s spring in Santa Barbara is a risky task. The commercial or the industrial overhead door repairs, is something for the pros, and not for DIY. Fixing a commercial overhead door, whether it is an overhead door in Santa Barbara, or a commercial garage door repair in the Bronx, is something that require tools, knowledge, experience, fully understanding of the overhead doors in Santa Barbara, and many times assistance. Out teams of commercial overhead doors repairers include 2 people or more, in order to deal with the commercial overhead doors in Santa Barbara.
Just to measure and locate the tension springs for a commercial overhead door is already a project by itself, since not every garage door installer in Santa Barbara carry tension springs for heavy duty commercial garage doors. And if we add to that the fact that a commercial overhead door can be very heavy, you can easily understand that the best way to deal with the door will be to let an expert fix it.

Why did the tension spring snap?

There are many possible causes why a garage door tension spring snap, and they apply to all garage doors, whether it is a garage repairs in Santa Barbara, or a garage door repair in LA. Here are some of the possible reason:

1. Lack of maintenance: Most of the time when we arrive to a customer’s place in Santa Barbara to inspect the door, we find that it has been few years since the door was maintained. When you do not lubricate your door at all, you are speeding the process of the parts wearing, and so for the tension springs. It is recommended to lubricate overhead doors in Santa Barbara once every 6 months. It is a short process, which not only improve the way the door works, but also protect the parts of the door.
2. Usage of the door: Some garage doors in Santa Barbara are being used once a day, some are being used 20 times and more. How often you are using your overhead door in Santa Barbara, affect the tension springs and the door.
3. High quality tension springs: If your door is made from high quality garage door materials, the parts and the door will last longer. Today there are overhead doors in Santa Barbara that can last for more than 30 years, as long as they are made from high quality materials.
4. Is it the right tension spring for the door? We sometime find that the tension springs that were installed in garages in Santa Barbara are the wrong set of tension springs for the door. Like we explained earlier, every overhead door has a unique set of tension springs, and using the wrong tension spring will eventually result with a stuck garage door.

Garage door tension spring replacement in Santa Barbara

Stop asking yourself “Who can replace garage door springs in Santa Barbara”. Just give No Springs Detached a call and we will be there for you today. Fixing overhead garage doors around Santa Barbara, whether it is a busted tension spring, extension or torsion, including cables, pulleys, rollers, drums etc. is our job. And after years of servicing overhead doors in Santa Barbara, we know which tension springs are most likely to snap, and we carry many of them with us, to get your garage door back on track with new garage door tension springs ASAP.