Spring Repair for Kennedale Garage Doors

How to Book

We don't keep a branch in Kennedale. Every job here starts with a call to Colleyville, and the truck makes the 18-mile drive out before the tech ever sees your door. That matters for how we schedule: we build the drive time into the slot we quote you, not around it, so the arrival window we give you already accounts for the distance from our shop.

Booking itself is simple. Tell us the door size, whether it's one spring or two, and whether the door is stuck down or stuck up - that tells us which spring size and how many to load before we leave. If you can send a photo of the broken spring coil still on the shaft, we can usually confirm the wind direction and wire gauge before the truck is loaded, which saves a second trip if your door turns out to need something we don't carry stock of for a first visit.

We don't do same-day emergency dispatch out to Kennedale - the drive is part of why. If the door is stuck shut and you need the car out now, say so when you call and we'll tell you honestly whether today is realistic or whether tomorrow's the real answer.

What the Fix Involves

Most of what breaks in Kennedale is the torsion spring itself - the coiled spring mounted over the door opening, not the stretch springs you see on some older designs. Kennedale's housing stock centers on 1995, so the garages we're working on were mostly framed with torsion hardware from that build wave, not the older extension-spring setups you'd find in a much older neighborhood. That's actually good news for parts availability: standard torsion is easier to match than the stretch-spring hardware that shows up in pre-1970s construction.

The job itself: we clamp the door down, unwind the broken spring under control, pull it off the shaft, and replace it with a spring matched to the door's weight and the drum size already on the shaft. We don't guess the spring size from a chart alone - we measure the wire diameter, the coil length, and the inside diameter off the old spring or the shaft itself, because two doors that look identical from the driveway can carry different spring specs depending on insulation or a panel swap somewhere in the door's life.

We replace both springs on a double-spring setup even if only one broke. A mismatched pair - one new, one old - wears unevenly and tends to fail again within a year, which just means a second drive out.

Time on the Job

A straightforward torsion spring swap, once the tech is on site with the right size spring already loaded, doesn't take long - most of the job is the careful part: winding the new spring to the correct number of turns under tension, not the removal.

What stretches a visit is anything we didn't expect from the phone call. If the cable's frayed from riding on a worn drum, or the bottom bracket has slipped because the spring failure let the door drop hard, those get fixed in the same visit if we've got the part on the truck, but they add time. If the opener has been straining against a broken spring for days before anyone called, we also check the gears inside the opener head - a motor that's been lifting a dead-weight door can burn out a gear set, and that's a separate repair, not a spring repair, even though it shows up as

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