Hollywood, FL · Garage Door Service
Torsion spring repair for Dania Beach's 1970s-era steel doors, serviced from Hollywood, 2 miles away. Straight pricing, no invented promises.
Most houses in Dania Beach went up around 1977, which put a lot of two-car, 16-foot steel sectional doors on the market at once, and those doors have already been through at least one spring swap since. When a torsion spring lets go on one of these doors, the door doesn't creep down, it drops, and a 16-foot double door with two broken cable ends is not something you leave half-open overnight. We come from Hollywood, about 2 miles up the road, so the drive isn't the bottleneck. The bottleneck is whether the spring size on hand matches what a mid-70s two-car opening actually needs, since the shaft diameter and wind on original hardware from that era doesn't always match what's sold off the shelf now. We check the door in person before we say it's a same-visit fix.
On a 16-foot double door from this housing stock, a broken spring usually shows up as a loud bang from the garage, then a door that won't lift past a foot or two, or one that lifts unevenly and racks in the tracks. Single 8-foot doors on the same-era houses tend to run one torsion spring instead of two, so the failure is quieter but the door still won't hold itself up. If the door drops fast and doesn't stop, that's a broken cable riding on top of the spring failure, not a separate problem. Either way, don't force the opener - a motor built for a working spring will strip its gear trying to lift a door with none.
We don't post a flat number for spring jobs because spring size, door weight, and whether one or both springs failed changes the parts cost. A 16-foot double door on original 1970s-width torsion hardware often needs a heavier spring than a same-size door built in the 2000s, since door weight and insulation specs shifted over that stretch. We price the job on-site once we've measured the shaft and weighed the door, not off a phone description.
The job gets harder when the drum or the shaft bearing on a 1970s-era door has worn oval instead of round - common on doors that never had a second spring replacement. Swapping the spring alone on a worn shaft just means it fails again in a year, so we flag that instead of quoting a spring-only fix. Extension spring setups, which show up on some of the older single-car doors from this build era, need the whole cable and pulley system checked too, since a spring failure there usually took a fraying cable down with it. We won't put a new spring on a door with a cracked cable drum and call it done.
Call and tell us it's a Dania Beach address, the door size if you know it, and whether it's one spring or two that let go - that's enough for us to load the right spring stock before we leave Hollywood. We ask for the door's approximate age too, since a door original to a 1977-built house takes different hardware than a replacement door installed ten years ago. See <a href="/dania-beach/garage-door-service/">our Dania Beach service page</a> for the rest of what we cover in the area.
A straightforward torsion spring swap on a double door, done in the driveway, is usually under two hours once the right spring is on the truck. What extends it is a stripped drum, a bent track from someone forcing the door after it dropped, or a shaft that needs full replacement - none of which we know until we've had the door open. We test the balance after, not just the lift, since a door that raises fine but doesn't hold at half-open still has a spring tension problem. If you're looking at a second spring failure in a few years on a door already near 50 years old, we'll tell you straight when replacement makes more sense than another repair. For anything outside spring work, our <a href="/garage-door-spring-repair-hollywood-fl">Hollywood spring repair page</a> covers the base service across the rest of the area.
Torsion springs fail on a cycle count, not a calendar, so a door that's opened and closed thousands of times over 40-plus years wears out even with no visible damage beforehand. Houses in Dania Beach built around 1977 are old enough that most doors are on at least their second spring, and the second one doesn't always last as long as the original.
You can, but we don't recommend it. If one spring on a double door failed from age, the other is close behind, and mismatched spring tension makes the door lift unevenly. We'll usually quote both unless the second spring is genuinely new.
We stock common torsion spring sizes for 1970s-era 16-foot and 8-foot doors since that build era is common through this part of the service area. Uncommon shaft diameters or discontinued extension spring parts sometimes need a return trip - we'll tell you on-site if that's the case.
Call now or request a free quote - same-day service on most repairs, upfront written pricing.
