Hollywood, FL · Garage Door Service
Broken torsion spring on a 1970s Deerfield Beach garage door? We drive out from Hollywood with the right springs for houses built around 1977 and get the door moving again.
We don't quote spring jobs over the phone without seeing the door, and for Deerfield Beach that matters more than usual. Houses here went up mostly around 1977, which means you're looking at steel sectional doors on torsion springs sized for openings wider than the older single-car doors you'd find in a pocket built in the 1950s. Spring cost depends on the door's weight, the wind-load rating on the door itself, and whether one spring failed or both are near the end of their life. A single broken torsion spring on a standard double door is a different job than a pair of springs that both let go the same week, which happens more than people expect once a door passes the 25-year mark. We don't sell you a second spring you don't need, but we also don't leave a matching 40-year-old spring hanging next to a new one - the mismatch just breaks again in a year, and now you've paid twice. If your door needs more than a spring, we'll say so before we start, not after.
We cover the broader Deerfield Beach job list - openers, tracks, panels - on our general service page; this page is spring repair specifically.
The failure we see most in this stretch of the service area isn't the spring itself - it's what's been attached to it for close to fifty years. A door built around 1977 usually still has its original torsion bar, and steel that's held tension since the Carter administration doesn't always come apart clean. The bearing plates seize, the winding cone rusts to the shaft, and a job that should take an hour turns into cutting out hardware that won't budge. We also run into doors where a homeowner or a previous handyman replaced one spring years back and left the other original - two springs of different ages fighting each other every time the door cycles.
The other place this goes wrong is the cable drum. On a lot of 1970s-built doors the drums are the same age as the spring, and if we swap the spring without checking the drum, you're back to us in six months with a cable that's jumped the groove. We check both every time, which is one reason the estimate can move once we're actually looking at the hardware instead of guessing over the phone.
We stock torsion springs sized for the standard double-door and single-door openings that show up across houses built in this 1970s-to-1980s window - that covers the majority of what we see on service calls out this way. Where we run into trouble is the handful of older or custom-width doors from earlier building phases in the wider service area; those sometimes need a spring wound to a size we don't carry on the truck, and we'll tell you straight if that's the case rather than force a close-enough fit that fails early.
We carry standard safety cables for open-loop torsion springs too, since a lot of the original installs from this era went in without one - the building code at the time didn't always require it, and retrofitting one is cheap insurance against a spring that snaps and whips loose. We don't stock every extension-spring size for the older side-mount setups; if your door still runs on the older side-mounted style rather than a center torsion bar, ask when you call so we bring the right stock the first trip. The drive out is 20 miles from our Hollywood shop, so we'd rather load the right parts once.
A garage door that won't lift, or lifts a few inches and stops, points at a spring almost every time - the opener isn't weak, it's fighting a spring that's no longer carrying the door's weight. If the door slams down hard instead of lowering smooth, that's the same problem from the other direction. A loud bang from the garage, usually mid-morning when the day's heated the metal, is a torsion spring letting go; it's startling but it's also the safest way for an old spring to fail compared to slow stretching that snaps the cable instead.
On the steel sectional doors common to houses built around 1977 in Deerfield Beach, you'll also sometimes see a visible gap or separation in the spring coils on the bar above the door - worth a look with a flashlight before you call anyone, since a spring that's already split shouldn't be operated, opener or manual override either. If your door still opens and closes fine but sounds different than it used to - a grinding or a squeal on the up-stroke - that's usually the spring wearing thin, not gone yet, and it's worth fixing before it goes the loud way.
A straightforward torsion spring swap on a standard double door, once we're on site with the right size in hand, doesn't take long - most of the time on the call goes into checking the drums, cables, and bearing plates before we touch the spring, especially on hardware that's original to a 1977 build. If both springs need replacing, or the torsion bar itself has to come out because it's seized to the bearing, that adds real time.
We won't cut corners on the winding process to get in and out faster - under-tensioned springs strip the opener gears trying to compensate, over-tensioned ones put stress on hardware that's already older. If the drums, bar, or one of the plates are past saving, we'll say so on site and give you the choice rather than quietly widening the job. Full details on how we handle spring work and the rest of the door - openers, panels, tracks - are on our Hollywood spring repair page, which covers the service itself; this page is about what that service looks like on a Deerfield Beach door specifically.
Most houses here were built around 1977, so most doors are steel sectional doors on torsion springs sized for that era's standard openings. It matters because the hardware attached to the spring - drums, bearing plates, the torsion bar itself - is often the same age and can seize or wear out right alongside the spring, turning a simple swap into a longer job.
No. We're based in Hollywood, about 20 miles out, and we drive to Deerfield Beach for spring repair calls. We carry the standard torsion spring sizes for this area's housing stock on the truck so we're not making a second trip for common jobs.
If a torsion spring has snapped, don't run the opener or lift the door by hand - the door's full weight is no longer supported and it can drop fast. If you need the car out, lift very slowly and prop the door, or wait for the repair. It's a short inconvenience against a door landing on something, or someone.
Torsion springs are usually installed as a matched pair and rated for a set number of open-close cycles. On a door built around 1977, both springs have logged roughly the same use for decades, so they tend to wear down together and fail within a similar window rather than one lasting years longer than the other.
Call now or request a free quote - same-day service on most repairs, upfront written pricing.
