Hollywood, FL · Garage Door Service
Broken spring, stuck opener, or a door that won't close in Hollywood, FL. We work on the torsion hardware and openers common to this area's 1960s-70s housing stock.
If your door won't budge, or it opens a few inches and stops, or it slams down the last foot instead of settling, you're almost certainly looking at a torsion spring problem or a worn opener drive gear. Houses in Hollywood's older sections went up between 1953 and 1973, and a lot of that original torsion hardware is still hanging on the header today. Springs don't fail on a schedule. They fail after a set number of open-close cycles, and a door that's been cycling since the Ford administration is well past that number.
A cable that's jumped its drum looks similar from the driveway - the door hangs crooked, one side lower than the other - but it's a different repair with different parts. Rollers going bad show up as noise and jerky travel rather than a dead stop. None of these are guesswork calls from the street; they need someone under the door with the opener disconnected before you touch the release cord yourself. Pulling the emergency release on a spring that's about to let go is how people get hurt.
We don't post a flat number here because a spring job on a single door with standard torsion hardware isn't the same bill as a double-door setup with an opener replacement, and we're not going to make up a figure to fill this section. What we can tell you is what drives the cost: whether it's springs, cables, the opener, or the track; whether the door is a single or double; and whether the hardware on the house is old enough that a part has to be sourced rather than pulled off the truck.
That last point matters more here than it would somewhere with newer housing stock - a door built to spec in 1973 doesn't always take a 2024 replacement part without an adapter or a swap to updated hardware. We'll tell you on the phone or at the door what you're actually looking at before we start, not after.
Most of the garage doors we get called on across this territory - the 40-odd named areas from North Central to Boulevard Heights - trace back to that same 1960s-70s build wave, which puts a lot of houses at or past the point where original torsion springs are simply worn out. That's not a coincidence of bad luck, it's the age of the stock.
The climate does its own work on top of the age. This is a mild temperate coastal band - Dania Beach sits two miles off, Sunny Isles Beach about seven - and that proximity to salt air means steel springs and cable ends here corrode from the outside in rather than fatiguing cleanly from cycles alone. A spring in a drier inland climate might just get brittle and snap. Here it's more common to see a spring that's rusted at the coils and lets go unevenly, which is why one side of the door can drop faster than the other. We see that pattern often enough in this service area that it's usually the first thing we check.
Most spring and cable jobs on a standard single or double door get the door back in service the same visit, once we've confirmed what's actually broken and have the right torsion spring on the truck for that hardware. What slows things down isn't the labor, it's parts - if a door's original hardware is old enough that the replacement spring or drum isn't a stock size anymore, we may need to order it, and that can push a job out a day or two.
Across the roughly 115,371 owner-occupied houses in this service area, with a median household income of $60,917, we hear the same question a lot: is it worth fixing an old door or time to replace it. If the opener, springs, and track are all near the end of their life at once, replacement often costs less over the next few years than repairing each piece as it fails. We'll say so plainly if that's the case rather than stringing out repairs on a door that's done.
Torsion springs fail after a set number of open-close cycles, not on a calendar. In Hollywood, where a lot of the housing stock dates to the 1960s and 70s, that cycle count has often quietly run out. Coastal humidity speeds up corrosion on the coils too, so the spring can look fine and still be close to failing.
We'd advise against it. A wound torsion spring holds enough stored force to cause serious injury if it releases while you're working on it, and the tools for winding it safely aren't things most homeowners keep around. It's one of the few repairs on a house where the risk really does outweigh the savings.
Sometimes. If the opener, springs, and track are all original to a house built in the 1960s or 70s and are failing around the same time, repairing each part separately usually costs more over a few years than one replacement. We'll tell you honestly which side of that line your door is on.
We carry common sizes on the truck, but some original hardware from Hollywood's older housing stock uses drums or spring sizes that aren't standard anymore. When that happens we order the part, which can add a day or two versus a same-visit repair.
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