Garage door springs replacement is always a challenge for the owner. First of all, springs are the first parts that break at a garage door, due to their intense level of wear. Luckily, you don’t have to throw away and replace your garage doors if this happens. It is enough to change the torsion springs and things will be back to normal.

Tips for Replacing Garage Door Springs

1. Change the springs as a set, even though one of them might still be good. Actually you never know with such devices like springs, when they are going to break. Since one of them has broken, what makes you think the other one would still last for years, despite the fact that both door springs had to support the same efforts and tensions, thus weakening them both, even if only one breaks at a point in time.
2. Torsion springs replacement is a delicate operation, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, and you don’t have the proper tools, then you’d better leave it up to the specialists and forget the do-it-yourself mentality which drives you into trouble every now and then. Springs accumulate a high level of tension, and it’s easy for you to get injured when trying to extract the spring from its place. All that tension will give the wire a huge harming potential.
3. If you insist to change those springs yourself, make sure you buy appropriate springs, that match the weight of the garage door. The shop assistants can clear up this issue for you, all you need to know is the make and model of your garage door, if not the weight (which has to be specified in the technical documentation, somewhere).
4. Beware that although the wire size, winding diameter, and length can be different, springs of different geometry may have equivalent torque characteristics, which means that you can replace your garage doors springs with a new set that has the same torque, which is the most important characteristic of a spring, be it for a garage door or not.
5. When you measure the old springs in order to purchase new ones, make sure the measurements are done with the springs in relaxed position, otherwise you’ll screw everything up. Pay attention to the fact that the garage door springs never unwind to the full, even at the top-of-travel, thus making it difficult for you to measure it correctly, if it’s not broken yet.
6. Check the winding cones to see of you need right or left hand wound springs. Although you might get a replacement from the merchant in case you buy the wrong type of springs, you never know, so you’d better make sure you don’t make this foolish mistake.

If all these seem a bit too complicated for you, get your phone and call the service to replace your garage door springs.