A broken torsion spring is visible above a white garage door.

Clearfield, Ogden

Spring Repair for Clearfield's 1987-Era Garage Doors

Most Clearfield garage doors date to 1987 and still run on their original springs. We drive out from Ogden to replace broken torsion and extension springs before they take a cable or a panel with them.

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What It Costs

We don't post a flat number here because spring jobs vary with door size and whether you've got a single torsion spring, two, or an older extension-spring setup still bolted to the horizontal tracks.

Springs replaced as pairs

What we can tell you is what drives the cost up: a double-wide door needs two torsion springs replaced as a pair even if only one broke, and a door that's been limping on a weak spring for months may have stretched cables or a bent bottom bracket that needs fixing at the same visit.

Springs past working life

Clearfield's housing stock runs mostly to a 1987 build year, which puts a lot of doors at or past the spring's working life regardless of how the opener sounds.

Onsite quote before work

We quote the job on-site before any work starts, not over the phone, because guessing a price without seeing the hardware is how a cheap call turns into a change order. If the spring is the only thing wrong, the repair is usually a same-visit fix.

The torsion spring and shaft are mounted above a white garage door.

How to Book

We travel to Clearfield from Ogden, about 9 miles out, so the call isn't a same-hour walk-in - you're booking a visit, not a drop-in. Tell us the door size, whether it's one spring or two, and whether the door is stuck shut, stuck open, or came down hard and fast - that last one is the sign of a snapped torsion spring and changes what we bring on the truck. We don't carry every spring size for every door built between 1971 and the 2000s, so a quick description up front saves a second trip. If you'd rather browse what we do in Clearfield generally before booking a spring call specifically, that's here: /clearfield-garage-doors/.

Doing It Yourself

We'll say this plainly: don't wind a torsion spring yourself. The wound spring stores enough force to break a jaw or a wrist, and the winding bars and cones for doing it safely aren't something most garage shelves have.

Extension springs DIY caution

Extension springs, the kind that stretch along the horizontal tracks rather than sitting on a bar over the door, are lower-force and some owners do replace those themselves - but even then, a door built in the late 1980s often has safety cables threaded through the extension springs, and skipping that part is how a spring becomes a projectile if it ever lets go again.

Checking springs and cables

What you can safely check yourself: whether the spring is visibly broken or just stretched out of shape, and whether the cables on either side of the door look frayed or kinked. That tells us which parts to bring before we even get the truck loaded.

Parts We Carry

For a Clearfield service call we stock torsion springs in the common sizes for doors from the 1980s and 90s building stock, which covers most of what's on the ground here given the area's 1987 median build year. We also carry extension springs and the safety cables that should run through them, since older doors in this era sometimes have the extension setup rather than torsion. What we don't keep on the truck is every spring wind and wire gauge ever made - a handful of custom or commercial-grade doors need a part ordered in, and we'll tell you that on-site rather than make you wait for a part that was never coming same-day.

What Can Go Wrong

A broken spring rarely travels alone. On a door that's original to a 1987-built house, the spring is often original too, and the cables, rollers, and even the bottom bracket have been carrying that same age of wear.

Cable jumps after snap

When a spring snaps, the sudden slack can let a cable jump its drum, and on a double door it puts the full weight on the one spring still holding, which is the fastest way to break the second one within days.

Bent brackets from slamming

We also see bent bottom brackets on doors that got slammed shut after the first spring went, because the opener kept trying to pull a door that no longer had spring tension helping it.

Check remaining hardware

None of this means the whole door needs replacing - most of the time it's the spring and maybe a cable - but we check the rest of the hardware before we call the job done.

The Symptom

The door sounds different before it looks different. A loud bang from the garage, usually when no one's near it, is almost always a torsion spring letting go - that's the sound of stored tension releasing all at once. After that, the door gets heavy: the opener strains, a hand-lift won't budge it past a foot or two, or it drops fast on the way down instead of lowering evenly. On older extension-spring doors, the sign is more gradual - the door starts sagging unevenly on one side as one spring weakens ahead of the other. If your door is original to a house built in the late 1980s, don't wait on either symptom. The spring failing slowly is still failing, and the parts around it wear faster once the spring stops doing its share of the work.

Questions

Common questions

How do I know if it's the spring and not the opener?

If the opener motor runs but the door barely moves, or a hand-lift feels far heavier than it should, that's spring tension gone, not a motor problem. A loud bang from the garage right before the trouble started is almost always a torsion spring breaking.

Is my door's spring original to the house?

If your Clearfield home was built around 1987, there's a decent chance it is - torsion springs are rated for a number of cycles, not years, but a 35-plus-year-old spring that's never been touched is well past due regardless of count.

Do you carry the spring size for my door on the truck?

Usually, yes, for standard residential torsion and extension springs common to 1980s and 90s construction. Tell us your door size when you book so we bring the right one; a few less common sizes need to be ordered in.

Can I just replace one spring on a double door?

You can, but we don't recommend it. If one spring broke from age, the other is the same age and close behind it - replacing both now means one visit instead of two.

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