Why Garage Door Springs Break

why garage door springs break by a-1 garage door service hi my name is Tom mellow and I represent a1 garage door service and I want to talk to you about why garage door springs actually break it's a great question and a lot of people don't understand that the springs are what lifts the garage door a long time ago in the early 30s when grousers were invented they have different types of springs but they never had garage door openers so they didn't design an opener to lift the weight of the door they design an opener to not lift hardly anything the garage door springs is what lifts the door and obviously if the springs are lived in the door properly the opener is going to have problems so first I want to talk about cycle life of a garage door spring so all Springs are rated on a different cycle life and it's a mathematical equation that I really can't explain on how they come up with a cycle life but I can tell you that typical Springs range anywhere from five thousand and thirty thousand cycles a cycle as each time the door goes up and comes back down so when you're talking about companies that offer a two-year warranty and then companies that offer a lifetime warranty typically you're talking about cycle life but I will tell you there are a lot of companies out there that offer a lifetime warranty and then they charge you a crazy amount of labor to get the door working so we offer highest cycle life Springs in the market and let's say this spring is a five thousand cycle life spring after the door opens and closes five thousand times the springs are most likely going to break another thing that I like to explain to you is that there are different things that affect the cycle life of a spring for example you have bearing plates you have a center bearing and a left and right bearing if those bearings are sticking and making it tougher for the springs to turn you're going to ruin that cycle life and cut it down into a third another thing you're going to want to look for is your rollers if the rollers are sticking and barely getting the door up and the springs are working much harder that's going to make the cycle life get reduced significantly so when the garage door technician is out there some of the things we recommend is that he makes sure is to look at those parts to make sure you're going to get the optimal cycle life out of your garage door another big comparison is there's two main types of torsion springs there's oil tempered and there's zinc galvanized we highly highly highly recommend oil tempered Springs and the reason behind that is zinc galvanized Springs need to be adjusted once a year or they'll actually fatigue and be really really heavy and that'll make your opener and all the other parts wear out faster another thing we don't like is that zinc galvanized Springs are usually a lower cycle life and they make loud noises they go bump a bump a bump and the coil bump up and down and that's not what you want so we only install oil temperate Springs they're better Springs and you'll get it done right the first time when a one garage door comes out thank you very much have a great day and check out more of our videos call a-1 garage door service today at 602 seven five three two zero zero five or visit online at

Channel: A1 Marana

Views: 126,193

Keywords: garage, garage door, garage door repair, Door (Industry), Home Improvement (Interest), garage door spring, broken garage door spring

Id: MBQQw_m-CBM

Length: 3min 20sec (200 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2015