Why Do You Need To Replace Your Garage Door Spring?

EZ Lift Garage Door Repair Service Katy, TX

Why is the garage door spring so important? Well it does all the hard work of lifting the garage door. Adam Greer from EZ Lift Garage Doors & More explains in this podcast.

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this is the Check A Pro radio show 0:02 Check A Pro Joe has assembled a team of 0:04 pre-qualified Home Service contractors 0:06 to bring you the latest in Services 0:08 products and techniques now here's your 0:10 host the man with a hard hat and tool 0:13 belt check a pro Joe I see on my call 0:15 screen a good friend of mine Adam Greer 0:19 from Easy Lift garage doors he's 0:21 actually my garage door guy he's a 0:23 garage door expert he's been doing this 0:25 for a very very long time I brought him 0:28 on the program today to talk to all of 0:31 us about your garage door and replacing 0:36 the spring for your garage door Adam how 0:39 are you 0:40 I'm doing great Joe thanks for having me 0:42 once again it's always a pleasure I 0:44 appreciate you taking time out of your 0:46 busy day to talk to me and my listeners 0:49 so this question comes up a lot so I'm 0:53 gonna pose this to you why do we need to 0:55 replace the garage door spring is this 0:59 something that's necessary or is the 1:01 garage door guy just trying to sell us 1:03 something we don't need 1:05 huh that's a really good question and it 1:08 does get asked pretty frequently 1:10 um I guess with the story explaining 1:11 what the spring does so the spring 1:14 counterbalances the door so let's just 1:17 take an average two-car garage door 1:19 which is 16-7 it's just your No Frills 1:22 25 gauge door 1:24 weighs approximately you know 160 to 175 1:27 pounds depending on the manufacturer 1:29 type of thing and um and the confusion 1:33 is that people use their hands and if 1:35 they've had to disconnect their opener 1:37 for a power outage or some other reason 1:39 and they're able to open it by hand they 1:41 think it it works magically 1:43 um and then we get the phone call we can 1:45 get our door open today and our car is 1:47 stuck and uh and we got them we 1:49 explained to him it's a broken spring 1:52 and they well I I've used it without 1:55 this you know I've without the opener 1:57 before and and it's always worked I 1:59 pulled that red string and it and it 2:01 opens right but today you have a broken 2:04 spring so the thing that makes the door 2:06 work is actually broken 2:08 um sometimes it's not broken it's just 2:10 at the end of its life it's so weak that 2:12 it just the opener still struggles to 2:14 open that door because again openers 2:16 aren't even designed to lift weight 2:19 they're supposed to just guide a 2:20 balanced door so you need that door 2:22 balanced so it's a couple things I've 2:24 had customers ask me just to can you 2:26 just take that spring off and just make 2:28 this door work you know without it and 2:31 um but it's it's just important to 2:32 understand 2:33 that that spring is what makes 170 2:37 pounds seemed to weigh nothing if that 2:41 spring is broke you have to lift 170 2:43 pounds and some guys will say well I can 2:45 do 170 pounds in the gym but you have a 2:48 16 foot wide seven foot tall barbell if 2:52 you will that just doesn't live very 2:53 easily so we had a customer just uh a 2:58 week and a half or so ago who was trying 3:01 to get us to can't you just make the 3:03 door functional and then we can do the 3:04 spring repair later he had a broken 3:06 spring and it's we couldn't get another 3:08 scan the only way to make it functional 3:10 is we have to do the spring repair and 3:13 uh he literally thought he was going to 3:15 find someone else to make it work and uh 3:18 let us walk away I don't know what he 3:20 ended up having with that John but he 3:22 just could not understand that that 3:25 spring is what makes that door work and 3:28 so that's it's a major safety issue the 3:31 spring is broken you are somehow using 3:33 that door still you're taking a chance 3:36 I'm getting hurt destroying the door 3:39 ruining the opener there's a lot of 3:41 things can take place by operating the 3:43 door because some people go up to the 3:45 opener just crank the Open Force full 3:48 blast so that it somehow grunts its way 3:51 through but you're really asking for a 3:53 world of hurt on that I totally agree 3:56 with you I know something about garage 3:57 doors I'm not the expert like you but 4:00 it's simple everybody I'm a homeowner 4:03 like you guys listening it's very simple 4:04 you need to have a spring that is wound 4:08 properly the door needs to be balanced 4:11 without the spring you cannot get the 4:14 garage door to open with or without the 4:16 garage door operator or the garage door 4:18 opener and Adam's right he knows this 4:20 way more than I do when your spring does 4:22 not work you cannot lift that door and 4:25 the garage door opener don't even try to 4:27 do that because you're going to damage 4:28 that and now you're gonna have to get a 4:30 new spring and a garage door opener so 4:33 the best thing to do is when it breaks 4:36 and here's a Telltale sign you can hear 4:38 it sometimes it sounds like a little 4:40 bomb going off if you hear a big boom in 4:42 your garage take a look at the spring 4:44 but if you can't get your garage door up 4:46 it really could be the spring call a 4:49 professional like Adam from Easy Lift 4:52 garage doors here's his phone number 832 4:54 to 4:56 497-4260 again 5:03 832-497-4260 you can go to his website 5:06 easyohd.com all of this information the 5:10 phone number and his website is listed 5:12 here in the podcast in the description 5:16 Adam thank you so much this has been 5:18 awesome information I really appreciate 5:20 it you're welcome thank you again for 5:22 having me it's always a pleasure check a 5:23 pro is your local source for 5:25 pre-qualified contractors stay tuned for 5:27 more of the Check A Pro radio show