How To Replace A Roll Up Garage Door Spring

Depending on where you live doing this garage door spring replacement job yourself might save you 200 or more.

How to replace a roll up garage door spring.

7 16 and 1 2 wrenches. Garage door springs are large springs that are placed on each side of the door at the joints. The springs balance the door making it easy to roll the door up around itself on the drums. While this tutorial shows how to replace both springs on a two spring self storage roll up door with standard mini warehouse loops on both ends of the springs these instructions may be helpful for those with different spring ends or with a different.

You can remove and replace garage door springs to have the door opening well again. Step 1 safety. The primary difference however is that steel rolling doors are made of interlocking slats while self storage roll up doors are just one piece of steel. Self storage roll up doors operate in a similar manner to steel rolling door springs.

Over time the garage door springs can become rusted and worn. To test your springs disable your garage door opener if you have one then raise the door manually. The springs prevent the door from falling and causing damage to person or property. A double garage door spring replacement costs 200 to 375 on average.

Like a steel rolling door the curtain on these doors wraps around itself as the door opens. Ratchet with 7 16 and 1 2 sockets. But we ll show you garage door spring replacement on the more common torsion springs the kind that mount on a bar above the garage door. A roll up garage door has no overhead track and the door winds up around a single rod instead.

To get the correct replacement spring for your door you should measure the opening of the door. To replace your roll up door spring you ll need. Next you should measure the unloaded inner diameter and length of the relaxed spring from end to end. We won t cover how to replace garage door extension spring systems in this story.

A double garage door has thicker wire uses two springs with a higher weight bearing capacity to manage the additional weight.