Broken garage door spring is a repair for a professional

Garage door spring replacement is not for the faint of heart or for the amateur

When the spring of your garage door breaks, you've got a problem and it's a problem that can get worse. The garage door spring is an essential part of your garage door and garage door opener. Most garage doors weigh in at between 150 and 250 pounds. The garage door spring takes the weight off so you, or your garage door opener, can easily open the garage door.

But, if the spring breaks, all that weight is on you. Or, all that weight is on your garage door opener. If it's on you, better eat your Wheaties before you go to open the garage door. If you're relying on your garage door opener to open the garage, without the assistance of that spring, all that weight is bearing down on the mechanisms of the garage door opener and outcome is bleak.

Parts will break. Garage door opener motors will quickly expire. It's not a pretty picture. In fact, you're better off disconnecting the garage door opener and opening the garage door by hand until the broken spring is replaced. And, considering the weight of the garage door, if you don't have the garage door spring to help, well, you've got a workout opening the door and you need to be careful when it comes flying back down.

You can get hurt trying to catch the garage door as it plummets downward. But, you can also get hurt if you try to replace the garage door spring yourself.

Replacing a garage door spring can be fatal

That's not an exaggeration. A garage door spring can take a finger off. It can take your arm off. It can take your head off. That's how much tension there is on a garage door spring.

Even if you are handy around the house, this is not the job for you. The process of installing a garage door spring has to be done correctly. And, if someone gets the doo together, if the spring isn't installed correctly, the garage door can still cause serious injury or death.

Fortunately, garage door repair technicians know the proper way to install a garage door spring. They can do the job efficiently and without injury to themselves or to you.