Leave your Fox Lake garage spring repair to a garage door technician

Imagine it’s a sunny Fox Lake morning as you press the button to open the garage door and rest a moment as it begins to rise. Suddenly, something seems wrong. The door seems as though it’s struggling. Then it stops and slips back a little. That’s definitely not right.

Did the garage door opener break? Is there some kind of belt or chain that broke?

You could slide under the door to see what the problem is but definitely not in these clothes and, besides, what would your Fox Lake neighbors think if they saw you. So, you go through the front door of the house and enter the garage from the interior door where the garage attaches to the house.

Maybe if you had spent more time looking at the mechanism, you’d know what to look for. But, from what you can see, everything seems fine. “Oh well,” you say to yourself. “Guess I’d better call a garage door technician to take a look.”

The technician comes out, walks in the garage, looks up at the inner works of your garage door and says, “Your spring is broken.”

“It’s that obvious?” you ask.

“Well, if you look at garage doors every day …”

The garage door spring is as large as 2-1/2” in diameter and up to 40” long. It’s a heavy spring that takes the weight off the load when raising and lowering the garage door. When the spring is properly installed and unbroken, you can lift the garage door relatively easily by hand. But, when the spring is broken, it’s a real strain to raise the garage door and possibly more than you can handle.

In some cases there are two springs. One spring or two, this is not a job for the Do-It-Yourselfer. The tension in a garage door spring is immense. If done improperly, the spring could shoot out during removal or installation and someone can be seriously injured or even killed.

In other words, if you want it done right, and you want it done safely, you needed to call a garage door technician to your Fox Lake home for this job.