What Is on the Truck
We carry a working range of torsion springs that cover what a standard two-car steel door from the 1980s-2000s needs, along with winding bars, cones, and the shaft hardware that tends to wear out alongside a spring - bearing plates, center brackets, and the kind of lift cable that frays when a spring loses tension gradually instead of snapping clean. For a door built the way most McGregor garages were, a single standard spring covers the job more often than not. What we don't carry is every obscure wind or high-cycle spring made for a custom or oversized door, so if your garage has a wider-than-standard opening or a door that's been upgraded to something heavier, that part may need to be ordered, and we'll tell you that on-site rather than make you wait to find out.
How to Book
We're based in Estero, about 12 miles from McGregor, and we run the spring repair truck out from there rather than keeping a branch in town. Call and describe what the door is doing - won't budge, dropped suddenly, or makes a loud bang before it stops working - and we'll get a sense of whether it's the spring or something downstream of it, like a cable or a bent track, before we head out. Having the door's approximate age or a photo of the broken spring ready helps us bring the right part the first time instead of a second trip.
What You Pay
We don't have a posted price for this job because spring cost depends on the wire size and wind the door needs, and that varies even among doors built the same year. What we can tell you is that for a standard single-car or two-car door from the mid-1980s builder stock common in McGregor, the spring itself is a stocked, common size more often than not - it's the labor and whether anything else on the shaft needs replacing at the same time that moves the number. We'll give you the actual figure once we've looked at the door, not before.
Where This Job Goes Sideways
Spring repair turns into something bigger when the door has been running on a dying spring for a long time before it finally breaks. The cables, drums, and bottom brackets take extra strain in that stretch, and on a door old enough to be original to a 1984 build, we sometimes find a bent track or a bottom panel that's taken damage from the door dropping unevenly. In that case replacing just the spring and sending you on your way isn't honest work - we'll point out what else needs attention and let you decide. We also won't try to repair a spring that's the wrong size for the door; if a previous repair installed a mismatched spring, replacing it correctly costs more than a straight swap, and we'd rather tell you that upfront than patch it again.
