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It usually starts with a bang. A torsion spring lets go with a crack like a firecracker, and suddenly the opener strains, the door lifts six inches and gives up, or won't move at all. Here's what's happening and what to do next.
Springs die of fatigue — every open-close cycle spends a little of their rated life. California accelerates the spend: valley and desert heat works the steel, coastal humidity rusts it, and heavy insulated doors ask more of it. The average spring is rated for about 10,000 cycles; a busy family door burns through that in seven to ten years.
Before the bang, there are whispers: the door feels heavier, opens unevenly, makes new creaking sounds, or the spring shows a visible stretch or rust bloom. Look above the door — a broken torsion spring shows a clear gap in the coil.
Don't keep running the opener — it can burn out the motor or bend the top panel. Don't try to lift the door by hand; with a dead spring it weighs its full 150-300 pounds and can drop. And don't attempt a DIY spring swap: the stored energy in a torsion spring is genuinely dangerous. Call a technician; matched-pair replacement with a balance test is a single-visit fix.
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