Mesquite, NV · Garage Door Service
Broken torsion spring on a Mesquite home? We replace both springs to match, sized for the heat this valley puts on steel coils. Call for same-week booking.
A broken torsion spring is a coil-wound bar of steel that snapped under tension, and it's not a job for tightening a bolt or spraying lube on it. We pull the old spring off the shaft, measure the wire gauge, wind, and length against the door weight, and set a matched pair - even if only one side broke, because a mismatched pair wears the good side out fast. Most of the housing stock across our service area went up in the 2000s, so the majority of the doors we're under are 16x7 sectional steel on standard torsion hardware, not the older extension-spring setups you'd find on a much older house. That keeps parts predictable for us, which is part of why we can turn most jobs same visit. We check the cables, drum, and center bearing while the spring is off, because a spring snaps under stress the cable and bearing have usually been carrying too. One honest limit: if the shaft is bent or the drums are cracked from the spring letting go violently, that's a bigger repair than a spring swap, and we'll tell you before we start, not after.
Tell us the door size, whether it's one spring or two that let go, and whether the door will lift by hand right now - that's usually a sign the second spring is still holding some of the weight, or that it isn't. We run this route through Mesquite and out to Bunkerville, about four miles east, so if you're anywhere in that stretch we can generally get a truck to you without a special trip charge. We don't keep every spring size on the truck for every door built before 2000, so if your house is older stock outside the typical run, we may need to confirm wire gauge before we roll - a quick phone description usually settles it. Most calls in this area are booked and closed within the week.
You hit the wall button and the door doesn't move, or it moves an inch and stops, or the opener strains and you hear a bang from above the door - that bang is usually the spring going. Sometimes it's quieter: the door feels twice as heavy lifting by hand, or it drops fast on the way down instead of gliding. If one spring on a two-spring door is still intact, the door may still open on the opener, just slower and with more motor noise than usual, which is easy to write off as an aging opener when it's really a spring already gone. Don't keep running the opener once you notice the strain - a motor forcing a door against a broken spring burns out gears and belts that didn't need to fail.
This valley sits in a severe-heat climate band, and steel torsion springs live in the heat radiating off a garage ceiling and header all day, every summer, for years. Heat doesn't snap a spring by itself, but it accelerates metal fatigue in a coil that's already cycling up and down twice a day, so springs here tend to reach end of life sooner than the same part would in a milder climate. Across the roughly 230 households and 186 owner-occupied houses we cover in this service area, median household income runs $149,327, and at that level most owners choose a full matched-pair replacement with upgraded cycle-rated springs over a patch job on one side - it costs more up front and saves a second service call in a year or two. We size every spring to the door and the shaft it's going on, not to what happened to be on the truck.
It depends on door size, whether one or both springs need replacing, and whether cables or bearings also need attention. We give you the number before any work starts, based on what we find on the shaft, not a phone estimate that changes once we're under the door.
You can, but we don't recommend it. Springs age together under the same heat and cycle count, so the surviving spring is usually close behind. Replacing both as a matched pair keeps the door balanced and avoids a second call soon after.
Not by opener, and carefully by hand only if you have to. A broken spring means the door's full weight is unsupported on one side, and forcing it with the opener motor can strip gears or snap a cable next.
Yes, Bunkerville is about four miles from our main service area and we run that route regularly, so a spring call there books the same way as one in Mesquite.
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We also handle spring repair in these Mesquite-area suburbs.
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