Parts We Carry
Most houses in Parker went up around 2005, which means the garage door on the front of the house is almost always a full double - 16 feet wide, steel sectional panels, usually insulated because builders in this era started specifying that as standard. A door that size and weight needs a torsion spring rated to lift it, not the lighter single-car spring you'd find on an older detached garage. We carry torsion springs in the wire sizes and lengths that match late-2000s double-door openers and torsion tubes, along with the drums, cables, and bearing plates that wear alongside them. We also stock rollers and hinges sized for the wider panel spans on a 16-foot door, since those flex more than a single-car panel and shed rollers faster. What we don't stock on the truck is every oddball spring from a custom or architectural door - if your house has one of those, we'll need to order the exact spring, which can add a day.
How We Fix It
We replace torsion springs in pairs on a double door, even if only one side broke - the other side is the same age and under the same load, and running one new spring against one worn one throws the balance off and wears the opener gears faster. We measure wire diameter, coil length, and inside diameter against your existing torsion tube rather than guessing from the door's size alone, because two doors that look the same width can carry different spring specs depending on insulation weight. Cables and drums get checked at the same time since a spring failure often takes a cable partway with it. If the door is original to a 2005 build and the springs are original too, we'll say so plainly: at that age, replacing the spring is usually the right call over trying to re-tension or patch what's there. We don't push a full door replacement unless the panels themselves are cracked or the track is bent beyond adjustment.
Time on the Job
We run this job out of Prosper, about 16 miles down the road, so we're not sitting on standby in Parker between calls - we schedule the drive as part of the visit. Once on site, swapping a torsion spring pair on a standard double door is a contained job: unwind the old springs, set the new ones to the correct turns for a 16-foot door's weight, test the balance by hand before the opener ever engages, and check travel limits. We don't quote a fixed time here because a door with a bent track or a seized bearing plate takes longer than a clean spring swap, and we'd rather tell you that on site than promise a number over the phone that doesn't hold up.
