By Michelle D 25 June, 2017

By Michelle D 09 July, 2017

Broken garage door tension spring is one of the malfunctions that can prevent garage door from opening or can lead to a closing garage door to crush, off tracks and more. There are many causes for a snapped garage door tension spring. Most of them are caused by a bad, or no lubrication and maintenance at all. But if the tension spring in your garage door is snapped, it doesn't mean that you need to get replace the door with a new garage door. All it means is that you need to get in touch with Milestone Garage Doors & Gates for same day garage door spring repair.
Milestone Garage Doors & Gates repair and replace torsion and extension tension spring in Washington DC, and we offer same day service for all kinds of tension springs. The important thing when garage door tension spring snap is to stop using the overhead door, and call a local garage door vendor in DC to come and replace the busted tension spring, or tension springs. Whether you need commercial overhead door torsion spring repair in Washington, or rollup door repairs, Milestone Garage Doors & Gates can help.

What to do when the tension spring snap?

The best thing for you to do, is to stop using the door, and contact a garage door technician in Washington who can replace the snapped tension spring with a new one. There is no need to panic or to wonder if the repair is going to cost a lot of money. A tension spring replacement in Washington is something which the experts of Milestone Garage Doors & Gates are dealing with on a daily base, since it is one of the common garage door malfunctions, which can completely prevent garage door from working.
Keep in mind that garage tension spring replacement in Washington D.C., especially if it is heavy duty commercial overhead spring repair can be a dangerous process, and since the weight of the door is not supported by the tension spring which is currently snapped, trying to lift the door to open it up, or trying to close it is without the support of the spring is dangerous, and can result with a complete broken door, or even worst, with personal injury.
The technicians of Milestone Garage Doors & Gates got the knowledge, the tension springs and the experience to match the correct tension spring for your garage door, whether it is a torsion tension spring or extension tension spring. We also have the tools and the experience to put the exact amount of tension on the tension spring, which will enable your door to stay balanced, and make it easy to use even if you are using it manually. To us as local garage doors experts it doesn’t matter if you need torsion tension spring repair in Washington, or garage door spring repair in Alexandria VA, we have the knowledge, the tools and the ability to replace any garage door tension spring in Washington DC today.

Can I replace the broken tension spring by myself?

When the issue is a broken tension spring, and we are being asked if we recommend to replace it by do-it-yourself, or to contact garage door specialist in Washington to do the replacement. We love to start with a short story that happened to someone who tried to repair garage door by DIY:
We once received a call from someone who asked us to come and help him replace the tension spring ion the garage door. When we arrived to the house, he showed us the tension springs that he bought, and that he tried to replace by himself unsuccessfully. The thing is that he actually found the right coil springs that fit the weight and size of he’s door (Although from low quality, but this wasn’t the issue). Our technician asked him to show us what he was doing, and when he demonstrated to us, we immediately stopped him, and told him that he is lucky that he did not get injured by the attempt to replace the spring, and that the door did not break. The malfunction was that like many garages in Washington, he had low headroom garage door, with torsion tension springs, and he was trying to put tension on the tension springs in the wrong direction. All he needed, was to ask garage door expert in DC to tell him what he was doing wrong. But sometime the knowledge on how to do things is more important than if you do or do not have the ability and the tools to do them.
There are some garage door repairs in Maryland that can be done in a DIY. And there are many that should be left for a qualified technicians, and spring replacement is from the type of repairs that better be left for an expert.

By Michelle D 21 July, 2017

1. Tip: Safety should always come first!

No garage door service worth your safety, and no garage door worth you put yourself at risk. If there is something wrong with the door, or if it even just seems to you like there is something strange with the way the door operate, hire a local garage door serviceman in Washington to come and inspect the door. Taking care of the issue on time will save you the need for emergency garage door services in the future.

1. Tip: Use local garage Doors Company

Local garage door specialist know garage doors in his area. It can be garage door in Washington, or garage door repair in DC, when you use a local vendor, you know that he will know how to service your garage door. And if the local supplier is a pro, he should be able service every garage door, commercial and residential. Sometime the issue is due to lack of garage door maintenance, or simply that the garage door parts got old and need to be replaced. The important thing is that the local garage door contractor is able to locate the malfunction, and to understand the cause that created the problem, and he must make sure that the issue won't repeat. Milestone Garage Doors & Gates, which is a local garage Doors Company located in District of Columbia, specialize in all kinds of garage door services. From residential garage door repair in Washington, to rollup door maintenance in D.C., we can help. Each one of our garage doors techs is professional and experienced, and have successfully performed hundreds of garage doors repair and installation around DC.

1. Tip: Garage spring replacement

There are many malfunctions that can cease a commercial or residential garage door in Washington from working properly. Obviously we cannot cover all possible garage doors issues and troubleshooting. What we can do is to try and share some tips with you regarding some of the most common garage doors and roll up doors malfunctions in DC. A very common problem, that can prevent many garage doors from operating, is a busted garage door coil spring. There are different types of garage coil/tension springs, and each garage door in Washington need the right and the exact tension spring for the door in terms of size and weight.

1. Tip: Lubricate the door!

Although overhead garage doors in Washington are often being used on a daily base, and in some cases many times during the day, Most home owners and business owners in Washington tend to neglect the garage door maintenance by simply ignoring it, hoping that the door continue to work the same way it worked. Until the day stop working, and now it is need for emergency garage door service. The biggest tip and advice we can share with you is to let you know that every garage door in Washington should be provided with a garage door maintenance service twice or more every year.
One more tip: While lubrication the overhead door’s parts, you can inspect the garage door and its components, adjust the coil springs and the motor (If you know how to do it), and lubricate some of the moving parts. Milestone Garage Doors & Gates offer free garage door lubrication after every garage door service in DC. Since our interest is not only in solving issue and install new garage doors, but we also want to make sure that we are leaving you with garage door that will work safely and perfectly for a long time.
This tip is only for residential rollup doors. Since the residential garage doors maintenance is s task that can performed by “do it yourself garage door service”. The tip is not applied to commercial overhead doors that need a qualified technician for the task. Some of commercial roll doors and rollup doors in Washington are heavy duty doors, and servicing them require knowledge and some power tools.

1. Tip: Never use broken garage door!

This is simple: If there is something wrong with the door, Stop using it and call local garage doors company in Washington to come and fix the door for you.