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At the conclusion of the garage doors coil repair Huntington Beach job, your service technician will explain how each of the features of the opener works. You can also inspect the work at this point to make sure that it meets your satisfaction. After that, we will leave you to enjoy the convenience of being able to control your garage door from a remote location

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Benefits of Using Two Torsion Springs

Many garage door installers avoid using two torsion springs when they install a new door in order to save money at the time. Typically, using a single spring instead of two will save just two or three dollars. The installers also know that they can install a single spring with fewer cycles and get more money a few years down the road when the garage door is damaged.

Preventing Garage Door Damage

Whenever a torsion spring is installed, it is stretched horizontally along the shaft to keep the coils from binding. As the garage door opens, the spring loses about 7 coils as the ends of the spring pull together. Since the spring anchor bracket is secured to the wall, the winding cones pull the shaft through the bracket. This often forces the cable drum into the end bearing plate. Older-style end bearing plates were not reinforced, causing the supporting angle to bend. As a result, the cable drum scrapes and the cable to peel off the drums.

One solution for garage doors that use the older-style flat end bearing plates is to brace the plate to the header with angle iron or wood. This will usually prevent the drum from scraping the end bearing plate. If you have a single spring with a wire size of 0.273 or larger, the extra pull may wear out the bearing. The extra cost of replacing the bearing is worth it to switch to two springs if there is enough room on the shaft for a second spring. If you have a second spring on the door, it will pull the shaft in the opposite direction. These forces, for the most part, cancel out and minimize cable, cable drum, bearing, and bearing plate damage.

Other problems frequently ensue when a single spring is used on a double-car garage door. Many manufacturers have cut costs by using a single spring on a double-wide 16′ steel garage door. If the spring breaks near the stationary cone, a large portion of the spring spins loose with the winding cone secured to the shaft. This causes a strong force to pull on the cables, often leading to one or two broken cables. If the opener up force is set too strong, it is more likely to wreck the top section if not the whole door. A second spring helps to keep the tension when the first spring breaks, resulting in fewer broken cables and less damage to the garage door itself.

Safety when a Spring Breaks

If the spring breaks as your garage door is closing, or if the door is disengaged from the opener when the spring breaks, the door often slams down like a guillotine. Even if your opener is equipped with eyes to keep the door from closing when someone is underneath it, the opener is often unable to stop the door. A broken spring can endanger life as the door falls, and can also crinkle the door sections like an accordion.

Because we are often in a hurry when we walk into the garage are do not always wait for the garage door to fully open, a broken spring while the door is opening could lead to huge medical bills, if not death. Installing a second garage door spring will minimize this risk. When one spring breaks, the second will usually minimize the damage to property and life.

Cycle-Life Options

Each time you open then close your garage door, you remove one cycle from the life of your torsion spring. In the garage door industry, we refer to the expected number of cycles for a spring as the cycle life. Most garage doors have the space for springs with a longer cycle life.

Because of the design of springs, the homeowner tends to have more cycle life options when he installs two torsion springs instead of just one. In purchasing a single spring, for example, you may only be able to get a 30,000 cycle spring or a 60,000 cycle spring when you would prefer 40,000 cycles. Switching over to two springs, you are more likely to be able to purchase a pair of 40,000 cycle springs that will be cheaper than the 60,000 cycle spring and give you more cycles than the 30,000 cycle spring.

Installing the Second Spring

For many do-it-yourselfers, figuring out how to install the second spring can be a daunting task. Winding one spring is stressful enough – winding a second spring? That’s just crazy!

The second spring really is not as bad as it may sound. You will not need any special tools for the job in order to install the second spring. Despite the fact that you will be winding two springs instead of just one, each spring is only half as strong as a single spring would be. Thus, you do half the work for two springs.