What It Costs
We don't quote a spring repair over the phone without knowing the door, and we won't start here by pretending we can. What we can tell you is what drives the cost up or down once we're looking at it: whether the door takes one spring or two, whether it's a standard torsion setup or an extension-spring job on the older end of the stock, and whether the drums, cable, or bottom brackets took damage when the spring let go. Irondale's housing is mostly mid-80s through 2000s, with a median build year around 1994, which puts a lot of doors squarely in the era when builders still ran a single long torsion spring across a double door instead of two shorter ones. A single-spring failure on a double door is a bigger job than a two-spring setup where one side is still holding, because the door has no backup holding it up while we work. We'll give you a firm number once we've seen the spring, the door weight, and the hardware it's riding on, not before.
Parts We Carry
We stock standard torsion springs in the sizes that cover most of what's on the road in this part of the county - the wire diameters and lengths that match doors built from the 1980s through the 2000s, which is most of what's standing in Irondale. That includes springs for both single-spring and dual-spring torsion setups, since both show up depending on when the house was built and who installed the door. We also carry standard extension springs for the older side mount systems still hanging on in some of the pre-1994 houses in this stretch. What we don't carry on the truck is every odd or discontinued size - some builder-grade doors from the 1990s used spring dimensions that aren't common anymore, and if that's what we find, we order it and come back rather than force a mismatched spring onto your door.
How Long It Takes
Irondale sits about 7 miles from our shop in Fayetteville, which is close enough that a spring call here doesn't eat the whole day in drive time the way some of our farther stops do - Lovejoy and Fairburn, for instance, run closer to 9 and 10 miles out. Once we're on site, a straightforward torsion spring swap with the door already stripped down usually runs under two hours, start to balanced and tested. What adds time is damage beyond the spring itself - bent track, a cracked drum, cable that jumped the groove when the spring broke - or a spring size we don't have on the truck that needs ordering. We'll tell you on arrival which situation you're in before we start, not after.
