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Garage Doors · Halton Hills

From springs to smart openers

The pages in this section describe real work, not slogans: which parts we measure, what we replace and why, how we test the door afterwards. Use them to understand your options before we talk.

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Springs

Springs & Hardware

Extension springs run along the sides and stretch as the door closes. They should have a safety cable threaded through them so a break does not send steel across the garage.

  1. Steel and nylon garage-door rollers with long stems lie beside a detached hinge on a workbench. — Garage Door Roller Replacement, Halton Hills
    Garage Door Roller ReplacementThe door is the one the builder installed and has never had a part changed. It works, but it clatters, the wheels are hard white plastic with no bearings in them, and the opener sounds like it is labouring more each…
  2. Metal center hinge across a seam in a white sectional garage door. — Garage Door Hinge Replacement, Halton Hills
    Garage Door Hinge ReplacementEvery time the door goes up there is a sharp pop from the same spot, about a metre off the floor, and the whole door gives a little shudder. Come back down and it happens again at exactly the same place.
  3. Gloved hands holding a vertical garage-door track and a wrench at its mounting bracket beside a door hinge. — Garage Door Track Repair or Replacement, Halton Hills
    Garage Door Track Repair or ReplacementAfter a decade of slushy winters the bottom foot of the track is flaking rust. A roller squeals as it passes, and the channel edge has gone rough and thin where the salt collects.
  4. Gloved hands holding a bright cable and pliers gripping a frayed cable beside a garage-door track and pulley. — Garage Door Cable Replacement, Halton Hills
    Garage Door Cable ReplacementSomeone left the snow shovel leaning in the opening and the door came down on it. Now a loop of steel cable hangs loose beside the track and the door refuses to close the last few inches.
  5. Detached coil springs with end fittings and a cable rest on a bench in front of a closed garage door. — Torsion Spring Replacement, Halton Hills
    Torsion Spring ReplacementYou heard a sharp bang from the garage, and now the opener hums for a second and gives up. The door lifts a few centimetres at most, then settles back down as if something very heavy is holding it in place.
  6. Two detached extension springs with hooked ends on a garage bench. — Extension Spring Replacement, Halton Hills
    Extension Spring ReplacementOne of the springs beside the track is hanging loose at the front end, its pulley dangling, and a length of cable lies slack along the top of the door. The door sits slightly crooked and the opener reverses whenever it…
  7. A person stands beside a closed sectional door beneath its overhead spring assembly. — Garage Door Balance Adjustment, Halton Hills
    Garage Door Balance AdjustmentThe opener has started to groan on the way up. The door climbs slowly, hesitates near the top, and on the way down it sometimes stops a hand's width above the floor and reverses, as if something were in the way when…

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Boston Door Specialists

Garage Doors · Halton Hills

Open 24/7

(226) 828-8703

25 years in business

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