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« on: March 30, 2010, 05:35:11 PM » |
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 Ok so a get a semi paniced call from my wife today...seems the garage door will not open...so I leave work at lunch and head home (raining cats and dogs outside). I get home to find the torsion spring broken...weather will be clearing tomorrow and getting nicer everyday for the next 5....here is how this is Valk related...my Valk is in my GARAGE and I can not get her out... Called a garage door man today, he tells me $75 per spring (I need two so $150), then he says, $150 for the fist hour and then $90 for the next 1/2 hour after that...WHA????? Are you serious?  I asked him if he would come carrying a gun and a mask  ....has anyone changed a torsion spring on a garage door? Or know anyone in South Jersey that can do it cheaper??? I know I know...I am a chaep SOB...but, I am trying to pay for this healthcare package (I'm just sayin)... 
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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2010, 06:01:08 PM » |
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Can't help with the fix but feel your pain of being trapped. I have an electric roll-up door with wheels in tracks on each side. Don't recall exactly what happened, either a track was out of alignment or I lost a couple wheels, but either way the door got jammed kinda caddy-waumpus. Being as resourceful as I could I tried for a couple hours to manipulate the door to get everything lined up so I could open it. No can do. Car and bike trapped on the inside on a beautiful summer day. Door guy came from 50 miles away to fix it. Don't recall the cost of weekend service call, but do remember a nice summer day with the scoot stuck in a big box.
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2010, 06:07:22 PM » |
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Two words if my baby gets stuck in my garage!!!! CHAIN SAW  |
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2010, 06:28:21 PM » |
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That is what I just told my riding buddies, I would take the door down before I miss another riding day...wondering if I can exchange the torsion springs for extention springs....
Man, I am hanging a serious TEN on the web tonight...not seeing many conversions...
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2010, 06:54:16 PM » |
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I know this - I feel your pain- But those springs can be very dangerous. People get seriously hurt trying to replace & load them themselves. If ya don't know what your doing don't mess with 'em.
I spent 20 years doing very dangerous construction work. I also will attempt to fix anything EXCEPT overhead door springs.
I used to, years back, load the spring on a window shade now and then. Ever have that end tab spin loose between your fingers? A garage door spring can maim and even kill under the right (wrong) conditions.
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2010, 07:18:34 PM » |
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Ok so a get a semi paniced call from my wife today...seems the garage door will not open...so I leave work at lunch and head home (raining cats and dogs outside). I get home to find the torsion spring broken...weather will be clearing tomorrow and getting nicer everyday for the next 5....here is how this is Valk related...my Valk is in my GARAGE and I can not get her out... Called a garage door man today, he tells me $75 per spring (I need two so $150), then he says, $150 for the fist hour and then $90 for the next 1/2 hour after that...WHA????? Are you serious? I asked him if he would come carrying a gun and a mask ....has anyone changed a torsion spring on a garage door? Or know anyone in South Jersey that can do it cheaper??? I know I know...I am a chaep SOB...but, I am trying to pay for this healthcare package (I'm just sayin)... I can tell you them things will kill you if you dont know what you are doing. A few months after I bought this house the springs un sprang....nothing broke, it just wasnt put together right. So I fiddled with it. THere were horrible sounds of springs twanging and metal grinding, heavy things smashing into walls and some even four letter words. I was too stupid to know how much danger I was in so I worked with it until I got it working....it took all day and I was wore out. All my friends said I was lucky to be alive. Be very afraid....lol |
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f6john
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2010, 07:25:59 PM » |
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I've been installing garage doors for years and they can be dangerous if you don't know what your doing. Extension springs are not an option for you as the cost and trouble to change would not be worth it, and torsion springs are just better over the long haul. Do replace both springs at the same time as labor will be essentially the same. Unless you have some screwball installation situation $100.00 would be fair, but that's in Kentucky and I have the sneaky idea I would be charging a lot more in some locales than I am able to do here. If you are mechanically inclined and you could get you hands on an installation manual for your model garage door you "could" do it yourself, it's not rocket science.
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2010, 11:17:48 AM » |
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Thanks guys for the posts and warnings... So I have it all a part and will not get springs until mid next week if I order the ones I need off the internet...so I have a guy coming this afternoon to reinstall new springs and re-assemble...$225 out the door...not happy about it, but will be able to get the valk out of the garage and that my friends is PRICELESS...  |
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2010, 12:45:38 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2010, 07:49:14 PM » |
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Done quite a few myself and at 225 its a deal. The one at the shop was 2000.  |
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