Garage Door Springs/Inflation/Much suckage

[tiasman]

We use our garage door a lot. A dozen or so times a day. So every 4 years or so one of them will break and I'm ok with that. Check out this inflation trend for the replacement of two garage door springs on a 16 X 7 door. Same company.

I am blessed that I can manage this in my budget but great Ceasar's ghost that's a heck of a price increase!

2013 - $351
2017 - $385
2022 - $609 (negotiated taking off the $50 service fee or it would have been $659)

Let's go Brandon! Yeah CCP! Hip Hip Hooray for the federal reserve!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Wow! The 2013 and 2017 costs are high. Todays is nuts!

 

[trekrok]

We go through about the same thing with springs. I do them myself and just ordered two on saturday. Just the springs were $180 this time.

 

[ifishok]

Yeah, I’ve done my springs twice, I believe the cost was less then $50 each time. Not hard to do just need to think about what you’re doing.

 

[tiasman]

This is one of those jobs where I'm fine paying for someone else to do it. I was not complaining about the price so much as the crazy increase in the price.

 

[tiasman]

We go through about the same thing with springs. I do them myself and just ordered two on saturday. Just the springs were $180 this time.

How much did you used to pay? Out of curiosity.

 

[SlugSlinger]

I replaced the springs on my insulated 18x8 door a couple years ago. I took an existing spring to Overhead Door in Broken Arrow. They provided upgraded springs for my application. The wire and diameter of the spring were larger. They told me I would get at least 4 times the life out of the new springs vs the originals.

I also installed this opener. You cannot hear the door open or close now.

 

[joegrizzy]

.....i just pull mine up and put it down.

 

[tiasman]

.....i just pull mine up and put it down.

Not without springs you don't. LOL.

 

[HiredHand]

To add on to SlugSlinger’s comment, OP you might want to make sure they are installing the correct springs. My FIL helped install new springs on our garage door a few years ago. He mentioned that he was having garage door springs go bad every couple of years on his door after his home was built. Turns out the original springs that were installed with the door were not the correct springs.