Are my garage door springs broken?

If you're wondering if yours are broken, keep reading...

Last week my kids and I were leaving for school and noticed our garage door springs were hanging about two inches above our car. My daughter Lucy asked, "Daddy, are they broken?" Hmmm... I thought. That doesn't look right.

After I dropped them off, I came back to the house to take another look at our broken garage door springs. As a homeowner, I don't like making big repairs myself. Why? There's too much that can go wrong and to be honest, I'm no expert.

So I grabbed my ladder and took a closer look at our garage door springs. I was hoping it would be a quick fix. But it was bad. What I noticed is they had too much slack. It made sense as the night before I had trouble using my Genie garage door opener. When I pressed the button all I heard was a grinding noise. Then the doors closed, but very slowly almost as if something was wrong. I'm no handyman but even I could tell it was time to think about some garage door broken spring repair. The problem became worse when I noticed the springs were missing a few of the coil parts. Apparently, the garage door replacement that had been done to our home before we bought it was ready for an upgrade very soon.

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Too many homeowners think they can make these types of repairs themselves to save money instead of paying for garage door service. I've heard from a few of my neighbors how you can repair the springs on your own by tightening the bolt assembly. Although after I did that, I still had the same problem as they were obviously hanging too low. Even after I pulled out the owner's manual, I still could not determine the exact way to adjust them, so I decided to contact the professionals from garage door repair Magna who took care of it quickly, to my satisfaction.