Heritage Garage Door

There are many parts of our home that often go overlooked. Consider your garage door, how often do you open and close your garage door on a daily or weekly basis? How often do you perform maintenance to the garage door system? Have you noticed what kind of springs are on your garage door? Let’s focus on that–the springs. What do garage door springs do?

Garage door springs are actually one of the most important parts of your garage door system. Whether the door has one spring or multiple. Whether it’s a torsion system or extension system. Garage door springs are the elements that make lifting and lowering the door easy. Springs shouldn’t be underestimated, they can also be very dangerous. 

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Modern garage doors have automatic openers that make it easy to move in and out of our garage without having to do the heavy lifting to open or close the doors ourselves. The springs on your garage door play a major role in this task. Springs act as counterweights to the weight of the door allowing the automatic opener to lift and lower the door smoothly, but door openers only work smoothly with the right components. Understand how garage door weight vs spring size relate so you can purchase the right spring for your door.

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Garage doors operate with a variety of spring systems torsion springs and extension springs are the most common types. In this post, we’ll explain the differences between torsion springs vs extension springs so you can identify the type used in your existing garage and decide which type you want moving forward.

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