Garage door spring replacement in Virginia Beach from Reliable Garage Doors runs $150 - $350 for a single-door torsion spring in the published 2026 range, with the door weighed and the spring measured before the quote, a 1 year parts and labor warranty, and the exact price agreed before any work starts: call 757-208-1600, any hour. A broken garage door spring is why a door that worked last night suddenly will not lift this morning, and Reliable Garage Doors replaces torsion and extension springs across Hampton Roads 24/7 with the exact price agreed before work starts.
Reliable Garage Doors is a Virginia Beach garage door repair and installation company, owned and operated by Ryan Gold since 2021, serving all of Hampton Roads with 24/7 emergency service, Virginia licensed contractor #2705201522. Exact price agreed before any work starts. Door weighed and spring measured before a quote. 1 year parts and labor warranty.
The classic pattern: a single loud bang from the garage, then a door the opener strains to move a few inches before giving up. Do not pull the release cord or try to lift the door by hand. With a broken spring the door is dead weight and can drop. Leave it closed and call. If the bang came at night and the car is behind the door, emergency garage door repair, 24/7 is the page with tonight's ranges and what to do while you wait.
Look above the door. On a torsion system you will see a visible gap in the coil where the steel separated. On older extension systems, look for a spring hanging slack along the horizontal track.
Do not keep cycling the opener on a broken spring. It burns out the motor and can bend the top section of the door, turning a spring job into a spring plus panel job.
Broken door right now? Call 757-208-1600 any hour and get your price before we roll.
Ryan Gold, our lead technician, came up through the trade as a trainer and treats spring sizing as an engineering problem. We weigh or calculate the door, measure wire diameter, inside diameter and length, and match cycle rating to how the household actually uses the door.
An undersized spring works for a while. It also wears fast, strains the opener every cycle, and fails again long before it should. Getting the spec right the first time is cheaper than doing the job twice. The before and after photos are in our project gallery.
Want a number, not a sales pitch? Call 757-208-1600 and we quote it on the phone where we can.
Torsion springs sit on a shaft above the door and do their work by twisting. Extension springs stretch along the horizontal tracks and should always run with safety cables inside them. Most Hampton Roads homes built after the 1990s run torsion.
The repair differs, the danger does not. Both systems store enough force to break bones, which is why winding bars, proper containment and a balance check at the end are not optional steps for us.
Not sure what you are looking at? Text a photo to 757-208-1600 and we will tell you plainly.
National cost guides put a single-door torsion spring replacement at $150 - $350 in 2026, with two-spring doors and high-cycle springs running higher. That is market context, not our quote. Our exact price is agreed with you on the phone or at the door before any work starts, and every spring we install is covered by our 1 year parts and labor warranty. Because doors differ: weight, spring cycles, track condition and access change the job. If the spring is only part of the story, our full garage door repair service covers cables, rollers, track and the opener in the same visit. The full 2026 breakdown is in what spring replacement costs, and torsion versus extension springs explains which one your door has.
Same problem at your house? 757-208-1600. The price is agreed before work starts.
A snapped garage door spring is replaced, not repaired: the steel cannot be welded or stretched back to spec, so spring repair in Virginia Beach means a new spring matched to the door's weight, wound to balance, in the same published $150 - $350 single-door range as a replacement.
The visit covers more than the coil. Before we quote, the door is weighed or calculated and the old spring is measured for wire size, inside diameter and length; while the shaft is apart we check the center bearing, the end bearings, the drums and the lift cables, because a cable frayed by months of running on a tired spring fails next. You see the broken part before we replace it, and the price you approve is the price you pay. If you want to read the spec yourself first, how to measure garage door springs shows the four numbers we take, and what spring replacement costs in 2026 sets out the single-door range and what moves it for pairs and high-cycle springs.
Spring snapped today? Call 757-208-1600, get the number first, then decide.
Look for the gap. On this two-spring torsion door the right spring let go, and the before photo shows the coil separated into two pieces with daylight between them; the after photo, taken 36 minutes later, shows both springs whole from end to end.
The gap is the whole diagnosis. A torsion spring that has run out of cycles breaks clean, usually with the door down and the spring fully wound, with a bang the whole house hears, and from that moment the door's full weight sits on the opener and the cables. Ryan's rule on every spring call is the same: "We weigh the door, measure the spring, check the balance, then talk." The same job is posted with both photos on our Facebook page.
Rust along the whole length of the coils and a torsion shaft with no spring on it are two clear signs a garage door needs spring replacement, and both show up in the before photos from these two Reliable Garage Doors jobs. If either one matches what you see above your door, text a photo of it to 757-208-1600 and we will tell you what it is before anyone rolls.
Rust on a torsion spring is more than looks. The coils rub against each other every time the spring winds and unwinds, and rust on the steel adds friction to every one of those cycles. Both springs on this door were the same age, so both were replaced, the same pair rule we explain below under replacing just one spring. To keep a new pair working, a light coat of garage door lubricant on the coils twice a year is enough; never loosen the set screws on the winding cones yourself, because that is where the spring holds its tension. The job is posted with the before and after photos on our Facebook page.
Look at the top photo and the problem is what is missing. The shaft and the drums at each end are there, but there is no spring to carry the door, so every lift falls on the opener and the cables. The spring is what lifts a garage door; the opener only guides it. The after photo shows one torsion spring on the shaft, anchored at a center bracket mounted on a wood pad above the door. Ryan's short version of every spring call: “Numbers, then wrenches.” We size the spring to the door before anything is installed, which is how we measure in how to measure garage door springs. This job is on our Facebook page with both photos too.
Rust on your springs or a gap above the door? Call or text 757-208-1600 and get the number first.
Leave the door where it is, do not pull the red release cord to lift it by hand, and do not keep pressing the opener button.
With the spring gone the opener is lifting the whole door on its own; every extra press strains the motor and can fold the top section. A door lifted by hand on a broken spring can drop without warning. Keep children and pets out of the doorway, leave the car inside until we arrive, and text a photo of the spring to 757-208-1600 if you want to hear what it is before we roll.
In Virginia Beach a single-door torsion spring replacement runs $150 - $350 in the published 2026 range, and Reliable Garage Doors names the exact number before any work starts.
Two-spring doors, high-cycle springs and after-hours calls move the number, and so does the door itself: weight, spring cycles, track condition and access change the job. A quote worth trusting names the spring spec it is built on, or at least the door weight it was sized against.
Home Depot sells garage door springs as parts; it does not send a technician to wind one onto your door, so the shelf price is the spring alone and the installation, the balance check and the warranty are not in it.
If you want to compare a part price with an installed price, measure the old spring first with our guide on how to measure garage door springs: wire size, inside diameter, length and wind. Our installed price covers the matched spring, the winding, the rebalance and the 1 year parts and labor warranty.
Yes, and we will if you ask, but on a two-spring door we recommend replacing the pair, because the surviving spring has the same age and cycle count as the one that just broke.
A fresh spring beside a tired one leaves the door out of balance, which is hard on the opener and usually brings a second service call within months. You hear both options and both numbers before you choose.
Only if you have to, and never alone: without the spring the door is dead weight, and it can slam down on hands, feet or the car the moment the grip slips.
If the car has to come out before we arrive, two adults lift from the bottom edge with the opener disconnected, prop the door with something solid, and nobody stands under it. The safer answer is a call: we open a dead door under control on the first visit.
Dispatch runs 24/7 across Hampton Roads, so a broken spring is handled the same day in most cases; after-hours work carries the published +$50 - $250 premium, which you hear before anyone rolls.
Tell us the door is stuck shut with a car behind it and we treat it as tonight's job. Tell us it can wait for daylight and you pay daytime rates.
Written by Ryan Gold, owner and lead technician. Updated October 30, 2026.
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A single-door torsion spring replacement runs $150 - $350 in the published 2026 range; two-spring doors, high-cycle springs and after-hours calls move the number. Reliable Garage Doors weighs the door and measures the spring, then names the exact price before any work starts.
Most single-door spring replacements are done within an hour once we are on site, including rebalancing and a full hardware check. Complications like a seized shaft or damaged drums add time, and we tell you before touching them.
On a two-spring door, usually yes. The second spring has the same age and cycle count as the one that just failed, and a fresh spring paired with a tired one leaves the door unbalanced.
We advise against it. Torsion springs store enough force to cause serious injury without proper winding bars and technique. This is the one garage door job that consistently sends people to the emergency room.
Not because of the air. Spring life is set by cycle rating and sizing: a standard spring is rated around 10,000 cycles and a high-cycle spring 25,000 or more, and the busier the door, the sooner that count runs out wherever the house sits. What ends a spring early is an undersized spring or a door out of balance, which is why we weigh the door and measure the spring before we quote. A yearly lubrication habit still helps every door.
The phone answers 24/7 and dispatch runs from our own shop on South Lynnhaven Rd in Virginia Beach, across all of Hampton Roads.
Lead technician Ryan Gold has spent over ten years on garage doors, from technician to tech manager and trainer at a previous garage door company, and the method shows: the door gets measured, the broken part gets shown to you, and the price is agreed before work starts.
Every job is backed by a 1 year parts and labor warranty under Virginia licensed contractor 2705201522.
Tell us what the door is doing and where you are. A technician reads every request, and the price you approve is the price you pay.
About 60 seconds, any hour of the night or day.
You talk to the person who does the work, and the price is a firm number, not a range that grows on site.
Dispatch runs 24/7 across Hampton Roads, and the agreed price is the final price.
Tell us about your door
A technician reads every request and calls back with a firm price.
Price agreed before any work starts.
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