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Clopay Torsion Spring Replacement: The Fort Worth Owner’s Guide

A Clopay torsion spring replacement in Fort Worth typically runs $180-$340 installed, and we stock Clopay-compatible springs on our trucks so the swap usually happens in one visit. Most homeowners discover the failure the same way: you’re in the driveway at 6:40 a.m., you hit the opener, and instead of the door lifting you hear a sound like a rifle shot from inside the garage. That’s the torsion spring snapping under tension, and it’s the single most common repair we make on Clopay doors across Tarrant County.

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Here’s what the failure looks like up close: the spring sits on a metal tube above your door, and when it breaks you’ll see a visible gap in the coil where the two halves have separated. The door won’t lift by hand, the opener motor strains or stalls, and one side of the door often sits higher than the other. We’ve replaced enough of these in Fort Worth to know the pattern by heart, whether it’s a 2016 Clopay Gallery in the Cultural District or an Intact series door in Benbrook.

Which Clopay Models This Applies To

The torsion spring system we replace spans most Clopay residential lines installed in Fort Worth homes over the last two decades: Gallery, Coachman, Reserve, Bridgeport, Intact, and Value Plus. Each of these uses either one or two torsion springs mounted on the header above the door, and the replacement spring has to match the original’s wire gauge, inside diameter, length, and wind direction. Get any one of those measurements wrong and the door doesn’t balance, the opener works harder than it should, and the new spring wears out early.

Clopay is particular about spring matching because their doors ship with springs sized to the panel weight and height, not picked off a generic chart. When we replace a Clopay spring, we’re either installing an OEM-equivalent spring wound to the same torque spec the factory door was engineered around, or a quality aftermarket spring from a U.S. manufacturer with the same dimensions and cycle rating. We’ll tell you which we’re using, why, and what the cycle rating means for how long it lasts. Servo Garage Doors Fort Worth is an independent service provider; we’re not affiliated with Clopay, and our written pricing doesn’t change based on the door’s brand.

One compatibility gotcha worth knowing: if your Clopay door was installed after 2018 in a neighborhood like Walsh or Chisholm Trail Ranch, it likely came with two springs rather than one on a double-wide door. Two-spring systems fail unevenly sometimes. You’ll often have one snapped spring and one that’s still intact but worn to the same age. We’ll quote replacing just the failed one, but we photograph both and put the second spring’s condition in the written scope so you’re deciding with evidence, not a vague suggestion.

Signs Your Clopay Torsion Spring Replacement Is Failing

• The door won’t lift, or lifts three inches and stops. A broken torsion spring removes the counterbalance that makes the door feel light. What felt like 10 pounds of lift force is now 130 to 160 pounds, and the opener won’t move it.
• A loud bang from the garage, usually at dawn or dusk. Fort Worth’s temperature swings between night and morning cause the steel in a tired spring to contract and expand. When the coil finally gives, it releases all its stored torque at once. The sound is the spring hitting the torsion tube.
• A visible two-inch gap in the spring coil. Stand in your garage, look up at the spring above the door. A healthy spring is one continuous coil. A broken one shows an obvious separation, and the two halves no longer touch.
• Cables hanging slack off the drums. The torsion spring holds tension on the lift cables. Once it snaps, the cables lose tension and can slip off the drums at each end of the torsion tube, sometimes leaving visible slack or a loose cable hanging near the track.
• The door slams hard if you try to close it by hand. Without the spring’s counterbalance, a spring-broken door free-falls when it’s past the halfway point. Never hand-lower a door that’s resisting you or dropping fast. Stop and call.

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Replacement Cost & What’s Included

In Fort Worth, a Clopay torsion spring replacement runs $180-$340 installed, and that number includes the spring itself, labor, balancing, and a documented photo record of the work before we leave. On the low end you’re looking at a single spring on a lightweight single-car door, typically an 8×7 Clopay Intact or Value Plus. The high end covers two springs on a heavier double door, or a high-cycle spring upgrade that changes the lifespan math. We tell you the exact line-item price before the first bolt comes off.

Here’s the range in plain format:

• Single torsion spring replacement: $180-$220 installed
• Double torsion spring replacement: $260-$340 installed
• High-cycle spring upgrade (both springs): $300-$340 installed

The range driver is the spring spec, not the mood of the technician. Heavier door, thicker wire, longer spring, two springs instead of one: the price moves with the parts. You get the price in writing, Clause 1 of The Haven Standard, and it doesn’t move once the work starts. The work carries our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the spring isn’t balanced right, we come back and make it right.

DIY or Call Us?

Here’s the honest split. An owner can safely check what broke: look up at the spring, note the gap, check whether one cable is loose or one side of the door is higher, and text us a photo. What you should not do is attempt the repair. Torsion springs carry enough stored torque to break bone or worse if the winding bars slip, and the winding and unwinding procedure for a Clopay spring requires specific tools and a specific sequence that has no forgiving moments. We don’t say that to scare anyone into a call. We say it because Marcus has seen the aftermath of someone trying this with screwdrivers instead of winding bars, and it’s the only repair in this trade where the failure mode is a hospital visit.

If you’re near downtown Fort Worth, Ridglea, or the TCU area, we can usually have a technician out the same day. The truck carries Clopay-compatible springs in the common sizes, so most jobs are one trip, one written price, one documented record. Call (682) 297-6476 and a live person answers. Name the part. Quote the range. Do the work.

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