The Pinery, Aurora
Cable repair for The Pinery homes built mostly in the mid-90s. Aurora Garage Door Pros drives the 18 miles out for snapped and frayed cables on original hardware.
Watch-outs
Most houses out here went up around 1995, which puts a lot of garages on their original lift cables almost thirty years later. Nobody replaces a cable on a schedule - it gets swapped when it snaps, and until then it's the same galvanized strand that left the factory with the door. That's the detail that changes this job from a five-minute fix to something longer: the drum the cable winds onto is original too, and on doors this age the drum grooves are often worn enough that a new cable doesn't sit right without a matching drum. We also find the bottom brackets rusted onto the track from decades of Colorado freeze-thaw cycling, which turns a bolt-off job into a bolt-off-and-fight. If the door is a double at 16 feet wide, both cables need to come off evenly or the door racks sideways in the opening, and that's not a call we make lightly with your torsion springs still loaded.
Pricing
We don't have a set price to quote you here - cable jobs vary too much by drum condition, whether the bottom brackets need replacing, and whether it's a single door or a 16-foot double. What we can tell you is that a straight cable swap on hardware in decent shape costs less than a job where the drums or brackets have to come off too, and on a house built in the mid-90s that second scenario is common enough that we check the drums before quoting anything. Ask us for a number once we're looking at the door, not before.
Booking
We run out of Aurora, about 18 miles from The Pinery, so we're not sending someone from a shop around the corner - we're routing a truck out for the job. That means we schedule the visit rather than showing up on a walk-in basis, and it's worth telling us up front if the door won't open at all, since a cable that's come off the drum on one side can jam the door partway and make the opener think it's stuck. We'd rather know that before the truck leaves than after.
Job timing
A single cable replacement on hardware that's still in reasonable shape usually runs under an hour once the truck's on site.
Add a worn drum or a rusted bottom bracket and you're looking at longer, because now we're pulling the spring tension off, swapping parts that weren't in the original quote, and re-balancing the door before we call it done.
Doubles take longer than singles simply because there are two cables, two drums, and twice the chance one of them fights back. We won't cut a corner to hit a faster number - a door that's out of balance because a cable job was rushed comes back to bite the springs next.
Symptoms
The tell is usually one corner of the door hanging lower than the other, or a door that won't budge past a few inches before the opener strains and stops. Sometimes it's a visible frayed strand near the bottom bracket, sometimes it's a loud bang from the garage that turns out to be a cable letting go under tension. On a door this age, a cable failure often means the drum it was wrapped around has been quietly wearing a groove for years, so don't be surprised if the fix is a pair of parts, not just one. We won't tell you it's a quick cable-only swap until we've actually looked at the drum.
Questions
Yes. A garage door with one broken lift cable is being held by a spring under full tension and one remaining cable - it can drop suddenly or twist off the track. Don't force the opener and don't put your car under it. Leave the door where it is until it's looked at.
We carry common cable sizes, but drums and bottom brackets vary enough by manufacturer that we sometimes need to confirm the exact part before we can finish a job on original hardware from the mid-90s. We'll tell you on site if that's the case rather than guessing.
About 18 miles from Aurora. We schedule these as routed visits rather than same-hour walk-ins, so it helps to describe what the door's doing when you call - hanging crooked, stuck partway, or a bang followed by it not moving at all.
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Aurora Garage Door Pros repairs and installs garage doors, springs and openers in Aurora, CO and the surrounding area.
