If the door has suddenly become impossibly heavy, or you heard a bang and nothing has worked since, this is your problem.
No obligation. Takes 30 seconds.
Garage Door Repair Sunshine Coast connects the Sunshine Coast and the Sunshine Coast property owners with qualified, connects Sunshine Coast property owners with experienced garage door technicians for springs. Tell us what the door is doing and roughly where you are — coast, plain or range — and we'll match it to someone who works that area. Firm price before anything starts.
Pull the emergency release and try to lift the door by hand. A door with a sound spring lifts easily and stays put wherever you leave it — that's the counterbalance doing its job.
A door with a broken spring is 80 to 150 kilos of dead weight. If you can barely move it, or it slams down when released, stop and leave it closed.
**Torsion** springs sit on a shaft above the door and are the modern standard. **Extension** springs run along the tracks either side and are found on older installations.
Torsion generally lasts longer and fails more predictably. Extension springs are the ones that need a safety cable through the centre — if yours doesn't have one, ask about it, because a snapped extension spring without a containment cable becomes a projectile.
A torsion spring holds enormous stored energy whether the door is up or down, and releasing it without proper winding bars is how people lose fingers.
The part itself is cheap. You're paying for the technique, for the correct rating being matched to the door's actual weight, and for the tension being set properly — a spring wound wrong fails again within months.
Springs are rated in cycles, typically 10,000 for a standard spring. A household door doing four cycles a day reaches that in around seven years; a busy one gets there in four.
Which is why 'how old is it' is the wrong question and 'how often does it run' is the right one. Doors on holiday lets with constant changeovers age faster than the calendar suggests.
the Sunshine Coast.
Where this job typically sits. Access is usually a bigger cost driver than size.
| Job | Indicative price | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Service call / diagnosis | $90 – $180 | Callout and assessment, usually credited against the repair. |
| Torsion spring replacement | $250 – $600 | Per spring. Two-spring doors are normally done as a pair. |
| Cable replacement | $150 – $350 | Often done with the springs — they wear together. |
| Motor / opener repair | $150 – $450 | Boards, capacitors and gear sets, where parts still exist. |
| New opener supplied and fitted | $450 – $1,200 | Depends on drive type and whether app control is wanted. |
| Roller door repair | $180 – $600 | Curtain, drum, spring or guide work. |
| Off-track / re-alignment | $150 – $400 | Usually a cable failure underneath it. |
| Panel or section replacement | $300 – $900+ | Per panel. Colour-matching a sun-faded door is the variable. |
| Remote or keypad | $60 – $220 | Coding a new handset is often a few minutes. |
| Full door replacement | $1,400 – $4,000+ | Into an existing opening. Sectional, roller or tilt. |
Prices are indicative only. What a job costs depends on the door type, the part, and whether it can be repaired or replaced. You get a firm price before any work starts.
Won't open, won't close, or making a noise it didn't used to make.
Openers that hum, stall, run without moving the door, or have died entirely.
Curtain, drum, spring and guide work on residential and commercial roller doors.
Scheduled servicing that catches parts before they fail — especially cables.
Doors hanging crooked in the opening, and the cable failures behind them.
Remotes that have stopped, extra handsets, and keypad entry.
Tell us the suburb and the symptom and we'll match it to the right person.
Call 0468 043 698