Garage Door Cable Repair in Gunnison, UT | Garage Door USA
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Garage Door Garage Door Cable Repair Gunnison, UT
Lift-cable replacement, drum re-spooling, and tension recalibration. We pair new cables with a spring inspection so the door is safe and balanced before we leave.
Gunnison's garage door cable repair jobs land on our schedule daily. The housing here is predominantly single-family homes with attached garages, plus a core of older in-town residences, and we size every fix to match it rather than forcing a one-size part.
Ask any Gunnison tech and they'll tell you the climate decides what fails. A high, dry climate of intense summer heat, sharp overnight cooling, and very little annual precipitation brings fine wind-borne dust that grinds down track rollers, heat-soak that fatigues torsion springs years early, and low ambient humidity that dries out factory track lubrication fast, year after year.
Gunnison homeowners usually call us about one of a few things: noisy operation from grit-packed, under-lubricated rollers, dust-blinded photo-eye safety sensors, dried, cracked bottom seals that let dust into the garage, and cold-snapped springs after hard winter freezes. We diagnose the real cause — not just the symptom — before quoting a flat rate.
Lift cables transfer the spring's stored energy to the door panels — they're under high tension every cycle and degrade slowly through fraying, corrosion, and mis-spooling on the drum. A cable repair visit replaces both cables (always replace as a pair so the door stays balanced), re-spools the drums to the correct number of wraps, recalibrates spring tension to match, and inspects related components like the bottom bracket where one end of each cable terminates.
Cables are galvanized aircraft-grade steel — typically 1/8-inch diameter for residential doors and 3/16-inch for heavier or commercial doors. We carry both diameters along with the bottom-bracket fittings, drum caps, and shaft set-screws that occasionally need replacement alongside the cables.
Cable failure usually leaves the door off-track or hanging crooked. Continuing to operate the opener after one cable has snapped causes the other side to take the full load and is the fastest way to bend tracks or damage panels. Stop the opener and call for repair when you see a frayed or snapped cable — fast service is standard.
Strands of steel poking out of the cable indicate active wear. Cables don't self-heal — frays accelerate to snap.
Door hangs crooked when closed
If one corner is higher than the other when the door is fully down, one cable has stretched, slipped on the drum, or partially failed.
Snapped cable, door stuck
A fully snapped cable leaves the door off-track or jammed. Don't try to force it — call for repair.
Rust streaks on cables
Coastal homes see cable corrosion progress until the strands weaken. Visible rust means the cable is no longer at full strength.
Loud bang followed by crooked door
Cable snap sounds similar to spring snap but is usually quieter. If the door is crooked after the noise, suspect cable failure.
Common causes & what we fix
Mis-spooled drum
When a cable jumps off its drum groove, it crosses over itself and wears at the crossover point. Re-spooling fixes the spool but the wear point becomes the weak link.
Drum cap or set-screw failure
If the drum slips on the shaft, one cable unwinds while the other tries to hold. This sudden imbalance can snap the loaded cable.
Bottom bracket failure
The bracket where the cable attaches at the door bottom occasionally cracks or pulls free, letting the cable whip free under tension.
Coastal corrosion
Salt-air pitting on uncoated cables can drop tensile strength 30–40% over 10+ years. Galvanized aircraft cables resist this far better.
Spring imbalance
An over- or under-tensioned spring puts uneven load on the cables and accelerates wear on the loaded side.
Our process
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Call or schedule online. Schedule garage door cable repair on a 2-hour window that suits you. Within five minutes you'll get a confirmation carrying the name and photo of the tech we're sending.
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On-site diagnosis. On arrival we diagnose the garage door cable repair on-site — free for most repairs, $39 on minor service calls (waived if you proceed). You see the issue and the fix before we start.
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Flat-rate quote. Before starting, we hand you a written, flat-rate garage door cable repair estimate. What you see is what you pay — no hourly surprises, no commission-driven add-ons.
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Same-visit fix. Your garage door cable repair in Gunnison is almost always a single-visit fix — our first-call rate is 96%. We test the door alongside you and leave the space cleaner than we found it.
How much does garage door cable repair cost in Gunnison, UT?
For Gunnison homeowners pricing garage door cable repair, the starting point is $149, quoted flat-rate in writing. The estimate holds for 30 days and never moves once you approve it — no add-ons mid-job, no hourly creep. Pricing garage door cable repair cost in Gunnison, UT? The quote is flat-rate and in writing before any work begins — no hourly creep.
Garage Door Cable Repair the United States starts at from $149, and the garage door cable repair number is flat-rate, written, and set before we begin — no hourly billing, no surprise parts charges. We discount labor 10% for seniors (65+) and military, and projects over $1,500 can use 0% APR Synchrony financing for 12 months with no prepayment penalty.
Why homeowners in Gunnison, UT choose us for garage door cable repair
The reason garage door cable repair customers in Gunnison and nearby Centerfield, Manti, Salina, and Ephraim stay with us: we show up when we say, quote before we touch a tool, and stand behind the work for ten years. Licensed since 1974. Professional garage door cable repair in Gunnison, UT means a named tech at your door and a flat-rate quote before any work starts.
The garage door cable repair carries a decade-long workmanship guarantee — independent of the manufacturer's parts warranty. Fail because of how we installed it, and we fix the garage door cable repair at no cost for ten years. 30,000-cycle springs hold a lifetime warranty for the original homeowner, with parts and accessories backed 1–5 years by item.
Honest sizing and honest scope drive how we quote garage door cable repair: we don't up-sell unnecessary work, our techs are salaried (not commissioned), and the diagnostic is structured so you see exactly what we see — including the parts still in good shape. If a repair is the right call we say so; if replacement is the better long-term economics, we say that. Either way the garage door cable repair quote is flat-rate, written, and good for 30 days.
Areas we serve for garage door cable repair
We provide garage door cable repair throughout Gunnison, UT and the surrounding Sanpete County area. Serving Gunnison and surrounding neighborhoods.
Some geography behind our garage door cable repair: Sanpete County, Utah, takes in Gunnison and the communities around it. Gunnison is inside that, and we cover the whole of it.
Beyond Gunnison proper, our garage door cable repair reaches nearby Centerfield, Manti, Salina, and Ephraim — same crews, same turnaround, same flat-rate pricing. Local garage door cable repair in Gunnison, UT and ZIP 84634 — same crew, same flat rate, no travel surcharge for the edges of town.
Garage Door Cable Repair near you in Gunnison, UT
Plenty of results for "garage door cable repair near me" in Gunnison are out-of-area middlemen. We aren't: our trucks already run Gunnison and the surrounding area, so being close keeps both the wait and the price honest.
Gunnison is part of our greater Provo, UT metro service area.
We service ZIP codes 84634 and everything around them. Because Gunnison traffic moves garage door cable repair response times around, we quote your ETA live on the call rather than guessing. Our dispatch number connects to an on-call tech with no voicemail in the way. "Local garage door cable repair near me" in Gunnison should mean a tech who already works your street — with us it does.
Frequently asked about garage door cable repair
Top questions homeowners searching for Garage Door Cable Repair near me ask us:
Gunnison sits in a high, dry climate of intense summer heat, sharp overnight cooling, and very little annual precipitation. That is hard on a door — fine wind-borne dust that grinds down track rollers, heat-soak that fatigues torsion springs years early, and low ambient humidity that dries out factory track lubrication fast all accelerate wear on springs, seals, and openers, so the failures we see most here are noisy operation from grit-packed, under-lubricated rollers, dust-blinded photo-eye safety sensors, dried, cracked bottom seals that let dust into the garage, and cold-snapped springs after hard winter freezes. We size springs and seals for Utah's semi-arid interior conditions rather than a generic catalog spec.
Census data puts 61% of Gunnison homes at pre-1980 construction (median build year 1975) — old enough that many garages still run their original springs, opener, and seals, all long past rated life.
Cables on a balanced door wear at the same rate. The second cable is days to weeks behind the first. Replacing both at once is faster, cheaper than two visits, and properly re-balances the door.
No — running the opener with a failed cable bends tracks and risks the door coming off the rail entirely. Disconnect the opener and avoid using the door until repair.
Cable repairs are quoted flat-rate before starting; the figure depends on whether the drums or a bottom bracket also need replacement. No surprises once you approve the written quote.
5 years on cables and drums. 10-year workmanship on the install. Galvanized cables in coastal homes typically last well beyond it.