Garage Door Spring Replacement Cost in Perth: Singles, Pairs and Cables
What a new torsion, extension or roller-door spring costs fitted, why pairs are priced together, and where a snapped cable fits in. All figures incl. GST.
Quick Answer
Garage door spring replacement cost in Perth is $240–$280 incl. GST for a single spring and $440–$550 for a matched pair, fitted, wound to the door's weight and balance-tested. Wider or heavier doors that run three or four springs are $660–$770 and $880–$1,000. A spring that has slipped rather than snapped is re-tensioned for $280–$330, and a lift cable is $280–$550. There is no call-out fee, and the price is confirmed on site before the work starts.
Spring and Cable Prices, Incl. GST
Springs are priced by how many the door runs, because the labour is in the winding and balancing rather than the part. Each row below is a line on our current price list. The technician checks the cables, drums and bottom brackets on the same visit, since a spring rarely fails alone on an old door.
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All prices incl. GST from our live price list. A spring for a discontinued door profile, a commercial door with a long shaft or a tilt door's arm-and-spring kit ($1,200–$1,800) is quoted to the door before we start.
What Sets the Price of a Spring Job
One spring or the set
Springs on a two-spring door were fitted together and have done the same cycles. Replacing only the broken one leaves a tired spring carrying half the door, which is why we price the pair.
Door weight
A heavier door needs a longer or thicker spring, and that changes the part cost. Timber-look, insulated and double doors sit at the top of each range.
Cables and drums
A snapped spring often drops the door onto its cables, which can jump the drum or fray. If they need attention it is a separate line at $280–$550; see the broken spring or cable page for the signs.
Roller, sectional or tilt
Roller-door springs live inside the drum, sectional torsion springs sit on the shaft above the opening, and tilt doors use an arm-and-spring kit. Access and winding method differ, and the price list reflects that.
Torsion or extension
Older sectional doors sometimes run extension springs along the tracks instead of a torsion shaft. Both are on the same price list; the torsion vs extension guide explains how to tell which you have.
When it fails
Springs tend to break on the first cold morning or the busiest day. A business-hours booking is list price; after hours adds a flat $500.
Worked Examples
Loud bang, door will not lift
A torsion spring has snapped; you can usually see the gap in the coil above the door. One spring is $240–$280, but on a two-spring door of the same age we quote the pair at $440–$550 and explain why.
Door is heavy but nothing looks broken
The spring has lost tension or slipped on the shaft. A re-tension at $280–$330 restores the balance if the spring is sound; if the coil is stretched or cracked it becomes a replacement.
Door hangs crooked in the opening
One cable has come off its drum or snapped. Re-seating or replacing it is $280–$550, and the technician checks the spring on the same visit because a slack cable is often the result of a spring fault.
Roller door will not stay up
The spring inside the drum has weakened. A re-tension is $280–$330; a replacement spring is $240–$280. Our roller door spring tension guide covers the symptoms and why the drum is not an owner job.
New Spring or New Door?
A broken spring on its own is never a reason to replace a door. It becomes one only when the spring is the latest in a line of failures on a door that is already past it.
Repair it when
- The panels, tracks and opener are in good order and only the spring has gone
- The door is a standard size that takes a stock spring
- You want the door working today at a known price
- A pair at $440–$550 is still a fraction of a new door
Replace it when
- Springs, cables, rollers and opener are all worn and each is due
- The panels are rusted, bent or delaminating and no longer seal
- The profile is discontinued and springs must be made to order
- A new door at $3,000–$5,000 is less than the list of repairs adding up
How a Spring Replacement Visit Runs
Call with the symptoms
Tell us the door type and whether you heard a bang, see a gap in the spring or the door simply feels heavy.
Leave the door where it is
Do not run the opener or try to lift a door with a broken spring; the weight is no longer balanced and cables can let go.
We attend across Perth
From Gosnells to any metro suburb, 24 hours a day, with no call-out fee.
Inspect, then a written price
Springs, cables, drums, bearings and brackets are checked before a fixed figure incl. GST is given for your approval.
Fit, wind, balance, test
The new spring is wound to the door's weight, the door is balanced through its full travel and the safety reverse is tested. Work carries a 12-month workmanship warranty.
Services Behind These Prices
Frequently Asked Questions
In Perth a single spring is $240–$280 incl. GST fitted, and a pair is $440–$550. Three-spring doors are $660–$770 and four-spring doors $880–$1,000. Those figures cover the part, the winding to your door's weight and the balance test afterwards, with no call-out fee. The garage door repairs page lists what else we check while we are there.
We would not advise it. A torsion spring stores enough energy to lift a door that weighs as much as a person, and it releases that energy in an instant if a winding bar slips or the wrong cone is loosened. Roller-door springs are hidden inside the drum and are no safer. Our are garage door springs dangerous article sets out the risks; the job costs $240–$280 done properly.
On a two-spring door, yes, unless one spring is clearly much newer. Both springs have done the same number of cycles, so the survivor is close to failing too, and a new spring paired with a tired one leaves the door lifting unevenly. The pair price of $440–$550 is less than two single visits, and it resets the door's balance properly.
Almost always. The door, tracks and opener are usually fine, and a spring is one of the cheaper repairs on the list. The exception is a door that also needs cables, rollers and an opener in the same year, where the repair cost guide helps you compare the total with a new door at $3,000–$5,000.
Springs are rated in cycles, one cycle being one open and close, so a door used four times a day wears its springs out in a fraction of the time of one used once. Perth's dry heat and, near the coast, salt air shorten that further through corrosion. An annual service checks tension and spots a cracked coil before it lets go.
Most single and pair replacements are finished in one visit, including the balance test and safety check, because common springs are carried on the van. A door with an unusual spring size or a discontinued profile may need the part ordered and a second visit. You are told which applies before any work starts.
Do not try. With the spring gone the door's full weight is on you and on the cables, which can snap or jump the drum, and a sectional door can drop the moment you let go. If the car is inside and you need it, call the 24/7 line and we make the door safe first. A broken spring is the one case where the manual release cord is not the answer.
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