Well, the garage door is back in business. For a mere $190, a fellow came right over and changed both of the springs. I had the option of changing out just the broken one for $140, but it seemed worth it to do both at the same time. As I mentioned yesterday, a garage door torsion spring is nothing to mess with unless you have the tools and experience to do it right. Otherwise, you are asking for a trip to the ER, if not the morgue. The spring is under tremendous tension when installed. The internet is loaded with helpful videos about how guys installed new springs and saved themselves big money. Most of them just prove the old axiom that it is the cheapest man who spends the most. The springs for my door, if you can find someone who will sell them to an idiot homeowner, cost $98 per pair. That means I paid the door guy about $90 to do a job in an hour that would have taken me three hours, assuming I didn't kill myself in the process. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky