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Garage Door Cable and Roller Repair in Fort Collins

A garage door that hangs crooked, jerks, or sits with a loose cable coiled on one side has a cable or roller problem.

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A garage door that hangs crooked, jerks, or sits with a loose cable coiled on one side has a cable or roller problem. The pros we work with replace frayed lift cables, reset drums and swap worn rollers for sealed nylon the same day, for $140 to $300 in Fort Collins.

Cables are the part nobody thinks about until the door is hanging sideways. Two steel cables run from the bottom corners of the door up to the drums on the spring shaft, and they do the actual lifting. When one frays through, usually at the bottom where it rubs the bracket, the door drops on that side and jams.

Rollers are the other quiet wear item. Most Fort Collins homes were built with steel rollers that squeal and chew the track once the bearings go. Swapping them for sealed nylon is one of the best value upgrades on a garage door, and the pros we refer do it in the same visit as a cable job.

Signs you need cables and rollers

  • The door is lower on one side than the other
  • A cable is hanging loose, kinked or wrapped around something it should not be
  • Fraying strands on the cable near the bottom bracket
  • The door shakes, jerks or squeals as it moves
  • Rollers that wobble, are cracked, or have popped out of the track
  • A roller or hinge that is bent after the door was bumped by a car
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What the repair involves

  1. The tech unplugs the opener and secures the door so it cannot drop while the cable is off.
  2. Both lift cables are replaced (they wear together), wound evenly on the drums and tensioned so the door hangs level.
  3. Worn or cracked rollers are swapped for 13 ball sealed nylon rollers, which are quieter and last longer than the builder grade steel rollers in most Fort Collins homes.
  4. The door is balanced and run through a full cycle, and the opener force is reset.

Cables and rollers cost in Fort Collins

RepairTypical Fort Collins range
Lift cables, pair, replaced and tensioned$140 to $260
Roller replacement, full set of 10 nylon rollers$150 to $300
Cables and rollers together$250 to $450
Bottom bracket or drum replacement$120 to $220 added

A cable job turns into a spring job about a third of the time, because the spring breaking is what threw the cable off the drum. The tech tells you before starting.

Why not DIY

Cables are under the same tension as the springs. Pulling a loose cable back onto its drum by hand has cost people fingers. Unplug the opener, leave the door where it is, and call.

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One cable has frayed, snapped or come off its drum, so one side is no longer being lifted evenly. Sometimes a broken spring is the cause. Either way, stop running the door and call.
About as long as the springs, 7 to 10 years, longer on a door that is kept balanced. Rust and a bottom bracket that rubs the cable shorten that. Many Fort Collins homes from the 2000s are due.
Yes. Builder grade steel rollers with open bearings are loud and wear the track. Sealed nylon rollers cut noise by more than half, which you notice when the garage is under a bedroom.
Always. They have the same wear, and a new cable next to an old one lets the door drift out of level again.
A bent track, a worn roller stem, or a door that got bumped. The tech straightens or replaces the damaged section and checks the rest of the track.
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