Springs are the job we price most often in San Mateo, and a single torsion spring is $200 to $330 installed. On a house from the 1960s the second spring is the same age as the first, so we quote the pair as well as the one and let you pick.
Most San Mateo repairs land in the low hundreds. The job we price most often here is a broken torsion spring, $200 to $330 installed, because the housing is old enough that nearly every door is on a spring set that has already served a full life.
You approve the exact figure before any work starts, and payment is on completion. Call (650) 376-6070 and describe what the door is doing.
| Job | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Spring replacement | $200 to $330 | About an hour on site. If the door runs two springs, replacing both together is usually the better call, because they wear at the same rate and the second one tends to follow within months. |
| Opener repair | $200 to $400 | Covers the common failures: the drive gear, the logic board, the travel limits and sensors out of alignment. What it costs depends on which of those it turns out to be. |
| Cable replacement | $200 to $350 | Cables are replaced in pairs. A frayed cable on one side means the other has done the same work over the same years. |
| Off-track repair | $200 to $400 | Price depends on what put the door off the track. A roller out of the curve is quick. A bent track or a panel that took the impact adds parts. |
| Roller set | $250 to $400 | Ten rollers on a standard door. Nylon runs quieter than steel and is what makes the difference on a door that grinds. |
| New door installed | $1,500 and up | Steel, insulated steel and wood, sized to the opening. The figure covers the door, the track, the hardware and taking the old door away. |
How each range works is on the main cost page.
The original openings around San Mateo Park and Baywood are wider than the post-war tracts to the south, and a wider, heavier door takes a spring wound for it rather than the stock single. That is what puts a spring job at the top of the $200 to $330 range rather than the bottom. The work takes the same hour either way.
A lot of San Mateo garages still run openers from the 1990s and early 2000s. When one chews through its drive gear or drops its logic board, repair runs $200 to $400 depending on which part it turns out to be. If a tired spring has been loading the motor for years, we check the balance before we touch the opener, because an opener repaired onto an unbalanced door fails again.
For what breaks in this city and why, see garage door repair in San Mateo.
$200 to $330 installed for a single torsion spring, about an hour of work. Doors with two springs get a price for the pair too, since the second spring has done the same cycles as the one that broke.
Because the door decides. A standard single sits low in the range. A wide Baywood door on an oversized spring sits high. You hear the exact figure in your driveway before any work starts, and it does not move after that.
Sometimes. A gear or sensor fix inside the $200 to $400 repair range can buy years. When the motor or board of a unit that old is gone, we say so, and we price a new unit for the door only after measuring it, so the number is real rather than a guess.
Call before early afternoon and we can usually get out the same day.
Call (650) 376-6070