Garage Door Spring Cycle Life

On average a 10 000 cycle rating can only give you a few years of service.

Garage door spring cycle life.

The average garage door spring if correctly installed should last about 10 000 cycles of opening and closing. If you go in and out twice a day you re down to 7 years. A cycle represents opening and closing the door one time. A standard garage door spring has a design life of 20 000 cycles while tension springs should last between 5 000 to 10 000 cycles.

This is dependent on the builder installing the proper size spring s. This means your spring should hold up for approximately 10 000 turns of the coil which equates to the garage door going up once and down once. It is based on winding the same number of turns per inch on both springs. Obviously the more the door is used the sooner the springs will break down.

In residential garage door springs life cycles are usually 10 000 20 000 or 30 000 cycles. If you only go in and out of your garage once a day that means you should expect a broken garage door spring around 14 years after the spring is first installed. The standard cycle life for a torsion spring on a garage door is 10 000 cycles. Many times we find that the wrong size.

The choice of the torsion spring is made according to the number of cycles thus obtained. The least expensive springs available rated at 10 000 life cycles or less.