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screen a good friend of mine Adam Greer
from Easy Lift garage doors he's
actually my garage door guy he's a
garage door expert he's been doing this
for a very very long time I brought him
on the program today to talk to all of
us about your garage door and replacing
the spring for your garage door Adam how
I'm doing great Joe thanks for having me
once again it's always a pleasure I
appreciate you taking time out of your
busy day to talk to me and my listeners
so this question comes up a lot so I'm
gonna pose this to you why do we need to
replace the garage door spring is this
something that's necessary or is the
garage door guy just trying to sell us
huh that's a really good question and it
does get asked pretty frequently
um I guess with the story explaining
what the spring does so the spring
counterbalances the door so let's just
take an average two-car garage door
which is 16-7 it's just your No Frills
weighs approximately you know 160 to 175
pounds depending on the manufacturer
type of thing and um and the confusion
is that people use their hands and if
they've had to disconnect their opener
for a power outage or some other reason
and they're able to open it by hand they
think it it works magically
um and then we get the phone call we can
get our door open today and our car is
stuck and uh and we got them we
explained to him it's a broken spring
and they well I I've used it without
this you know I've without the opener
before and and it's always worked I
pulled that red string and it and it
opens right but today you have a broken
spring so the thing that makes the door
um sometimes it's not broken it's just
at the end of its life it's so weak that
it just the opener still struggles to
open that door because again openers
aren't even designed to lift weight
they're supposed to just guide a
balanced door so you need that door
balanced so it's a couple things I've
had customers ask me just to can you
just take that spring off and just make
this door work you know without it and
um but it's it's just important to
that that spring is what makes 170
pounds seemed to weigh nothing if that
spring is broke you have to lift 170
pounds and some guys will say well I can
do 170 pounds in the gym but you have a
16 foot wide seven foot tall barbell if
you will that just doesn't live very
easily so we had a customer just uh a
week and a half or so ago who was trying
to get us to can't you just make the
door functional and then we can do the
spring repair later he had a broken
spring and it's we couldn't get another
scan the only way to make it functional
is we have to do the spring repair and
uh he literally thought he was going to
find someone else to make it work and uh
let us walk away I don't know what he
ended up having with that John but he
just could not understand that that
spring is what makes that door work and
so that's it's a major safety issue the
spring is broken you are somehow using
that door still you're taking a chance
I'm getting hurt destroying the door
ruining the opener there's a lot of
things can take place by operating the
door because some people go up to the
opener just crank the Open Force full
blast so that it somehow grunts its way
through but you're really asking for a
world of hurt on that I totally agree
with you I know something about garage
doors I'm not the expert like you but
it's simple everybody I'm a homeowner
like you guys listening it's very simple
you need to have a spring that is wound
properly the door needs to be balanced
without the spring you cannot get the
garage door to open with or without the
garage door operator or the garage door
opener and Adam's right he knows this
way more than I do when your spring does
not work you cannot lift that door and
the garage door opener don't even try to
do that because you're going to damage
that and now you're gonna have to get a
new spring and a garage door opener so
the best thing to do is when it breaks
and here's a Telltale sign you can hear
it sometimes it sounds like a little
bomb going off if you hear a big boom in
your garage take a look at the spring
but if you can't get your garage door up
it really could be the spring call a
professional like Adam from Easy Lift
garage doors here's his phone number 832
832-497-4260 you can go to his website
easyohd.com all of this information the
phone number and his website is listed
here in the podcast in the description
Adam thank you so much this has been
awesome information I really appreciate
it you're welcome thank you again for
having me it's always a pleasure check a
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