A garage door with a broken spring should not be opened or closed using an automatic operator.
Manual two spring garage door broken.
A garage door that has a broken spring has nothing to support its weight.
If your garage door goes up and down in a jerky motion you might have one broken spring on a two spring system.
The herky jerky motion is especially common with garage doors equipped with extension springs.
Some garage door openers are strong enough to lift a door with only one good spring.
Even though some garage doors have more than two springs in the operation system.
The size of the door and the type of spring system determines how difficult opening the door will be.
Two ladders 6 foot or higher these two ladders serve as stoppers when the roller is fully opened.
Important things needed to open a garage entry with broken spring.
A garage door should not be opened until the spring is repaired.