Parts We Carry
Most houses in Lantana went up around 2007, which means the original lift cables on these doors are galvanized aircraft cable sized for mid-2000s torsion systems, usually 7x19 strand on a standard-lift drum. If that cable has never been swapped, it's running on borrowed time; cable doesn't fail on a schedule, it frays where it wraps the drum and lets go without much warning. We carry replacement cable in the gauges and lengths that match this build era, along with the drums and aluminum fittings that go with them, so we're not sending a truck back to Addison mid-job to find a part. What we don't stock is anything custom-length for an oversized or converted opening - if a door's been modified from its original spec, that's a special order and we'll tell you up front instead of guessing at a fix.
The DIY Question
A broken cable under spring tension is not a safe weekend project. The spring holding the door up stores enough force to snap a cable a second time, and without the right winding bars and a clamp on the track, there's no good way to control that release by hand. We also won't talk a homeowner through this one over the phone - it's one of the few jobs here where we're honest that it isn't worth the risk to save a service call. If the door is stuck shut, leave it shut until someone can get a bar on the spring; forcing the opener against a broken cable just bends the track or drops the door the rest of the way.
The Cost of This Job
Cable replacement is one of the more affordable repairs we do, cheaper than a spring and far cheaper than a new door, and it's often paired with a spring and drum check since all three wear together on original hardware. Lantana's household income runs well above the regional median, and we see more owners here choose to replace both cables and the drums at once rather than patch one side and wait for the other to go - it's a smaller add to the bill than a second trip from Addison later. We don't price blind over the phone for this one either; cable length and drum style vary enough by door that we quote it once we've seen the hardware.
