Garage Door Cable Repair in King City, OR | Garage Door USA
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Garage Door Garage Door Cable Repair King City, OR
Lift-cable replacement, drum re-spooling, and tension recalibration. We pair new cables with a spring inspection so the door is safe and balanced before we leave.
Garage Door Garage Door Cable Repair King City, OR
Our King City garage door cable repair crews stay local to Washington County, so dispatch is fast and follow-up is easy. With a cool, wet maritime climate — abundant rainfall, frequent fog, and damp, salt-tinged onshore wind much of the year in play, we spec parts that hold up here.
We spec every King City job for the environment it lives in. Given a cool, wet maritime climate — abundant rainfall, frequent fog, and damp, salt-tinged onshore wind much of the year, the failure modes we plan around are high humidity that seizes rollers and hinges, near-constant damp that swells and warps wood doors, and morning fog condensation that beads on cold metal tracks — and we carry the corrosion-resistant parts to match.
We've fixed thousands of doors around Washington County, and the pattern holds in King City: corroded hinges seized by constant damp, rotted bottom seals and brackets, corroded tracks and rollers near the coast, and drooping panels from waterlogged wood. None of it should leave you without a working garage for more than a day.
Lift cables transfer the spring's stored energy to the door panels — they're under high tension every cycle and degrade slowly through fraying, corrosion, and mis-spooling on the drum. A cable repair visit replaces both cables (always replace as a pair so the door stays balanced), re-spools the drums to the correct number of wraps, recalibrates spring tension to match, and inspects related components like the bottom bracket where one end of each cable terminates.
Cables are galvanized aircraft-grade steel — typically 1/8-inch diameter for residential doors and 3/16-inch for heavier or commercial doors. We carry both diameters along with the bottom-bracket fittings, drum caps, and shaft set-screws that occasionally need replacement alongside the cables.
Cable failure usually leaves the door off-track or hanging crooked. Continuing to operate the opener after one cable has snapped causes the other side to take the full load and is the fastest way to bend tracks or damage panels. Stop the opener and call for repair when you see a frayed or snapped cable — fast service is standard.
Signs you need garage door cable repair
Frayed cable visible at the drum
More garage door repair services in King City, OR
Garage Door Cable Repair is one part of our garage door repair coverage in King City, OR. For the full picture — symptoms, costs, and when to repair vs. replace — start with the complete Garage Door Repair guide, or browse every garage door repair service we offer.
Strands of steel poking out of the cable indicate active wear. Cables don't self-heal — frays accelerate to snap.
Door hangs crooked when closed
If one corner is higher than the other when the door is fully down, one cable has stretched, slipped on the drum, or partially failed.
Snapped cable, door stuck
A fully snapped cable leaves the door off-track or jammed. Don't try to force it — call for repair.
Rust streaks on cables
Coastal homes see cable corrosion progress until the strands weaken. Visible rust means the cable is no longer at full strength.
Loud bang followed by crooked door
Cable snap sounds similar to spring snap but is usually quieter. If the door is crooked after the noise, suspect cable failure.
Common causes & what we fix
Mis-spooled drum
When a cable jumps off its drum groove, it crosses over itself and wears at the crossover point. Re-spooling fixes the spool but the wear point becomes the weak link.
Drum cap or set-screw failure
If the drum slips on the shaft, one cable unwinds while the other tries to hold. This sudden imbalance can snap the loaded cable.
Bottom bracket failure
The bracket where the cable attaches at the door bottom occasionally cracks or pulls free, letting the cable whip free under tension.
Coastal corrosion
Salt-air pitting on uncoated cables can drop tensile strength 30–40% over 10+ years. Galvanized aircraft cables resist this far better.
Spring imbalance
An over- or under-tensioned spring puts uneven load on the cables and accelerates wear on the loaded side.
Our process
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Call or schedule online. Booking garage door cable repair is two clicks or one call: select a 2-hour window and get a named, photo-tagged tech confirmation within five minutes.
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On-site diagnosis. On-site, we pinpoint the garage door cable repair fault and show it to you. Diagnosis is free for most repairs and $39 for minor service calls — waived the moment you proceed.
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Flat-rate quote. We quote garage door cable repair for King City at a flat rate, in writing, before any work — no hourly billing, no commissioned upselling. The number doesn't move once you approve it.
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Same-visit fix. Nine times in ten — 96%, really — the garage door cable repair is done in one visit. You watch the final test cycle, and we haul off every old part and bit of debris.
How much does garage door cable repair cost in King City, OR?
Expect garage door cable repair in King City to start at $149, with the final flat rate confirmed in writing before work starts. There's no diagnostic surprise and no hourly billing — just one number you approve before we begin. Comparing garage door cable repair cost in King City? The written flat rate holds for 30 days, and 0% financing covers the larger jobs.
Garage Door Cable Repair the United States starts at from $149, and we quote garage door cable repair at a flat rate in writing before lifting a tool — no hidden add-ons, no hourly creep. A 10% labor discount applies for seniors (65+) and military, and Synchrony offers 0% APR for 12 months on projects over $1,500, approved quickly with no prepayment penalty.
Why homeowners in King City, OR choose us for garage door cable repair
King City sticks with us for garage door cable repair because we answer the phone, quote in writing, and stand behind the job for ten years. CSLB #1098234, family-run since 1974. For professional garage door cable repair in King City, OR, King City homeowners reach a salaried, background-checked crew, never a call center.
Garage door cable repair is guaranteed ten years on our workmanship — a promise that sits apart from the manufacturer's parts coverage. If the garage door cable repair we performed fails because of our install, the fix is free for the full decade. 30,000-cycle springs are lifetime-warrantied for the original homeowner, and parts and accessories run 1–5 years.
Our garage door cable repair quotes in King City are built on honest scope: no padded line items, salaried technicians with no commission to chase, and a transparent diagnostic so you see the real condition of every part. We'll tell you straight whether to repair or replace, and the flat-rate garage door cable repair quote is written and good for 30 days.
Areas we serve for garage door cable repair
We provide garage door cable repair throughout King City, OR and the surrounding Washington County area. Serving Bull Mountain and surrounding neighborhoods.
We run garage door cable repair across Washington County end to end — Washington County sits in Oregon. King City sits right in it, alongside Bull Mountain, Tigard, Tualatin, and Durham.
Live at the edge of King City? Our garage door cable repair also covers Bull Mountain, Tigard, Tualatin, and Durham and everything between, with no premium for being a few minutes out. Local garage door cable repair in King City, OR and ZIP 97224 — same crew, same flat rate, no travel surcharge for the edges of town.
Garage Door Cable Repair near you in King City, OR
Yes, we're the garage door cable repair "near me" result King City can actually rely on — licensed, insured, and local to Washington County, with the closest stocked truck routed to your door.
King City is part of our greater Portland, OR metro service area.
Our garage door cable repair coverage spans ZIP codes 97224 and out past them. How fast we reach you for garage door cable repair depends on King City traffic and the hour, so we give a real ETA the moment you call. The line rings an on-call tech directly — never a voicemail box. For local garage door cable repair in King City, OR, including 97224, we route the nearest stocked truck straight to your door.
Frequently asked about garage door cable repair
Top questions homeowners searching for Garage Door Cable Repair near me ask us:
The call we get most in King City is corroded hinges seized by constant damp. King City has mainly suburban houses with attached two-car garages, mixed with some older central-neighborhood homes, so rotted bottom seals and brackets turns up often too. We carry the common parts on the truck for a single-visit fix.
Census data puts 56% of King City homes at pre-1980 construction (median build year 1976) — old enough that many garages still run their original springs, opener, and seals, all long past rated life.
Most cable jobs run 45–60 minutes including spring tension verification and balance test. Add 15 minutes if drums also need replacement.
Cable repairs are quoted flat-rate before starting; the figure depends on whether the drums or a bottom bracket also need replacement. No surprises once you approve the written quote.
5 years on cables and drums. 10-year workmanship on the install. Galvanized cables in coastal homes typically last well beyond it.
No — running the opener with a failed cable bends tracks and risks the door coming off the rail entirely. Disconnect the opener and avoid using the door until repair.