We have been shut out of our garage for the last few days. I went to Ann’s for my inaugural New Year’s game day on Saturday and when I came home the garage door could not be opened. It’s a good thing all the cars were out of the garage at the time, or they would have been trapped there until we got it fixed today.
Turns out when your garage door torsion spring looks something like this picture, you need to get it replaced. Monte toyed with the idea of fixing it himself. But when the first hits on google for “Do-It-Yourself broken garage door torsion spring” brought up things like: risk of death, maiming, danger, danger, danger, I looked for a local company to come fix us up.
Les from Cedar Park Overhead Doors came to the rescue today, and we were all set in under an hour.
I’m enjoying this first Monday of the new year… good thing it’s a vacation day!
Tomorrow…back to the grindstone.
Sheila365 
My new daughter in law JUST had a garage door break – what a blessing to be able to send her your suggestion!