Garage Door Cable Repair in Star, ID | Garage Door USA
from $149
Garage Door Garage Door Cable Repair Star, ID
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.
Booked garage door cable repair in Star, ID? Expect a tech who actually works Ada County: fast dispatch, an honest diagnosis, and parts on the truck for overheated opener motors straining against binding doors, dust-fouled tracks that bind and throw the door off level, heat-warped panels on west-facing steel doors, and dried, cracked bottom seals that let dust into the garage.
Star sits in Idaho's semi-arid interior — a semi-arid climate of hot, dry summers, cold winters, low rainfall, and wide day-to-night temperature swings. That puts real stress on garage door hardware: we routinely see extreme summer heat that bakes and warps lightweight steel panels, rapid day-to-night temperature swings that loosen hardware over time, and heat-soak that fatigues torsion springs years early, and we fit parts rated to handle it.
Across Star and the surrounding area, what brings Star homeowners to us is overheated opener motors straining against binding doors, dust-fouled tracks that bind and throw the door off level, heat-warped panels on west-facing steel doors, and dried, cracked bottom seals that let dust into the garage — and we resolve it without a second visit.
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.
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. Getting garage door cable repair scheduled in Star takes a minute: choose a 2-hour window and we confirm the assigned tech, by name and photo, in under five.
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On-site diagnosis. In Star, the garage door cable repair starts with a hands-on diagnosis: free for most repairs, $39 on minor service calls (waived on approval). You see the issue and the fix first.
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Flat-rate quote. Your garage door cable repair in Star is quoted flat-rate and in writing up front. There's no hourly creep and no pressure: our technicians are salaried, never commissioned.
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Same-visit fix. Same-visit completion is the norm for garage door cable repair: 96% of calls are fixed first time. We run the door with you to verify, then tidy up everything we touched.
How much does garage door cable repair cost in Star, ID?
The cost of garage door cable repair in Star starts at $149, locked in as a flat written rate before work begins. No commissioned up-sell, no hourly creep — and 10% off labor for seniors and military. We keep garage door cable repair affordable across Star, ID — one flat number quoted up front, the same one you pay at the end.
Garage Door Cable Repair the United States starts at from $149, with the full garage door cable repair price written down and locked before we start — there's no hourly meter and nothing bolted on later. We take 10% off labor for seniors (65+) and military, and jobs over $1,500 qualify for 0% APR Synchrony financing for 12 months, approved fast with no prepayment penalty.
Why homeowners in Star, ID choose us for garage door cable repair
Homeowners from Star and the surrounding area call us for garage door cable repair because we're fast, fair, and accountable. Salaried techs, flat-rate written quotes, lifetime spring warranties, and deep familiarity with how Idaho's semi-arid interior treats a garage door. Looking for a garage door cable repair company in Star, ID? That's exactly what we are — local, licensed, and accountable to Ada County.
Every garage door cable repair is guaranteed: a 10-year workmanship warranty, held separate from the manufacturer's coverage on the parts. Should our garage door cable repair fail because of the install, we return and correct it at no charge for ten full years. 30,000-cycle springs are warrantied for the life of the original homeowner; other parts and accessories carry standard 1–5 year terms.
We keep garage door cable repair honest two ways — honest sizing and honest scope. There's no up-sell because the techs are salaried, not commissioned, and the diagnostic shows you precisely what we see, parts in good shape included. Repair or replace, we recommend whichever wins long-term, and the garage door cable repair quote is flat-rate, written, and valid 30 days.
Areas we serve for garage door cable repair
We provide garage door cable repair throughout Star, ID and the surrounding Ada County area. Serving Star and surrounding neighborhoods.
A note on the area for garage door cable repair: Ada County sits in Idaho. Our Star crews work that whole footprint daily, out to Eagle, Middleton, Meridian, and Nampa.
Whether you're in Star or nearby Eagle, Middleton, Meridian, and Nampa, our garage door cable repair dispatch routes the closest stocked truck — that's the 90-minute average across Ada County. Need garage door cable repair near 83669? It's on the daily Ada County loop, dispatched to the closest stocked truck.
Garage Door Cable Repair near you in Star, ID
Star searches for garage door cable repair near me land on us because we're built local: salaried techs who know the area, flat-rate quotes, and coverage that runs continuously from Star out through Eagle, Middleton, Meridian, and Nampa.
Star is part of our greater Nampa, ID metro service area.
83669 and the surrounding blocks are all on our garage door cable repair map. ETAs for garage door cable repair shift with Star traffic through the day; call and we'll quote the honest arrival window on the spot. You reach an on-call technician, not an answering machine. For local garage door cable repair in Star, ID, including 83669, 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:
Star's housing skews new — a median build year of 2009, only 6% built before 1980 — so most doors are first-generation: the common work is tune-ups, spring break-in, and opener setup rather than rust repair.
We cover Star and the surrounding area — including ZIPs 83669. If you are anywhere in Star, you are in our service area — call (213) 221-2882 and we will confirm the next available window.
Most cable jobs run 45–60 minutes including spring tension verification and balance test. Add 15 minutes if drums also need replacement.
Cables on a balanced door wear at the same rate. The second cable is days to weeks behind the first. Replacing both at once is faster, cheaper than two visits, and properly re-balances the door.
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.