Stocked Parts
We stock springs sized for the kind of torsion systems common across the service area's 1960s-70s stock, which covers most of what we find on Orinda calls. Because the housing here skews a few years older than San Ramon's own median, we also carry a handful of longer-shaft and heavier-gauge torsion springs on the truck specifically for the bigger single-car doors that era used before double-wide garages became standard. What we don't carry is every obsolete cone pattern ever made - if a house still has its original 1961-vintage hardware and nobody's touched it since, there's a chance the first visit is diagnosis and measurement, with the correct spring ordered and installed on a second trip. That's the honest version, not the convenient one.
How Long You Are Without the Door
A straightforward torsion spring swap, once the right parts are on the truck, usually doesn't keep a door down past a single appointment. The variable in Orinda is less about the repair itself and more about the drive - we're coming from San Ramon, 15 miles out, which is farther than most of the closer-in suburbs we cover. That distance doesn't change the time the spring work takes once we're on site, but it does mean scheduling a same-day emergency call isn't always realistic the way it might be for a town a few miles from the shop. If a spring breaks with a car trapped inside, say so when you call - that changes how we prioritize the route.
Where This Job Goes Sideways
The spring itself is rarely the complicated part. What turns a simple swap into a longer job is what's attached to it on older installations - a drum that's cracked, a shaft that's bent from running on a dead spring too long, or cable that's frayed and due for replacement anyway. Given that a chunk of Orinda's housing predates 1973, the service area's own median build year, we see more of this secondary wear here than in newer pockets of the territory. The other place it goes sideways is access: if a garage has been converted or modified over the decades, the torsion bar sometimes isn't mounted where a standard bracket kit expects it, and that calls for field adjustment rather than a catalog part. None of this is exotic, but it's why we'd rather quote after a look than over the phone. For the San Ramon-side version of this same service, see /garage-door-spring-repair-san-ramon-ca
