04/24/2026
🌱 Why Do Garage Door Springs Break in Spring? 🌱
Spring is the season for sunshine, allergies… and unfortunately, broken garage door springs. Here’s the real reason it happens:
After months of cold weather, your springs have been expanding, contracting, and working overtime. Steel doesn’t love rapid temperature swings — it fatigues. Tiny stress fractures form over winter, and when the weather finally warms up, that weakened metal can snap.
Add in the fact that spring means more door cycles — mowing, sports gear, projects, coming and going — and a worn spring can hit its breaking point fast.
If your door suddenly feels heavy, won’t lift, or only opens a few inches, your spring may have called it quits.
🌤️ Good news: Atomic can get you back up and running safely and quickly. 918-740-5617