Garage Door Cable Repair in Dexter, MO | Garage Door USA
from $149
Garage Door Garage Door Cable Repair Dexter, MO
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 Cable Repair for Dexter homeowners means fast dispatch across Dexter and the surrounding area. Because of high year-round humidity that rusts springs, cables, and fasteners, damp garages that pit galvanized parts over time, and frequent thunderstorms that drive rain into tracks and seals, we recommend corrosion-resistant hardware on local garage door cable repair jobs.
The environment around Dexter is unforgiving on hardware. Hot, humid summers and short, mild winters, with frequent storms and moisture that lingers in the air most of the year means high year-round humidity that rusts springs, cables, and fasteners, damp garages that pit galvanized parts over time, and frequent thunderstorms that drive rain into tracks and seals, so we build every quote around durability.
Most Dexter service tickets come down to corroded springs and cables in the humid air, degraded weatherstripping from UV and moisture, pitted galvanized hardware on older doors, and rusted bottom brackets on damp slabs. We carry the springs, cables, rollers, and opener boards to handle all of them out of one truck.
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. Request garage door cable repair in Dexter and choose a 2-hour arrival window. A confirmation with your technician's name and photo lands in under five minutes.
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On-site diagnosis. The garage door cable repair diagnosis happens at your door: free for most repairs, a $39 fee on minor service calls that's waived the moment you approve the work. Nothing begins until you've seen it.
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Flat-rate quote. You get a flat-rate garage door cable repair quote in writing before any work begins — no hourly creep, no upsell pressure, because our techs are salaried, not commissioned.
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Same-visit fix. Expect a same-visit garage door cable repair fix — our first-call success rate is 96%. We confirm the repair by cycling the door with you, then leave no mess behind.
How much does garage door cable repair cost in Dexter, MO?
Garage Door Cable Repair in Dexter is priced from $149, flat-rate and in writing before any work. We'll tell you honestly when a repair beats a replacement, so you're not paying for garage door cable repair you don't actually need. Affordable garage door cable repair in Dexter, MO doesn't mean cut corners: it's a fair, fixed price, with seniors and military saving 10%.
Garage Door Cable Repair the United States starts at from $149, your written garage door cable repair quote is flat-rate and fixed before any work — no add-ons creep in, no hourly meter runs. Seniors (65+) and military earn 10% off labor, and Synchrony covers anything over $1,500 at 0% APR for the first year, fast approval, no prepayment penalty.
Why homeowners in Dexter, MO choose us for garage door cable repair
For garage door cable repair in Dexter, locals choose the team that's been family-run since 1974 and actually services Stoddard County every day — not a lead-gen middleman. Flat-rate pricing, 10-year workmanship guarantee, no upsell pressure. Looking for a garage door cable repair company in Dexter, MO? That's exactly what we are — local, licensed, and accountable to Stoddard 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.
In Dexter, garage door cable repair comes with honest scope by default — no unnecessary up-sell, salaried (not commissioned) crews, and a diagnostic you watch start to finish, including the parts that are fine. If repair beats replacement we say so, and vice-versa; the flat-rate garage door cable repair quote is written and holds for 30 days.
Areas we serve for garage door cable repair
We provide garage door cable repair throughout Dexter, MO and the surrounding Stoddard County area. Serving Dexter and surrounding neighborhoods.
Our garage door cable repair routing keeps dispatch short across Stoddard County — Dexter lies within Stoddard County, in Missouri. Dexter and Bloomfield, Bernie, Malden, and Campbell are all on the daily loop.
We anchor garage door cable repair in Dexter but work the surrounding Bloomfield, Bernie, Malden, and Campbell every day, keeping response times short on every side of town. Need garage door cable repair near 63841? It's on the daily Stoddard County loop, dispatched to the closest stocked truck.
Garage Door Cable Repair near you in Dexter, MO
Looking for garage door cable repair in your area of Dexter? We cover the whole city and out toward Bloomfield, Bernie, Malden, and Campbell, dispatching the closest licensed crew rather than whoever's cheapest to send.
Dexter is part of our greater St. Louis, MO metro service area.
ZIP codes 63841 and their surroundings are covered for garage door cable repair. Travel time for garage door cable repair tracks Dexter traffic and time of day, so the accurate ETA comes when you phone in. Calls route directly to an on-call technician — no phone tree, no voicemail. For local garage door cable repair in Dexter, MO, including 63841, 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:
Local weather drives most of the repairs we run in Dexter: with hot and high year-round humidity that rusts springs, cables, and fasteners, damp garages that pit galvanized parts over time, and frequent thunderstorms that drive rain into tracks and seals, the common failure modes are corroded springs and cables in the humid air, degraded weatherstripping from UV and moisture, pitted galvanized hardware on older doors, and rusted bottom brackets on damp slabs. Our Dexter trucks stock the parts those conditions wear out first, so most jobs are a single visit.
Dexter lies within Stoddard County, in Missouri. We treat all of it as one service area — Dexter and neighbors like Bloomfield, Bernie, Malden, and Campbell — with trucks staged to keep dispatch times short and the same flat-rate pricing in every community.
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.
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.
5 years on cables and drums. 10-year workmanship on the install. Galvanized cables in coastal homes typically last well beyond it.