Cable Repair for Midway's Older Garage Doors

How Long It Takes

We run this job out of Nicholasville, about 19 miles from Midway, so a cable call here gets scheduled as its own trip rather than squeezed between two closer jobs. Once we're on site, replacing a frayed or snapped lift cable is usually a 45 minute to hour job on a standard double door - cutting the old cable loose, checking the drum and pulley it rode on for wear, and running new cable under the right tension before we test the door through a full cycle. The bigger variable is what's underneath. Houses in Midway mostly went up in the 1950s and 60s, and a lot of them still have the original extension-spring setup with side pulleys instead of a torsion bar overhead. Those systems take a little longer to inspect because the pulley brackets and cable guides on doors that old have usually been painted over a few times, and we want to see actual wear, not just surface rust, before we call a cable the only problem. If the drum or pulley is grooved from years of cable running the same track, that adds time but it's cheap compared to replacing the door.Confirm the issue is cable and the date range before we say