The short answer. Most garage door spring replacements in the Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia area run $200 to $800 all-in, including parts and labor, and heavy custom doors can run beyond that. A single spring on a standard door sits at the lower end; a double-spring replacement on a heavy or oversized door sits at the upper end. You'll get an exact flat price before any work starts. The ranges below explain what moves the number.
What determines the price
Single vs. double spring. Most double-car doors run two torsion springs. When one breaks, the second usually isn't far behind, since it's lived the same life. Replacing both in one visit costs meaningfully less than two separate service calls, which is why we recommend replacing both springs on most two-spring doors.
Door weight and size. A lightweight single-car steel door and a custom oversized wood door in Potomac are different jobs. Heavier doors need heavier-gauge springs, and oversized doors sometimes need parts that aren't on a standard van shelf. This is most of why the range is wide.
Spring cycle rating. Springs are rated in open-close cycles, not years. Standard springs are typically rated around 10,000 cycles; high-cycle springs at 20,000 or more cost more up front and last roughly twice as long. If you open the door several times a day, the high-cycle spring is usually the better math over the door's life.
Torsion vs. extension. Most doors from the last 25 years use torsion springs, the horizontal bar above the door. Older doors sometimes run extension springs stretched along the tracks. Extension pairs price a little differently, which is why they get their own line below. Not sure which you have? Here's the 10-second check.
Typical DMV price ranges (2026)
*All-in (parts + labor), based on jobs across Montgomery County, DC, and Northern Virginia. Every GarageWiz quote is a flat price you approve before work starts, so there's no hourly meter and nothing new on the invoice.
Why the cheap quote usually isn't
A $150 phone quote almost always becomes something else in the driveway. The common moves: an undersized “one size fits most” spring that fails early, a teaser price that doesn't include the second spring, or a trip fee that appears at invoice time. A correctly sized spring matched to your door's weight is most of what you're paying for. Get it wrong and the opener strains until something else gives, and you're doing this repair again in two years.
A real one from Potomac
A Potomac homeowner called us about a very heavy double insulated steel door with a failed spring. Instead of forcing a one-size spring from the van shelf, we measured the door and ordered the exact springs it needed, and while we were there we found a damaged track and laid out two repair options without pushing the bigger job. Her review afterward called out exactly that: measured right, no upsell. That's what a correct spring job looks like, and it landed inside the ranges above.
Can you replace a garage door spring yourself?
We're honest about DIY on this blog, and the honest answer here is: this is the one repair we tell everyone not to attempt. A wound torsion spring stores enough energy to break a hand or worse, and winding a new one takes purpose-made bars and a technique you don't want to learn on your own door. If a spring just let go, here's what to do while you wait for a tech.
