The best thing for you to do, is to stop using the door, and contact a garage door technician in Baltimore who can replace the snapped tension spring with a new one. There is no need to panic or to wonder if the repair is going to cost a lot of money. A tension spring replacement in Baltimore is something which the experts of Baltimore Garage Doors & Gates are dealing with on a daily base, since it is one of the common garage door malfunctions, which can completely prevent garage door from working.
Keep in mind that garage tension spring replacement in Baltimore MD, especially if it is heavy duty commercial overhead spring repair can be a dangerous process, and since the weight of the door is not supported by the tension spring which is currently snapped, trying to lift the door to open it up, or trying to close it is without the support of the spring is dangerous, and can result with a complete broken door, or even worst, with personal injury.
The technicians of Baltimore Garage Doors & Gates got the knowledge, the tension springs and the experience to match the correct tension spring for your garage door, whether it is a torsion tension spring or extension tension spring. We also have the tools and the experience to put the exact amount of tension on the tension spring, which will enable your door to stay balanced, and make it easy to use even if you are using it manually. To us as local garage doors experts it doesn't matter if you need torsion tension spring repair in Baltimore, or garage door tension spring repair in Baltimore County, we have the knowledge, the tools and the ability to replace any garage door tension spring in Baltimore Maryland today.
Can I replace the broken tension spring by myself?

When the issue is a broken tension spring, and we are being asked if we recommend to replace it by do-it-yourself, or to contact garage door specialist in Baltimore to do the replacement. We love to start with a short story that happened to someone who tried to repair garage door by DIY:
We once received a call from someone who asked us to come and help him replace the tension spring ion the garage door. When we arrived to the house, he showed us the tension springs that he bought, and that he tried to replace by himself unsuccessfully. The thing is that he actually found the right coil springs that fit the weight and size of he's door (Although from low quality, but this wasn't the issue). Our technician asked him to show us what he was doing, and when he demonstrated to us, we immediately stopped him, and told him that he is lucky that he did not get injured by the attempt to replace the spring, and that the door did not break. The malfunction was that like many garages in Baltimore, he had low headroom garage door, with torsion tension springs, and he was trying to put tension on the tension springs in the wrong direction. All he needed, was to ask garage door expert in Baltimore to tell him what he was doing wrong. But sometime the knowledge on how to do things is more important than if you do or do not have the ability and the tools to do them.
There are some garage door repairs in Baltimore that can be done in a DIY. And there are many that should be left for a qualified technicians, and spring replacement is from the type of repairs that better be left for an expert.