Spring repair in West Jordan, Utah

At 4,429 feet, West Jordan takes 90.5 freeze–thaw crossings a year, and every one of them works the spring steel — contraction, expansion, repeat — whether or not the door moves at all. Usage adds cycles; the climate adds fatigue on its own clock.

Brittleness is the accomplice — cold steel fractures where warm steel bends, which is why the break so often happens on the first morning lift, and why West Jordan's calls track its winter: 94% of the year's freezing crossings land between November and March.

half the homes in West Jordan were standing by 1996; the stock is a mix of originals and replacements, which staggers the failures street by street rather than season by season.

The 25,000-cycle upgrade adds $80 to $150 to a replacement and multiplies expected life by roughly 2.5. At West Jordan's 90.5 cycles a year of thermal fatigue, that arithmetic tilts firmly toward the upgrade — it converts a 5-to-7-year spring into one that outlasts most ownerships, and it avoids paying the call-out twice.

Fit them as a matched pair, sized to the door's measured weight — in this climate an undersized bargain spring is the shortest-lived spring of all.

The measurements shift town by town: Midvale runs 88.2 freeze–thaw cycles and 5–7 years of spring life; South Jordan runs 93.1 freeze–thaw cycles and 5–7 years of spring life; and Taylorsville runs 84.4 freeze–thaw cycles and 5–7 years of spring life.

Against that backdrop, West Jordan holds 90.5 cycles at 4,429 ft with a 1996 median build year — the specific inputs behind every figure above.