A garage door that has jumped its track is one of the few home repairs where the wrong first reaction reliably makes things worse. The instinct is to hit the opener button again and see if it corrects itself. It

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A garage door is the largest moving object in most homes, and it announces almost every failure before it happens. The trouble is that the warnings are noises, and most people either tune them out or turn the radio up.

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Garage door cables are the part nobody thinks about until one lets go. Springs get all the attention because when they break, they announce it — a bang loud enough to bring people running. Cables fail quietly. The door goes

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