Cable Repair for Clay's Newer Garage Doors

Clay is a small pocket - about 22 households - and the houses here are younger than most of what we see on calls out of Bryan. The median build year across this area runs 1976, with most stock from the 1960s and 70s, but Clay's own median lands around 2001. That's a different door generation. A lot of these openers and cable drums are still the originals that went up with the house, because the house itself hasn't had thirty years to cycle through a first replacement yet. The failure mode we see is less "the cable is rusted through from age" and more "the cable was never sized or routed quite right from the install, and it's finally giving out." Builder-grade cable and drum setups from the early 2000s weren't always matched well to the door weight, especially on wider two-car doors. The symptom shows up as fraying near the drum, not at the bottom bracket, which tells you it's wear from day one rather than corrosion from decades of weather.