Alphabetically, the towns and communities we run calls to from Lacey: Anderson Island, Artondale, DuPont, Fircrest, Fox Island, Grand Mound, McKenna, Nisqually Indian Community, North Yelm, Parkland, Puget, Rainier, Rochester, Roy, Shelton, Spanaway, Steilacoom, Tanglewilde, Tenino, Tumwater, University Place, and Yelm.
Across this whole stretch, homes mostly went up between 1965 and 2004, with a median build year of 1989. That range covers two different doors. Houses from the earlier end of it tend to have original torsion springs sized for heavier wood-and-steel sandwich panels, and hardware that's been repainted over more than once - the kind of job where the spring's cycle life ran out years ago even if nobody's noticed yet. Houses closer to the 2004 end usually came with lighter steel panels and factory chain-drive openers that are now old enough for the gears to be worn plastic, which is the usual cause of a door that opens but grinds doing it.
We don't have a house-by-house breakdown for each town on that list, so we won't tell you Rainier skews older than Yelm or guess at anything we can't back up. What we can say is that a door built in the 1980s or 90s anywhere in this area is old enough to be due for a spring, and that's the single most common call we get, regardless of which town it comes from.