Commercial Roller Door and Roller Shutter Repairs Across Perth

Ring us. We repair commercial and industrial roller doors across Perth, from a single shopfront shutter to the roller doors on factory units in Wangara, Welshpool and Bibra Lake, with breakdown call-outs 24/7. Bent guides, a jammed curtain, tired springs and a motor that has stopped responding are the usual faults, and the common ones are fixed in one visit with parts from the van. For heavier plant, high-lift doors and doors that cycle continuously through a shift, our industrial roller doors page covers that scope in more detail; the same phone number gets you there.

It depends on what has failed, how big the door is and when you need it done, so we quote on site rather than guess on the phone. A re-tension, a lock or a straightened guide sits at the low end. Springs and cables sit in the middle. A new curtain, a full set of slats on a wide shutter or a commercial-duty motor sits at the top, because the part itself is most of the cost. Access adds time if the door is above a loading dock or boxed in by racking, and a breakdown at night or on a public holiday carries an after-hours component that a weekday booking does not. The quote is free, there is no call-out fee, and the figure is agreed before any work starts.

More often than a home door, because it moves many times more. Common trade practice is at least one service a year for a light-use door and twice a year or more for a door that cycles all day, with the motor maker's own guidance on top of that. A service covers spring tension, guides, the bottom rail, fixings, limits and the safety reverse, and it is where a cracked slat or a fraying cable gets caught before it stops the door mid-shift. We can put your doors on scheduled maintenance for commercial doors booked around your trading hours.

On roller doors of any size the list is short and it repeats. Springs inside the drum lose tension, so the door gets heavy and the motor strains or stops. The curtain climbs out of a guide, usually after a knock, and jams. Slats crack or kink where the curtain has been forced. Sand and grit build up in the guides and the door drags and squeals. Motors on high-cycle doors overheat, lose their limits or stop answering the controls. And on shopfronts, locks and bottom rail bars seize or get forced; commercial door locks and security hardware are usually a straightforward swap.

Repaired, in most cases. A shutter that is jammed, off its guide, rolling unevenly or refusing to lock nearly always has one failed part behind it: a bent guide, a broken slat or two, a tired spring, a worn drum bearing or a motor fault, and each of those is replaceable on its own. Replacing the whole curtain makes sense when many slats are cracked or rusted, when the curtain has been forced and kinked along its length, or when the shutter is old enough that matching slats are no longer made. How long a shutter lasts depends more on use, salt and knocks than on age, and we tell you which way yours falls once we have seen it.

We would not, and not because we want the work. The springs inside a commercial door's drum hold enough tension to lift a curtain far too heavy for one person, and letting one go without the right tools does serious harm. The work is done at height, above a doorway, often over a live driveway. Commercial motors carry mains power and force settings that have to be reset after any repair, or the door will not stop on an obstruction. Clearing loose sand from the bottom of the guides and keeping stock away from the door is fair game for staff; anything involving the curtain, springs, drum or motor is a call to us.

Common faults, a bent guide, a re-tension, a spring, a lock, a curtain lifted back into its guides, are usually finished within the one visit because the parts are on the van. Motor faults depend on the make and whether we carry a suitable replacement. A new curtain, slats made to size or a heavy commercial motor have to be ordered, and in that case we secure the opening or get the door working by hand before we leave, then book the finish around your trading hours. On the phone we tell you which of those your door is likely to be.