Custom Garage Doors Perth: Non-Standard Sizes, Cedar, Slat and Glass

Yes. Sectional and tilt doors are made to the measurements of the opening, so a width or height outside the standard range is a matter of ordering it that way. The usual reasons are a high opening for a caravan, a boat or a 4WD with a roof rack, a double or triple garage wider than the common sizes, a low lintel with little headroom, or a narrow single on a 1960s house. Each maker has upper limits on width and height that change with the panel and the finish, so we check your sizes against them at the measure rather than promise a figure over the phone. Low headroom is solved with different track hardware more often than with a smaller door.

We do not put a number on it until we have measured, because a custom door has more variables than a standard one. The size sets the material and the spring; the face sets most of the rest, with timber-look steel, cedar boards, aluminium slats and glazed panels all priced differently; the opener depends on the finished weight; and access and taking the old door away sit in the labour. The measure and quote are free, there is no call-out fee, and the price is agreed in writing before anything is ordered.

Yes, in more ways than most people expect. Colour is the simplest: stock steel panels come in the Colorbond range, and aluminium frames and slats can be powder-coated in a much wider palette. Then the face: cedar boards, aluminium slats with the spacing you choose, timber-look steel, composite cladding, or glazed panels in acrylic, polycarbonate or glass, clear or frosted. Windows can go in one row of a sectional door or across the whole face. And on a tilt door made to take cladding, the frame can be covered in the same boards the builder used on the house, so the door disappears into the wall. Heavier faces change the springs and the motor, so we settle the face and the hardware together at the measure.

We would not recommend it. A clad or glazed door weighs more than a stock panel and its springs are wound to carry that exact weight; get the tension wrong and the door will not stay up or comes down hard, and a spring under load can hurt you badly if it lets go while you are adjusting it. Cladding an existing door yourself causes the same problem, because the extra weight throws the balance out and overloads the opener. Choose the boards, colour and glazing yourself by all means, and leave the measure, hardware and tensioning to us.

We do not give a standard answer, because there is no standard custom door. Yours is built to your opening in the face and glazing you have chosen, so timing depends on the maker and the finish, and we confirm it when we quote rather than guess here. The installation is booked around you once the door is ready, and your old door stays up until that day.

Rather than hand you a list, here is how to sort them for a custom job. They should measure on site and ask about headroom, side room and what the door fixes to before naming a figure. The quote should be itemised, with the door, the face, the motor and removal as separate lines. Ask which door makers they actually install and whether they service the doors afterwards; we supply, install and service Steel-Line, B&D and Centurion Garage Doors, and fit Merlin, Jaytech, Superlift and Steel-Line openers. And ask to see a finished custom door, not a render.