Sectional Garage Doors Perth: Supplied, Installed and Serviced

It depends on the door you end up choosing, which is why we quote after measuring instead of naming a figure over the phone. Size sets the base: a double needs more panels, longer tracks and heavier springs than a single, and a taller opening usually means an extra panel. Then the panel itself, where a flat or ribbed Colorbond panel sits below timber-look, glazed aluminium and foam-cored insulated panels; then colour and finish; then the opener, new or re-used; then removing and disposing of the old door and any work the opening needs first. Everything is itemised, the quote costs nothing, we charge no call-out fee, and nothing gets ordered before you have said yes to that number.

Once a year is the sensible baseline for a Perth sectional door, and closer to every six months if the door is near the coast, faces the afternoon sun or gets used many times a day, because salt, heat and cycles are what wear the springs, cables and rollers. Between services the door will tell you when it is due: it feels heavy on the manual release, one side lags behind the other, the panels bang at the top of the travel, or the opener strains and reverses. A sectional door service is the spring, cable, track, roller and opener check described above, and it is a single visit. The longer version is in our guide to how often a sectional door needs attention.

Repairing, most of the time, because a sectional door is built so that its wearing parts come off and go back on: springs, cables, drums, rollers, hinges, the bottom seal, the opener, even a single panel. Replacing wins when the damage runs across several panels, when the profile is no longer made and a new panel would not match, when the tracks and frame are bent from a car strike, or when the door and the opener are both at the end of their run and fixing one only buys time before the other goes. We price the repair and, when it is close, the replacement as well, so you are choosing between two written figures. No call-out fee either way.

No. The torsion springs on a sectional door sit on a shaft above the opening and are wound up to hold the full weight of the door. Adjusting them means putting two winding bars into the winding cone, in turn, and working against that stored force a quarter turn at a time; if a bar slips or the wrong tool goes in the cone, the cone spins with all of that energy behind it and takes the bar with it. It is the part of this trade that hurts people, and a video does not teach the feel of it. What you can safely do is keep the tracks clean, use a dry lubricant on hinges and rollers, and stop using the door the moment one side lags or a cable hangs slack, then ring us. A slack spring is re-tensioned at a service, and a snapped one is a same-day job with common spring sizes carried on the van.

The fitting itself, old door down and taken away, new tracks, springs and panels up, opener fitted and tested, is usually a one-day job on a standard single or double door. A full glazed aluminium door, a very tall opening or one where the lintel or jambs need making good can run longer, and we say so at the measure. Before that day there is the wait while the door is made to your measurements and colour, which varies with the manufacturer, the finish and the time of year; you get that timeline with the quote. Servicing an existing sectional door is a single visit, and most repairs are finished the same day from what the van carries.

A rail-drive opener: a motor head fixed to the ceiling towards the back of the garage, driving a trolley along a rail to an arm on the top panel. Roller door motors turn the drum axle and will not work on a sectional door. Within rail drives the choices are belt or chain, with belt the quieter of the two for a garage under a bedroom, and a unit rated for the door's weight, because a double or an insulated door needs more pull than a single steel door. We supply, install and service Merlin, Jaytech, Superlift and Steel-Line openers and will tell you which of them makes a rail drive that suits your door. Whichever goes on, the door has to be balanced first, since an opener moves a door the springs are already carrying rather than lifting it. Details of the openers we fit to sectional doors are on the motors page.