Sliding Garage Doors

• Runs sideways along the wall
• Manual or motorised
• Suits low-roof and basement garages

A sliding garage door runs sideways along the inside wall rather than lifting overhead. It is a specific answer to a specific problem: a garage with no usable headroom, where neither a roll-up drum nor a sectional panel stack will fit.

When this is the right door

• Basement and under-house garages with services or beams directly above the opening
• Low-roof garages on older properties
• Openings where the ceiling is finished and the owner does not want a drum or track visible

What it needs

Clear wall to one side of the opening, at least the width of the door itself, with nothing mounted on it. That is the constraint that decides the job, so it is the first thing we measure.

Honest limitations

Sliding doors need their bottom track kept clear, and on a dusty site that means occasional sweeping. Where headroom does exist, a roll-up door is usually the better long-term choice and we will tell you that rather than sell you the more unusual product.

How we build it

Every door is manufactured to your measured structural opening at our Sandton works in Tarlton, not cut down from a stock size. Slat is roll-formed on our own line, guides are cut and drilled to the opening height, and the springs are wound to balance the finished curtain weight. Powder coating is applied after fabrication so the colour holds across the whole assembly rather than just the visible slat.

What decides the specification

Two things: the width of the opening and how often the door moves. Spring life is measured in cycles rather than years, so a door opening forty times a day needs a different spring and drive to one opening twice, even at identical dimensions. After that it is environment — salt air, washdown, dust or forklift traffic each change the material and the hardware. That is why we survey before quoting.

Installation and handover

Fitted by our own teams, never subcontracted. Guides are set plumb and square, the curtain is hung and balanced, limits are set, and every safety device is tested and adjusted within safe closing force before we leave. You get a demonstration of normal operation and of the manual override, because the first time you need that override should not be during an outage.

Warranty and aftercare

Workmanship is covered for twelve months and motors carry their manufacturer warranty, which we register for you. Because we manufactured your door, we can tell you its exact specification years later and we hold the wear parts for it rather than ordering them in — which is the practical difference between a repair that happens this week and one that waits on a supplier.

What to check before choosing one

The single constraint is clear wall to one side of the opening, at least the width of the door itself, with nothing mounted on it — no distribution board, no plumbing, no shelving. That wall is the first thing we measure, because it decides whether the job is possible at all.

Maintenance

Sliding doors run on a bottom track, and that track has to stay clear. On a dusty site or a driveway that collects leaves, that means occasional sweeping — a small ongoing task in exchange for a door that works where nothing else fits. Where headroom does exist, we will point you at a roll-up instead rather than sell you the more unusual product.

Security on a sliding door

Sliding doors lock into the frame at multiple points rather than relying on a single centre lock, and because the panel runs inside the opening there is no external edge to lever. On basement and under-house garages, which are frequently the least overlooked part of a property, that matters more than it does on a street-facing door.