- Sized to your actual cycle count
- Powder-coated to brand colour
Commercial roller shutter doors sit between the domestic and the industrial ranges. They cycle far more often than a garage door — sometimes several times a day, every day — but they also face customers, so the finish and the noise level matter in a way they do not in a warehouse.
Built for the cycle count
Spring and motor life is measured in cycles, not years. A retail shutter opened and closed twice a day does around 700 cycles a year; a service counter in a busy centre can do ten times that. We size the spring assembly and the operator to your actual usage, because a door specified for the wrong duty is the single most common cause of the failures we get called out to.
Specification
- Galvanised steel or aluminium slat, solid or perforated
- Powder-coated to your brand colour
- Tubular or side-mounted motor with manual override
- Key switch, remote, timer or building management integration
- Openings to 6 000mm wide
Landlord and centre requirements
Shopping centres usually have a tenant fit-out specification covering shutter type, colour and whether the display must stay visible. Send it to us with your enquiry and we will quote against it directly, which saves a round of rejected drawings.
Trading hours
We install commercial doors outside trading hours where the centre requires it. Say so upfront and it goes into the quote rather than arriving as a variation later.
Where security meets appearance
A commercial shutter has to do two jobs that pull against each other: secure the opening completely after hours, and look like part of the building during trading. Trade counters, showrooms, service bays and mall units all sit in that tension, and the right answer depends on which side matters more to you and to your landlord.
Solid curtains give maximum security. Punched and grille slats keep a display visible and let light through, which many centre leases actually require. Powder coating is matched to your shopfront or centre specification rather than supplied in whatever colour was in stock.
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.
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