Sliding Garage Doors in Alberton

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

A sliding garage door runs sideways on a track rather than lifting overhead. In Alberton it solves openings that defeat the usual doors: garages with no headroom at all, wide workshop and plant bays through Alrode where the ceiling carries cranes and services, and garages on the ridge where the ground in front of the door rules out anything that swings.

Sliding garage doors we supply in Alberton

• Single-leaf sliding doors where there is wall space to one side.
• Bi-parting sliding doors that open from the centre on wide openings.
• Folding sliding doors where side room is limited.
• Steel, aluminium and timber-clad leaves depending on the building.

Where a sliding garage door makes sense

The requirement is wall space beside the opening for the leaf to park against. Where that exists, a sliding door needs no headroom whatever, leaves the ceiling completely clear, and handles very wide openings without the barrel and span problems an overhead door has.

Sliding doors in Alrode plant and workshop buildings

Process and engineering buildings through Alrode frequently run overhead cranes, extraction ducting or pipe racks across the full ceiling, and an overhead door has nowhere to go. A sliding leaf leaves all of that untouched and covers a wide bay without new steel above the opening. On a corrosive site we specify the track, rollers and hardware to the same coating standard as the leaf, because the track is what fails first.

Sliding doors on steep Meyersdal stands

Where the driveway rises to the garage, nothing that swings outward will open properly. A sliding leaf moves parallel to the building and is unaffected by what the ground in front of it is doing, which makes it the practical answer on some of those stands.

Track, rollers and the ground

A sliding door is only as good as its track. Top-hung tracks need a lintel or steel that will carry the leaf; bottom-guided tracks need a level, drained threshold. On a sloped or dusty site a bottom track that traps material will jam, and we specify accordingly.

Automating a sliding garage door

Sliding doors automate well with a rack-and-pinion or belt drive, the same principle as a sliding gate. Safety edges and photocells are fitted because a sliding leaf closes across a path people use. Manual release is standard.

Security on a sliding garage door

Multi-point locking on the leading edge, anti-lift on the rollers, and a track that cannot be jumped. A sliding door secured only at the centre catch is a door that can be levered.

What a sliding garage door costs in Alberton

Priced on opening width, leaf construction, track type, coating and automation. We survey the side room and the threshold before quoting, because those decide whether the door is possible at all.