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Meranti, cedar and saligna

Wooden Garage Doors in Alberton

Meranti, cedar and saligna garage doors built on a galvanised steel frame and sealed on all six faces before they are hung. Tip-up or sectional, manual or motorised.

Solid timber garage door with wrought-iron strap hinges on a face-brick home
  • Timber on a galvanised steel frame
  • Sealed all six faces before hanging
  • Tip-up or sectional mechanism

A wooden garage door is chosen for appearance, and it earns that choice on the right house. In Alberton we fit them mostly on the ridge, through Meyersdal, Meyersdal Eco Estate, Alberante and Meyersig, where the houses are large enough and the elevations traditional enough to carry them.

Wooden garage doors we supply in Alberton

  • Hardwood sectional doors with the panel construction that suits the elevation.
  • Timber tip-up doors on new or existing frames.
  • Timber-clad steel doors where the look is wanted with less maintenance.
  • Meranti and other hardwoods, selected for stability rather than only for grain.

Weight, and what it means for the rest of the door

Timber doors are heavy, and that has consequences through the whole installation. The frame has to carry it, the balance has to be rated for the finished door rather than the previous one, and the operator has to be sized on the real mass. A timber door on hardware specified for a steel one fails early and takes the hardware with it.

Timber on the Meyersdal ridge

The ridge is exposed, and a west-facing timber door up there takes considerably more sun and wind than the same door would on a sheltered street in the older suburbs. We specify the timber and the sealing for that exposure and shorten the recoating interval we quote, because the position genuinely changes the answer.

Maintenance, stated honestly

A timber garage door needs recoating. On a sheltered opening that might be every three or four years; on an exposed west-facing one it is sooner. We give the interval for your specific opening at survey, because a customer who was not told is a customer with a warped door and a fair complaint.

Sealing on all six faces

A door sealed only where it shows will take up moisture through the top and bottom edges and move. We seal all six faces, including the edges nobody sees, and that single detail is most of the difference between a timber door that stays true and one that does not.

Timber-clad steel as the alternative

Where the look matters more than the material, a steel or insulated door with a timber-look finish gives the appearance with almost no maintenance. It costs less and it will still look right in ten years. We offer it alongside the real thing rather than instead of it.

Automating a wooden garage door

Entirely possible, with the operator sized to the finished mass and the door balanced properly first. Balance is the whole job on a heavy door; the motor should be moving a balanced door, not lifting a heavy one.

What a wooden garage door costs in Alberton

More than steel, both to buy and to keep. Priced on opening size, timber, construction, finish and automation, with the maintenance expectation set out in writing.

Common questions

About wooden garage doors

Meranti is the sensible all-round choice in South Africa: stable, takes stain evenly and reasonably priced. Cedar is lighter, which matters on a wide double door, and naturally insect-resistant. Saligna is beautiful but heavy. Pine only works under a deep overhang with disciplined recoating.

Look at it once a year. If the finish has gone matt or chalky at the bottom rail or the vertical edges, sand lightly and put two coats on. North- and west-facing doors in Gauteng need it more often than sheltered doors at the coast.

Usually because the back and the end grain were never sealed. Water goes in at the unsealed edges and the board moves. We seal all six faces on the bench before the door is hung, and build the timber onto a galvanised steel frame that carries the load.

No — timber cannot curl around a barrel. A wooden door runs as a tip-up panel or as a hinged sectional door. If you have no headroom for either, a woodgrain-finish aluminium door gives the same look on a roll-up mechanism.

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Security Roller Shutter Doors

Cash offices, tool stores, scrap yards

Heavy-gauge security shutters for high-risk premises, with anti-lift locking, bolted bottom rail and alarm and access control integration.

  • Anti-lift bottom rail with bolts
  • Alarm and access control integration

Sectional Garage Doors

Where headroom allows a panel stack

Sectional doors lift in hinged panels that stack flat against the ceiling. They seal better than any other garage door and run quietly enough not to…

  • 40mm insulated panels
  • Full perimeter weather seals
  • Glazed panel options

Perforated Roller Shutter Doors

Ventilation for hot and fumed areas

Perforated curtains for welding bays, furnaces and workshops that need heat and fumes out while the opening stays covered.

  • Punched galvanised slat, mixed options
  • Openings to 6 000mm wide

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