Sliding Garage Doors in Cape Town

• 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 Cape Town it solves the openings that defeat the usual doors: workshop and industrial bays where the ceiling carries services, wide openings on the smallholdings and wine estates out toward Constantia and Durbanville, and garages where the ground in front rules out anything that swings.

Sliding garage doors we supply in Cape Town

• 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 and the exposure.

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 on cellars, barns and estate buildings

Cellar, barrel store and equipment buildings on the estates around Constantia and Durbanville run wide openings with generous walls, and a bi-parting sliding leaf covers those spans without new steel above the opening. On a timber-clad leaf it also suits the buildings visually in a way an overhead door does not.

Sliding doors in industrial bays

Workshops through Epping, Montague Gardens and Paarden Eiland frequently run extraction, cranes or services across the ceiling, leaving an overhead door nowhere to go. A sliding leaf leaves all of that untouched.

Wind on a sliding leaf

A large sliding leaf catches wind the same way any flat panel does, and the load goes into the rollers and the top track rather than into guides. On an exposed elevation we specify a heavier track, more roller sets and a bottom guide that will not let the leaf swing, because a south easter on an under-specified sliding door is a bent track.

Track, rollers and corrosion

The track and rollers are the whole door, and on the coast they are also the parts that seize. We specify stainless or heavily coated running gear on coastal installations and set a cleaning and lubrication interval that reflects the salt, because a jammed track is the commonest fault we attend on these doors.

Automating a sliding garage door

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

What a sliding garage door costs in Cape Town

Priced on opening width, leaf construction, track type, hardware grade and automation. We survey the side room, the threshold and the exposure before quoting.