Roller Shutter Doors Sea Point

Western Cape

Suburbs we cover here: Camps Bay, Cape Town CBD, Woodstock, Salt River

Sea Point is apartment blocks and older houses a few hundred metres from the Atlantic, and salt is the single factor that decides what a door here should be made of.

What we see in Sea Point

Salt does not attack a door where you can see it. It finds the cut edges, the fixings and the inside of the bottom rail, and by the time it shows on the face the damage is already done. In Sea Point we galvanise heavily, seal every cut edge rather than leaving it raw, use stainless fixings throughout and specify marine-rated hardware. A door built to an inland standard here will be failing inside three years, and we have replaced enough of them to be blunt about it.

The second Sea Point issue is access and headroom. A lot of these are basement or undercroft garages in blocks from the sixties and seventies, with low clearance and a shared entrance that cannot be closed for a day. We measure the headroom at survey and plan the fit around the building — often early morning — rather than assuming we can block the ramp.

Getting on site in Sea Point

Access varies from an easy driveway to a shared basement ramp that cannot be closed for a day, so we plan the fit around the building rather than assuming. The survey covers the reveal at three heights, the headroom, the fixing substrate, and how exposed the opening is to salt — that last one decides the specification and it is not something you can judge from a postcode.

Motors, backup and load shedding

Motors near the sea need protecting from salt as much as from load. We size to the measured weight of the curtain, seal the control gear properly, and specify marine-rated hardware throughout — a standard motor and standard fixings in Sea Point or Muizenberg corrode from the inside while the door still looks fine. Battery backup goes on as standard and the manual release is set where you can reach it in the dark.

Repairs on any make

We repair any make. Near the sea the diagnosis matters more than usual, because most failures here are corrosion rather than mechanical and the two need different answers. A seized bearing on a corroded shaft is not a bearing job. We will show you which one you actually have, and where the guides and frame are still sound we can hang a new marine-spec curtain into them rather than starting again.

What it costs

We quote from a measured survey and the survey is free anywhere in the metro. What moves the price is the size of the opening, the slat gauge the job actually needs, whether it is motorised, the corrosion specification your address genuinely requires, wind locks and bracing where the opening is exposed, and whether the reveal needs making good first. We itemise those rather than handing you one number, so you can see what you are paying for and take out anything you do not want. A rough width and height over the phone is enough for a ballpark; we confirm it on site before anything is built.

How soon we can be there

Breakdowns in Sea Point are attended same-day wherever we can reach you, and our teams work the metro every day. A door that will not close is treated as urgent. For new work the survey is normally within a day or two of your call, manufacture takes a few working days because every curtain is built to your measurements at our own works, and installation is a morning for a single and most of a day for a double or a wide opening with automation.

Getting a quote in Sea Point

Send us the opening width and height — and on older stock, the width at the top and at the bottom if you can get both — along with a photo of the opening from a few metres back. Tell us roughly how far you are from the sea while you are at it, because that decides the finish. From there we book the free measured survey in Sea Point, confirm the sizes ourselves, and put a fixed price in writing with the corrosion specification itemised. Nothing is built until you have agreed that price.