Sliding Garage Doors in Kempton Park

• 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 Kempton Park it solves the industrial openings that defeat the usual doors: workshop and maintenance bays where the ceiling carries cranes, ducting or service runs, and wide openings where an overhead door would need structure that is not there.

Sliding garage doors we supply in Kempton Park

• 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.

Sliding doors in maintenance and workshop bays

Engineering, vehicle and equipment maintenance buildings through Isando and Spartan frequently run overhead cranes, extraction or service runs across the full ceiling, leaving an overhead door nowhere to go. A sliding leaf keeps the whole roof space clear.

Very wide openings

A sliding door handles spans that would need a heavy barrel and substantial new steel as an overhead door, because the load goes sideways into a track rather than upward into a lintel. On a wide bay that is frequently the difference between a straightforward job and a structural project.

Where a sliding garage door makes sense elsewhere

The requirement is wall space beside the opening for the leaf to park against. Where that exists, a sliding door needs no headroom whatever and leaves the ceiling completely clear.

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 working floor a bottom channel fills with debris and jams, so we usually specify top-hung with a simple bottom guide.

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, and on a busy floor that is not optional. 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.

Maintenance

Track cleaning, roller and bearing checks, and drive adjustment. On a high-traffic site the track is the item that decides how long the door lasts, and clearing it is easy and easily forgotten.

What a sliding garage door costs in Kempton Park

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