Garage doors and motors for Craighall Park's older double garages
Craighall Park is about 4 km south-west of Sandton City. Many Craighall Park houses have garages built decades ago, some with heavy timber or steel tip-up doors and others changed to sectional doors later, with a motor added along the way. Older doors are heavy, and on many the springs have weakened or been badly adjusted over the years, so the motor ends up lifting weight the springs should be carrying.
We release the motor and test the door by hand first. If it is heavy or drops, the springs and cables need attention before anything else, then the rollers, hinges and tracks. Only once the door is balanced do we decide whether the motor can stay, needs repair or should be replaced, and where an old door is past saving we quote for a new sectional door and motor together.
Garages here are often reached from a long driveway and also open into the house, so a door left open, or opened with an old remote, is a way into the home. We clear old remote codes, set up remotes for the family and staff you choose, and can put a contact on the garage door so it is covered when you arm the alarm.
Everything we install and repair, and how a job runs from first call to handover, is on our garage doors page.
Questions from Craighall Park
Our wooden garage door is very heavy. Should we replace it?
Not necessarily. If the timber is sound we can rebalance it and fit a motor suited to its weight. If it has warped or rotted, a new sectional door is usually lighter, quieter and easier on the motor.
The remote only works right next to the door. Why?
Often the receiver's aerial has been damaged or moved, or the remote's battery is weak. We check both and reprogram the remotes; it rarely needs a new motor.
Tell us what you have in Craighall Park now and what is going wrong, and we will tell you plainly whether it needs a repair, an upgrade or a new garage door and motor system, then put the quote in writing.