Garage doors are an essential and frequently expensive addition to South African properties. A garage door can often form a large part of the total cost of building a garage as the mechanisms, motors, tracks and wood or chromadek of the door are substantially pricey items. Additionally, a garage door has to be installed by a professional company, rather than a builder who will be laying the concrete, bricks and roof of one’s garage. As Pretoria is one of the largest cities in South Africa, the area is serviced by a number of these garage door manufacturers and installers. Companies such as these will rarely install, repair or service outside of Pretoria as they have sufficient business in the city. In some cases however, the company may be nationwide or regional and feature other branches.
If one is looking to repair a damaged garage door it is best to contact that company who initially installed it before using another. Some of the companies that can perform these services in Pretoria are Majestic Garage Doors, Roos Garage Doors, Rightfit, AM Garage Doors and Dzigner Garage Doors.
It is best to contact a number of these companies directly for different enquiries and quotes. In this way, you can find the best product at the best price. Not all of these companies will supply the same types of doors and motors. Usually all garage doors are made from either meranti wood or from chromadek. Additionally garage doors come in standard sizes for either single or double garages. One might prefer two single garage doors on a double garage. Then there is a substantial price difference between garage doors being installed with or without a motor. A quote will give you the individualized prices of the doors and the motor which typically costs around R4000 on its own.
Meranti garage doors are substantially more expensive than chromadek due and will also require more maintenance against the elements over time. A garage door company operating in Pretoria will often gain the contract from a builder to supply a number of garage doors for any mass housing development, such as cluster units. This may reduce the individual costs of doors.
