Tip-Up and Up-and-Over Garage Doors in Vanderbijlpark

• One-piece steel or timber panel
• Counterbalance spring mechanism
• Motorisable with the right operator

A tip-up garage door swings out and up in one panel, running back into the roof space on a simple frame. It is the original door on a great many Vanderbijlpark houses, because it was what the town was built with, and it is still a sensible product where the geometry suits it.

Tip-up garage doors we supply in Vanderbijlpark

• Steel tip-up doors in the traditional ribbed and panelled profiles.
• Aluminium tip-up doors where a lighter panel is wanted.
• Timber tip-up doors where the house calls for it.
• Single and double widths, on new or existing frames.

The original doors are reaching the end

A large share of the tip-up doors across the planned zones are original to the houses. Sixty or seventy years is a good innings for any door, and what we are usually looking at is a panel corroded at the bottom edge, tension components long past their cycle life and a frame that may or may not still be square. We will tell you honestly which of those applies.

New panel on an existing frame

Where the frame is sound this is by far the cheapest route, and on the well-built original garages here the frame frequently is sound. We check it for square and check the fixings before recommending it, because a new panel on a twisted frame is money wasted.

Where a tip-up door works and where it does not

It needs clear space in front of the opening, because the panel swings out before it lifts. If a car parks close to the door, a sectional or roll-up door is the better answer, and we will say so rather than fit a door that fouls a vehicle every morning.

Corrosion at the bottom edge

The bottom edge is where these doors die, and ferrous fallout accelerates it. Where the rest of the panel is sound we can often replace the bottom section, and we specify a harder finish on the replacement so the same failure takes longer to come back.

Balance and safe operation

A tip-up door is held by tension on each side, and the balance is the whole safety story. An out-of-balance tip-up door is heavy to lift and can come down hard. We replace the tension components in matched pairs and set the balance so the door stays where you leave it.

Motorising a tip-up garage door

Tip-up doors can be automated with a rail-mounted operator and the correct arm, but only once the balance is right. Automating a heavy tip-up door is how operators get destroyed. We check the door by hand before quoting the motor.

What a tip-up garage door costs in Vanderbijlpark

Usually the least expensive garage door for a given opening, and on a sound original frame the cheapest way to make a tired garage look new. Priced on width, panel material, finish, frame and automation.