- Timber on a galvanised steel frame
- Sealed all six faces before hanging
- Tip-up or sectional mechanism
A wooden garage door is chosen for appearance, and it earns that choice on the right house. In Germiston we fit them mostly on the large homes through Bedfordview, Morninghill and Senderwood, and on the older period properties where a modern steel panel would look wrong on the elevation.
Wooden garage doors we supply in Germiston
- Hardwood sectional doors with the panel construction that suits the elevation.
- Timber tip-up doors on new or existing frames.
- Timber-clad steel doors where the look is wanted with less maintenance.
- Meranti and other hardwoods, selected for stability rather than only for grain.
Timber on the larger Bedfordview elevations
These are the houses where a timber door is the right answer rather than an indulgence: wide double or triple garaging on a substantial elevation, where a plain steel panel reads as an afterthought. We build to the proportions of the opening and match any other timber on the frontage.
Weight, and what it means for the rest of the door
Timber doors are heavy, and that has consequences through the whole installation. The frame has to carry it, the balance has to be rated for the finished door rather than the previous one, and the operator has to be sized on the real mass. A timber door on hardware specified for a steel one fails early and takes the hardware with it.
Timber on older Germiston houses
On the period stock a timber door is often right aesthetically, but the frame it is going onto may be as old as the house. We check what the subframe fixes into before quoting, because hanging a heavy pair of leaves on an original frame that has softened is a call-back waiting to happen.
Maintenance, stated honestly
A timber garage door needs recoating. On a sheltered south-facing opening that might be every three or four years; on a west-facing one in full sun it is sooner. We give the interval for your specific opening at survey, because a customer who was not told is a customer with a warped door and a fair complaint.
Sealing on all six faces
A door sealed only where it shows will take up moisture through the top and bottom edges and move. We seal all six faces, including the edges nobody sees, and that single detail is most of the difference between a timber door that stays true and one that does not.
Timber-clad steel as the alternative
Where the look matters more than the material, a steel or insulated door with a timber-look finish gives the appearance with almost no maintenance. It costs less and it will still look right in ten years. We offer it alongside the real thing rather than instead of it.
What a wooden garage door costs in Germiston
More than steel, both to buy and to keep. Priced on opening size, timber, construction, finish and automation, with the maintenance expectation set out in writing.
Common questions
About wooden garage doors
Meranti is the sensible all-round choice in South Africa: stable, takes stain evenly and reasonably priced. Cedar is lighter, which matters on a wide double door, and naturally insect-resistant. Saligna is beautiful but heavy. Pine only works under a deep overhang with disciplined recoating.
Look at it once a year. If the finish has gone matt or chalky at the bottom rail or the vertical edges, sand lightly and put two coats on. North- and west-facing doors in Gauteng need it more often than sheltered doors at the coast.
Usually because the back and the end grain were never sealed. Water goes in at the unsealed edges and the board moves. We seal all six faces on the bench before the door is hung, and build the timber onto a galvanised steel frame that carries the load.
No — timber cannot curl around a barrel. A wooden door runs as a tip-up panel or as a hinged sectional door. If you have no headroom for either, a woodgrain-finish aluminium door gives the same look on a roll-up mechanism.
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Side-Hinged Garage Doors
Two leaves, nothing overhead
Side-hinged garage doors swing outward on two leaves, like an oversized pair of gates. They suit workshops, storerooms and low garages where nothing can run overhead.
- Steel, timber or aluminium leaves
- Welded steel subframe, adjustable hinges
- No headroom required
Sliding Garage Doors
Where there is no headroom at all
Sliding doors run sideways along the wall instead of upward. The answer when a garage has no usable headroom and a roll-up or sectional door will…
- Runs sideways along the wall
- Manual or motorised
- Suits low-roof and basement garages
Perforated Roller Shutter Doors
Heat and fumes out, security kept
Perforated curtains for welding bays and workshops that need airflow at the end of a shift without leaving the opening standing wide.
- Punched galvanised slat, mixed options
- Openings to 6 000mm wide