Side-Hinged Garage Doors in Benoni

• Steel, timber or aluminium leaves
• Welded steel subframe, adjustable hinges
• No headroom required

A side-hinged garage door opens outward on hinges like a pair of large doors. In Benoni it is chosen for two reasons: the garage or outbuilding is used as a workshop or store and needs a door that can be opened partly, or the house calls for a traditional look that an overhead door cannot give it.

Side-hinged garage doors we supply in Benoni

• Steel side-hinged doors in ribbed and panelled profiles.
• Timber side-hinged doors in hardwood or clad, for traditional elevations.
• Unequal leaf pairs so one leaf works as a normal pedestrian door.
• Glazed upper panels where the building needs daylight.

Why a side-hinged door suits a workshop or store

You can open one leaf and walk in, which nobody does with an overhead door. On the older properties through Northmead, Westdene and Morehill where the garage has become a workshop or storeroom, that single fact usually decides it.

Hinged doors on stable and plot buildings

Tack rooms, feed stores and small workshops on the Benoni smallholdings are the natural home for a hinged pair. They are simple, they can be worked by hand with no power at all, and half a door is often exactly what is wanted. On those buildings we coat the hinges and locking to the same standard as the leaf, because in dust and damp that hardware is what seizes first.

Space required in front of the opening

The leaves swing outward, so the apron has to be clear and reasonably level. On a tight town driveway there is often not room; on a plot there almost always is. We check the ground at survey, because this is the thing that catches people out.

Frames, hinges and hanging

The frame carries the whole load, and on a heavy timber pair that load is considerable. We fit a proper subframe anchored into the structure, with hinges rated for the leaf mass. A side-hinged door that drops at the leading edge has almost always been hung on an inadequate frame.

Locking and security

Multi-point locking into head and threshold on the leading leaf, and shoot bolts on the slave leaf. Locking a pair of doors at the centre only is what makes them easy to force, and on an outbuilding standing away from the house that matters more, not less.

Timber doors in a humid town

Hardwood in Benoni takes more moisture than the same door would inland, and an unsealed bottom edge will swell until the leaf stops closing. We seal all six faces, specify the timber for the position, and state the recoating interval honestly rather than optimistically.

What a side-hinged garage door costs in Benoni

Priced on opening size, leaf material, glazing, locking and whether a new subframe is needed. Timber costs more than steel and lasts well when it is looked after.