- Runs sideways along the wall
- Manual or motorised
- Suits low-roof and basement garages
A sliding garage door runs sideways on a track rather than lifting overhead. In Benoni it is the door that solves the plots: wide implement sheds, stable blocks and workshop bays out at Benoni Small Farms, Brentwood Park and Putfontein, where there is plenty of wall to slide against and no interest in a barrel that collects dust.
Sliding garage doors we supply in Benoni
- Single-leaf sliding doors where there is wall space to one side.
- Bi-parting sliding doors that open from the centre on wide openings.
- Folding sliding doors where side room is limited.
- Steel, aluminium and timber-clad leaves depending on the building.
Sliding doors on stable blocks and implement sheds
An agricultural opening is usually wider than anything in town, and the building rarely has the headroom or the structure for a big overhead door. A bi-parting sliding leaf covers those spans without new steel above the opening, and it can be moved by hand when the power is off, which on a plot at the end of a long single-phase run matters a great deal.
Sliding doors around animals
A sliding leaf moves smoothly and parallel to the wall rather than dropping from above, which makes it the calmer option in a yard where horses are led past. We fit soft-start drives and safety edges on automated leaves, and we set travel speeds down rather than up.
Where a sliding garage door makes sense in town
The requirement is wall space beside the opening. Where that exists, a sliding door needs no headroom whatever and leaves the ceiling clear, which suits a workshop through Apex where services run across the roof.
Track, rollers and the ground
A sliding door is only as good as its track. Top-hung tracks need a lintel or steel that will carry the leaf; bottom-guided tracks need a level, drained threshold. On a dusty plot or a damp low-lying yard a bottom track that traps material will jam, and we specify accordingly.
Automating a sliding garage door
Sliding doors automate well with a rack-and-pinion or belt drive, the same principle as a sliding gate. Safety edges and photocells are fitted because a sliding leaf closes across a path people and animals use. Manual release is standard.
Security on a sliding garage door
Multi-point locking on the leading edge, anti-lift on the rollers, and a track that cannot be jumped. On an outbuilding standing away from the house, that locking specification matters more rather than less.
What a sliding garage door costs in Benoni
Priced on opening width, leaf construction, track type and automation. We survey the side room and the threshold before quoting, because those decide whether the door is possible at all.
Common questions
About sliding garage doors
When there is no headroom at all and a wall to slide along. The door runs sideways on a track instead of lifting, so nothing occupies the ceiling. Common on converted garages, workshops and buildings with services running under the roof slab.
Roughly the width of the opening, alongside it, kept clear. On a wide opening we build the door in two leaves that part in the middle, which halves the space needed on each side.
Yes, with a sliding gate motor sized for the leaf weight. The track has to be kept clean for it to run reliably, so it suits a covered or paved approach better than an exposed one.
Debris in the bottom track and worn rollers, in that order. Both are cheap to put right if you catch them early; left alone, a door dragging on a fouled track will wear the track itself.
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- 40mm bonded polyurethane core
- Thermal break at every section joint
- Full perimeter seals, all four edges
Transparent Roller Shutter Doors
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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