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

• 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 not the standard door in Fourways the way it is in the older parts of Johannesburg, but it turns up on the pre-development houses, on the Chartwell and Farmall holdings, and on outbuildings and workshops where a simple, cheap door is the right answer.

Tip-up garage doors we supply in Fourways

• 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 building calls for it.
• Single and double widths, on new or existing frames.

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. On a tight cluster driveway where a car parks close to the door, it will not work and we will say so. On a smallholding workshop with an open apron in front of it, it is a perfectly sensible and inexpensive door.

Estate rules and tip-up doors

Most Fourways estates specify sectional doors on any elevation visible from the street, which rules a tip-up door out at the front of the house. On a rear outbuilding or a store it is often still allowed. We check the guidelines before quoting rather than after.

Replacing an old tip-up door

Most tip-up doors we replace have gone out of balance, rusted at the bottom edge, or had the frame move. Where the frame is sound we fit a new panel to it, which is the cheapest route by a distance. Where it is not, the frame is replaced with the door.

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.

Maintenance for tip-up doors

Tension components, pivots and frame fixings, checked annually. The failure that matters usually gives warning in how the door feels for weeks beforehand.

What a tip-up garage door costs in Fourways

Usually the least expensive garage door for a given opening. Priced on width, panel material, finish, whether the frame is being replaced, and whether it is automated.