- 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 in Fourways it is often chosen for you. Several of the larger estates specify timber or timber-look doors in their architectural guidelines, because a street of matching timber doors is part of what the estate is selling.
Wooden garage doors we supply in Fourways
- Hardwood sectional doors with the panel construction that suits the elevation.
- Timber-clad steel doors where the look is wanted with less maintenance.
- Timber tip-up doors on new or existing frames.
- Meranti and other hardwoods, selected for stability rather than only for grain.
Matching the estate specification
Where the guidelines call for a particular timber, stain or panel layout, a replacement door has to match the ones either side of it. We identify what is fitted, build to the same profile and finish, and supply the written specification for the architectural committee before manufacture. A door that arrives a shade off is a door that comes down again.
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 and the Highveld climate
West-facing garages take hard afternoon sun, and the swing between dry winters and heavy summer storms moves timber more than most owners expect. A door sealed on all six faces, including the top and bottom edges nobody sees, moves far less than one finished only where it shows.
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. On an estate, a neglected timber door is also a letter from the HOA.
Timber-clad steel as the alternative
Where the guidelines allow a timber-look finish rather than solid timber, a steel or insulated door with a timber finish gives the appearance with almost no maintenance. It costs less and it will still look right in ten years. We check whether the estate permits it before recommending it.
Automating a wooden garage door
Entirely possible, with the operator sized to the finished mass and the door balanced properly first. Balance is the whole job on a heavy door; the motor should be moving a balanced door, not lifting a heavy one.
What a wooden garage door costs in Fourways
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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Insulated Garage Doors
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- 40mm bonded polyurethane core
- Thermal break at every section joint
- Full perimeter seals, all four edges