Roller Garage Doors Thundersley

Most openings here are single garage width, so most quotes sit in the 55mm bands. A fully fitted 55mm door starts at £1,275, which is the external key switch package with a manual override and no remote controls or safety edge. Remote control operation with a safety edge starts at £1,475. The thicker 77mm profile starts at £1,790, and a 5 metre wide 77mm door is typically around £3,000 fitted. Any colour other than white adds a flat £100 and an extra remote is £40. All prices include VAT.

Usually there is, but it is the one thing to check before you order rather than on fitting day. Where a chalet bungalow has a room in the roof, the space above the garage opening can be limited, and the top box the curtain rolls into needs 205mm to 300mm above the opening, plus roughly 75mm clear each side for the guide runners. We measure all three at the free survey. If the headroom is genuinely too tight we will tell you at that point, not after the door is made.

Not on its own, and we would rather say so now. The bottom slat seals to the floor with a rubber seal, which handles wind-blown rain at the opening. It cannot stop water that is already running downhill at the threshold. On the hillier roads around Thundersley the drive often falls toward the garage, and in that case the honest order of work is a drainage channel across the threshold first and the new door second. We flag it at the survey.

Because the ground in front of the door is rarely level. The roads through this part of Castle Point rise and fall far more than is usual in south Essex, and the driveways follow them, so the opening and the fall both have to be measured properly rather than assumed. The guide runners need to sit true and the curtain has to meet the floor cleanly across the full width. It is a few extra minutes at the survey and it is the difference between a door that seals and one that does not.

We cover Thundersley along with Benfleet, Rayleigh, Canvey Island and Southend-on-Sea, travelling over from Sible Hedingham about 55 minutes away. Most single door installations are finished in one visit, usually inside half a day, and the old door is taken away with us. On planning, replacing an existing garage door is normally permitted development and needs no permission. If your home is listed or sits inside a conservation area, a word with Castle Point Borough Council settles it first.