Mandurah Roller Doors: New Doors Fitted and Roller Door Repairs

There's no honest average, because the spread between a single shed curtain and a wide motorised double is large. A new door is quoted supplied and installed, with the old door removed, fresh guides and the tensioning included. Opening size, colour and whether it's a domestic or commercial curtain drive the figure; a motor is its own line. The exact door, size and colour are priced in writing before anything is ordered, so comparing quotes is like-for-like.

The kit's shelf price usually is, but it comes in standard sizes, so an opening that isn't one gets packers and gaps, and you still have to hang it and set the spring — the part that hurts people. A made-to-measure door fitted by a tradesman arrives at your width, with the old door taken away and the balance set properly. Compare the whole job, not the box.

It depends on the part. Re-tensioning a spring, freeing a curtain from its guides or re-aligning the guides is a short job; a new spring, drum wheel or motor board adds the part; a curtain replacement is the big one. Access and after-hours call-outs also count. The price is agreed before any work starts, and a photo and a description of what the door is doing let us give you a fair idea over the phone.

Repair, nearly always, while the curtain is sound. Springs, guides, wheels and motors are all replaceable parts, and a door with a straight, rust-free curtain has plenty of life left in it. Replacement starts to make sense when the curtain is creased along several ribs, rusted through at the bottom, or the door's already had several major parts go. If you're weighing up a new one, our page on garage doors, new and replaced compares every style.

The spring losing tension is the big one: the door gets heavy, won't stay open or strains the motor. After that come curtains knocked out of their guides, guides clogged with sand or pitted by salt, noisy or seized drum wheels, and motors that stop responding. Most of them start small — a door that's slowly getting heavier is telling you the spring needs attention before it gives up.

Some things, yes: clean sand out of the guides, wipe them with a dry silicone spray (never grease, which holds grit), check the remote battery and make sure nothing is blocking the door. Stop there. The spring inside the drum is wound under heavy tension, and adjusting it or removing the drum brackets without the right tools can spin the axle or drop the curtain. That part is a job for a tradesman.

Yes, with the honest footnote that salt air never fully clocks off. The curtain's galvanised core and baked colour coat do the heavy lifting; your part is an occasional freshwater rinse of the curtain and guides, and ours is a service every year or so that keeps the spring and guides protected. At the measure we'll specify for your actual distance from the water rather than a generic label.

Any time. A manual door is left balanced to lift easily by hand, and when you're ready, a compact roller door opener fits to the axle and is programmed on the day. Our guide to roller door motors explains how they work and what to look for, and the motor is quoted before we book the visit.