Is a roller door right for your Albury garage?
B&D's description is a good start: a metal curtain rolls up vertically and sits like a rolled up carpet over the opening, so nothing hangs across the garage ceiling. That makes a roller door a common pick for garages with low ceilings, for carports and for sheds where the roof space is needed.
The weight of the curtain is balanced by helical springs inside the roll, Steel-Line says, so the same door can be lifted by hand or driven by a motor. B&D tests its Roll-A-Doors for 20,000 to 30,000 up-and-down cycles, which it puts at over 15 years for a door opened and shut five times a day.
What B&D says its Series 1 roller doors need
| B&D Series 1 Roll-A-Door | |
|---|---|
| Widest door, including the curtain overlap | 3150mm |
| Tallest door, by model | Up to 3000mm |
| Headroom above the opening | 430mm to 470mm, by model and height |
| Headroom for the larger Series 2 and 3 doors | 515mm to 620mm |
Putting a motor on a roller door
Steel-Line says its roller door openers fit most popular brands of roller door, so an older manual door can often take a motor. Gliderol's Rollamatic GEN II sits inside the door roll and suits residential doors up to 12 square metres, while its Glidermatic Dual handles larger doors up to 16 square metres.
Albury is in New South Wales, where a motor that plugs into an existing power point is not part of the electrical installation. A new point on the ceiling, or a hard-wired motor, is work for a licensed electrician, who lodges a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work.
Roller doors around Albury
The NSW side of the river
Albury homes follow NSW rules even when the door business is based over the river in Wodonga. Legal Aid NSW says garage door work is not home building work.
Blocks on bush fire prone land
B&D says its BAL-Maze sealing system is not offered on roller doors. If your block has a bushfire attack level, ask how the door will meet it before you pick one.
Sheds and carports
A roller door needs no ceiling track, so it suits an open carport or a farm shed where a sectional door's rails would get in the way.
Keeping a roller door running
- Keep grease and oil out of the side guides; B&D says a silicon spray may be used after cleaning.
- B&D suggests a service every 12 months for roller doors, and sooner if the door is used a lot.
- Gliderol recommends servicing its residential roller doors every 24 months.
- Watch the door roll up: an uneven curtain or a new noise is worth reporting early.
Tension is not a weekend job
Steel-Line's warning is blunt: tensioning a roller door yourself risks serious injury or death, because loosening the U-bolts can let the spring tension go and drop the door hard. If the door will not stay up or slams down, stop using it and leave the adjustment to a door specialist.
What we would do
Measure the headroom above the opening before anyone visits, and note whether anything sits in the way, like a beam or a downpipe. If there is less room than a roller door needs, you know early to ask about a different door type.