Garage doors in the Blue Mountains

Garage door jobs in the Blue Mountains

The City of Blue Mountains is a ribbon of towns along the Great Western Highway and the railway, from Glenbrook, Blaxland and Springwood in the lower mountains to Leura, Katoomba and Blackheath up top. Almost every home is a house: 92.1% at the 2021 Census. The land climbs from 160 metres at Lapstone to 1,094 metres at Mount Piddington, so conditions change a lot along the way.

Garage door installation on bush fire prone land

The NSW RFS describes the Blue Mountains as one of the most bush fire prone areas in the world, with on average 140 bush, grass or forest fires a year. Winmalee and Yellow Rock lost most of the 193 houses destroyed by the Linksview Road fire in October 2013.

The RFS scale has six Bushfire Attack Levels, starting at BAL-LOW and ending at BAL-FZ. B&D's bushfire guide cites AS 3959 and says that at BAL-40, vehicle access doors must be non-combustible, with seals or brushes that keep gaps to no more than 3 mm. Your home's BAL assessment and the building surveyor set the rules for new work.

Cold, mist and snow up top

Katoomba sits at about 1,010 metres, the upper mountains get two to three snowfalls a year, and annual rainfall there is about 1,050 mm with many misty days. B&D says an insulated sectional door helps keep the garage warmer in winter, and Steel-Line offers ventilated windows on its sectional doors for garages prone to dampness.