Young doors still need looking after. Out here, more than most.
A sectional door on a Fletcher new build might be two years old, but it's doing more work than most doors in the region: an opener cycling for the school run, the commute, the bikes, the bins, day in and day out. And it's doing that work in the dustiest air on our run. Fine dry grit off the bush settles into tracks, coats rollers and works into hinge pins. None of it is dramatic on any single day. Over a few hundred cycles it's the difference between a door that glides and a door that grinds.
- What the dust actually does
- Mixes with lubricant into a grinding paste in the tracks and roller bearings, and sits on the opener rail where the trolley runs through it every cycle.
- What it sounds like
- A door that has gone gravelly or squeaky, an opener that seems to labour on hot afternoons, a curtain that shudders instead of rolling smooth.
- The honest fix
- A proper service: tracks cleaned rather than just sprayed, the right lubricant in the right places and none where it attracts grit, balance checked so the opener stops working overtime.
- What about embers and smoke?
- Bush-fringe owners ask, sensibly. Good seals keep dust and draughts out and help the garage stay clean. What a door and its seals can and can't do in a bushfire is a building-standards question we won't hand-wave: we'll talk plainly on site about what sealing genuinely achieves, and we don't make fire-performance claims about any door.
New builds, measured right the first time
The other half of our Fletcher work is new doors: a build finishing without a door on it yet, an upgrade from the builder's basic spec, or a first replacement on the corridor's older streets. We measure the opening properly, talk through sectional and roller options that suit the house and the way you use the garage, and quote it plainly. The quote you get is the quote you pay.
What we do here most
- Opener services and upgrades for hard-working school-run doors
- Dust-country track and roller servicing, cleaned rather than just sprayed
- New sectional doors measured and quoted on site
- Seal upgrades, honestly explained