Garage door repairs in Germiston: tip-up, sectional and roll-up doors

Knowing which you have tells you, and us, what the fault is likely to be and which motors will fit. If you're not sure, a photo of the door from inside the garage settles it.

A tip-up door is a single panel, so it needs clear space in front of it on the driveway as it swings out, and it's balanced by springs at the sides rather than a shaft overhead. When those springs tire, the door becomes heavy, won't stay up, or drops on one side; when a pivot arm bends, it catches on the frame as it swings.

Tip-up doors can take a motor. Centurion's SDO4 runs a tip-up door, more slowly than a sectional one, at 80 mm a second against 140, and ET's DC Blue Advanced sectional operator takes trackless tip-up doors under 15 m². Our installed ET DC Blue Advanced sectional / tip-up kit is R5 599 with battery back-up and remotes. Prices checked October 2026. As with any door, the springs are put right before a motor goes on.

A side spring on its own, such as ET's wide-door balance spring, is typically about R900 (NeonSales) in shops, before fitting.

A sectional door has more moving parts than any other: panels, hinges and rollers running in two tracks, and torsion springs on a shaft over the opening that wind steel cables onto drums. A door that judders at the curve, lifts crooked or has a cable hanging slack is a hardware repair, not a motor one. The door should move by hand with little effort and stay where you leave it; Centurion's SDO4 manual sets the limit at about 10 kg of effort and 100 mm of drift. How the parts fit together is on sectional garage doors.

Roll-up doors are on Germiston's workshops and stores as well as its house garages. Their faults are a short list: a spring that has lost tension, a side guide dented by a vehicle, a curtain that has pulled loose from its drum, or a motor that has given up. The motors we fit and the size limits that matter for a workshop door are on our Germiston page, and the doors themselves on roll-up garage doors.

• The door won't open, but the motor hums or clicks. Often a broken spring or a door that has jammed, so the motor can't lift it. See garage door motor working but not opening.
• It starts to close, then goes back up. The safety reversing has sensed something: an obstruction, beams out of line, a door that drags, or limits that have shifted. See garage door won't close.
• The motor beeps. Most motors beep to report a fault or a low battery; garage door motor beeping explains the common patterns.
• The remotes have stopped, one or all of them. We code new remotes to the motor on the visit; see garage door remotes.
• It's noisy or jerky. Worn rollers or hinges, dry springs, or a track out of line.

Never try to adjust or release a garage door spring yourself: it holds the door's weight under tension. All our spare parts are genuine, and every repair carries our six-month guarantee on our repairs.

The 2011 Census counted 255 863 people in Germiston's 143 km², and we repair their garage doors in every part of it: the streets around Germiston High School and Victoria Lake, suburbs such as Lambton, Delville, Castleview and Dawnview, and the businesses out near Rand Airport and Germiston Stadium. For the rest of what we do in town, see Germiston.

Tell us which type of door you have and the make of the motor, and send a photo of each. Same-day repairs are part of the week in Germiston when bookings allow, and the 24/7 emergency repairs across Gauteng cover a door stuck open at night. Your exact price is set in a free quote before any work starts. No call-out fee when we do the work. If no work is done, a R650 call-out fee applies.