Genuine western red cedar on engineered sectional or tilt frames: vertical, horizontal, coffered or fully custom profiles, stained or oiled to your spec.
For street appeal, nothing else comes close, a cedar door is usually the single most visible timber element on a home's facade. Western red cedar is naturally stable and rot-resistant, and on our engineered frames the weight is properly sprung so the door runs as smoothly as steel. The trade-off is maintenance: like any exterior timber, cedar needs re-coating every few years to keep its colour.
Timber is heavy. Frames, springs and openers are specified for the finished door weight, so it runs smoothly for decades, not months.
We coat front, back and edges before installation. Doors sealed on the face only cup and twist within a couple of Auckland winters.
Stained dark, oiled natural, or painted, and we will tell you honestly what each finish means for re-coating cycles.
A cedar-look insulated steel door gives timber warmth with steel durability and an R-value of 2.0, worth considering for exposed or coastal sites. Prefer painted timber? See ply & batten doors.
A cedar garage door is not solid timber hung on tracks. It is a stile and rail frame, built square in the factory, with cedar cladding fixed to the face and the whole assembly balanced for its finished weight. That door construction is what stops a timber garage door sagging, and it is the part of the specification worth asking any supplier about.
A stile and rail frame carries the load, so the cedar face is cladding rather than structure. Panels are built and squared in the factory, not assembled on your driveway.
Vertical or horizontal cedar, with the batten spacing set to suit the elevation. We match the grain direction and tone to the house, which is usually the detail an architect cares about most.
Cedar is heavier than steel, so springs and opener are sized to the finished door. A cedar door balanced for a steel weight is the single most common fault we are called to.
Cedar reads warm against brick, plaster and dark weatherboard, which is why it is specified so often on garages that double as a home office or studio. Oil it on the cycle we recommend and the colour holds; leave it and it silvers, which some owners want. Either way the frame underneath is unaffected.
Profiles and finish samples brought to your free measure.
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