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Foundry Garage Doors, Newcastle

Know-how

Guides worth reading before you spend anything.

The honest home for how garage doors work, which one suits which garage, and what Newcastle's coast-to-bush spread means for yours. Written to help you decide, balanced, researched, and with the sources linked so you can check us.

Sectional, roller or tilt?

The three door types side by side, headroom, insulation, noise, clearance and repairability, so you can see which fits your garage before anyone quotes.

Read the comparison

Why doors near the salt wear out sooner

A cross-section from the surf back inland, how salt air corrodes the hardware, what the corrosion standards say, and what "marine-grade" actually buys you.

Read the guide
Try the tool Not sure what's actually wrong with your door? The Tension Check walks the mechanism with you, lights up the likely fault zone, and points you to the safe next step. It reads the where and why, it never diagnoses a fix or quotes a price.

Tell us what the door's doing

Send it through and we'll sort the right fix.

Repair, opener, service or a new door, describe it in your own words and we'll come back to line up a call-out or a free measure & quote. No number to ring around; the form comes straight to us.

Book a repair Free measure & quote

Not sure which? Run the Tension Check and it'll point you the right way.