Quick answer
If your sliding hangar doors in Cornwall have become heavy, noisy or hard to move, we can renew wheels, guides and drives, or replace the doors with a modern large-span system if refurbishment no longer makes sense.
- Area
- Cornwall
- Nation
- England
- Main town
- Truro
- Survey
- Free for new installations
What to specify
- Designed per opening. No off-the-shelf sizes: every large door is designed for its building and location.
- Safety systems. Large doors move a lot of mass, so warning and detection devices are built in from the start.
- Vertical-lift fabric. Tall openings with little side space can use a fabric door that lifts and folds into a compact stack.
- Load path. Bottom-rolling on floor rails or top-hung from the structure, agreed with your engineer.
- Refurbishment. Older hangar doors renewed with new wheels, guides, drives and cladding.
Typical scopes of work
- Designing multi-leaf sliding doors, with a tail-fin cut-out where needed, for a hangar or large-span maintenance building.
- Adding warning beacons, sounders and photocells to an older powered large-span door as part of a site risk assessment review.
- Installing heavy-duty sectional doors with wind-resistant panels across the frontage of a bus or coach garage.
Powered door rules that apply in Cornwall
Cornwall is in England, where powered industrial doors fall under Great Britain's health and safety law. Whoever makes a door powered — including converting a manual door — usually takes on the manufacturer's duties under the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008: risk assessment, technical file, conformity marking and a Declaration of Conformity. Once it is in use, the employer or occupier must keep it safe under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 and PUWER 1998.
How the work is organised
Where a door is being replaced, the opening has to be made secure at the end of each day. We plan strip-out, any new framing and the new door so the gap is never left open overnight unless you have agreed temporary measures.
Guide prices
| Item | Guide price (ex VAT) |
|---|---|
| Hangar and large-span doors | on survey (typically from £39,995) |
Guide prices for supply and installation unless stated, excluding VAT, which is added at the current rate where it applies. Your fixed price is confirmed in writing after a survey, before any work starts.
Questions from businesses in Cornwall
Which hangar door type would suit our building in Cornwall?
It depends on headroom, side space, structure and how often the door moves. Sliding doors need side space, vertical-lift fabric doors need headroom, and large sectional doors suit big but not extreme openings. We recommend after survey.
Can a large door at our Cornwall site be operated without power?
Most powered large doors include a manual or emergency means of operation for power failures. How it works depends on the door type and size, and we explain it at handover and in the user instructions.
Can you refurbish our existing hangar doors in Cornwall?
Often, yes. If the leaves are sound, we renew wheels, guides, drives, cladding and safety devices. Where distortion or corrosion is severe, we explain why replacement may be better value.
Towns in Cornwall we cover
We cover 6 towns in Cornwall for hangar and large-span doors, including Truro, Falmouth, St Austell, Camborne.
Other services in Cornwall
- Door safety upgrades
- Steel personnel and fire exit doors
- Complete loading bays
- Fire shutters
- Bollards and door protection
- High-speed doors
- Door automation and controls
- Industrial door replacement
More about Hangar and large-span doors. Last updated 19 October 2026.