Hangar and large-span doors in Barnstaple

At a glance

Hangar and large-span doors for aviation, rail, marine and heavy plant buildings in Barnstaple. We survey the opening and the structure, then design a door for its size and wind exposure before giving a fixed price.

Town: Barnstaple
Postcode district: EX31
Area: Devon
Survey: Free for new installations

What we fit in Barnstaple

Drives and controls. Powered leaves with controls to suit the site, plus a way to move the door if power is lost.
Wind resistance. Leaves, guides and fixings designed for the wind load on the closed door.
Load path. We decide with your structural engineer whether the slab or the structure carries the door's weight.
Vertical-lift fabric. Tall openings with little side space can use a fabric door that lifts and folds into a compact stack.
Multi-leaf sliding. Leaves stacking to one or both sides, or into door pockets, with no headroom needed.

Examples of work we can quote for

Installing heavy-duty sectional doors with wind-resistant panels across the frontage of a bus or coach garage.
Refurbishing manual large-span sliding doors with new bottom wheels, top guides and an electric drive unit on each leaf.
Recladding the leaves of a large sliding door with a corrosion-resistant finish suited to an exposed site.

Powered door rules that apply in Barnstaple

Barnstaple 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.

Planning the work around your site

Downtime matters on a working site, so the programme is set around your shifts. For a single door the opening is usually needed for a day; multi-door jobs are done one bay at a time so deliveries keep moving.

Prices for hangar and large-span doors in Barnstaple

Hangar and large-span doors 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.

Hangar and large-span doors in Barnstaple: your questions

How long would a large-span door installation take in Barnstaple?

After design and manufacture, installation typically takes from several days to a few weeks depending on the number of leaves and any structural work. The full programme is set out with the quote.

Can a large door at our Barnstaple 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.

Which hangar door type would suit our building in Barnstaple?

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.

Hangar and large-span doors near Barnstaple

Working in Barnstaple? We also take on jobs in Bideford, Tiverton, Exeter and across Devon.

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