Our doors are made entirely from Western Red Cedar, the ideal timber for exterior use in maritime climates due to it's unique rot-resistant cellular structure.

As a completely natural product, you can expect a range of rich colour shades and different grain patterns in your GDS timber door. Doors are individually hand-crafted from select Western Red Cedar timber - no two doors will ever look alike.

Doors are shipped with a base stain, allowing you to finish your door in a variety of stain and paint colours. (See facts below.)

All doors are tested to comply with all current European Norms to ensure optimal safety, durability and performance.

Our hardware is designed and manufactured to provide the ultimate in performance and durability.

Full perimeter seal helps keep the weather out of your garage - ideal for integrated garages.

Sectional doors do not swing out, allowing you the unlimited use of your driveway area.

Robust mortise and tenon construction with heavy 1 5/8 (43mm) thick door sections.

All doors are made-to-measure to perfectly fit your opening. Sizes available from 6' (1828mm) to 14'6" (4420mm) wide and up to 8' (2438mm) high.

door style :: horizontal tongue and groove

door style :: bedford

door style :: herringbone

door style :: vertical tongue and groove

facts for purchasers of timber garage doors

While no other material adds warmth and beauty to your home like a timber garage door, there are some elements of the natural characteristics of wood that every purchaser must be aware of. The maintenance of timber doors will require some effort and the initial finishing of your timber door is especially important. It is vital that timber doors are finished per the manufacturers instructions before any exposure to the elements. Even with proper finishing, cracking, splitting and warpage may occur.

Variations in pattern, shading, woodgrain and colour will vary from door to door and within a particular door. Whilst every effort is made to select timber that complements, you can expect some variation in pattern, woodgrain, absorbency of finishes and shades of colour in the wood. This is particularly true on light coloured translucent stains. No two doors will be the same. Cedar wood, while one of the very best structural and rot resistant species, has a naturally "open" woodgrain appearance and cannot be compared to the "closed" grain of many hardwood species. Cedar has a wide range of naturally occurring colour shades. Because wood naturally expands and contracts according to environmental conditions, joints will open and close, and some curvature may occur.

With sectional timber doors in particular, proper staining and sealing of the sections, before exposure to the elements, is crucial to maintaining the appearance of the door: All sides (front, back, top, bottom) of each section should be finished using the same method. Exposure to moisture sources must be avoided, including, but not limited to:

	When warehousing or storing doors prior to installation, caution must be taken to protect the sections from exposure to moist conditions.
	Where concrete floors are used, the garage door should not be installed until after the floor has been poured and adequate time has elapsed for the moisture content to dissipate.
	Where the building is to be plastered, the garage door should not be installed until after the plastering is completed, and the associated moisture has been dispersed.

Garage Door Systems Ltd. supplies timber doors unfinished, but base-stained with Sikkens water based wood stain.

Sections are supplied as primed Western Red Cedar and must be finished using Sikkens "BL31" water based wood stain. Sikkens instructions must be strictly followed. Sikkens staining kits are available from Sikkens, Crown or Berger stockists. Always refer to information and instructions provided on BL31 can.

Doors may have random board sections due to construction constraints - especially on wider doors.

As the largest moving object on the exterior of your home, some ingress of water is possible given the maritime climate of Ireland. While perimeter and inter-section selas greatly diminish this possibility, moisture is prone to build up on the natural wood surface and can drip between sections and joints, especially as the door opens into the overhead position. When in the open position, all doors will display a level of vertical deflection or "sag" across the width of the sections.

Even doors treated in the above manner may develop a degree of splitting, cracks or checks in the finish. Most homeowners consider these effects to be integral to the natural beauty of wood, but it is best to be aware that this natural effect can occur over time.

Tumble dryers located in your garage can be a particular problem due to the excess moisture they create in a relatively small space. Timber doors should never be installed in garages where any moisture source, such as a tumble dryer is present.

The hardware for operation of Garage Door Systems Ltd. timber doors is guaranteed against faulty material and workmanship for a period of three years from the date of purchase, by the original purchaser.

Garage Door Systems Ltd. employs a program of stringent testing as well as testing by certified test centres for the purpose of CE marking. Our timber doors are of the highest quality, however due to to the nature of timber, we are unable to offer any warranty against the door sections/panels.

Every care has been taken in the photography of products illustrated on this site, however due to the limitations of both the photographic process and screen resolutions, colours may vary from the actual product.

Doherty & Bolger Ltd, Drumdowney, Slieverue, Waterford.