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Prices are supplied-and-fitted for a standard single (2.1-2.4m): doubles run ~1.6-1.8x. The type logic: up-and-over is the cheap workhorse (swings out: don't park tight), roller gives back the ceiling and the driveway swing space, sectional is the insulated family favourite (seals best: the pick if the garage is a gym/workshop or sits under a bedroom). Automation adds GBP 300-450 and is the feature people say they'd pay for twice in the rain.
What The Garage Door Cost Calculator Works Out
- Estimated cost: the supplied-and-fitted price for a standard single door plus GBP 350 if automated. Steel up-and-over doors run GBP 550 to GBP 850, rollers GBP 900 to GBP 1,300, insulated sectionals GBP 1,200 to GBP 1,700 and premium timber-look or cedar doors GBP 2,000 to GBP 3,500; doubles multiply by 1.6 to 1.8.
- Which type when: up-and-over swings out so suits long drives and rarely opened storage; rollers coil into a box and return both the ceiling and the parking inches; sectionals seal best and are the pick where the garage is a gym, a workshop or sits under a bedroom.
- Worth knowing: torsion springs, cables and cones are the wear items on every mechanism and a GBP 90 to GBP 150 repair revives many doors quoted for replacement. Insulated doors pay energy dividends only where the garage is heated or part of the house.
- Door size and your quote (advanced): made-to-measure adds about 15% for the older housing stock's non-standard openings, doubles about 70%. Type in your actual fitted quote to replace the type default.
- Removal, electrics and extras (advanced): taking away the old door is GBP 50 to GBP 120 if not included, a motor needs a socket (GBP 100 to GBP 200 if there is none), and windows, a pedestrian side door, non-standard colours and battery backup for power cuts are the common extras.
- VAT (advanced): trade installers often quote excluding VAT; switch this on to add 20% to the whole job.
- Repair first (advanced): on a door under 15 years old the calculator recommends a repair quote and shows what it saves against replacement for now; beyond that the panel, tracks and locking are usually tired too and springs buy only a year or two.
- Insulation saving (advanced): an insulated sectional on a heated, integral or under-bedroom garage saves roughly 400 kWh of gas a year, or 800 in a heated workshop, priced at the current unit rate, with the payback on the premium over an up-and-over. On a detached cold garage it buys comfort and condensation control, not kilowatt-hours.
- Cost per year of life and comparison table (advanced): the all-in price spread over a 25-year life net of any heating saving, and all four door types priced with your size, automation, extras and VAT so the real gap between the workhorse and the family favourite is visible.