About Cannington Garage Door
Perth's garage door specialists — repairs, installs and everything between
Cannington Garage Door was built on a simple idea: the biggest, heaviest moving thing in your house deserves a technician who understands the whole mechanism, not just the part that's easiest to sell you. We repair, install, replace and service garage doors right across the Perth metro area — homes, shops, warehouses and apartment car parks — and we answer the phone at 2am.
- 24/7 Emergency Callouts
- Free Diagnostic Estimate
- All Door Types & Brands
- Residential & Commercial
The whole door, not just the easy part
A garage door is a balanced mechanical system. The springs carry the weight, the cables transfer it, the rollers and tracks guide it, and the motor only ever nudges a door that is already balanced. When one of those is wrong, the symptom usually shows up somewhere else — which is why so many people are told they need a new motor when what they actually have is a fatigued spring. We test the door by hand before we blame anything electrical.
We work out of a base in Cannington — no showroom, no shopfront, just stocked vans that start the day here and work outward. That covers the full spread of Perth's housing: the enclosed carports and original roller doors of the middle ring around the City of Canning, the rear-lane and heritage garages of Fremantle, Subiaco and Guildford, the near-new sectional doors filling the southern growth estates, the salt-eaten curtains of the coastal belt, the heavy timber doors and steep driveways of the Perth Hills, and the high-cycle shutters through Welshpool, Kewdale and Malaga. Different housing, different failures — a door in Cottesloe corrodes from the inside out, a door in Kalamunda fights a gradient and a blackout, and a door in Rossmoyne simply wears out from doing five cycles a day for fifteen years.
Every job starts with a free quote and ends with a door that is balanced, limits reset and the auto-reverse safety function tested. We don't publish prices, because the honest answer depends on your door — and we'd rather tell you a door isn't worth repairing than sell you a repair that won't last.

What we stand for
How we work
Genuinely 24/7
We answer and dispatch around the clock, every day of the year — not a call centre that takes a message and rings you back on Monday.
Diagnose, don't guess
Most 'dead motors' are a broken spring or a mis-set limit. We find the actual cause instead of replacing the most expensive part.
Every door, every brand
Sectional, roller and tilt — B&D, Steel-Line, Gliderol, Danmar, Taurean — plus Merlin, Chamberlain, ATA and Centurion motors.
Honest & upfront
A free quote before any work, no published prices, no surprises at the door — and an honest answer when a door isn't worth repairing.
Licensing & trust
Straight answers about licensing in WA
Here is something most Perth garage door sites will not tell you: there is no garage door trade licence in Western Australia. No such category exists. Builder registration through Building and Energy applies to building work above a value threshold that repairing or replacing a door on an existing garage does not come close to — so any company implying you need a specially licensed installer for a door swap is selling you reassurance rather than a fact.
Where licensing genuinely does apply is electrical. Adding a power point in your garage, or hard-wiring a motor, is electrical installation work that must be carried out by a licensed electrical contractor and certified accordingly. Plugging a modern motor into an existing power point is not. We tell you which of those two your job actually is, and if it needs a sparky we say so instead of quietly doing it ourselves.
Where we work
Serving 71 Perth metro suburbs
Free on-site quote
Ready when you need us
Our technicians run right across the Perth metro area and reach most emergency callouts in around 60 minutes, with the springs, rollers, motors and panels on board to finish most repairs in one visit. Call now or request a free quote — no obligation, no surprises.