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Why Professional Installation Matters for Your Garage Door and Gate Motor When investing in a new garage door motor or gate motor, many homeowners focus on one thing. The price. While it’s understandable to want the best deal, we’ve learned over the years that the cheapest installation often becomes the most expensive in the long…
What Is Preventative Maintenance? Many homeowners think about servicing their garage door only after something has broken. Unfortunately, by the time a spring snaps, a motor starts struggling, or the door refuses to open, what could have been a small repair has often turned into a much larger and more expensive one. At Planet Automation,…
How to Maintain Your Garage Door Between Services Your garage door is one of the hardest working moving parts in your home. For many homeowners, it opens and closes several times a day, often without a second thought. Like your car, your garage door benefits from regular servicing, but there are also simple maintenance tasks…
How Long Do Garage Doors Last? One of the most common questions we get asked by homeowners is, “How long should my garage door last?” The honest answer is: it depends. After more than 20 years working with garage doors across Cape Town, we’ve seen doors still operating perfectly after two decades, while others have…
How to Choose a Reliable Garage Door Repair Company When your garage door stops working, it’s tempting to search for the cheapest repair company available. After all, if two companies are fixing the same problem, why pay more? After years of repairing and installing garage doors and automation systems across Cape Town, we’ve found that…
Garage Door Won’t Open? Here’s What Cape Town Homeowners Must Check There’s never a good time for your garage door to stop working. Whether you’re trying to leave for work, collect the kids from school, or simply get your car into the garage before a winter storm hits, a garage door that won’t open can…
5 Reasons Your Garage Door Needs a Service TODAY Your garage door is one of the hardest working parts of your home. It opens and closes multiple times a day, protects your vehicles and belongings, and often serves as one of the main entry points to your property. Yet, for many homeowners in Cape Town,…
7 Signs It’s Time to Replace Your Garage Door Is your garage door trying to tell you something? Most homeowners don’t think much about their garage door. Until it starts making strange noises, refusing to open properly or looking like it’s seen better days. Your garage door is one of the hardest working parts of…
Control Your Gate and Garage from Your Phone – Here’s How Imagine pulling into your driveway and opening your gate and garage door with a tap on your phone. No searching for remotes. No worrying about lost transmitters. No wondering if you remembered to close the garage when you left home. Thanks to modern smart…
Top Signs Your Garage Door Needs Immediate Repairs in Cape Town Your garage door is one of the hardest-working systems in your home, yet it is often overlooked until something goes wrong. Whether you have a sectional garage door, roll-up garage door, or automated garage door motor system, ignoring early warning signs can quickly lead…
