Forty-year-old doors
Meadowridge was built in one go and its garage doors are of an age: steel tip-ups and early sectionals from the seventies and eighties, on houses that have changed hands a few times without anyone touching the garage. They are good doors. The pivot springs on a tip-up lose their tension and the door gets heavy; the bearings squeak and then drag; a sectional's spring has done its cycles twice over. None of it is a replacement, and a technician who quotes a new door in Meadowridge before checking the springs is one to question.
Automating in place
A lot of Meadowridge doors are still manual, and the driveways have the length for a tip-up's swing, so automation in place — pivot springs renewed, a motor with an arm designed for a swinging panel, beams and remotes — is the commonest new-work call here, and it keeps a door that would cost far more to replace.
Getting here
Meadowridge is off the M3 via Ladies Mile and quick to reach. Bergvliet, Diep River and Plumstead share the routes.