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Find your area below for its wind, salt and council, or tell us the job now and a door specialist who covers your area gets in touch.

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A small detached garage with a grey roller door at the street edge, below a white stucco home with a red tiled roof, a power pole, and other homes and a lagoon behind.
A detached roller door garage on a street of homes in Ocean Grove, Dunedin.

What changes from place to place

New Zealand has one Building Act, so the rules on a door job read the same in every region. What changes is who you ask and what the weather does. The local council is usually the building consent authority, MBIE says, so that is where consent questions go. Our garage door rules page sets out what MBIE says about doors.

Wind varies more than people expect. NIWA's averages show it: 11 km/h at sheltered Hamilton, 25.8 km/h at Wellington Airport. A door on an exposed ridge lives a very different life from one in a calm valley.

Salt draws its own map. As MBIE sets out NZS 3604, exposure Zone D covers land within 500 m of the sea or harbours, or 100 m of tidal estuaries, so two homes in the same city can need very different care.

What stays the same everywhere

The wiring rule doesn't change at a council boundary. A new power point for an opener or a gate is fixed wiring, and only registered and licensed electrical workers can do it. They issue a Certificate of Compliance when they finish.

Springs and cables are the same too. Makers such as Dominator and Garador say to leave them to a trained door specialist, wherever you live.

Cities and centres by region

Each place below has its own page on the jobs people ask about there, the council, and what the local wind and coast do to a door. If your town isn't listed, use the form anyway: add your postcode and the job goes to door businesses that cover your area.

Helpful next

How it worksWhat happens once you send a job, and who gets to see your details.Garage door rules in New ZealandBuilding consent, written contracts, warranties and electrical work for openers and gates.How we check door specialistsThe wiring rule for openers and gates, and the registers you can search yourself.

Where this information comes from

Rules change, so check with your council or the regulator if something matters to your job. How we write and check these pages.