Garage doors in Tauranga

Bay of Plenty garage doors: where the job starts

Most jobs in Tauranga start with one of four things: a new home, an old door that has had enough, a motor added to a door you have been lifting yourself, or a repair. Gates are the fifth, with an electric gates page for Tauranga.

The form covers more than the city. Send a job from anywhere along the Bay of Plenty coast and it goes to door businesses that work in that area.

Salt at the Mount, Pāpāmoa and around the harbour

Sea spray is what sets this coast apart for steel doors. NZS 3604:2011, as BRANZ summarises it, puts land within 500 m of the coast or a harbour in exposure Zone D, along with land within 100 m of tidal estuaries and sheltered inlets. E2/AS1 adds a Zone E for breaking surf beach fronts, which is worth asking about at Mount Maunganui and Pāpāmoa.

BRANZ tested the zones here. Its 2021 Bay of Plenty study ran test sites on Chapel Street, about 20 m from the coastline, on Hewletts Road near the port, and at Tauranga Airport. First-year corrosion of mild steel and zinc matched the category on the exposure zone map at all three.

So the map is a fair guide to how hard a Tauranga site is on steel. Dominator's door warranty statement leaves out damage from being close to the seafront, which makes that worth knowing before you order.

Wind on the Tauranga coast

NIWA says winds from the west and southwest prevail at Tauranga, and the airport averages 14 km/h. It also has the most gusty days of the Bay of Plenty stations NIWA lists, at 27 days a year over 63 km/h, though gusts over 96 km/h come only 0.2 days a year.

The airport's highest gust is 119 km/h, from the southwest, on 15 April 1969. NIWA also notes 17 damage-causing tornadoes reported across the region from 1981 to 2012.