Industrial Doors
Roller Shutter Doors
Steel and aluminium roller shutters for warehouses, industrial units and shopfronts — supplied, installed, serviced and repaired.
Roller shutter doors
The workhorse of industrial openings
A roller shutter is the default industrial door for a reason: the curtain coils into a compact barrel above the opening, needs no ceiling track or side room, shrugs off daily knocks and locks the building down at night. Avanti Doors supplies, installs, services and repairs manual and electrically operated roller shutters — from warehouse and loading-bay doors to shopfront security shutters — across East Anglia and the London corridor.
Where they fit
Security and weather protection with minimal structure
Roller shutters close warehouse and loading-bay openings, secure shopfronts and kiosks overnight, protect internal counters and servery hatches, and shut down yard and unit entrances where a hinged or sliding door has nowhere to go. Because the curtain coils into a barrel directly above the opening, they suit buildings with limited headroom and openings of almost any width — and the same principle scales from a small window shutter to a full-height distribution door.
Specification is a balance of security, visibility, insulation and duty cycle. A high-street shopfront often wants a punched or perforated lath so the window display stays visible behind a locked curtain; a warehouse wants solid galvanised steel and a motor rated for the daily cycle count; a food or pharma site may need insulated laths and hygiene-friendly finishes. The survey records the opening, exposure and operation first — the same discipline we apply to the loading-bay doors guide — and every powered shutter carries the safety devices workplace-equipment duties expect. Recent documented work includes a replacement commercial shutter in Central London and the fire-rated shutters at Alconbury.
Before specification
What the roller-shutter survey establishes
Curtain, drive, controls and safety devices are chosen together around the opening and how the site actually uses it.
Curtain and lath
Solid steel laths for security, punched or perforated laths for visibility and airflow, insulated laths where heat loss matters — the curtain is chosen for the job, not the catalogue page.
Drive and controls
Manual push-up or hand-chain suits smaller, low-use doors; tubular or flange-mounted electric motors with key switches, rocker controls or remote operation carry the daily traffic.
Safety devices
Powered shutters are workplace machinery: safety brakes, bottom-edge protection, photocells and hold-to-run or interlocked controls are specified to the door and its surroundings.
Wind and exposure
Opening width, wind loading and exposure set the guide depth, lath gauge and barrel specification — an exposed loading bay needs more door than a sheltered unit.
Common questions
Roller shutter FAQs
Quick answers for site managers planning new shutters, conversions or repairs.
1How much does a roller shutter door cost?
It depends on the opening size, curtain specification (solid, perforated or insulated lath), manual or electric operation and the controls and safety devices the site needs. A small manual shopfront shutter and a wide electrically operated warehouse door are very different jobs. We quote from a survey so the price reflects the actual opening.
2Do you repair existing roller shutters?
Yes — failed motors, damaged laths, shutters off their guides, worn barrels and faulty controls are everyday call-outs, and a damaged shutter is usually also a security problem, so attendance is prioritised accordingly. We repair shutters installed by others as well as our own.
3What maintenance does a roller shutter need?
Powered shutters fall under workplace equipment duties, so guides, barrel, curtain, safety brake, bottom-edge protection and controls should be inspected and adjusted periodically, with records kept. Planned visits catch worn laths, tired springs and drifting limits before they stop the door — and the site.
4Can roller shutters be automated or put on access control?
Yes. Electric operation with key switches, fobs, keypads or integration into the site's access-control system is standard scope, and existing manual shutters can often be converted where the barrel and guides are sound.
Roller shutter support
Secure the opening, keep it moving
From emergency shutter repairs to new electrically operated doors, we survey, install and maintain roller shutters as one documented service.
- Support scope
- Survey-led specification
- Manual and electric operation
- Safety devices to workplace-equipment duties
- Reactive repairs and planned maintenance
Documented work
Recent shutter projects
These project pages describe the actual equipment, site and work completed.
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