Bulldog Garage Doors

Bulldog Garage Doors: bespoke roller and sectional doors made in Kent

Bulldog Garage Doors is a family-run British manufacturer and installer of garage doors based at Coltsfield, Poot Lane, Upchurch, in Kent. The company states that it has operated for over a decade and that it surveys, manufactures and installs its own products, with every door designed and built at its Kent factory rather than outsourced. Its work is aimed at domestic properties, and it covers Kent, Surrey, Essex, East Sussex, West Sussex and Greater London.

The firm presents itself as a single team handling the whole process, from the initial home consultation through manufacture to installation, and it offers a free, no-obligation consultation and a call-back request form for arranging a home or site visit.

Roller doors and sectional doors

The catalogue is organised around two main product families. Roller garage doors open vertically by rolling up around themselves above the opening, a design the company highlights for saving driveway space. They are described as fully insulated and custom-built, with manual, custom and electric versions listed, and they can incorporate the company's own components, a range of colours and finishes and smart options.

Sectional garage doors are presented as an option with strong security and thermal insulation. The premium range uses double-skin steel sections of 42 mm or 67 mm thickness filled evenly with PU foam, which the company recommends for integral garages and workshops where insulation matters. The range covers custom, domestic and electric sectional doors, in modern or traditional styles.

Safety and smart controls

Bulldog promotes RollSafe™, an in-house designed and tested system intended to stop electric doors from closing on children or pets, with an automatic stop-and-reverse function. It also offers smart garage doors that can be opened or closed from a phone or remote, are compatible with most smart home systems and can be set up through an app or keypad.

Repairs, servicing and other work

Beyond new doors, the company states that it can repair any garage door and carries out servicing to keep installations in working order. Its service list also includes garage door widening, pedestrian doors, and garage conversions and alterations. Finance is offered as a credit broker, with the rates published on the site at the time of writing: 0% over one and two years, and 9.9% over three, four and five years. The company states it is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Guarantees and reputation

The site refers both to a 15-year guarantee on all installations and, in another section, to a 10-year guarantee when buying a garage door, a discrepancy that appears in the source material. The company also publishes review scores attributed to Google, Checkatrade, Which? and Trustatrader, covering hundreds of reviews in each case over the previous twelve months, and describes itself as rated outstanding on those platforms.

Coverage

Installation work is concentrated on domestic properties in the South East of England. The published service area comprises Kent, Surrey, Essex, East Sussex, West Sussex and Greater London, with manufacturing kept at the Upchurch facility in Kent.