Dockside Overhead Co. · Port Ashby & the Greymill Yards · Commercial doors, docks & shutters
Your dock is a deadline. The door is the gate it runs through.
Dockside hangs and maintains the doors commerce leans on — heavy-duty sectionals for 25 cycles a day, rolling steel service doors, fire-rated shutters with the drop-test records your inspector asks for, and 50,000-cycle spring packages wound to the freight schedule. Installed on Sundays, serviced around shifts, answered at 3 a.m. when a truck is waiting.
Heavy-duty sectional, 25 cycles a day
Two-inch 24-gauge sections, R-15 insulated core, strutted through the mid-spans, on a 50,000-cycle spring package and drums sized to the door’s weighed pounds. The door a shipping schedule opens before breakfast and closes after the last pallet — belt-drive operators where an office shares the wall, chain where nobody has to hear it.
Rolling steel service doors
The answer where the opening is tight, the duty is brutal or the hose comes out: a slat curtain on a barrel sized to the cycle count, guides wind-rated for the yard faces, corrosion packages for the wash-down bays. Jackshaft operators standard — nothing hangs where the forklifts think.
Fire-rated shutters & pass doors
Rated drop shutters over openings the code wants closed in a fire, drop-tested and documented on the schedule your inspector enforces — plus the steel pass doors and counter shutters that keep the break room and the warehouse on polite terms. The paperwork is the product as much as the steel.
Fabricated, installed, commissioned — 2026 schedule
The commercial card
Quoted from the survey, fixed at signature, installed on the Sunday your schedule names. The only variable on a Dockside invoice is a part you approved by part number.
Heavy-duty sectional, 12×14, installedfrom $6,800
24-gauge · R-15 core · strutted · 50k-cycle spring package · commissioned before first shift
Rolling steel service door, installedfrom $4,900
Wind-rated guides · barrel to the opening’s duty · corrosion package for the wash-down bays
Fire-rated drop shutter, installed & certifiedfrom $5,400
Rated assembly · drop test witnessed & recorded · annual re-test scheduled
Dock leveler & seal packagefrom $3,200
Mechanical or hydraulic leveler with the compression seal the energy audit pays for
The dock-down response$185 / call
A door trapping freight or failing a shift — target on site under 6 hours, around the clock
Preventive cycle, quarterlyfrom $96 / mo
26 commercial points · cycle count on every barrel · drop tests logged · the file your insurer renews on
How it goes
From survey to first freight through
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
The survey — on your clock
Measured beside the shift, not around it
We survey the openings while your floor is live: clearances, header steel, wind exposure on the yard faces, and the cycle count a real week demands. The door gets specified by the freight schedule it will serve.
The schedule & the fixed number
A Sunday, named
Installation happens when your dock is dark — Sunday second shift, holiday shutdowns, the August week the line is cold. The quote is fixed at signature and the calendar slot is as binding as the price.
Fabrication
Barrels, drums, springs — weighed
Springs are wound to the built door’s measured pounds and the duty you print: 25,000-cycle pairs on light service doors, 50,000 on the freight mains. Every barrel is cycled at the bench before it meets a truck.
Install day, dark o’clock
Old door out, new one commissioned
Rigged out, anchors into the header steel, tracks plumbed to the sixteenth, operators and reversing edges proven with the test cart. The dock reopens with the next shift, not the next week.
Commissioning & the file
The paperwork opens with the door
Load test, cycle count registered, wind certificate and drop-test records filed to your compliance folder — the same file your inspector, insurer and fire marshal each read their page of.
Six hours or the call is half
A dock-down call answered after six hours bills at half the card. Freight sitting behind a dead door costs more per hour than we charge per visit — a response promise should carry a number, not an adjective.
The yard position
The door is infrastructure. We price it like it.
A residential door fails inconveniently; a commercial one fails expensively — a shift of idling drivers, a cold chain sweating, a fire inspection that turns on a drop-test date nobody can find. Dockside keeps the Yards’ doors on a preventive cycle precisely so the expensive failure stays hypothetical: barrels counted, drop tests witnessed, springs replaced on the cycle math instead of the catastrophe. The quarterly file is boring in exactly the way an auditor means when they say compliant.
DOCK DOWN AT 3 A.M.? (555) 062-3308 answers around the clock — a dispatcher with the yard map, not a machine. Freight trapped behind a dead door is the one call that jumps every queue we have.
Installs & fabrications, 2025 — 2026
Sundays, and the doors that ate them
Six openings from the yards and the Ashby waterfront — every one hung in the dark hours and commissioned before the shift that needed it clocked in.
Since 2003
The yards, in figures
Six sectionals over one Sunday shutdown and the Monday shift never knew a door had been replaced. The commissioning file arrived with the invoice — load tests, cycle counts, wind certificates — and our insurer renewed without a single follow-up question. Four years later the preventive cycle has never missed a date either.
A driver put a pallet jack through the leveler at 2:40 in the morning with a refrigerated load behind it. The dispatcher had the yard map, the tech was on site before five, and the door and seal were commissioning-tested by first shift. The half-price clause has never once applied to us. It exists; that is what matters.
The fire marshal read our file for twenty minutes, signed, and said it was the first folder in the district where the drop tests were all there without being asked. Dockside schedules them and shows up for them. That is the entire difference between a vendor and a contractor.
The five every yard asks
Asked across the desk, answered in writing
Sectional or rolling steel for my opening?
Sectional where you want insulation, full opening height and faster cycles — the freight main and anything conditioned. Rolling steel where the opening is tight, the duty is brutal or the bay gets washed down — the barrel takes the abuse a panel would wear as dents. We survey both against your clearances and quote them side by side.
What does “duty” mean in a spring package?
Cycles per day, translated into cycle rating. A door opened twenty-five times a shift spends six thousand cycles a year — a 25,000-cycle pair is a four-year part, a 50,000-cycle pair an eight-year one. We wind the rating your freight schedule actually spends, and the quarterly cycle count tells you when the retirement is coming.
How disruptive is the install, honestly?
Scheduled to your dark hours — Sunday shifts, holiday shutdowns, the week the line is cold. Most single-opening replacements are one dark shift; multi-door bays stage door by door so the dock never loses capacity. The disruption is a calendar problem, and calendars can be negotiated.
Are the fire-shutter records really our problem?
They are your inspector’s problem, which makes them yours — and they only exist if someone schedules and witnesses the drop tests. The preventive cycle does both and files the paper to the folder your auditor already knows. Missing records are how a working shutter fails an inspection anyway.
Do you take residential work?
selectively — homes attached to the businesses we serve, the yards’ manager housing, the odd heritage commercial conversion. The crews, the card prices and the Sunday discipline are commercial; a driveway in Port Ashby is better served by a residential shop we will gladly name.
Surveys scheduled beside your shift · dock-down line (555) 062-3308, answered around the clock · docks@docksideoverhead.example
Get the survey and the Sunday
Openings, cycle counts, the shifts they serve — that is the whole survey, done while your floor is live. The quote that follows is fixed at signature and installed when your dock is dark. docks@docksideoverhead.example