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Strip Doors for Car Washes and Workshops | Strip Doors
PVC strip doors for car washes and auto workshops. Contain overspray and wash mist, keep the heating in, and drive straight through the opening.

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Drive straight through. Contain wash mist and overspray, keep the heating in, and stop the wind coming down the bay.

Strip Doors for Car Washes and Workshops

Drive straight through. Contain wash mist and overspray, keep the heating in, and stop the wind coming down the bay.

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The Challenge in a Workshop

A workshop lives with its doors open. Vehicles come and go all day, so the roller door spends more time up than down, and everything you are paying to heat goes straight out with it.

Wash and detail bays have the opposite problem. Mist and overspray travel further than people expect, and they end up on tools, paperwork and the car in the next bay.

Then there is the weather. An open vehicle door lets in wind, rain, leaves and every insect in the yard, and your team works in whatever blows in.

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How Strip Doors Solve It

Strip doors let a vehicle drive straight through. Nobody stops, nobody gets out to open anything, and the barrier closes itself behind the car.

They contain what you want contained. A run of strips between a wash bay and the rest of the workshop keeps mist and overspray on one side of the line.

Specify by what goes through the opening. 5mm where vehicles and forklifts pass, 3mm for a walkway or a parts store, and clear so a driver can see the bay before entering.

  • Drive through: Vehicles pass without anyone stopping to open a door
  • Containment: Wash mist and overspray stay in the bay
  • Heating retained: Stop paying to warm the whole yard
  • Weather barrier: Wind, rain, leaves and insects stay outside
  • Visibility: Clear PVC so a driver sees the bay before they enter
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Where Strip Doors Go in a Workshop

Workshops vary more than food businesses, so treat this as the common pattern rather than a rule. Here is where they usually go.

Floor plan of a workshop showing where strip doors go: 5mm clear at the vehicle entry, a full run of strips containing the wash bay, 3mm on the parts store doorway, and 5mm clear at the vehicle exit
1

Vehicle entry · Main roller door

5mm clear

This is the opening that costs you the most. Cars drive straight through the strips without stopping, so the roller door can stay down and your heating stays inside.

2

Wash or detail bay · Bay boundary

5mm, clear or a colour

This is your containment line. Mist and overspray stop here rather than settling on the car, the tools and the paperwork in the next bay. A colour marks the boundary clearly.

3

Parts store and office · Off the workshop floor

3mm clear

These doorways take people, not vehicles, so 3mm is enough. Keeping workshop dust and noise out of a parts store and an office is worth more than most people expect.

4

Vehicle exit · Out to the yard

5mm clear

Same job as the entry, in reverse. Clear PVC matters here because a driver needs to see the yard before the nose of the car is through the strips.

Strips on a vehicle opening take a beating

Use 5mm, and fit bollards either side where you can. It is cheaper to replace a bollard than a head section that has been hit by a bumper.

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Recommended Products for Workshops

These match the four positions above. Prices exclude delivery and were taken from the live catalogue on 20 August 2026.

DoorwayProductPrice
Vehicle entry and exitClear PVC Roll 5mm x 300mm Flat, 50m$935.00
Smaller vehicle openingsClear PVC Roll 5mm x 150mm Flat, 50m$484.00
Wash bay boundary, in colourRed PVC Roll 2mm x 200mm Flat, 50m$310.20
Parts store and officeClear PVC Roll 3mm x 150mm Flat, 50m$275.00
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Customer quote

Good to deal with, fast free postage and great product. Easy install, see through and keeps the bugs out of the mancave/workshop.
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Questions and answers

Can a car really drive through strip doors?

Yes, that is what the heavy gauges are for. Drive at walking pace and the strips part across the bonnet and fall back behind the boot. Use 5mm on any opening a vehicle passes through.

What thickness for a vehicle opening?

5mm. It comes in 150mm or 300mm, flat surface only. Anything lighter will tear over time on an opening that takes bumpers and mirrors every day.

Will they contain wash bay overspray?

They will hold most of it on one side of the line, which is the point. The strips overlap so there is no open gap for mist to drift through. They are not a sealed booth, so if you need containment to a standard, check it against that standard first.

Do I need to remove my roller door?

No. Strip doors usually go inside the roller door opening, so you can leave the roller up through the working day and still have a barrier.

How do I stop vehicles damaging the head section?

Bollards either side of the opening are the usual answer. They take the hit instead of the head section, and they are far cheaper to replace.

Do you deliver to regional areas?

Yes, we ship Australia-wide. Delivery costs are calculated at checkout based on your location and the size of your order.

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Getting Started

We make car wash strip doors and workshop curtains to order, cut to your opening sizes and shipped Australia-wide. Start with the vehicle entry, because that is the opening costing you the most.

Send us your opening measurements and tell us what drives through. We will tell you what gauge to run where.

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Questions we need you to answer

These are the things we could not confirm ourselves. The page cannot go live until they are sorted.

Do customers actually drive vehicles through the strips, or do they use them on walkways only?

The whole page assumes drive-through, which is what makes 5mm the recommendation. If most workshop enquiries are for personnel doorways we have pitched it wrong.

Are you comfortable with us saying strip doors contain wash mist and overspray?

We have hedged it and said they are not a sealed booth. If anyone is using them for spray painting there may be a standard involved, and we would rather not go near that claim.

Do you supply bollards, or is that the customer's problem?

We recommend them twice on this page. If you do not supply them we should say where to get them, and if you do we should link the product.

Is the yellow wash bay photo actually a car wash? We have described it as a wash bay.

It has a tiled floor, a drain and a hose, which reads as a wash bay, but it could be a food or industrial washdown area. If we have it wrong the caption needs changing.

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