The Garage Door Centre

Insulated Garage Doors

ashish.kumar@freetimers.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:29:41 +0000

Insulated garage doors come in many forms.

Sectional Doors

ashish.kumar@freetimers.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:20:11 +0000

Sectional garage doors are becoming one of the most popular and practical choices for a safe, very secure and easy to use versatile garage door system.
Available from various manufacturers they are produced in sizes up to 6500mm wide and 3000mm high for domestic use and much larger sizes for commercial applications in warehouses, factories, distribution depots and others
They are called sectional doors because they operate in seperated individual horizontal panel sections, opening and closing vertically in tracks without any swing out from the structural opening and tracking mechanism at all. Because of this operation almost any shape of structural opening can be accomodated, i.e. arched, angled corners, etc.
The construction of a sectional door with rollers on either side of each panel and panels available in 42 – 45mm thick double skinned steel sections give it enormous strength and therefore with a good lock very good security. Most manufacturers of sectional doors provide rubber seals to the top, sides and bottom of the door as standard which combined with the operational action offer perfect protection from the elements. The bottom seal will only provide full , effective sealing if the floor is level however, a fact often overlooked.
The insulation and sealing properties are excellent compared to any other type of door due to the combination of the rubber seals and the double skinned panels (foam filled) helping to reduce the heating costs in many homes with integral garages and certainly helping in commercial and industrial premises where the doors are used frequently and are often very large.

Up and Over Garage Doors

ashish.kumar@freetimers.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:24:36 +0000

Most households who have a garage constructed after about 1960 will have an up and over garage door of some sort fitted assuming the original door is still in place. Back then there were very limited choices of designs and the doors were nearly always steel or aluminium. There were only a handful of standard sizes and some fairly creative spring operating sytems and arm lifting mechanisms. Most of these systems would now be unacceptable and deemed to be dangerous for many reasons.
Modern up and over garage doors still offer the widest range of styles and materials as they are always constructed as a one piece panel and as they can be manufactured from steel, timber, Upvc and GRP (Fibreglass) the diversity of design is endless. As well as an enormous choice of standard designs and sizes companies like Hormann and Novoferm offer what is known as an ‘open for infill’ door which is basically a factory built chassis with all the mechanism, locking and framing but the main panel left for individuals to insert timber or Upvc in whtever design is required, although within some weight limitations.