How To Choose Your Garage Door
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Garage doors are broadly divided into various categories. Within each category there are a large number of makes, models, sizes and finishes available.
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Up and over garage doors.
Up and over is a blanket term. There are two up and over mechanism types: canopy and retractable. Both types can come pre-installed to a steel fixing frame for quick and easy installation. Up and over doors are available in steel, timber, GRP (Glassfibre) and ABS (upvc). A very wide range of sizes and styles available. Click here to go directly to our main website showing all the above doors with sizes, prices, full product and technical details, www.discount-garage-doors.co.uk.
Canopy Mechanism
- The Canopy door operates in vertical tracks on the doors side frame. Usually cable operated. When fully open the door forms a canopy of approx a third of the door's height.
- Least expensive
- Easy to fit
- NOT ideal for automation.
Retractable Mechanism
- The retractable door is guided by horizontal tracks inside the garage and retracts completely when fully opened.
- Ideal for automation.
- Easy to fit. All our metal, timber and GRP doors are available in both mechanism types.
Non-insulated Roller garage doors.
- Plastic coated steel.
- Available in 15 colours including golden oak and rosewood woodgrain. All come made to measure at no extra cost.
- Available in widths up to 5 metres, and heights up to 3 metres.
- Very light to open.
- Space saving
- Roller shutters are fitted on the rear face of the garage opening, maximising width and removing the need for a timber frame.
- Ideal for short driveways because the door rises vertically and does not kick out.
- PLEASE NOTE the headroom clearances required on the inside between the under face of the lintel and ceiling. Not all garages have the room for a roller.
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Security and safety
- Roller doors provide a good level of security, because the door is fitted behind the brickwork and has full height steel guides and dual locking bars.
- Aluminium bottom rail reinforces door and holds rubber seal which stops leaves etc blowing under.
- Can be fitted with very quiet remote control unit which uses a rolling code system and has 2 billion codes giving very good security. The unit has a safety reverse as standard and will automatically reverse should the downward movement of the door be restricted.
Insulated Automatic Roller garage doors.
- Fully finished aluminium slats which are foam filled.
- Various colours available including Golden Oak, Mahogany and Rosewood wood grain effect.
- Always supplied fully automated.
- Give thermal and acoustic insulation.
- Less headroom needed than non-insulated roller door, therefore can be fitted between pillars if headroom allows.
- Includes courtesy light, infra-red safety reverse etc.
- All insulated roller doors are made to measure at no extra cost.
Sectional garage doors.
- Sectional garage doors maximise drive through width as they are fitted on the rear face of the garage opening.
- The door opens vertically so you can park in front of the door and still open it.
- Excellent level of security.
- Neat rubber seals all around the door prevent drafts and leaves etc blowing into the garage.
- Made from fully finished steel.
- All Henderson G60 sectional doors are 42mm thick, foam filled.
- Other makes available in:
- single skin non-insulated,
- 20mm insulation and
- 42mm insulation.
- Horizontal or Georgian panel available usually in white or dark brown.
- Horizontal rib, trend design, style and Georgian all available in white, Golden Oak Woodgrain Laminate or any RAL colour of your choice.
- Henderson G60 Doors available up to 5 metres wide and 3 metres high.
- Ideal for automation.