Automatic garage doors

Every car owner is not stranger to the desire to keep his "swallow" intact and safe. Therefore, the gates in the garage must be reliable. However, long ago, when the usual swing gates were the only alternative. Today, there are many options for convenient garage automatic doors with remote opening, which adds to their main function and also the comfort for the user.

Types of automatic garage doors

Basically, all the doors with electric drive differ in the way of opening. According to this parameter, one can distinguish such varieties:

1. Automatic sliding (sliding) garage doors. In this case, the door leaf is fixed on the cantilever beam, which travels along the rollers on the support. And, depending on the type of beam installation, there is a gate with an open profile when the beam is located from the bottom, and also telescopic, when the gate structure is retracted into itself, saving a large space along the garage wall. Also there is a sectional sliding gate that moves along the inner wall of the garage perpendicular to the entrance.

For such a gate is used a different cloth, the most expensive for you will cost forged sliding gates. Of the positive characteristics of this type of gate can be called reliability and a long period of trouble-free operation, the ability to choose the right color of the canvas, modernity, convenience.

2. Automatic lifting garage doors. There are several options in this category of gates. These are lifting-turning, sectional and lifting-guillotine.

The lifting and swinging gates consist of one single piece of cloth, moved along the guides. When the gate is open, the canvas is under the ceiling of the garage . This saves space, moreover, such gates are easy to install and use. They are relatively inexpensive, provide good thermal insulation, they can be closed in manual mode if necessary. Minus a similar design - they are not suitable for low garages.

Sectional lifting gates in the West are the most common type of gate. In this case, the web consists of separate sections, fastened with loops. When you open the garage, the gate appears under the ceiling of the garage, opening in a sectional manner. The advantage over lifting and pivoting is that you can put the car back to the gate and start opening them - when climbing they do not require any free space in front of the garage.

Lifting-guillotine need a place above the opening outside the garage, which is not always possible. In the rest they are ideal, especially in terms of tightness and thermal insulation.

3. Automatic swinging garage door. They can rightly be considered classics. These traditional gates are the most familiar to us. They can open inside or out. Gate leafs can be forged , from sandwich panels, and also from one-two-layer corrugated cloth.

Advantages of such gates are in the simplicity of their design and reliability, relative cheapness and high resistance to burglary. Equipped with an automatic drive, they are not inferior to other types of gates for comfort of use. The only significant disadvantage is that there must be a lot of free space before opening for them.

4. Automatic rolling garage doors. Such a gate consists of a multitude of small sections up to 10 cm wide. The canvas, when opened, is wound on the shaft in the box. The box can be placed inside or outside the garage. This type of gate is easy to use, it is widely used not only for garages, but also in shops, restaurants and other institutions.

The main advantages of this type of automatic gate are compactness, simple installation, low cost.