Seceuroglide Classic with Full Hood woodgrain finish (7 Colour Options) Insulated Roller door garage door Aluminium Seceuroglide

Seceuroglide Classic with Full Hood – woodgrain finish (7 Colour Options)

The Seceuroglide Classic, also catalogued as the Seceuroglide Original, is widely regarded across the UK as the benchmark insulated electric roller garage door. Designed and manufactured in Britain by physical security specialist SWS UK, it combines decades of continuous engineering refinement with commercial security shutter heritage. This premium edition pairs the Classic's whisper quiet, patented mechanical design with high grade exterior Renolit woodgrain foil laminates and a fully enclosing aluminium hood box as standard.

Supplied made to measure down to your exact millimetre requirements at no extra cost, this door rolls vertically overhead to preserve your full driveway parking area and clear opening width. It delivers the authentic look and feel of real timber without any of the regular sanding, staining, or rot treatment associated with traditional wooden doors.

The Advantage of Renolit Woodgrain Foil Laminates

Unlike standard painted roller doors that use a flat paint or powder coating, the Seceuroglide Classic Woodgrain model uses multi layer Renolit exterior polymer foils bonded under heat and pressure directly to the double skinned aluminium slats:

• Authentic Timber Grain Texture: The exterior foil features an embossed woodgrain texture that replicates real sawn timber, eliminating the flat appearance of painted alternatives.
• Seamless uPVC Window Matching: Specifically engineered to coordinate with woodgrain foiled uPVC window frames, fascias, and composite front doors across traditional oak, mahogany, and contemporary architectural greys.
• Superior Scratch and UV Resistance: The hard wearing acrylic surface layer resists scratching, stone chips, and sun bleaching, ensuring the door looks pristine year after year.
• Extended 10 Year Finish Warranty: Because foil laminate technology offers superior outdoor durability over standard paint coatings, SWS UK backs the woodgrain finish with an extended 10 year manufacturer guarantee.

Why Choose a Full Hood Enclosure?

A full hood cover consists of an aluminium front fascia panel and backbox that completely encloses the coiled curtain, drive barrel, and endplates when the door is open. Choosing this complete enclosure provides distinct practical benefits:

• A Clean, Finished Internal Appearance: Hides the rotating mechanical roll out of sight, presenting a neat, self contained box appearance against your garage wall or ceiling. It also shields the coiled curtain from airborne dust, sawdust, and grit, reducing surface marking on the slats over years of daily use.
• Full Enclosure for Reveal Installations: When installing between the brickwork opening reveals rather than behind, the full hood boxes in the curtain roll completely from both the inside and outside, eliminating the need for separate on site timber or PVC fascia cladding.
• External Face Fitting: If you are installing the roller door on the outside face of your garage, a full hood is essential. It protects the barrel, motor, and locking mechanism from driving rain and wind, while preventing external tampering with the roll. * Note: External installations require minor specification adjustments, so please contact our team to confirm details before ordering.
• Enhanced Draught & Weather Proofing: Enclosing the upper coil cuts down top edge draughts and weather ingress, working alongside the dense guide brush pile and bottom rubber seal to keep your garage warmer and cleaner.

The Quietest Roller Door Available: Patented Continuous Webbing

A common complaint with standard roller garage doors is the rattling noise and chattering they develop during travel. On budget doors, this is caused by cheap plastic end clips linking the slats together, which wear down, break, and rub against metal guides over time.

SWS engineered out this problem on the Seceuroglide Classic / Original by introducing a patented continuous nylon webbing system. This hard wearing webbing runs down both outer edges of the curtain, binding the double skinned aluminium slats into a unified, flexible curtain. The webbing acts as a natural vibration dampener, keeping the curtain tracking square and eliminating metal on metal friction. The result is exceptionally quiet, smooth travel that outlasts plastic clip arrangements by years.

Security Built In as Standard: Police Approved Protection

Because SWS originated as a manufacturer of heavy duty commercial security shutters, the Seceuroglide Classic / Original features physical engineering that exceeds standard domestic doors. It carries official Secured by Design Police Preferred Specification status straight out of the box:

• Patented Automatic Locking: High strength aluminium auto lock collars mechanically clamp the curtain down every time the door closes. There are no manual key locks or bolts to remember, and the mechanism physically prevents the door leaf from being forced or levered upward from the base.
• Oversized 100mm Fluted Steel Axle: Built on a heavy gauge 100mm fluted steel barrel rather than the narrower 70mm tubes common to budget doors. This oversized axle eliminates barrel deflection across wider spans, creating a flatter curtain roll and noticeably faster opening and closing speeds.
• Heavy Duty Extruded Guide Channels: Side guides are extruded from thick architectural aluminium rather than thin rolled sheet metal, keeping the curtain anchored in its tracks during severe weather or attempted forced entry.
• Galvanised Steel End Plates: Structural end plates supporting the barrel assembly are pressed from galvanised steel, providing far greater structural rigidity than standard cast aluminium plates.

Motor, Controls, and Comprehensive 7 Year Warranty

Every Seceuroglide Classic / Original is automated as standard with the powerful SeceuroDrive tubular motor, which includes a manual override winding facility for opening or closing the door during power cuts. Both the electric motor and the SeceuroSense Plus control unit are backed by a comprehensive 7 year manufacturer warranty from SWS UK.

The wall mounted SeceuroSense Plus control unit acts as your internal push button station and receiver:

• Timed LED Courtesy Light: Automatically illuminates your garage interior when the door operates, staying on for several minutes to allow safe parking at night.
• Handset Choices: Supplied with two rolling code transmitters using encrypted frequencies to stop code grabbing. When ordering, you can select from the large tactile Plus handsets, modern Smooth keyring fobs, or traditional Classic transmitters.
• Bottom Slat Optical Safety Edge: Built in optical light sensors housed inside the bottom rubber weather seal immediately detect obstacles, stopping and reversing the door to protect vehicles, pets, and children.
• Front Cover Push Controls: Integrated buttons allow direct internal operation without needing a remote control, while external diagnostic LEDs allow quick status checks without opening the casing.

Ordering Dimensions and Made to Measure Sizing

Every Seceuroglide Classic / Original door is purpose made to your exact millimetre measurements at no additional charge. Ordering sizes refer to the Overall Door Width (including side guides) and the Guide Height (floor to underside of the hood box).

When planning your installation, please allow for the 300mm x 300mm full hood enclosure directly above your guide height to ensure you have sufficient clear headroom inside the garage.

* Always allow proper fitting tolerance when measuring your opening. A level floor across the threshold ensures the optical safety edge and bottom weather seal bed down evenly on every cycle.

How to Order Your Seceuroglide Classic with Full Hood – Woodgrain Options Guide

Every Seceuroglide Classic (Original) Woodgrain roller door is custom manufactured down to the exact millimetre to suit your garage opening, supplied with an exterior Renolit woodgrain foil finish and a fully enclosed aluminium hood box as standard. When configuring your door online, work through the ordering steps below to select your sizes, woodgrain finishes, handing, fitting position, and automation upgrades.

1. Sizing: Selecting Your 'Up to' Pricing Bracket and Exact Dimensions

Our ordering menus use 'Up to' size brackets for online pricing, based on the Overall Door Width (including side guides) and the Guide Height (height from the floor to the underside of the full hood box, excluding the 300mm box itself above):

• Select Your 'Up to' Size: Choose the nearest 'up to' width and height bands from the drop down menus that cover your overall dimensions. For example, if your required overall width is 2450mm and guide height is 2150mm, select 'Up to 2600mm' for width and 'Up to 2200mm' for height.
• Provide Your Exact Sizes: Enter your exact required overall width and guide height into the dimension boxes when proceeding to checkout. SWS will fabricate your door to these precise measurements at no extra cost.

2. Door Curtain Woodgrain Foil Finish (Extended 10 Year Warranty)

Unlike standard painted finishes, these doors use high grade Renolit exterior woodgrain foil laminates bonded directly to the aluminium slats. This durable, multi layer coating provides superior resistance against UV fading, weathering, and surface scratches, carrying an extended 10 year manufacturer finish warranty compared to the 5 year term on standard paint finishes.

Choose from our 7 standard architectural woodgrain foil options to coordinate with your home:

• Golden Oak: Warm, classic mid oak grain. The ideal match for traditional Golden Oak / Light Oak uPVC windows and composite entrance doors.
• Rosewood: Deep, rich reddish brown timber tone suited to darker uPVC window profiles and red brick or stone properties.
• Mahogany: Distinctive dark reddish brown hue designed for heritage properties and established dark timber joinery.
• Irish Oak: Subtle, lighter natural oak grain with a contemporary Scandinavian feel, matching modern Irish Oak window frames.
• Anthracite Woodgrain: Deep charcoal grey with an authentic embossed woodgrain texture, perfect for modern homes with textured RAL 7016 uPVC windows.
• Black Woodgrain: Bold, striking black with a tactile timber grain pattern, coordinating with contemporary black architectural cladding and entrance doors.
• White Woodgrain: Clean white finish featuring a subtle embossed grain, offering texture and depth over flat white paint.

* Looking for a different species or non standard textured foil? SWS offers over 30 further Renolit foil options. Contact our team for pricing and samples.

3. Side Guide Channel Finish

The extruded aluminium guide rails are supplied in either White or Dark Brown as standard to complement your brickwork and foil selection. Alternatively, you can select the option to have the side guides factory powder coated in a complementary colour to match your chosen woodgrain curtain.

4. Full Hood Cover Colour

Because this model comes complete with an aluminium top box enclosure to fully conceal the 100mm barrel and protect the coiled slats, you can choose how it is finished:

• Standard Hood Finishes: Supplied in satin White or Dark Brown as standard to blend with traditional soffits, fascias, or brickwork.
• Colour Coordinated Hood: Have your full hood box factory powder coated to complement your chosen woodgrain finish (such as RAL 7016 Anthracite or RAL 9005 Black) for a uniform external appearance.

5. Electric Motor and Manual Override Handing

Choose which side you require the electric tubular barrel motor to be positioned on, selected as either Left Hand Drive or Right Hand Drive (viewed from inside the garage looking out).

The internal emergency manual release winding eyelet and crank handle are always situated on the same side as the motor unit, so ensure this side provides practical, unobstructed access inside your garage.

6. Door Installation Position & Hood Box Supports

Specify how the door will be fixed relative to your garage opening piers and lintel. On wider openings, intermediary hood support brackets are included to prevent lid deflection and ensure long term stability of the enclosure:

• Inside Face Fit (Recommended): Fitted to the internal brickwork face behind the opening. Keeps the guides and top box concealed behind the reveals to maximise clear drive through width and height.
• Inbetween the Opening (Reveal Fit): Fitted between the structural opening piers and directly under the lintel. The full hood neatly encloses the roll from both inside and outside.
• Inside Face Fit with Centre Hood Support: For wider openings installed behind the piers, an intermediate upper support bracket is supplied to anchor the full hood box firmly to the lintel, eliminating cover flex.
• Inbetween Opening with Centre Hood Support: For wider reveal fixed installations, an overhead intermediate bracket secures the box directly to the underside of the lintel for complete cover rigidity.

* As a rule of thumb, wider doors spanning over 3000mm benefit from intermediate hood supports to brace the box profile across the span.

7. Optional External Low Level Manual Override System

Every door comes with an internal manual crank handle for power failures. However, if your garage has no separate pedestrian access door or connecting integral house door, you must order an external manual release system:

• This heavy duty, lockable low level keyed disconnect allows you to disengage the motor and wind the door open from the outside using a crank handle if the power fails.
• The external release is installed on the same side as your motor selection.
• Supplied as standard to pass through brickwork walls up to 500mm thick (the 7mm hex drive shaft can be extended on site if passing through deeper reveals).

8. Optional Alarm Kit for the SeceuroSense Plus Control Panel

For standard SeceuroSense Plus systems, you can add an optional plug in acoustic alarm card. Housed directly inside the internal wall control panel, this sensor triggers an ear piercing siren if forced lifting or tampering is detected at the bottom of the door when closed.

9. Upgrade to Somfy Electric Motor Drive & Somfy Rollixo Premium IO Control Panel

Upgrade your complete drive package to Somfy’s flagship IO homecontrol platform:

• Built In 100dB Tamper Alarm: Housed directly inside the Rollixo panel, sounding immediately if the curtain is forced upward.
• Real Time Door Status Feedback: Two way communication confirms whether the garage door is fully open, closed, or partially positioned directly on your smartphone app or multi channel remote.
• Smart Home Ready: Seamlessly pairs with the Somfy TaHoma switch hub and Somfy smart apps for automated routines, voice assistant control, and remote access from anywhere.
• Transmitters Included: Supplied with 2 x Somfy Keygo 4 channel IO keyfob transmitters as standard.

Seceuroglide Classic with Full Hood – woodgrain finish (7 Colour Options) Technical Specification

The Seceuroglide Classic, also catalogued as the Seceuroglide Original, with Full Hood and woodgrain finish represents the premier specification in domestic roller garage doors. Manufactured in Lancaster by SWS UK, this model features exterior Renolit foil laminates, a full aluminium hood enclosure, patented continuous webbing, an oversized 100mm barrel, and Secured by Design police accreditation as standard.

Renolit Woodgrain Foil Curtain Specification & 10 Year Warranty

The curtain slats are constructed from 77mm twin walled aluminium sections filled with CFC free insulating polyurethane foam. The exterior surface is bonded with a multi layer, embossed Renolit polymer foil:

• 7 Standard Architectural Woodgrains: Golden Oak, Rosewood, Mahogany, Irish Oak, Anthracite Woodgrain, Black Woodgrain, and White Woodgrain.
• Extended 10 Year Finish Guarantee: Supported by SWS UK with an extended 10 year manufacturer warranty against blistering, cracking, flaking, and severe UV degradation (compared to 5 years on painted finishes).
• Tactile Embossed Texture: Authentic grain profile designed to coordinate directly with modern foiled uPVC window frames, fascias, and composite entrance doors.

7 Standard Woodgrain Finishes

* Side guides and full hood box come in satin white or dark brown as standard. Guides and hood covers can be factory colour coordinated to suit your curtain choice upon request.

What Is Included as Standard

• Patented Continuous Webbing System: Hard wearing nylon webbing bonded along the curtain edges replaces noisy plastic end clips, delivering quiet running, square tracking, and extended slat life.
• Full Aluminium Hood Enclosure: 300mm x 300mm powder coated aluminium top box that completely encloses the coil, endplates, and motor drive for enhanced safety, weather protection, and a clean finish.
• Oversized 100mm Fluted Axle: Heavy gauge 100mm fluted steel barrel that prevents axle sag across wide spans and provides faster curtain travel.
• Patented Auto Locking Collars: Heavy duty mechanical locking blocks clamp the curtain down firmly on closure to resist forced lifting.
• Secured by Design Accreditation: Police Preferred Specification certified as standard without optional security packs.
• Widespan Guide Channels: Extruded aluminium side guides (75mm or 90mm depending on door width) pre fitted with dense brush pile weatherstripping. Supplied in white or brown as standard.
• SeceuroDrive Electric Tubular Motor: Reliable high torque internal barrel drive backed by a 7 year manufacturer warranty.
• SeceuroSense Plus Control Panel: Wall mounted receiver box featuring front cover push buttons, diagnostic LEDs, and an integrated timed LED courtesy light.
• Two Remote Transmitters: 2 x rolling code handheld keyfobs using encrypted transmission frequencies to prevent code grabbing.
• Bottom Slat Optical Safety Edge: Legal, fully compliant bottom edge optical safety system with a shaped rubber seal that stops and reverses immediately if an obstruction is met.
• Internal Emergency Manual Release: Direct winding eyelet and manual crank handle to operate the door during a power cut.
• Made to Measure: Precision factory built to your exact opening dimensions down to the millimetre.

Ordering and Sizing Guidelines

Pricing for the Seceuroglide Classic is based on overall door width including side guides and guide height, which is the height from the floor to the underside of the 300mm full hood box:

• Example Calculation: For a clear daylight opening 2300mm wide x 2200mm high installed on the inside face of the brickwork piers, you need 75mm guides on each side (2300mm + 150mm = 2450mm over guide width) and a 2200mm guide height. For pricing, select the Up to 2600mm width bracket and the Up to 2200mm height bracket.
• Headroom Requirement: Allow 300mm of clear headroom above the guide channels to accommodate the 300mm x 300mm full hood enclosure.
• Drive Handing: Motor drive side (left or right, viewed from inside looking out) must be specified when ordering. The manual override eyelet and crank handle exit on the same side as the motor.
• Between Fix Advantages: Because this door includes a full hood box as standard, it is completely self contained and suitable for fitting between the opening without needing on site timber or PVC fascias to cover the back of the roll.

Optional Extras and Automation Upgrades

• Colour Coordinated Full Hood: Upgrade the standard white or brown hood cover to a complementary solid finish (such as Anthracite Grey or Black) for a uniform appearance.
• Somfy Rollixo Premium IO Drive Package: Upgrades the motor and control unit to the Somfy IO platform, featuring a built in 100dB tamper alarm, high output LED light, real time status feedback, and 2 x Somfy Keygo 4 channel remote handsets.
• Smart App & Home Automation: Connects with Somfy TaHoma switch hubs for smartphone access, remote scheduling, and voice assistant integration when paired with the Somfy Rollixo IO system.
• Integral Control Box Alarm: Plug in acoustic alarm module housed directly inside the standard SeceuroSense Plus control unit.
• External Low Level Manual Release: Keyed external disconnect fitted through the wall with a 7mm hex bar (suits walls up to 500mm thick; extendable on site for deeper reveals). Essential for garages with no separate pedestrian entrance.
• Sloping Bottom Slat: Custom fabricated bottom rail engineered to sit flush against sloping garage thresholds of up to 250mm incline.
• Access Accessories: Wireless external digital keypads, surface mounted key switches, and additional handsets.

Seceuroglide Classic with Full Hood – woodgrain finish (7 Colour Options) Installation Guidance

Fitting a Seceuroglide Classic roller garage door with a full hood enclosure is straightforward for an experienced tradesperson or competent DIYer. Because this model features an oversized 100mm barrel, patented continuous webbing, and a self contained 300mm x 300mm aluminium box, setting up the frame square and level ensures the door operates with its signature quietness and reliable safety performance.

1. Pre Installation Checks and Tolerances

Before unpacking the door components, verify the opening structure and dimensions:

• Floor Levelness: Check the garage threshold with a long spirit level. The floor must be reasonably level across the opening width. An uneven threshold prevents the bottom rubber seal and optical safety edge from seating squarely, which can trigger nuisance safety reversals when closing.
• Structural Soundness: Ensure the brickwork piers and lintel are flat, plumb, and free of obstructions (such as conduit, alarm sensors, or gas meters). The fixing face must support the weight of the assembly and the operating motor torque.
• Headroom and Pier Clearances: Confirm you have a minimum of 300mm clear headroom above the guide height for the full hood enclosure, along with at least 75mm (or 90mm for doors over 3000mm wide) on each internal pier to mount the guide channels.

2. Assembling the Frame and Securing the Hood Enclosure

Building the structural frame square is the most critical stage of the installation:

• Attach Guides to Hood Endplates: Lay the extruded guide channels flat on clean cardboard or dust sheets. Slot the legs of the heavy duty cast endplates (already mounted to the backbox panel) directly into the tops of the side guides.
• Check Diagonals for Squareness: Lift the assembled guide and hood frame into position against the garage opening. Use a tape measure to check diagonally from the top corner of one endplate to the opposite bottom corner of the guide. Both diagonal measurements must match exactly.
• Fixing into Masonry: Plumb both guides vertically with a spirit level and clamp them into place. Drill and plug through the pre drilled fixing holes into solid masonry using suitable heavy duty fixings.
• Intermediate Hood Supports (Wider Doors): If intermediate hood support brackets are supplied for wider spans, secure them firmly into the lintel overhead to brace the box profile and prevent cover flex.

3. Mounting the Oversized 100mm Axle Barrel

The uprated 100mm fluted steel barrel ensures rigidity across the span and houses the motor:

• Lift Axle into the Hood: Secure the motor head into its dedicated mounting bracket on your chosen drive side endplate, ensuring the manual override eyelet faces forward or downward for easy hook engagement through the hood fascia.
• Secure the Dummy End Bearing: Mount the opposite end of the barrel into the heavy duty bearing on the non motor endplate, ensuring it is seated flat, level, and securely pinned.
• Check Axle Level: Place a spirit level directly across the 100mm barrel. The axle must be completely level to ensure the patented continuous webbing feeds down both side guides evenly.

4. Hanging the Curtain and Setting Patented Autolocks

Take care when unwrapping the curtain to avoid scratching the textured woodgrain foil finish on the floor:

• Feeding Webbed Curtain into Guides: With the axle secured and motor limits roughly positioned, carefully feed the top edge of the curtain over the barrel and guide the continuous webbing edges down into the brush lined channels.
• Attaching Locking Collars: Connect the heavy duty auto locking straps evenly spaced across the top slat into the dedicated 100mm axle collar slots.
• Setting the Down Locking Position: When the door is fully closed, the locking collars should form a slight downward 'knuckle' angle against the barrel. This mechanical angle clamps the curtain firmly down, meeting Secured by Design requirements and preventing anyone from levering the door open from outside.
• Fitting the Front Hood Cover: Once the curtain is running smoothly and limits are set, hook the front curved aluminium cover into position on the endplates and secure it with the provided rivets or self tapping screws.

5. Commissioning the Motor, Safety Edge, and Controls

Once mechanically hung, wire the control panel and complete the final safety setup:

• Mounting the Control Unit: Fix the SeceuroSense or Somfy Rollixo receiver panel to an internal wall at approximately chest height, within reach of a standard 13 amp domestic power socket.
• Setting Limit Stops: Set the mechanical or digital motor limits so the curtain stops neatly at the top (leaving the bottom slat resting just below the top of the guides inside the hood) and seals firmly against the floor at the bottom without over compressing the locking collars.
• Optical Safety Edge Testing: Pair the wireless transmitter in the bottom rubber seal with the receiver board. Test the safety system by placing a 50mm timber block on the floor beneath the door path. On making contact, the door must immediately stop and reverse upward.
• Emergency Override Test: Disconnect the mains power and test the manual crank handle to confirm the door can be wound open smoothly by hand in the event of a power failure.

* If you fitted an optional external low level manual release, test key operation from the outside to confirm the hex bar turns the motor gearbox freely before leaving the site.

Details on the SeceuroDrive Motor Limit Setting Instructions can be watched here.

Seceuroglide Manufacturer Warranty (SWS UK & Garage Doors Online)

When you purchase a Seceuroglide Classic roller garage door through Garage Doors Online, you receive direct manufacturer backing from SWS UK. Manufacturing physical security products in Lancaster since 1985 and trusted on more than 200,000 British homes, SWS provides one of the most comprehensive, transparent warranty packages in the UK garage door sector.

Unlike imported budget roller doors with vague importer guarantees, every Seceuroglide Classic door leaf, full hood enclosure, motor drive, and control panel carries clear, independently supported coverage terms.

Comprehensive Warranty Summary

What Makes the SWS & Garage Doors Online Warranty Different?

• Direct Manufacturer Backing: Your warranty is supported directly by SWS UK, an ISO 9001 certified British manufacturer. If a component ever needs replacement, replacement parts are readily available and built to factory tolerances.
• Full 7 Year Automation Cover: While many suppliers limit electrical motor warranties to 1 or 2 years, SWS guarantees their automation drive units and control boards for a full 7 years, giving you long term confidence in daily automated operation.
• Direct Technical Support: As an official SWS distributor, Garage Doors Online provides direct access to factory technical staff, wiring diagrams, and spare parts support throughout the working life of your door.

Straightforward Maintenance Requirements

To keep your SeceuroGlide warranty fully valid, your door simply requires basic, sensible care:

• Keep Guide Channels Clear: Periodically wipe out the aluminium side guides and brush pile strips with a damp cloth to clear away grit, salt deposits, and debris. Do not apply heavy grease or oil to the brush strips.
• Wash the Curtain and Hood Finish: Clean the outside face of the aluminium slats and full hood cover every few months with warm soapy water (car shampoo works well) and a soft cloth, especially in coastal areas where airborne salt can accumulate.
• Maintain Threshold Clearance: Ensure the floor beneath the door remains free of stones, ice build up, and leaf litter so the optical safety edge and rubber seal seat flat and true on every closure cycle.

* Always register your door serial number with SWS UK following installation to activate your extended manufacturer warranty records.

How to Measure for Your SeceuroGlide Roller Door

When ordering a SeceuroGlide Classic roller garage door with a full hood, getting your measurements right from the start avoids delays and guarantees a clean fit. Use this guide alongside our 3D dimension drawing to identify exactly what to measure and how to specify your ordering sizes.

* SWS manufacture your door to the exact millimetre sizes you enter at checkout. The online ordering sizes always refer to the Overall Width (including side guide channels) and the Guide Height (floor to underside of the full hood box), not the opening hole size.

Understanding the Key Ordering Dimensions

Important: Hood Box and Endplate Sizes Based on Door Height

Because taller curtains hold more rolled aluminium slats around the 100mm barrel, the coiled roll diameter increases with height. SWS supply two distinct hood box and endplate sizes based on your ordering height:

• Doors Under 3000mm Guide Height: Supplied with standard 300mm x 300mm endplates and full hood box, requiring 300mm of clear headroom above the guide channels.
• Doors at 3000mm Guide Height or Higher: Supplied with larger 350mm x 350mm endplates and full hood box, requiring a full 350mm of clear headroom above the guide channels to accommodate the larger roll diameter.

Option A: Installing Behind the Opening (Inside Face Fit – Recommended)

Fitting behind the brickwork piers gives you the greatest drive through width and clearance height:

• Measure the Daylight Width: Measure the clear distance between the internal faces of your brick piers at top, middle, and bottom. Use the narrowest measurement.
• Calculate Over Guide Width: Add the two guide widths to your daylight opening width. For doors up to 3000mm wide using 75mm guides, add 150mm (e.g., 2300mm opening + 150mm = 2450mm Ordering Width). Ensure you have at least 75mm of flat pier face on each side inside the garage.
• Measure Daylight Height (Guide Height): Measure from the finished floor to the underside of your lintel at both sides. If the floor is level, this measurement is your Guide Ordering Height.
• Check Your Headroom: Confirm you have sufficient unobstructed headroom above the underside of the lintel inside the garage: allow 300mm on heights under 3000mm, or 350mm on heights of 3000mm and above.

Option B: Installing Inbetween the Opening (Reveal Fit)

Used when internal headroom or side pier space is limited, fixing directly between the reveals. The full hood neatly finishes the door from both inside and outside:

• Measure the Width Between Reveals: Measure between the brickwork opening at three heights (top, middle, bottom). Take the smallest figure and subtract a 10mm fitting tolerance (5mm per side) to arrive at your Over Guide Ordering Width. This ensures the frame fits cleanly between rough or out of plumb brickwork.
• Calculate Guide Ordering Height: Measure from the finished floor to the underside of the lintel. Deduct the height of the full hood box—300mm for heights under 3000mm, or 350mm for heights of 3000mm and above—to calculate your Guide Ordering Height. The remaining space below the box becomes your clear drive through height.

Essential Measuring Tips Before Finalising Your Order

• Check the Floor Level: Place a long spirit level across the threshold. The optical safety edge and bottom weather seal need a reasonably level floor across the entire opening to bed down correctly without triggering false safety reversals.
• Inspect the Lintel and Ceiling Depth: Check back into the garage behind the lintel to ensure no ceiling joists, light fittings, gas pipes, or roof trusses clash with the full hood box. Allow at least 350mm depth for standard 300mm boxes, and 400mm depth for the larger 350mm boxes.
• Double Check Sideroom Obstructions: Confirm the internal pier surfaces are clear of consumer units, surface mounted conduit, or shelving where the guide channels and fixing angles will mount.

* If your opening is out of square or you are unsure which dimensions apply to your 3D drawing, contact our team with your measurements before ordering and we will gladly verify your ordering sizes.