Carteck Solid (39 Colour Options) Insulated Sectional Door Steel Carteck

CarTeck Made to Measure Solid Insulated Sectional Garage Door

The completely flat, unribbed design of the CarTeck Solid model is brilliant for modern homes, flat rendered properties, and contemporary extensions. In the UK, we see a huge number of non standard garage openings, particularly on self builds, bespoke architectural projects, or older properties that have been renovated over the years. Because this specific door is made to measure, it is manufactured to the exact millimetre of your opening. This means you avoid the common headache of using large plastic infill panels or timber packing to make a standard size door fit. The result is a much cleaner visual finish that gives you the absolute maximum drive through width and height available.

Why buy this door: If you have a non standard garage opening and want a completely flat, modern door that maximises your drive through space while keeping the garage warm and highly secure, this purpose built model is the perfect solution.

Why an insulated sectional door works for British garages

A 40mm double skin insulated steel panel completely changes how a UK garage feels inside. When you pair that thick panel with the heavy duty rubber seals that run around the entire frame and between every individual section, it physically blocks out cold wind, driving rain, and street dust. The door lifts straight up vertically, so there is no outward kick into the driveway. This means you can park a car right up against the garage without worrying about clearance space, which is incredibly useful for properties with shorter drives.

Key features of the Made to Measure Solid door

• Bespoke manufacturing: Built to your exact millimetre dimensions, ensuring a tight, draught free fit and maximising your usable opening space
• Industry leading colour options: Widest range of standard finished colours for any sectional garage door, to suit UK properties
• Formidable physical strength: 40mm double skin insulated steel panels give you genuine day to day durability and excellent resistance against break ins
• Proven thermal efficiency: Independently tested whole door U value of 1.38 W/m²K keeps the cold weather out and the warmth in
• Total weather protection: Heavy duty seals between panels, against the side frame legs, and across the floor threshold drastically cut moisture and draughts
• Fully certified: CE and UKCA marked, and independently tested to current safety, wind, and water performance standards

Window and glazing options

Adding windows to a completely flat door face works incredibly well visually. Because there are no traditional ribs or cassettes to work around, factory fitted windows sit perfectly flush. You can choose anything from simple square units to contemporary stainless steel portholes and full width vision strips to match the modern look of the building. The glazing itself uses a scratch resistant double pane polymer, available in clear, frosted, satin, or tinted finishes, giving you complete control over how much natural light comes in and how much privacy you maintain.

Electric automation and active security

Pairing this bespoke door with a CarTeck DRIVE or MOTOR electric operator makes daily use effortless, allowing you to open the garage straight from the warmth of your car. These motors run quietly and include a smart force monitoring system that instantly stops and reverses the door if it hits an obstacle. They also provide serious security, using an active anti force system that pushes back with 60kg of downward pressure if someone tries to lever the door up from the bottom. You can operate the system using handheld remotes, internal wall buttons, or smart app control via SOMweb or myQ on your phone.

Colours and exterior finishes

• 50 standard UK colours: A massive choice of standard finishes, including the most popular greys, blacks, creams, and realistic wood effects
• Custom RAL matching: If you need a precise match for a specific front door or aluminium window frame, the door can be painted in almost any custom RAL colour
• Surface textures: The flat Solid design can be pressed in up to four different external surface textures, such as smooth, stucco, or woodgrain, at no extra cost
• Seamless visual finish: Colour matched frame legs and header cover profiles are available to make sure the entire installation blends seamlessly into the brickwork or render

Springs and precision running gear

For bespoke sizes up to 5500mm wide, the lifting springs are pre tensioned and tucked safely out of the way high up in the horizontal roof tracks. This keeps the mechanical parts tidy and preserves your usable wall space inside the garage. The precision running gear gives a well balanced, quiet action that does not put any unnecessary strain on the electric motor over time. Both the door and the operator are tested together as a complete unit before receiving their CE and UKCA marking, meaning you are investing in a fully certified system rather than a compromised mix of different brands.

Designed and Built for UK Properties

CarTeck sectional doors are engineered specifically to handle the demands of British homes. They are built to cope with our unpredictable climate, offering solid weather protection, excellent physical security, and high levels of thermal efficiency. What sets CarTeck apart is their approach to sizing. Instead of forcing you into a handful of standard dimensions, they manufacture these doors as a purpose made, exact to measure fit for your specific garage. Whether you have a compact single garage at 2 metres wide, or a massive double opening up to 8 metres across, the door is built to fit the space seamlessly.

40mm Insulated Panel Construction

The door itself uses an eight layer construction based around 40mm thick panels. These are made from two 0.4mm galvanised steel skins bonded tightly to a highly stable insulated foam core. This is finished off with heavy duty adhesion primers and a sealed top coat to make sure the surface stands up to daily wear and tear. Because of this robust build, the complete door achieves an independently tested thermal insulation U-value of 1.38 W/m²K, while the panels on their own test incredibly well at 0.56 W/m²K.

Heavy Duty Weather Sealing

To keep the weather outside where it belongs, comprehensive rubber sealing runs right around the door. You will find flexible seals at the top frame header, straight down both side legs, and running horizontally between every single door panel. Across the floor, a heavy duty rubber threshold seal finishes the job. If your garage floor is not completely level, Teckentrup can even manufacture a bespoke sloping bottom panel to match the floor angle precisely. On top of that, the vertical steel frame legs sit on a special plastic base foot, which keeps the steel off the damp floor and stops rust from creeping up the frame.

Tested and Certified Performance

Every CarTeck sectional door goes through independent testing and carries both CE and UKCA marking, meaning it fully complies with current safety and building regulations. These doors are built to handle the daily grind of residential use while meeting strict European performance standards across the board.

The Widest Colour Choice Available

CarTeck gives you the widest standard colour choice on the UK sectional door market, making it simple to find an exact match for your property. There are 50 standard UK colours ready to go, broken down into 20 Trend colours, 20 Trend+ colours, 6 Satin options (which carry a small extra cost), and 4 very realistic wood effect finishes.

If none of those 50 standard options work for you, CarTeck can also finish your door in ANY custom RAL colour for an additional charge, giving you complete flexibility.

20 Trend Colours (Standard 30% Gloss and Special Effects)

20 Trend+ Colours (Standard 30% Gloss)

6 Trend Satin Colours (10% Gloss Extra Cost)

4 Wood Effects

Frame Colour Options

As standard, the fixing frame legs and head section come in a smooth White finish (RAL 9016). If the frame is going to be visible once installed, you can choose a colour matched upgrade at an extra cost. This allows the frame to blend in perfectly with the door, or you can choose a contrasting colour if that suits the design of the property better.

Made to Measure Sizing Categories

Because these doors are made to measure, they are built to the exact millimetre you need. To make things clear, the sizes are broken down into three categories depending on the scale of your opening:

Installation Position and Ordering Measurements

The standard and most straightforward way to install these doors is fitting behind the reveal (inside the garage, behind the brickwork). This method means no fixing holes are visible on the front of the frame.

Fitting Between the Brickwork Opening:
If you need to fit the door directly between the brickwork pillars, you will need to add the Inbetween Opening Installation Kit. This adapts the steel frame for a between fit. When fitting this way, the frame legs will have visible factory drilled holes that you will need to cover with a cloaking strip (which is not included). When calculating your ordering width for a between fit, you need to deduct 180mm from your structural opening width, and always remember to allow for some fitting tolerance so you are not squeezing it in tight.

Height Deductions for Ordering:
When ordering an electrically operated door, deduct 140mm from your opening height to get the correct ordering height. If you are using the optional twist fix header bracket, that deduction drops to 120mm. If you are ordering a manually operated door, deduct 120mm.

Please note that for any door heights over 2250mm, the frame legs cannot be supplied undrilled.

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Hardware Options

Handle: These doors do not come with an external handle as standard. If you are planning to use the door manually rather than with an electric motor, you will need to add a handle option to your order.

External Emergency Release: If the garage has no other way in, an external emergency release is fitted as standard in the top left hand corner, allowing you to manually open the door from the outside in the event of a power cut.

Springs and Lifting Gear

On the standard size doors up to 5500mm wide, CarTeck uses a market leading spring system with the lifting springs completely concealed high up in the horizontal tracks. This keeps the mechanism tidy and delivers an incredibly smooth and quiet operation. On the larger XL and SuperSize models, the system changes to heavy duty rear mounted torsion springs with reinforced panel profiles to safely handle the extra weight of the massive door leaves. Regardless of size, all the doors use strong galvanised steel roller blocks and ball bearing runners to make sure the door runs quietly and lasts for years.

Electric Automation

Teckentrup matches these doors with smart, highly capable electric operators. These motors actively monitor the force needed to move the door, and crucially, they feature an active anti force system that pushes back with 60kg of force if someone tries to lever the door open from the bottom. The CarTeck DRIVE and CarTeck MOTOR units give you smooth, reliable operation, built in LED lighting, and options for smart home control straight from your phone.

CarTeck Drive 600N: The Drive 600N motor has plenty of power to lift any door within the standard size range. The control unit and drive sit neatly above the door, using a fixed chain drive system which is noticeably quieter and much more reliable long term than traditional moving belt or revolving chain designs.

Safer, Simpler Installation with Preloaded Tension Springs

Unlike many other sectional garage doors that rely on complex and potentially dangerous high-tension torsion springs mounted directly above the door, the CarTeck system utilises a far safer, multi-spring tension system.

To make installation as straightforward and safe as possible, all single layer spring trays for standard CarTeck doors are now supplied fully pre-assembled straight from the factory. The high level tension springs come preloaded within their fully enclosed steel trays, complete with the lifting cables already perfectly routed and retained by anti-twist brackets. This incredibly smart design not only prevents dirt from entering the mechanism, boosting durability, but it also dramatically speeds up the installation process on site. The multiple spring system evenly balances the weight of the door panels, whilst the dual retaining cables reliably support the door in all situations, meaning it remains safe and operational even in an emergency. Because the springs are safely housed within these steel channels, tensioning the door is significantly safer and easier than wrestling with an exposed torsion spring bar.

Need Professional Installation Help?

If you have reviewed the process and decided that a DIY installation isn't right for you, we are here to help. We have a network of trusted, independent garage door installers covering many parts of the UK. We can put you in direct contact with a highly experienced local tradesperson who can survey your garage, discuss your options, and provide a professional installation service to ensure your new CarTeck door operates flawlessly for years to come. Please contact our sales team to find a recommended installer in your area.

Installation Instructions are provided with every door or can be found here.

Warranty for CarTeck Insulated Sectional Garage Doors

CarTeck insulated sectional garage doors supplied by Garage Doors Online are backed by a comprehensive manufacturer’s warranty from Teckentrup, giving homeowners added confidence in the long term performance, durability and reliability of their garage door. The warranty applies to products used under normal domestic conditions and is designed to cover key structural, mechanical and operational components.

Warranty Cover

• 10-year warranty on door panels against rust penetration from the inside out.
• 10-year warranty on panel construction against separation of the steel skin from the insulating foam core.
• 10-year warranty on non moving frame components against material defects.
• 10-year warranty on floor, intermediate, side and lintel seals against rotting.
• 5-year warranty on moving hardware, including rollers, hinges, cables and standard springs.
• 5-year warranty on CarTeck operators including CarTeck DRIVE and MOTOR systems, where fitted.
• 2-year warranty on standard polymer and aluminium window inserts.
• 5-year warranty on premium SLX and GSA Vision window units.
• 3-year warranty on coastal paint finishes against peeling or blistering, where this finish has been specified at the time of order.

Usage Conditions

The warranty applies to doors installed and used in normal residential conditions, with normal use defined as up to five opening and closing cycles per day. Warranty periods may be reduced on oversized or super-size door models, particularly for springs and motorised operating equipment.

What the Warranty Provides

In the event of a valid warranty claim, the manufacturer may choose to repair the affected component, replace it with an equivalent defect-free part, or provide compensation reflecting the reduced value caused by the fault. Any warranty claim must be supported by proof of purchase and the relevant warranty documentation.

Warranty Conditions

• The garage door must be purchased through an approved supplier such as Garage Doors Online.
• The product must remain in the country where it was originally purchased.
• The door must be correctly installed, commissioned and maintained in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.
• A dated sales receipt and completed warranty paperwork may be required when making a claim.

Exclusions

The warranty does not cover damage or faults resulting from misuse, accidental damage, incorrect installation, poor maintenance, unauthorised alteration or external environmental influences. Normal wear and tear and minor visual changes over time are also excluded from cover.

• Remote control handsets, batteries and light bulbs are excluded.
• Damage caused during transport, assembly or commissioning is excluded.
• Surface fading, weathering and natural cosmetic ageing are not covered.
• Expansion or distortion caused by excessive heat or strong direct sunlight on dark finishes is excluded.
• Damage caused by fire, water ingress, salt air, chemicals, acids or other aggressive environmental conditions is excluded.

Important Note

This warranty applies in addition to your statutory rights. For complete peace of mind, installation should always be carried out correctly and the door should be used and maintained in line with the manufacturer’s guidance.

How to Measure for Your Made to Measure CarTeck Sectional Door

Measuring for a made to measure CarTeck sectional garage door ensures you get the absolute best fit for your garage, maximising your drive through width and height. Unlike standard size doors, these are manufactured to your exact specifications. All CarTeck sectional doors are ordered by their internal structural opening dimensions (the actual drive through width and height). The steel installation frame is always calculated as an addition or reduction to these internal dimensions, depending on your chosen installation position.

For quick visual reference, please refer to the 3D technical drawings located in the image gallery at the top of this page. These clearly show how the frame fits in relation to the opening.

Measuring for a Behind the Opening Fit (Standard)

This is the ideal and most common way to install a sectional door. The door and its steel framework sit entirely on the inner face of the garage wall, keeping the mechanics hidden and maximising the opening size.

• Width: Measure the brick to brick width of your garage opening in several places. Your ordering width is simply the exact smallest of these measurements.
• Height: Measure from the finished floor level to the underside of the lintel. Your ordering height is this exact measurement.
• Check your clearances: Because the frame sits entirely behind the brickwork, you must ensure you have sufficient internal space. You will need a minimum of 85mm to 90mm of clear sideroom on both the left and right sides of the opening to accommodate the frame legs.
• Check your headroom: You must also have a minimum of 120mm of clear headroom between the underside of the lintel and the ceiling to accommodate the top track and motor (this increases to 140mm for very large doors requiring double springing or if opting for XL and SuperSize dimensions).

Measuring for an Inbetween the Opening Fit

If you do not have internal brickwork returns, the door must be installed directly between the brick pillars using the optional Inbetween Opening Installation Kit.

• Width: Measure your brick to brick opening. To find your exact ordering width, you must deduct 180mm from this opening size (this allows for the two frame legs and a necessary fitting tolerance).
• Height: Measure your floor to lintel height. To find your exact ordering height, you must deduct 120mm (if installing a manual door or using the additional low headroom bracket) or deduct 140mm (for standard electric operation without the special bracket).

Important Depth Check

Sectional doors travel horizontally back into the garage space along the ceiling. It is essential to check that your garage is deep enough to accommodate the full length of the horizontal tracks and the motor boom. Ensure you have clear, unobstructed space running back into the garage equivalent to the height of the door plus approximately 350mm to 600mm.

If you have any doubts whatsoever about measuring your garage opening for a custom fit door, please contact our expert team for verification before placing your order.