Roller Door Overview
Roller Garage Doors - The Vertical Rising Door Solution
The roller shutter garage door has grown to such popularity here in the UK now that it is quite difficult to navigate through an ever increasing volume of brands, models and confusing specifications and unfortunately many all look pretty similar to each other on first glance and at a distance.
The roller shutter garage door is universally adaptable to nearly all garages, hence its popularity.
The simple reality is that there are a lot of differences between a £400 and a £2,000 roller door, which seem to look exactly the same and use the generic and adopted term of ‘insulated electric aluminium’ roller door. Quality, safety, longevity, security, reliability and durability are all key features, which won’t follow through, unless the door is built to a minimum quality standard and with high quality components which marry up and work well together.
We constantly strive to make buying a roller garage door as easy and painless as possible and we do have a lot of models to choose from for different applications and features. We know that every single roller garage door we offer online does comply with a high standard for quality and also complies in every way with the current safety regulations which exist in the UK. We see many roller garage doors sold online that do not comply, which is a constant concern.
1: Standard 77m roller door slat 2: Compact 55mm Roller Door Slat 3: Lower quality roller slat (not available from GDO) 4: Single Skin Continuous Curtain
Basic Single Skin Steel Roller Door
Our single skin, continuous curtain, steel roller garage doors offer a great and simple solution when insulation, weather sealing and security are not your priority, but a simple roller garage door which always works is.
These roller doors offer fantastic value for money and have been sold in the UK since the 1980’s, either as manual or electric operated models. Simple concept and very forgiving on the installation and structural opening integrity, these are a roller door which will give years of trouble free operation and although the curtain roll is larger than the aluminium doors, we do offer a ‘mini’ roll version as well in limited sizes.
Prefinished, tough, plastisol coated colours to choose from and made to measure sizes for a perfect fit.
NOTE: These roller doors only be fitted behind (inside face fit) the aperture or a sub framework.
'Compact' Insulated Aluminium Roller Door with 55mm Slats
Made to measure in single widths - only available up to 3m wideA door solution when you have little or no headroom internally and your garage width is a single width size.
The Compact solution offers smaller 55mm double skinned, foam filled, aluminium slats and the total hood and endplate size is never more than 205mm square, giving you the best chance of a decent final drive through height when opened. 
Remote control is available as well as simpler hold to run wall button control and external keyswitch options. All doors have the relevant safety features where required and an emergency manual override included internally. Made to measure szies as standard and a good selection of colours.
Don’t ever get mislead by thinking you have to use one of these doors because you don't have sufficient headroom in your garage. Even with limited headroom, the 77mm roller doors are still an option - you simply lose a little more drive through height when opened fully
Standard Insulated Aluminium Roller Door - 77mm Slats
Made to measure in single and double widths up to 5.5m wideThe favourite and most popular electric roller door and standard for most garages, single and double widths.
The 77mm double skinned, foam filled aluminium slat provides great strength, reliability and good insulation. The slats are usually between about 18mm and 20mm thick, depending on the exact manufacturer and provide a great solution up to around 5.5m wide. Some slats are totally smooth outside and many have 2 or 3 feature groove lines
Simple wall button and/or keyswitch control through to remote or smartphone control and all the doors we offer have the most up to date safety detection systems, as required for any remote operated electric door of any kind in the UK.
The 77mm double skinned slat is the most popular curtain type, but is only one component of any roller door. The roller barrel which the curtain rolls around, the way the slats are connected together, the mechanism for lifting and locking the curtain, the electric motor brand, the electronics and safety detection system, the guide sizes and so on, all these components will make a good or bad end result in a roller garage door.
Higher Specification Premium Insulated Roller Door - 77mm Slat
Made to measure in single and double widths up to 6m wideConstructed from the very best 77mm double skinned aluminium slats and electric operated as standard, we offer high performance roller doors which include patented locking devices in the barrel design, higher specification components and additional security reinforcements in all crucial attack points. A higher specification includes the use of patented webbing to the sides of the curtain for the very quietest operation and larger guides for extra strength and security too.
Peace of mind and a great specification all round for a roller garage door which is made to measure and electric operated with up to a 7 year guarantee.
Anyone with security as a priority for their garage door should look at the premium roller doors from Seceuroglide, a UK leading manufacturer for 40 years now The Seceuroglide roller doors have been developed over 40 years with the original design taken from security window and door shutters from the German market. The components and specific anti-break in technology used is standard on most models and provides very real and excellent resistance to any forced burglary attempts.
Tested and certified 'Secured by Design' model options, with further enhanced physical locking features to provide a security rated roller garage door - Take a look at the Securoglide Excel. See below for further details on security rated roller garage doors.
Security Rated and Certified Roller Garage Door - 77mm Slat
Made to measure in single and double widths up to 5.2 wide
Take the high specification roller doors and improve the weakest areas and then test to certified standards and you have an accredited and certified electric roller door. Offered with a ‘Secured by Design’ accreditation and LPS1175 level 1 certification, you buy the best peace of mind for a roller garage door which will protect your assets inside and your home if your garage is integrated. The higher specified models also often have far longer warranty periods, simply because of the standards the doors are built to. Up to 7 years manufacturers warranty.
Peace of mind, along with a very high quality build quality, using enhanced components which themselves offer a far longer life span and are more durable than most other roller doors on the UK market too.
Controls:
* We offer our own GDO roller door with either the simple wall or keyswitch switch control and hold to run logic, or various remote control and smartphone controls.
* After many years of selling garage doors we now see that more than half our customers don’t really need remote control and a wall switch inside or a key switch outside is perfectly adequate and often preferred.
* Emergency manual override is included as standard on all doors along with relevant safety edge detection when using remote controls.
* A great and wide range of finished colours and all the doors are made to measure to the millimetre.
 Indoor hold to run rocker switch |
 External hold to run key switch |
 Genesis Control Unit internal hold to run unit |
Smart Premium Insulated Aluminium Roller Doors - 77mm Slat
We now have a brand new range of ‘smart’ controlled roller shutter garage doors on our website.
Using Somfy world leading smart technology and controls we offer various smart controlled electric roller doors with the benefits of being able to control from your phone via a Somfy app and for the 'total smart' control door you can also add many other products to your Somfy Tahoma Switch and develop a smart home.
You can already buy such roller doors from various manufacturers using their own apps, but we aim to simplify the process and show you what other benefits you can get from having an electric roller garage door prespecified to link in with many other home products which enhance your security, convenience and lifestyle.
Somfy Tahoma will talk to nearly 300 types of other Somfy products.
Shutters / Blinds / Awnings and Pergolas / Gates and Locks / Lights and Plugs / Cameras and Alarms / Heating Thermostats / Sensors / Music and Voice assistants.
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Manual Operated Insulated Aluminium Roller Door - 77mm Slat
Made to measure in single widths up to 3m wide
For a small percentage of garages, without electricity, or when you simply don't want electric operation, we offer a limited range of manual operated, spring assisted, aluminium, double skinned roller doors. The same high quality of curtain but simply spring balanced rather than electric tube motor driven.
The cost saving isn’t as you might imagine as the door requires additional strength in the locking sections, the locking system itself, and a whole spring balancing system incorporated for the door to operate smoothly by the user.
Made to measure in single sizes and plenty of colours to choose from, this does offer a simple manual roller door with the benefits of insulated aluminium slats.
Roller Shutter Garage Door Benefits
- Made to measure for optimising the overall garage aperture and drive through width and height when opened
- Vertical operation meaning you can park right up to the outside or inside face of the curtain and still operate. Great for shorter driveways or garages which are tight in length
- No swing out or internal tracking to consider when operating the door
- Seals better than up and over doors with the bottom section closing onto the ground with a rubber seal to minimise dust and debris coming into your garage (level floor depending)
- Good quality roller shutter doors will open quietly
- Remote control or smartphone control with partial or full opening
- High security when specified as a security model
- Insulation for when you maybe use your garage for other purposes
- Low maintenance - just keep the curtain clean, no oiling necessary
