Roller Door Overview
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 looking pretty similar to each other at first glance.
The roller garage door is universally adaptable to nearly all garages, hence its popularity, but with such popularity comes hidden dangers in supply.
The simple fact is there is a lot of differences between a £400 roller door and a £2,000 door which seems to look exactly the same and uses the generic and adopted term of ‘insulated electric aluminium’ roller door. Quality, safety, longevity, reliability and durability are all key features, which won’t follow through unless the door is built to a minimum standard.
We constantly strive to make buying a roller garage door as easy and painless to order as possible, but 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 to a minimum standard 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
Made to measure in single and double widths up to 5m wide
Our single skin, continuous curtain, steel roller garage doors offer a great and simple solution when weather sealing and security are not your priority.
These roller doors offer fantastic value for money and have been sold successfully in the UK since the 1980’s either as manual or electric operation.
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 plastisol coated colours and made to measure for a perfect fit.
NOTE: Can only be fitted behind (inside face) the aperture or framework.
'Compact' Insulated Aluminium Roller Door with 55mm Slats
Made to measure in single widths - only up to 3m wide
The Compact solution offers a smaller 55mm double skinned, foam filled, aluminium slat and the total hood cover 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 the hold to run wall button control options and all doors have the relevant safety features where required and an emergency manual override included. Made to measure as standard and a good choice of colours.
Don’t ever get misguided by thinking you have to have one of these doors because you don't have much headroom in your garage. Even without enough headroom, the 77mm roller doors are still an option, but you simply lose a little more drive through height when opened fully.
Standard Insulated Aluminium Roller Door with 77mm Slats
Made to measure in single and double widths up to 5.5m wide
The current favourite roller door and standard for most garages. The 77mm double skinned, foam filled aluminium slat provides great strength and good insulation. The slats are usually between about 18 and 20mm thick, depending on the manufacturer and provide a great solution up to around 5.5m wide.
Wall button 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.
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 |
Higher Specification Premium Insulated Roller Doors
Made to measure in single and double widths up to 6m wide
Constructed from the very best 77mm double skinned aluminium slats and electric operated as standard, we offer models which include patented locking devices in the barrel design 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 door which is made to measure and electric operated with a 5 - 7 year guarantee.
Anyone with security as a priority for their garage dor should look at the premium roller doors from Seceuroglide.
The Seceuroglide roller doors have been developed over 30 plus 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 resisitance to any forced burglary attempts.
Below you see the 'Secured by Design' model options too with further enhanced physical locking features to provide an SR1 rated roller garage door.
Security Rated Aluminium Roller Doors
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.
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.
Manual Operated Insulated Aluminium Roller Doors
Made to measure in single widths up to 3m wide
For a small percentage of garages, without electricity, or you simply don't want electric operation, we do offer a limited range of manual operated, spring assisted, aluminium, double skinned roller doors.
The cost saving isn’t as you might imagine as the door requires additional strength in the locking sections, the locking system itself added and a 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.
Smart Premium Insulated Aluminium Roller Doors
We now have a brand new range of ‘smart’ controlled roller shutter garage doors on our our website.
Using Somfy world leading technology and controls we offer various smart control electric roller doors with benefits in 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, 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 external products which enhance your security, convenience and lifestyle.
