Sectional Door Brands
As the sectional garage door has become so popular in the UK, numerous manufacturers have tried to enter the market. However, quite a few brands from Europe and the USA have come and gone over the years, as their standard, mass-produced sizes simply do not match the requirements of typical British garages. Today, the most popular and highly recommended choices are brands that focus heavily on made-to-measure sizing and offer the specific colour palettes that UK homeowners actually want.
GarageDoorsOnline offers the top market leading brands which have stood the test of time, providing the highest levels of quality and the easiest installation processes:
Carteck and SeceuroGlide lead the way in offering bespoke, made to measure sizes without the long wait, ensuring a perfect fit every time. Along with our own GDO range, these brands will fulfil 98% of most people's requirements. The Hormann brand provides an enormous range of standard European sizes, while Garador (which is owned by Hormann) acts as a high quality alternative, albeit with a slightly more limited offering than the complete Hormann range.
Overview
Carteck are a premium manufacturer of highly insulated sectional doors offering a unique spring balanced mechanism, arguably one of the safest and easiest to install on the market. They are renowned for providing incredibly high quality German manufactured panels assembled and constructed right here in the UK.
One of Carteck's biggest advantages is their ability to provide the highest quality doors in monumental sizes, spanning up to 8m wide and 3m high for their SuperSize models. Because they are finished in the UK, Carteck offers the absolute largest standard colour range designed specifically to suit British homes, including unique woodgrain laminates and trending metallic textures. They offer standard sizes, purpose-made bespoke sizes, and the widest range of standard heights available, allowing you to perfectly maximise standard UK garage openings.
A further major advantage is when headroom is limited. The Carteck mechanism can operate with very small headroom requirements but still deliver the full drive through opening height when opened with an electric operator.
Our Choice – Why We Recommend Carteck
For most UK homes, Carteck is our choice for insulated sectional doors because it offers the best all-round package: the broadest range of standard colours tailored to British properties, the widest selection of standard and made-to-measure sizes (including doors up to 8m wide), and one of the easiest and safest spring balancing systems available for installers and homeowners alike. Their long-established warranty, excellent product back up and UK based support give you outstanding peace of mind, making Carteck the ideal "fit-and-forget" solution for busy households.
SWS have adopted the same principal as their long serving and very successful insulated roller door: a sectional garage door that is purely made to measure as standard, ensuring a flawless fit for your home without affecting delivery times.
There are no restricted "standard sizes" with SeceuroGlide; every single door is bespoke and tailored to the millimetre for your exact garage opening, yet they still boast an incredibly fast 3-4 week lead time. The SeceuroGlide is a remarkably well-specified 40mm insulated sectional door with a massive advantage in that it can be finished in almost any RAL or BS colour (small extra cost and delivery time). The designs are perfectly in line with modern trends and feature high quality side spring gear systems designed for smooth, quiet operation in both manual and electric formats.
All SeceuroGlide sectional doors are supplied made to measure as standard and are engineered with modern, smart-ready electric motor drives, so app control and smart home integration can be added with minimal extra hardware. This makes SeceuroGlide a particularly strong choice if you are looking for a fully bespoke look combined with up-to-date connectivity and automation from day one.
GDO sectional doors are made in the UK to the highest specifications, and are made to measure as standard to ensure the perfect fit.
A unique selling feature of the GDO range is that the models offered in our online shop are separated specifically based on your installation choice. We have developed the range so you can easily order a model designed for a "Behind Fit" (face fit to the inside wall) or a model specifically engineered for an "In-Between Fit" (fitted within the brickwork reveal).
Crucially, the in-between fit models come supplied with an exclusive executive sub-frame fitting kit, a bespoke aluminium box section frame system that is made to measure alongside the door, providing all the equipment necessary for a seamless reveal installation. The GDO sectional range is available in 7 different panel designs and up to 26 colour options, alongside modern window options to introduce natural light into the garage.
Every GDO sectional door is designed so that all the components required for both behind and in-between installation are available, making it far easier for installers and homeowners to choose the most suitable fitting position for their garage and maximise drive-through width and height where it matters.
Hormann are one of the largest manufacturers in Europe for sectional doors and their range is enormous and complex. Various door panel finishes and designs and many colour options as well as woodgrain laminate finishes. They offer a very wide choice of adaptations in their operating mechanism layouts to enable doors to fit in the most awkward of garages. You do need to understand the complexities of many of their adaptations and options to ensure you order the right final product.
They have industry leading developments when it comes to technology and also specifications such as their new LPU67 super insulated garage door, offering great levels of insulation and security. Another great Hormann offering is the sectional door with a built in wicket door, as the Hormann version operates with the smallest threshold of any door at only 10mm deep!
There is a large standard size range in UK and European sizes to choose from as well as purpose made options on slightly longer delivery times. Standard colours are focused around popular whites and a core palette of preferred colours, while special RAL and Decograin finishes are available to order, typically with extended lead times compared to off-the-shelf options.
A wide range of matching side doors also can be purchased for your garage from our online shop all with the same designs, finishes and colours as the garage doors.
Garador sectional doors are manufactured in the UK and represent some of the best-engineered traditional garage doors on the market. Sharing much of their core DNA and manufacturing technology with Hormann, Garador models offer the perfect blend of style, quality, and security, making them an excellent choice whether your garage is used to store a vehicle or converted into a functional home office or gym.
The Garador sectional range provides excellent thermal insulation and maximum drive-through clearances. Whether you opt for the Premium range, featuring rigid 42mm thick double-skinned steel sections evenly filled with CFC-free PU foam, or the single-skinned Classic range, you are guaranteed a high-quality product. The doors feature sturdy, flexible rubber weather seals on all four sides to keep wind and rain outside, and are available in a variety of crisp surface finishes, elegant Georgian or ribbed designs, and standard RAL colours to create an outstanding look for your home.
Garador is particularly relevant if you are looking for a UK made sectional door with clear, straightforward options and strong value, while still benefiting from the engineering heritage of the wider Hormann group and a well established national spares and service network.
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