Up and Over Garage Door Brands

Up and Over Door Brands

The GDO brand is our own brand of doors, derived from over 30 years of experience in the garage door industry. Simple and easy to install, these doors feature classic UK designs that complement both traditional and modern properties. We are constantly developing new designs, colours, and window options specifically tailored for UK homes.

Key features of the GDO range include:

• Manufactured entirely in the UK, ensuring exceptional build quality, fast delivery, and the best possible service and aftercare support.
• Huge range of designs available in both high-quality galvanised steel and composite GRP (Glass Reinforced Polyester).
• Standard or Made-to-Measure sizes available across the entire range, allowing you to perfectly optimise and fit your exact garage opening.
• Available in an extensive range of standard factory colours to perfectly match your home's exterior.
• Available with or without an optional steel box section sub-frame (which we highly recommend using for the most secure and weather-tight installation).
• Innovative solutions like the 'Farndish' model, an up and over door with a built-in pedestrian access wicket door—perfect for garages where a car isn't kept but regular foot access is required.

Any of our GDO up and over doors can be easily automated using a good quality remote control electric operator system.

Garador are wholly owned by Hormann. This long-established brand of garage door was originally a part of Westland Engineers back in 1948. The Garador brand has long been the "go-to" up and over door in the UK and has always been manufactured in Yeovil, Somerset. Their latest factory is the result of massive investment from Hormann, and although the doors share excellent German engineering DNA, they are manufactured entirely in the UK.

Key features of the Garador range include:

• Purpose-made sizes are available for their steel up and over range, alongside a massive selection of standard imperial sizes.
• Choice of either Canopy or Retractable operating lifting gear for most single door sizes to suit your headroom and automation requirements.
• Available in three core materials: highly durable Steel, natural Timber, and low-maintenance Composite GRP.
• A wide range of standard RAL colours, realistic woodgrain foils, and modern special finishes.
• The unique Guardian security door range. This is a security-rated, level 1 ‘Secured by Design’ steel up and over door. Specifically manufactured for high security, it features heavy-duty reinforced bracing at every critical point. It is available only as a manual door with a heavy-duty steel sub-frame, offering proper security for high-value garage contents.

Hormann are a German company with a long history and great pedigree in manufacturing. Founded in 1935, their production of the up and over garage door in the 1950s birthed a basic but heavy duty, high quality one piece door. This 4th-generation family business now offers possibly the very best range of steel garage doors in the world. Their UK factory was opened in 1979, and since the turn of the century, the focus of their up and over doors has been heavily tailored towards standard UK sizes and requirements.

Hormann offer their Series 2000 up and over garage door range, which includes many standard imperial sizes in both single and double width options. Developed specifically for the UK market, these include robust steel and traditional timber door options. These doors are always best ordered with the steel box section sub-frame to provide a better final finish and smoother operation.

Hormann also offers a very wide range of European metric sized steel and timber up and over doors (available on request). This includes a very heavy-duty door system known as the "Open for Infill" chassis. This allows you to utilise a heavily tested mechanical host to design and create your very own bespoke timber garage door, with all safety automation certified and ready to go.

For high-traffic garages, Hormann offer the N500 style 402 and 902 doors, steel doors featuring a highly convenient pedestrian access door built directly into the main panel.

Cedar Doors are a UK specialist joinery manufacturer with over 35 years of experience in creating a wide range of premium timber garage doors designed to enhance the traditional style of your home. All Cedar timber is carefully sourced from suppliers that hold full PEFC Chain of Custody Certification.

Key features of the Cedar Door range include:

• Traditional Joinery Construction: Their standard doors are proper joinery-made products, utilising traditional solid mortice and tenon joints combined with modern assembly and gluing techniques. This results in incredibly strong, durable panels that will not warp or twist over time.
• Unrivalled Sizing Diversity: All doors can be manufactured to exact purpose-made sizes to fit your specific garage, or ordered in standard imperial sizes.
• Bespoke Timber Sub-Frames: To complete the authentic look, Cedar Doors offer a wide variety of matching timber sub-frames, allowing for a seamless integration into brickwork, stone, or timber-clad garages.
• Steel Chassis Options for Builders: Alongside their solid joinery range, Cedar also offer timber panels set into a rigid steel chassis. While not currently featured in our online shop (prices available on request), this specific range is incredibly popular with housebuilders. It offers standard timber door sizes combined with the highly straightforward, quick installation of a steel sub-frame.
• Available in traditional boarded, raised and fielded panel, side-hinged, and sectional designs, with a huge range of factory colours, handles, glazing, and lifting mechanism options.

Because the Hormann and Garador basic steel box section chassis is so good and robust, it is also used by other door manufacturers to produce their timber and GRP up and over doors.

The 'Open for Infill' principle offered by Hormann allows you to buy the door with everything ready except for the actual panel design and material infill. This principle is very popular with architects when a highly unique design is required on a project. There is a weight limit for the infill, but where heavier hardwood timbers are required, there are other heavy-duty solutions available (see below).

Specialist Up and Over Doors

Hormann do have a specialised purpose made range manufactured in Germany – The N80 and N500 range. These doors are great for unusual metric sizes and boast incredibly robust build quality. They allow features such as pedestrian wicket doors to be added within the main panel, alongside other unique structural features that are only possible with such a strong chassis and build method.

There is also a unique up and over door from Hormann, developed from a commercial application for underground car parks, making it the most robust single one-piece up and over door available anywhere – the Hormann ET500. It can be used for infilling with heavy architectural cladding, making it highly useful where a unique, heavy timber door is created by a joiner. The door chassis is set up ready to accept various heavy timber types and is completely ready to go in terms of its counterbalance mechanism, electric operation, and steel sub-fixing frame.

Prices are all POA.

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