Up and Over Garage Doors Overview | Hormann, Garador Steel Up and Over Doors, Canopy & Retractable Garage Doors

Up and Over Doors

Up and Over Door Overview

The up and over door is still the most recognisable and popular garage door in the UK.

It is simple in its operation and mechanism and can be manual or electric operated with electric operation retrofit possible on most doors when required.

The choice of door designs is huge and you can have a wide range of standard UK sizes as well as purpose made sizes to maximise your garage aperture. Security is good, but can be upgraded and utilise 4 point locking and there are secured by design accredited models also.

Key Facts about Up and Over Doors:

Sizes up to 5000mm width and 3000mm high
Choice of trackless or tracked mechanisms (up to 2743mm width)
Can be manual or electric operated at any size
Can be installed inbetween or behind your garage aperture
Multiple standard sizes and purpose made sizes to suit
Steel, timber or composite GRP door panels
Steel fixing sub frames always recommended
Most door models supplied factory pre-assembled for easiest install
Low maintenance and simple to adjust if necessary
Good security upgrades on most models
Widest choice of door designs for any garage door

Canopy door mechanism

Canopy Mechanism

A Canopy Up and Over garage door mechanism will make the garage door panel protrude about a third of the height of the door out from the sub fixing frame to form a canopy when opened fully, hence the name ‘canopy’.

The canopy type garage door is the most popular mechanism when a smaller size standard door is required and usually manually operated (although electric operation is readily available with the additional use of a bow arm converter). The lack of internal tracking with a canopy mechanism is also useful and desirable, keeping the garage interior neat and tidy and avoiding any internal obstacles like shelving, pipework or meters.

ANY of the canopy up and over doors offered online will be supplied with all the mechanism factory fitted and ready for the easiest on site installation (except Cedar timber doors).

When ordered with the steel box section fixing sub frame this is also pre fitted ready for site installation. It is the simplest and fastest door to install on site by far.

Our tip: Always order a steel sub frame with an up and over garage door and get rid of any old timber sub frame, which is never as good or as secure and needs maintenance. Many steel sub frames also have extra weatherseals included.

Retractable door mechanism

Retractable Mechanism

Fully retractable Up and Over garage doors are simply one-piece garage door panels retracting fully into the garage space when opened, sitting horizontally in the open position.

This is achieved by lifting and sliding back on horizontal side tracks, with lifting tension springs situated either side of the door at lower level. Side arms lift the door panel up and over and the panel ends up nearly entirely inside the garage.

The retractable up and over door is more ideal for adding remote control electric operation and all garage doors over 8 feet wide (2438mm) will be using retractable operating mechanism as standard. No cables involved, and they are practically maintenance free. A retractable door is delivered to you with all the mechanism factory fitted ready to go and when the steel sub frame is ordered this is also fitted ready for direct fitting to the garage structure. The only item to fit is the outside handle, delivered separately, to avoid damage.

Our tip: Always use a retractable up and over door if you want electric operation UNLESS the opening width sizing is critical for your car access. Always order a steel fixing sub frame whenever possible, as it is stronger, more secure and has tighter tolerances than a timber sub frame option and doesn't need painting.

Standard or Purpose Made?

Garage Doors Online offer one of the biggest size ranges of high quality up and over doors in the UK, with standard and purpose made sizes available in steel, GRP and timber. If you do not have a standard size garage opening you will find a range of up and over doors all available in purpose made sizes to suit your requirements. There are multiple standard sizes available in steel up and over doors, so you would probably find a suitable size when the garage door is a single width.

Please note that the sizes for ordering any purpose made doors will be in millimetres and always refer to the overall door and sub frame dimensions, but reference to the opening size required is also preferable for clarity. If you need any help please contact us.

Some of the purpose made doors we offer are NOT in our online shop so please call or email with any special requirements or special design up and over doors.

For any purpose made joinery made timber garage doors, and when a timber sub frame is often required, please be sure to check carefully the ordering protocol.

Garage Door Brands

The up and over garage doors we offer on GarageDoorsOnline have been chosen for their consistent quality and reliability, with both standard and purpose made sizes to suit 99% of UK garage openings.

Sizes and Ordering

Up and Over garage doors in STANDARD SIZES are ordered and priced by the width and height of the internal dimensions of the fixing sub frame. The main door panel itself is always slightly smaller so it can move through this sub frame when opening and closing, DO NOT measure the door panel itself for ordering purposes.

PURPOSE MADE size doors are ordered by their Overall Width and Height, including the steel fixing sub frame, with the exception of Cedar Timber garage doors where you use a timber sub frame and revert back to inbetween frame sizes.

IMPORTANT!!

It is important to realise, even in these modern days of millimetres, many up and over garage door manufacturers still use imperial measurement references for sizes and pricing.

Under closer scrutiny most garage doors will not be exactly as the imperial width or height ordering sizes. For example - If you order a standard 7’0” x 7’0” (7070) steel up and over door, then the 7’0” width (which is 2134mm) is not the panel size or the steel sub frame internal width size, it is the nearest rounded up imperial size dimension and the same applies to the height.

A lot of this is historical in the UK like some other building product size references.

The upshot is to understand that if you are installing the door INBETWEEN your structural opening (Reveal Fitting), then the critical sizes to note are in fact the door panel and the fixing sub frame combined - the Overall Width and Overall Height.

REPEAT - IMPORTANT!!

ALL purpose made up and over garage doors will be ordered using metric millimetre references. Take time to understand the frame dimensions especially if you are fitting the door BEHIND the garage opening and make sure your clearances are understood. Overall dimensions can vary depending on the steel sub frame size chosen. Most steel sub fixing frames are between 50mm and 75mm wide, so please check individual manufacturers for exact details.

Check details in the MEASURE tab for any specific door you are viewing.

Replacing an Existing Door

If you are replacing an up and over door and leaving the existing timber sub frame in place then you should measure inbetween the timber frame legs and from floor to the underside of the timber head and these will become your ordering sizes. Most people replacing a garage door will replace the sub frame however, so we recommend ordering the steel sub frame, because it is less money than timber, prefinished coloured and also more secure. Garage doors supplied with steel sub frames will have tighter tolerances between the door panel and frame, so also offer better security and weather sealing generally. They are always factory prefinished in a choice of painted finishes, saving time and money in finishing your installation.

Recommended Up and Over Doors

Basic Steel up and over doors

Primarily manual operation.
Standard and Purpose made sizes
Basic Design Models
Multiple colour choices

Panelled and Designer Up and Over Doors

Steel up and over doors with pressed panel designs and designer elements
Standard and Purpose made sizes
More complex Design Models
Multiple colour choices and designs with and without windows

Additional Information

A 10 year guarantee is normal, and provides confidence in all aspects of the doors. Up and Over doors generally are manufactured up to a maximum of 5000mm wide and 3000mm high, however they are available in more limited styles and materials at the slightly larger sizes. The majority of Up and Over doors are only available up to about 4.3m wide and 2.2m high. For larger widths you are generally better looking at sectional doors.

In our online shop you will find a wide range of steel, timber and GRP garage doors, but there are more available in ranges offering more unique designs and larger sizes.
Hormann have their N80 and N500 range of European doors and styles and the superb N80 or N500 door with a pedestrian door inset onto the main panel.

OUR TOP TIP: Try to always order any up and over door with a box section steel fixing sub frame as it gives a much better overall performance with tolerances being tighter between door panel and frame and also security and durability.
For most single doors you also receive the door with the steel frame factory fitted, so installation is far easier and quicker to carry out. Traditional tmber up and over doors are maybe the only exception to this.

Please e-mail us or call for details or pricing on any up and over doors not showing in our online shop.