News

Here’s some useful information about what to consider when building a garage so as to make sure you’re able to have your ideal garage door installed and avoid some of the potential pitfalls...

Door size

Once you know approximately how wide and high you’d like your opening, contact us to find out what the closest standard sizes are before signing off final plans. This way, you’ll have an opening built to your requirements to suit a stock door size rather than paying a surcharge for a bespoke or modified size.

Head-room and side-room

Sectional garage doors and roll-up garage doors do require additional headroom and side room, so take this into account when finalising measurements, otherwise you may find that the style you’d like is not able to fit.

Behind or within fit?

Consider how your driveway will meet with the garage floor. It could be set back when fitting behind the opening as opposed to within the opening. This can result in a neater, more professional finish.

Add extra value

By building a slightly wider garage opening to accommodate increasingly popular vehicles such as 4x4s and people carriers, this can add extra value to your development and keep ahead of the competition in the progressively competitive housing market.

Door style

This is a personal choice but there are a number of things to consider:

• Security: Although a garage door can be the largest entrance system to your home, it’s often overlooked when ensuring a property is secure. If you keep golf clubs, family’s bikes or park your car in the garage, the SWS SeceuroGlide Excel roll-up garage door and Hormann’s sectional garage doors offer some of the best security available today in the UK market.
• Insulation: Sectional garage doors and roll up garage doors provide excellent insulation and weather sealing which is a great benefit if your garage is attached to your house or is used as living accommodation e.g. office, gym, den etc.
• Vertical Lifting: If you have a short driveway, then unlike up & over garage doors which swing out when opened, a sectional garage door or roll-up garage door lifts vertically, allowing you to pull right up to your garage door.
• Obstructions: Up & over and sectional garage doors retract into the garage and can come up against common obstructions such as gas and electric meters, boilers, light switches, lights, shelving, windows, beams etc. If there is no way to avoid these, a roll-up garage door may be for you.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0116 269 7174. We'd be happy to help.