Garage Door Types

 


Our extensive door portfolio offers a diverse array of selections, encompassing side-hinged garage doors, roller garage doors, up-and-over garage doors, sectional garage doors, round-the-corner garage doors, and sliding and folding solutions, alongside pedestrian and entrance doors. At The Garage Door Centre, our expert team is dedicated to addressing every distinct requirement. We’re here to guide you through the numerous choices, ensuring you discover the ideal door solution that seamlessly integrates with your lifestyle and elevates your space’s aesthetic appeal, all while prioritizing security and insulating properties.

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Up and Over Garage Doors

 

Up-and-over garage doors remain a leading choice for homeowners across the UK. Their straightforward, robust single-panel construction ensures exceptionally easy and trouble-free operation. The Garage Door Centre presents an immense selection of designs, colours, and materials for your new up-and-over garage door. We always meticulously confirm that the size and gearing are precisely tailored to your needs. After all, selecting the wrong door could prevent you from using your garage as originally intended!

The Garage Door Centre provides both standard and custom-made doors crafted from steel, timber, GRP, and even an “open for infill” model, allowing you to personalize your door.

Prominent manufacturers supplying the UK market include: Hormann, Garador, and Cedar.


 

Sectional Garage Doors

 

Sectional garage doors are rapidly gaining prominence as a preferred and highly practical option, offering an excellent combination of style, safety, security, and an easy-to-use, versatile system. Named for their design, these doors operate in individual, separated panel sections, moving vertically without any outward swing from the opening or tracking mechanism. This vertical movement makes them suitable for installation in nearly any garage opening shape, including arched or angled corners.

Thanks to their robust double-skinned construction, sectional doors deliver superior levels of insulation and security as standard. These doors can be custom-fabricated up to an impressive 8 meters wide and 3 meters high, with an extensive range of glazing and finish options available.

Leading manufacturers include: Teckentrup, Hormann, Garador, and SeceuroGlide.


 

Roller Garage Doors

 

The roller shutter garage door stands out as one of the most streamlined garage door solutions available. With its vertical opening and closing action, it requires no internal tracking mechanism, freeing up valuable space inside your garage for shelving or other storage. These doors prove especially beneficial for garages housing larger vehicles such as 4x4s or people carriers.

There’s no encroachment on precious overhead storage space within the garage. And by eliminating the need for the additional clearance that a traditional up-and-over door requires for opening, you can safely park just inches from the roller garage door, whether inside or out. The roller garage door is exceptionally adaptable in terms of installation, fitting virtually any garage shape or size. Roller shutter garage doors are offered in insulated double-skinned aluminium and non-insulated single-skin steel versions, with options for either manual or remote-controlled electric operation.

Key manufacturers include: SeceuroGlide, Gliderol, Hormann, Samson, and Garador.


 

Side Hinged Garage Doors

 

The remarkably adaptable side-hinged garage doors present solutions to numerous challenges and open up possibilities not achievable with other door types. They boast straightforward operation and are simple to maintain over time, thanks to their minimal moving mechanical parts.

Typically opening outwards, these doors require no internal garage space for operation, leaving the entire garage interior completely clear for storage. Advances in materials now provide a broad selection of insulated side-hinged doors, available in both standard and custom-made sizes.

Many manufacturers now supply side-hinged doors pre-installed with a sturdy steel or aluminium box-section sub-frame, facilitating quicker and more precise installation. The hardware and locking mechanisms are also pre-fitted, making DIY installation a viable option if desired.

Prominent manufacturers include: Hormann, Teckentrup, Ryterna, and Cedar.


 

Sliding and Folding Garage Doors

 

We provide a vast assortment of sliding and bi-folding garage door options constructed from steel, aluminium, and timber. The linear sliding action of a single-piece door can also be configured as a bi-parting system, and can be installed either internally or externally (depending on available wall space). Another significant advantage of one-piece sliding doors is the design flexibility they offer, as there are generally no restrictions on the thickness, weight, or size of the door panels used.

We offer sliding doors as a practical solution for both domestic and commercial requirements.

Bi-folding doors are available in both solid and fully glazed configurations. These are adapted from commercial door systems, rather than repurposed domestic bi-folding doors, ensuring enhanced strength and flexibility in sizing, which provides peace of mind. A wide palette of paint colours and laminate foil coatings is also available.


 

Round the Corner Garage Doors

 

Round-the-corner garage doors represent one of the earliest types of garage doors introduced to the UK market. Often made from timber, these door panels are mounted on top-hung rollers and guided through channels in the floor tracks to follow their intended path.

Modern interpretations of this door type have incorporated aluminium, steel, and timber panels, with a greater emphasis on the top track for on-site versatility and less reliance on the bottom running track.

Round-the-corner doors can accommodate exceptionally large sizes, avoiding the sagging issues often seen with oversized roller shutter, up-and-over, or sectional doors. The weight is uniformly distributed, allowing for an almost limitless width.

Leading manufacturers include: Vertico, Rundum Meir, Hormann, and Silvelox.


 

Entrance Doors

 

Explore our premium selection of front entrance doors at The Garage Door Centre. Designed to complement our garage door ranges, we feature classic, modern, contemporary, and traditional styles to cater to diverse tastes. Whether your priority is security, energy efficiency, or a luxurious aesthetic, we have the ideal front entrance door to fulfill your needs.

Every entrance door we supply can be customized with optional side-glazing elements and top transoms, meticulously crafted to enhance the structural beauty of your door. These additions allow for abundant natural light, further accentuating your home’s appeal.

Key manufacturers include: Ryterna, Solidor, and Hormann.


 

Pedestrian Doors

 

The Garage Door Centre offers pedestrian doors suitable for a broad spectrum of applications, whether for a residential garage or a commercial establishment. We carry a fitting model with the precise specifications to meet your demands.

Benefit from material choices including aluminium, timber, and steel, all featuring high-security attributes and excellent insulation properties.