Automatic Garage Door Spares

Do you have a dilapidated automatic garage door opener that you’re looking to revive?  Are you looking for a company selling spares or parts for your opener or even searching for a company that will carry out the repairs on your opener?

Truthfully, if your opener has passed its warranty date, you’re probably out of luck. Unless the spare part is from a popular manufacturer or is a part that is known to regularly break, you won’t find too many companies stocking the part you’re looking for.

“Why?”, I hear you ask. Consider the cost implications of an individual spending hours attempting to fix a garage door opener.  Good, quality engineers are not cheap.

Then there is the cost of the spare parts themselves.  Other than the bare-bones frame, electric openers are comprised of complicated circuit boards. Fixing a broken circuit often means replacing the entire circuit board.

Taking these costs into consideration (with the chance that the same problem or even ANOTHER problem might rear its head), it is often best purchasing a new opener with a warranty.  It will likely save you cost, time, and hassle.

Roller Garage Doors – Manual or Automatic

Roller garage doors come in two flavours – Automatic/Electric or Manual operation.  A customer’s choice will need to ponder on considerations such as price, accessibility, and access to electricity.

Manual garage doors, like the name suggests, require “manual” opening/closing of the garage door.  Unlike other types of garage doors, roller garage doors are light without compromising structural integrity.  Although light, manual roller garage doors could be unsuitable for accessibility for the elderly or disabled.

Automatic roller garage doors typically have a specialized tubular motor built into a barrel which rests at the top of the garage door and its opening.  The garage door or curtain rolls around the barrel. Other varieties of electric roller garage door will have a motor situated outside of the curtain on the top left/right.

The technology behind motorized roller garage doors makes the price-difference between manual and automatic roller doors substantial. Manufacturers have designed automated roller garage doors with performance and reliability in mind.

We always recommend an automatic roller garage door over a manual roller door for four main reasons:

• Comfort of ease of use
• Accessibility
• Home selling-point
• Security

What are roller garage doors made of?

Roller doors are very different from other types of garage doors in that the door itself (or “curtain”) rolls up into itself.  This characteristic requires that roller doors maintain versatility and lightweight design without sacrificing strength.

A curtain is made up of multiple slats which are hinged together.  The hinge design offers a look

Roller garage doors come in two different forms:

• Single Skinned Doors
• Double Skinned Doors

Being the cheaper of the two, single skinned doors are comprised of and outer sheet of (rust-free) galvanized steel. Each slat is enlosed with high-dense foam insulation. The door has a ribbed effect/shape which is how the door gets its strength.

Double skinned doors are quite similar except the door possess a higher amount of foam insulation providing greater warmth and a greater sound barrier.

For further info, give us a call. We service all of Surrey.