How Sectional Garage Doors Overcome Design Restrictions by Traditional Garage Sectional Doors
You have been putting up with overhead space constraints and overhead beams in your garage for too long. So long, in fact, that you may not even realize how cumbersome and unappealing they are!
Fortunately, there is an alternative: the Enturi Retractable Sectional Door by Remax.
Older Style Overhead Sectional Doors vs Enturi Sectional Door
Older style overhead sectional doors shown the image below:
The Compact Sectional Door shown below:
Types of Commercial & Industrial Overhead Doors
There are many different types of industrial and commercial garage doors. Overhead doors with standard lift, roll up garage doors, security shutters, etc. If you are looking for the best doors for luxury residential properties, car showrooms, apartment & office block car parks, business parks, or any other commercial or industrial needs where you can't compromise whether on aesthetics, space efficiency, or versatility. In that case, Enturi Sectional Doors are your best choice.
Once our customers know there is an alternative to traditional overhead sectional doors, they never return to the traditional style. Enturi Sectional Doors are stylish and unique in their design. They fold up, retracting the door panels neatly into a compact space above the entrance.
This small unit can also be recessed into the ceiling, creating the look of just a wall of glass windows / leaving your ceiling area free of overhead beams and overhead tracks or support bracing.
The sectional garage door leaves can easily be hidden above the ceiling to create a unique, clean wall of retractable glass (or thermal RAL block panels to match and complement the colour of the building). See below the car showroom sectional door during both their opened state, and whilst closed.
What are the design differences:
1) Reduce maintenance on door extensions and springs
With all the important gear and equipment being kept in garages nowadays, if your garage door does end up getting jammed or stuck, you would certainly need to arrange an urgent call-out or carry out some urgent repairs in order to securely close your garage before you leave home. Not ideal!
The traditional sectional door moves on rails into the building across the ceiling or directly above the access. To do this they use balance springs, which are highly-tensioned steel springs that need regular maintenance to maintain their tension. These springs also need regular replacement, which takes up a lot of time and is expensive.
You can avoid a jammed or stuck door and an expensive callout by knowing your door and its moving parts. There are two main styles of one-piece springs. The first is the standard spring, which is used by a variety of door manufacturers. If the top of your door has rollers that move along a metal track that extends horizontally toward the back of your garage, you have standard one-piece springs.
To ensure the door continues to work smoothly and reliably, the complex arrangement of rails that the door moves on require careful maintenance of the track rollers and hinges. At the same time the steel rail structure needs to be regularly checked for safety.
One system that has been much used is the steel roller shutter, which needs minimal maintenance but also has many disadvantages, including poor insulation. Today, the roller shutter is being used less and is frequently being replaced with an insulated sectional door with more options.
The compact folding door is often used as a replacement for these sectional doors. This folding door is self-supporting with its side rails, so nothing more is needed. The compact door folds up above the door opening and therefore does not require a steel structure on the ceiling or above the access. No balance springs are needed, the door blade is moved up by an electric motor and when closing gravity plays its part.
The advantage of this system is lower maintenance costs because there is simply less to maintain. The quiet and gradual movement uses little energy, which means a longer lifespan and lower maintenance costs.
2) Save more energy and reduce temperature fluctuations
If you enjoy using your garage space for more than one purpose, such as games area / man-shed / home bar / entertainment area / kids play area / teenage retreat (or should it be a parent retreat from teenagers?? :) - it can be an uncomfortable space to be in during the heat of summer or in the height of winter. Standard aluminium roller shutters / overhead doors certainly can lack insulation and a full seal against outdoor elements.
The Enturi Sectional Door is designed with insulated sandwich panels 40mm thick. Where there is the option to have fully insulated panels with or without insulated windows.
Next to that, the insulation value will be affected when using full vision panels, since the U-value of the Enturi sectional door double acrylate window is ± 2.8W/m²K and single hard glass would be worse.
3) Garage Door Sizes
Standard Overhead Door Sizes: In most cases the Australian standard single garage door size is usually 2100mm high x 2400mm wide.
Enturi Overhead Door Sizes: The Enturi Sectional Door is manufactured bespoke to your requirements - and has been manufactured for a vast range of applications such as emergency services, factories and warehouses, architectural applications and more.
4) Put your headroom to better use
How much headroom is traditionally required to install a garage door?
Headroom varies with the type of door; but most doors can typically be installed with 12” to 15” of headroom plus an extra 2” for an electric opener. But the problem with traditional overhead garage doors is that it is not just the headroom which needs to be taken into account but also the overhead beams which consume ceiling space in order for the door to roll up and over into the garage space while the door is open.
Traditional overhead door (left) vs compact sectional door (right)
The Enturi Sectional Door on the other hand, can be recessed into the ceiling space either totally out of view into the roof space or by allowing for a recessed area into the ceiling, the size of the stacked panels. This creates a clean flow along the ceiling allowing for other, more critical, available space for storage / lighting / skylights.
The Enturi Sectional Door has also been installed in various residential applications such as home-gym, personal car showroom for care collectors or in a bespoke retail application where the door becomes a retractable 'wall' of glass.
Enturi Sectional Doors offer a range of design solutions to fit with the design of your home, from totally clear double glazed glass panels / or opaque panels to a thermal RAL panel - or a mixture of both coloured thermals and also windows together in one design. The options are endless.
Get More Information About Compact Sectional Doors
If you'd like to request a quote or find out more about compact sectional doors, contact the expert Remax team online or call 1800 010 221.