Up And Over Garage Door Mechanism

Before choosing your up and over garage door first consider whether it will be fixed between the brickwork or set behind it and measure the gap.

Up and over garage door mechanism.

One piece up and over canopy mechanism this is still the most popular type of up and over garage door gear for doors up to 8 feet 2438mm wide called canopy as about a third of the door panel height protrudes out from the framework when open forming a canopy. Tilt up up and over canopy garage doors like side hinged styles the tilt up canopy garage doors don t have sections they re made of one solid piece. They have a pivoting hinge mechanism so they can tilt up into the garage. Up over garage doors are of a one piece construction opening outwards initially as it is lifted to its final resting position.

The up and over garage door mechanism is probably the cheapest and most commonly used garage door but still offers the customer a significant scale of reliability. As the name implies a trackless canopy garage door forms a canopy roughly equivalent to one third of the garage doors height when fully opened. The canopy style door sits parallel to the garage ceiling and extends past the front of the house when the door is open. Canopy up and over garage doors have the simplest and most common type of garage door lifting gear.