Roller Garage Doors
Roller garage doors have become a very popular type of garage door in the UK over the last 10 years or so and the main reason might be their flexibility for installation, along with the neat mechanism and vertical operation. They leave space inside and outside the garage uninterrupted when operating and only generally require around 250 - 350mm of headroom and internal garage depth to accommodate the roll and mechanism.
Samson Doors offer a wide range of basic and premium roller garage doors either as manual or electric operated models and in steel and aluminium, double skinned construction.
We have our own extensive range of roller garage doors as well as some of the finest brands available in the UK right now.
Benefits of Roller Garage Door
It isn't hard to see the appeal for a roller type door:
- Vertical operation with no swing out during opening or closing cycle
- Made to order to the millimetre
- No internal tracking required and only vertical tracks below the curtain roll
- Minimal side room on many models - between 60 and 100mm required
- Can be fitted inside, between or outside for most insulated models
- Manual or electric operated models
- Massive choice of on trend powdercoated colours to choose from
- Massive choice of laminate woodgrain effect options with increased guarantees
- Bottom rubber seal will perform better than an up and over door generally can.
- Insulated aluminium models for better control of internal climate
- Security certified models for peace of mind
Insulated Aluminium Roller Garage Doors
The majority of roller garage doors are electric operated, aluminium, double skinned curtains, which use various double skinned foam filled slats, between 55mm and 77mm in profile height and always slightly curved in their construction to enable the best rolling action.
Various brands and models we offer all have the relevant safety features as required by their control method and are fully compliant with the current UK regulations on power operated doors.
The slats that make up the curtain of a roller garage door are generally available in the 77mm depth up to around 6m in width and a maximum of 3m in height so will cover most garage openings easily.
We offer various high quality leading brands and all have internal tube motors with the exception of the Rollmatic 2 from Hormann, which uses an external motor drive making an easier job of emergency manual release, whilst using motor technology from many years as a motor for other door types.
Manual or Electric?
Unless you don't have power available or are really adverse to electric operation, then manual operation on a double skinned aluminium roller door isn't really of much use or relevance.
The electric motor drive technology and controls have developed to such a stage as they are not really any different in pricing to the manual options, which have to use spring balancing and also some form of manual locking too. The few manual door models which are available are only available in single width sizes but are a perfectly fine roller door.
Simple Button, Remote or Smart Control?
The majority of aluminium roller garage doors are electric operated, but for years the UK market has driven ‘remote control operation’ as normal. We are seeing that many customers don't actually need remote control at all and are quite happy, or even prefer having a key switch outside and a simple push button inside the garage. This is easy and makes life simpler too.
The Samson SRD77 range has been developed in partnership with a leading UK manufacturer to offer you a range of electric insulated roller doors which have varying control methods, designed to offer a simple hard wired, hold to run door for those who don’t want or like wireless or internet connection, through to a full smart controlled door for those who love technology and want control of the door from anywhere.
The remote control systems are super reliable and you can have handsets for control, a digital keypad, a keyswitch and an internal push button all together and even add on Smartphone app control too but the safety system has to be incorporated if there is any remote or impulse control involved at all.
Email or call us if you have any questions on the controls for an electric roller door.
Smart Control Roller Doors
Many leading brands now have the option for smart control electric doors, using your smartphone or tablet to have control of your roller garage door from anywhere in the world.
Most brands are however tied to their own brand products and have a closed system. The Somfy system we offer is open to talk to so many other products on the market currently with no closed protocol. Smart cameras, door sensors, light controls and sensors, awnings controls and temperature sensors, PIR detection systems to switch other products on at only certain times of the day as programmed by you, and so on.
If you are not at home very often one simple example is having the ability to open your roller garage door partially to allow parcel deliveries and combined with a smart camera too you can observe and be sure the door closes after the delivery.
To many people the number of functions and products which can be incorporated into a ‘smart home’ is not understood. Adding simple and reliable little devices to include them onto your app gives more control, security and peace of mind.
You can start the smart journey with one of our SRD77 Somfy controlled smart roller garage doors and then simply add more products as you understand what can be done.
The equipment is great value for money and extremely simple to set up yourself once you have the Tahoma Switch in place and operational on your router.
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How to Choose the Right Door Controls
Wall Mounted Internal Button or External Key Control
This method is recommended if you enter your garage always on foot, or maybe your garage is used as another room to your home? Detached or integral, if you don’t put a vehicle in your garage then why do you need remote control at all?
Many people don’t like technology and a simple, hard wired button or key is quite sufficient to operate the door whilst standing nearby. Push the button and hold until open or closed.
If you have a garage with a pedestrian access side door then the button can be just inside this door, if you don’t have another access then have the external keyswitch control. No complex electronics or safety devices, just hard wired, old school controls, probably welcome by many in a world increasingly connected to the internet.
Remote Control
Recommended as the standard form of door control operation when you are accessing your garage and putting one or more vehicles inside regularly. Remote handsets kept in your vehicles and you still have button control, keywitch and keypad control options available for when on foot. Our Somfy and other remote control roller doors all use the latest security technology for the best security in signal transmission and range. An internal control panel from many models also includes a courtesy light and while the door uses bottom edge safety sensors some models can also have a built in alarm system to alert of the door is tampered with when closed.
Smart Control
Recommended for those of you embracing technology and also wanting to control your roller door from your smartphone from anywhere you wish. Our Smart Roll SRD 77 roller doors use the Somfy smart systems to provide simple plug and play technology for you and even with the base system, the Connectivity, you can connect up to 11 phones to your door, or choose to control some other products at a later date. Perhaps an awning, electric entrance gates, or some electric blinds and so on…
The full Smart system using the Tahoma Switch can have over 200 products added including connection to well known brands such as Philips Hue, Sonos, Google assistant, Alexa and so on. Embrace the world of smart control with one of our 3 SRD77 models offered online.
Our Roller Door Recommendations:
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Samson SRD77 Button Control
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The most original roller garage door in the UK market. Manufactured to the highest standards and over 30 years experience and design in each door.
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Hormann Rollmatic 2 and Rollmatic T
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Our own range of high quality insulated aluminium electric roller garage doors designed and built from many years experience.
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Security
The single most important question which no one ever asks about roller garage doors is: ‘How do they lock’?
The simple answer for the many electric roller doors is unfortunately that they don’t…
The majority of roller garage doors are simply a curtain, which is raised and lowered by a rotating barrel and electric motor attached above it. When the curtain is down and closed, most roller doors can simply be lifted up and whilst there might be some resistance this is only usually lightweight straps attaching the curtain to the barrel and they can be snapped quite easily on cheaper roller doors.
There is no actual physical lock engaging on a roller door, unless you have a manual operated door with a lock or one of the increasing number of roller doors which have been designed and tested with security in mind and have autolocking systems.
Lateral resistance to force is dependent on the type of curtain slat used and there are a lot of different slats on offer. If you want a decent level of resistance then always go for the 77mm double skinned slat. It is also dependent on the size and strength of the side guides used and the best guides are 70mm or wider, with 90mm being a default guide for the security rated roller doors available. Some specialist, smaller, but very strong guides are possible, but these are usually on commercial roller shutters.
A combination of a good quality, strong curtain slat with a good quality set of guides will give the best resistance to anyone trying to literally barge or break their way through the door.
Vertical forcing is a different issue and if you want a security based roller garage door then pay attention to how the curtain is attached to the barrel, preferably fixed with a solid and very strong attachment method.
Samson Doors offer various roller garage doors with Secured by Design accreditation and a certified testing to LPS1175 SR1 and SR2 as an option.
The Seceuroglide Excel for example along with the Seceuroglide Original model has a unique and patented physical mechanism preventing the curtain being lifted once closed. It is a simple and clever design and if also combined with a very strong physical attachment to a larger barrel than most doors This roller door will offer excellent security in single and double width sizes and is a very advanced roller door in terms of colours and control methods.
Our SRD77 premium remote control models have a built in alarm system to warn if the door is being tampered with when closed.
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