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Starting a garage project. For various space reasons we are looking at a vertical set of two roller doors that go round corners i.e. run in a track on the floor and hung on rail above - motorised. Anyone done this before - first door quote was just as well i was sitting down (13k)


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 9:19 am
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Could the solution be as simple as a set of normal roller doors turned on their side with some track guides welded on to the edges?


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 9:22 am
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It might be as essentially that's all they are. Same motors just with guides the other way round. Has to be double doors as it gives us the ability to get another 2m of turning space in a tight area. Just wondered if anyone else had put these in.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 9:26 am
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Why not a sectional door lifting vertically?-is your garage going to be really wide? looking at replacing my up & over door for one but only a single garage. Wouldn't lose a lot of valuable wall space with the setup you propose?.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:03 am
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We have a height limitation and also required to have a sedum roof so we can't fit the extra height of a sectional door in which is why we went to this solution. They look great but we might have to revisit it. Conservation area.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:12 am
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My Hormann only takes about 8 inches above the top of the door opening so not a massive amount of additional headroom required and it doesn't need to be attached to the roof if that is also a problem.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 10:33 am
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Yeah even that is too much, the side hanging rail system lets us get all the steel and stuff in to accomodate the roof under the allowed height. Its a 2.5 width garage. I might look at it again and see what we can do.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 11:07 am
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No problem, just thought I'd mention it.
Seems like you are pretty restricted as to what you can have.
Good luck with the search


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 11:56 am
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13K for an 8 foot door??? Someone is having a giraffe. How much depth do you have? Could some sort of concentina system work, 9 x 1 foot leaves would cover the gap and would fold up into a relatively small space on 1 or both sides and only impinge on a foot of space behind them when folding.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 12:12 pm
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What about a tri or more fold door? You could have two that meet at a corner and lock at top and bottom and together.


 
Posted : 15/04/2015 12:14 pm