Sectional doors with a wicket: reliability and aesthetics

Garage doors have recently changed thanks to new technologies in their manufacture and use of modern materials.

Instead of iron sheets welded, compact shape reliable with a large selection of colors of the product came to replace the metal frame.

Beauty and practicality

Variety and classification

According to the principle of opening, they can be classified as follows:

• swing;
• recoiling;
• sectional;
• lifting and turning;
• roller.

It is worth noting that modern models have good anti-vandal qualities; it is as difficult to open them as ordinary swing gates with a wicket. The leader in sales today are overhead sectional doors.

During their development, the aim was to achieve the maximum maneuverability of the canvas without limiting the heat-insulating and anti-vandal properties. After all, all these shortcomings are often present in other lifting models.

Tip: If you want to make your garage warm, they are simply not interchangeable.

The material for the manufacture of such doors with built-in wicket are sandwich panels connected by means of hinges to each other. Panels provide good insulation. A large role is also played by sealing joints along the entire perimeter, which gives the product a tight fit to the aperture.

The movement is carried out using a system of cables, shafts and drums, and is balanced by a spring mechanism. Guides, located along the ceiling and frame fixing the canvas on both sides.

Such products are installed in any garage opening with a height of about eighty to three meters and a width of from two to five meters. Despite all the advantages, the price of simple products is not affordable for everyone, not to mention the elite options. Increasingly, motorists are looking for options to buy cheaper.

Installation

You can reduce costs if you collect the gate, inside of which there is a gate with your own hands. It will cost twenty five percent cheaper from the cost of construction. For self-assembly in the kit includes a diagram that clearly shows the location of each element during installation.

There is also a manual that describes each step of the installation. Even if you had to collect them before, read it anyway. Since each manufacturer has its own little tricks in the assembly.

Tip! Work together, this will facilitate the process. Carefully read what is written in the instructions, it will save you from mistakes during installation. And also, buy, products of only well-known manufacturers, this will significantly increase the service life of your gate.

The photo shows how this happens:

Assembly process

The constantly growing demand for such products makes manufacturers make more and more original models. One of them is a garage sectional door with a wicket. At cost, they are more expensive than their counterparts without a gate by about thirty to forty percent.

This option is convenient because at the entrance or exit it is not necessary to lift the entire structure, but just open the door. Such innovation is indispensable in places with a large cross-country (industrial boxes, car repair shops).

The advantages of such a gate are obvious:

• saves heat;
• convenient passage;
• significant time savings;
• increase the life of the working mechanisms.

Example of use in boxes

In the market, besides the traditional options, there are sectional fire doors with a wicket. Externally, they look just like their counterparts. But they are made of special refractory panels using mineral wool inside.

Fire-fighting products are manufactured according to technical standards TU 5284-001-86335980-2012. Products made according to such technical parameters have a large fire resistance limit with the symbol E160. This means the time through which the fire and products of combustion will be able to break through such a gate.

Moreover, such measures do not interfere with the performance of the product.

The advantages of fire gates include:

• the use of high-quality materials and components of Russian and foreign manufacturers;
• the ability to choose an individual type of lifting structure that fits the size of your room;
• the addition of a fireproof lock extending around the entire perimeter of the gate;
• strengthening the refractoriness of the product give the profile of a U-shaped and L-shaped type, which are placed at the top and bottom of the design;
• the presence of special devices that prevent tearing of cables and springs;
• small weight of a design.

Taking into account all the above advantages, it becomes clear that this is one of the most modern types of structures. They prevent the penetration of the flame from the room to the outside, as well as more preferred for its lightness, reliability, efficiency.

All the above options are applied very convenient additions in the form of an automatic electric drive. This is a very reliable thing, when used properly, it serves for quite a long time. On average, it is designed for twenty-five thousand working cycles, which later became useless mechanisms are easily replaced..

The door will open upon a command from the control panel by giving a signal to the electric drive. Additionally, you can install sensors that are placed around the perimeter of the doorway. They react to movement and stop the doors, protecting them from damage.

A mechanism with remote control will be able to open the gate from the house or inside the car. When a power outage can be opened using a special key that unlocks the mechanism. With it, the drive is turned off and the process of raising and lowering the arms occurs without much effort.

When installing automation, it is imperative to provide such a lock with which it will be possible to open the door in such cases.

The figure shows the actuators, as well as sensors:

How does the sensor motor

Drive for sectional doors

In conclusion

We hope the article has been helpful to you. Now it remains to make a choice, which copies are more suitable for you to install them in your garage or garden plot. In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic. We wish you successful acquisitions of easy installation, let them please you without breaking for many years.