How To Fit Side Hinged Garage Doors

The smaller of the two garage doors becomes a practical personnel door for easy and secure everyday use.

How to fit side hinged garage doors.

That means you don t always have to open both doors to gain access to your garage. Like side hinged styles the tilt up canopy garage doors don t have sections they re made of one solid piece. Side hinged garage doors can be purchased in pre hung steel frames or fit into existing openings. As well as the conventional 1 2 1 2 split where frequent access is required the popular 2 3 1 3 split is an ideal solution.

Much like our up and over doors side hinged doors are usually pre fitted with either a steel or aluminium sub frame for the very easiest installation and best overall fit and weatherseling. Always take care to be fully aware of whether the sizes for ordering refer to the overall frame width or the internal frame width it is always best to state both sizes if possible but as most side hinged doors are fitted inbetween the garage structural opening the overall frame size is best with some. More traditional timber side hinged doors are usually fitted with a timber sub frame which can of course be any size if required to accomodate unusual. All the side hinged doors available from us can be in standard or purpose made sizes.

Side hinged doors also provide a fantastic solution to garages with limited headroom dimensions as the doors open. Side hinged garage doors we supply fit. Side hinged garage doors are available in 50 50 split or with a 1 3 to 2 3 opening ratio. Displayed below we have a range of fitting instructions for garador up over sectional gararoll and side hinged garage doors as well as frontguard front entrance doors.

All these instructions are for our current range of garage doors and front doors. Side hinged garage door prices are on average 1400 00 incl. Like the up over door the side hinged garage door is available in steel grp and timber but unlike the up over door there is also an additional options for the doors to be made of aluminium and doors that are insulated. They can also be automated with special conversion arms.

If the opening is constructed of uncut stonework a scribed timber sub frame will neatly fit with the existing construction.