Sliding Garage Doors – The Advantages of the Sliding Door Mechanism
A sliding garage door is not the cheapest garage access option available, but it is certainly one of the best, most reliable and easiest of systems to operate.
The “extra expense” incurred in buying this kind of door comes from the need to have tracks and runners at both the top and the bottom of the opening and to have a strong and sturdy door construction. These tracks can extend to any distance enabling the opened garage door to be stored in a position where it will not cause an obstruction. The only special requirements for the fitting of this kind of door are a true and level base which can be prepared prior to the fitting of the tracks.
Once this is done, the end result is a mechanism that allows a door to be fully or partially opened without interfering with the space in front of or behind the door’s threshold. This style of garage door offers an opening and closing action that is smooth, requires a minimum of physical effort to operate, and can easily and cheaply be motorised and remotely controlled.
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The running tracks that hold and control the motion of the door make the closed door very secure and ensure that sliding garage openers are amongst the strongest and most impenetrable systems around. They can also be locked in a number of different ways and offer high resistance to wind and impact damage.
A unique advantage to the horizontal sliding motion of these …
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