We exhibited at Surrey Homebuilding and Renovating Show over the weekend . A great opportunity to meet our customers and discuss all things garage doors.
Don’t forget we offer a FREE no obligation survey too!
If you want to discuss your requirements in more details, please contact us on 0800 716 569
Call 0800 716 569 for more information on our garage doors
Markilux awnings are designed to be timeless. Trendy and classic lines united in the perfect products for your home. With summer arriving, now is the perfect time to speak to Access about our range of awnings for your home.
Awnings for patio and balcony
The definition of the perfect awning is basically simple: location and personal taste are the two determining factors. In general, there are cassette awnings, semi-cassette-awnings, open style awnings and side screens to choose from. For the creation of additional room outside, Markilux offers special large scale awning systems, which you can find out more about on Access Awnings.
Awnings by Markilux create open space in your garden that can be enjoyed throughout the year. Using the highest quality material and offering a range of uses; they are extremely weather resistant, robust, and versatile. A Markilux awning is the perfect addition to your home. The manufacturing quality is unique; the installation is exclusively handled by specialist partners. Those who own a Markilux will always enjoy it as see life outside in totally new dimensions.
Conservatory awnings by Markilux
The intelligent climate controls for the home and for the environment. Markilux window awnings, temper, cool, keep heat, protect and they make any climate perfect – with a minimum of effort. Intelligent technology and outstanding aesthetics included. Sunlight all year round is the most important factor that turns an enjoyable room into a favourite one. The classic conservatory, the glass-covered veranda, loggia or pergola: Markilux conservatory awnings regulate the light influx that brightens your winter and cools your summer.
Whether fitted internally or externally, the area of glass is large or small, or the roof is hipped or asymmetrical – the versatility and outstanding quality of the Markilux range of products are evident in the case of conservatory awnings as well.
It’s often hard to know where to start when looking for a new garage door to replace an old one or for a renovation. Whether you want a new door for style, security or convenience Access Garage Doors offer a wide range of door types and finishes. Here are our tips to ensuring you get the right garage door for you.
Primarily designed to store your car, most garages end up being a store room for tools and other items that don’t have a place in your home, but you may need one day. Your new garage door must keep things safe and secure as well as adding style to your house it can also add value!
Types of garage doors
Your property may influence the style of door that you choose as older properties may suit a more traditional look such as Timber garage doors. However if you are after something more contemporary, an aluminium or fibreglass door may be a better choice for you. Remember your garage doors is built and installed to last, so make sure you choose the right one for your lifestyle. To help you choose the right garage door, here’s what you can expect from each finish of door:
Steel
Steel garage doors provide security as well as being corrosion resistant as they are manufactured from premium grade galvanised steel. Access garage doors offer a range of finishes; primed doors offer the ability to paint your garage doors any colour you wish or can be installed as plastisol coated steel with low maintenance colour options white, black and brown. Weather gain is an affordable way to get to look of a timber door and woodgrain laminate finishes are available in golden oak and rosewood.
Timber doors
Side-mounted timber doors look elegant, but it’s worth bearing in mind that you’ll need quite a bit of clearance in front so they can open fully. Timber garage doors are also available with other door mechanisms and come in a variety of different timbers including softwood. Mahogany, cedar wood and oak.
Fibreglass
Enhance your property with ever popular fibreglass garage doors. Fibreglass offers superb detail, with low maintenance high gloss white and timber grain effect finishes. In addition to their moisture resistance they also don’t warp or change in weather conditions
Insulated ABS
Impact resistant white ABS (Acrylonitrate Butadiene Styrene) is the perfect match to complement white PVCu windows and doors and is virtually maintenance free. The material itself is very forgiving against knocks from car bumps and footballs due to its flexibility.
Aluminium Framed retractable doors
Made from durable powder-coated steel or ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Plastic), these doors also require a good deal of clearance in front when you open them. You can operate them with a remote control (although this is sold separately). But they do come with a 70mm frame, handle and lock.
Insulated sectional doors
Insulated sectional doors are ideal if you’re strapped for space, as you won’t need any clearance at the front to open them. As the powder-coated steel comes fully sealed, they’ll give you plenty of protection against theft, noise and cold. They come with a 90mm frame, handle and lock. They’re also compatible with a remote control (which is available separately).
Insulated roller doors
These doors are made from tough but flexible aluminium, their slim individual slats roll up very tightly. The result? More room to spare inside your garage as well as in front of it. Like insulated sectional doors, they give you lots of protection against break-ins, noise and the elements. They come with a 90mm frame, handle and lock, too. But an advantage of these doors is that they come with a remote control as standard.
What’s my garage door shade?
It’s hard to go wrong with a white garage door as it fits with the majority of house styles and areas, but if you have a more traditional or architecturally styled home you may wish to have a more of a statement garage door. Here are some helpful tips on choosing the right colour for you style and home.
Material type
The material that you choose for you garage door will, of course, affect the options and colours that are available to you. With manufactured doors there are limitations to the colour options within the catalogue, however, there are generally options available to you, just be sure to ask a representative when you book your survey. Although steel garage doors are can be easily painted, is not always recommended as the standard finish is very durable. Wooden doors offer much more versatility as you can mix paint to any shade you what, along with a wide range of wood stains also being available on a huge variety of tones
Complementary colours
We advise not to match your garage door colour with your houses façade as you run the risk of it blending in and not being the statement piece it deserves to be. Instead of matching your garage door to your home, try to compliment them. If you have stone or brick, then natural variations of materials work fine if you find a tone that suites your home – Although we do love bold coloured statement garage doors!
Colour swatch test
Visualising what your garage door will look like in its new shade can be hard, so we recommend creating a sample using spare wood from the garage. Paint or stain your sample and lean it against the garage door throughout the day so you can gauge how your new coloured door may look in different stages of daylight.
Access Garage Doors offer a wide range of garage doors from leading manufactures in various style, finishes and colours, you’re sure to find the perfect door for your property. Contact one of our garage door experts about our extensive range of specialist garage doors and finishing option.
Secured by Design is the official UK Police flagship initiative supporting the principles of ‘designing ou
t crime’ by use of effective crime prevention and security standards for a wide range of products and applications.
Only products which have been tested and meet the required technical standard can be awarded the Police Preferred Specification. Research has indicated that Secured by Design usage can reduce burglary by up to 50% and criminal damage by 25%.
Seceuroglide Excel has been awarded the prestigious Secured by Design Police Preferred Specification status by many years of hard work on redesigning and improving an already very good product to a level where the required test by the LPCB was passed with flying colours. Bear in mind 95% of products tested by the LPCB (The Loss Prevention Certification Board) fail!
About Secured by Design
Established in 1989, Secured by Design (SBD) is the title for a group of national police projects focusing on the design and security for new and refurbished homes, commercial premises, and car parks as well as the acknowledgement of quality security products and crime prevention projects. It supports the principles of ‘designing out crime’ through physical security and processes.
Secured by Design works with the industry and test houses to create high-level security standards, responding to trends in crime, and has given input on a number of key standards .The principles of the scheme have been proven to reduce the risk of crime and the fear of crime.
For more information on the secured by design initiative refer to their website www.securedbydesign.com
The UK’s first range of Up & Over garage doors to meet the Secured by Design accreditation. The Guardian Range of doors have been
engineered to offer even greater security to meet STS202. (STS202 is a security technical specification that addresses attempts at manual burglary.) Currently available in two designs with either Retractable or Canopy gearing options and a choice of 7 standard colours. In addition, Garador can also offer a range of front entrance doors which are also SBD certified.
The new Guardian Range has been engineered to offer even greater security. Both the Craton and Horizon door styles are available within the Guardian Range and can be supplied with either canopy or retractable gearing options and in any one of the seven standard colours.
Features Include:
Lock Body Protection – A reinforcing plate has been added to the lock body to prevent attacks against the locking mechanism. This new plate protects both the lock body and the central locking rod anchor points.
Improved Lock Security – Additional plates added to the base corners protect the bottom locking points of the door. These plates ensure the bottom latches remain intact even under extreme attack to prevent access.
4 Point Locking – A 4 point locking system is standard using steel rods operating steel security latches all protected behind braced areas and fed back to a high-security anti snap cylinder lock.
Anti-Snap Cylinder– The standard cylinder has been changed for a new anti-snap version which also incorporates a sacrificial front. The new cylinder is designed to prevent entry even after an attack.
High-Security Bracing – Braces at the back of the door have been increased from 2 as standard to 8 braces for extra protection. The number of spot welds has been increased by more than 70, further securing the door skin.
For more information contact the team on 0800 716 569.
Lock Security
Anti-Snap Cylinder
Bracing
Lock Body Protection
Insulated garage doors make a lot of sense in a time when we’re all preoccupied with ways to save energy and money. More and more people are utilising their garage space as an addition room to the house and this means ensuring the space is properly insulated. The increase in requests and sales of insulated garage doors has been growing in the last few years and it’s not hard to see why. Families looking for playroom areas, dads looking for workshops and stud
ents who need a space to be creative are finding the garage can be invaluable. With insulated garage doors, all these things are realistic options for homeowners.
It’s worth remembering garage door drafts have a large impact on heating bill losses of the entire property, that’s why we recommend draught excluders for garage doors to eliminate heat loss. Insulation helps you to save cash and also enables you to use the garage space in smart ways.
There are a large range of insulated garage doors available with different designs and features but they all share one important attribute – they are made to offer a very high level of security, which appeals to a lot of our customers.
SeceuroGlide is the original insulated roller garage door. SeceuroGlide roller shutter garage doors: insulated & made of twin-walled slats. Secured with unique locking roller shutter system. Since its launch as the first insulated roller garage door, SeceuroGlide has maintained its position as market leader through continuous development and innovation, it’s one of the most versatile options on the market.
There are a number of advantages of sectional doors: usability, reliability and safety, good sealing of opening and excellent thermal insulation. Sectional garage doors are the best-insulated doors for a residential type garage doors. With vertically rising style doors split into several sections, they are constructed in 20 or 42mm thick insulated steel panels, offering superb insulation and achieving excellent U values if installed behind the garage aperture.
Alutech sandwich panels are 45 mm thick. For the production of the panels, Alutech uses galvanized steel tape 0.4 mm thick with 16 μm zinc coating. The front side of the panel is coated with poly urethane modified by polyamide particles (PUR-PA) 20-25 μm thick. The panel is closed-circuit: the front and inner steel sheets are interconnected at the top and at the bottom of the panel, offering excellent thermal insulation. The new Trend Series of doors are economical and functional doors with a 40 mm thickness with fittings made of galvanized steel, which are optimally suited for regions with temperate and cold climates.
Hormann’s new double leaf, side hinged door brings a traditional style up to date by using the same insulated panels that form Hörmann’s class leading sectional garage doors.
If you want to make your garage as insulated as possible, then look at the double skinned sectional doors with 40-45mm thick panels and make 100% sure the door is fitted completely behind the garage opening. We can provide a range of insulated doors, from roller doors to sectional door or traditional side hinged doors. If you have any garage door problems we can solve them.
On most garage door repairs are best left to the experts at Access Garage Doors, but some minor problems you can fix yourself with the use of garage door spares
Due to the many moving parts operating on a daily basis, wear and tear on garage doors is inevitable, and while major components such as automated doors require extensive fixes, you can replace smaller components yourself.
Usually, the simplest components are also the ones that receive the most amount of stress.
Rundum Meir have 40 years experience in making bespoke, sliding garage doors to order.
The wide range of materials they use in the construction of their garage doors, which include aluminium, insulated steel and a variety of timbers, such as oak, are ideal for architect-led projects, refurbishment, and conservation of listed and traditional buildings.
Rundum sliding garage doors can be made to fit almost any opening including curved or unusual shapes. And the superb build quality and engineering ensures all custom made garage doors operate very smoothly and quietly. They also have many additional advantages and features such as electric remote automation and insulation.
Both the bespoke wooden and metal doors have numerous options for personalisation to create a wide variety of installations.
Garage Door Floor Seal Features:
The Weather Defender floor seal is designed to protect your garage from leaves, dust, debris, rodents and rain by creating a seal between the garage door and floor.
Suits ALL types of garage doors –
If you want to know more about Weather Defender visit the website or to place your order call the team on 0800 716 569
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