Add Comfort & Convenience to Your Home With Roller Garage Doors

Automated roller garage doors can give you an additional sense of security and protection. Furthermore, roller garage doors are incredibly easy-to-operate, convenient, and add extra comfort to your home. They make your life a lot easier by eliminating the need for you to get out of your car, walk up the driveway, and manually open your garage door.

Installing and assembling your roller garage door may seem easy and straightforward, however precision is the most critical element in the garage door installation. 1 mm off and it can destroy your garage door within a very small time window.

The door is housed in a protective box above the opening of the garage. The door moves on a guide and is wound up and down on a shaft. The door rolls up vertically into the protective box. Since your door doesn’t open at an angle like most garage doors, it is perfect for homes with a smaller driveway.

You can select from a range of doors, so be sure to choose one based on your requirements.  The door you choose can also provide the insulation to keep your garage cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. The door also secures the garage from intruders, and from strong wind and other extreme weather conditions.

There’s also an additional safety advantage of an automatic roller garage over a manual garage door. Most are equipped with an infrared sensor that detects any type of movement when the garage is closing. When the obstruction is identified, the garage stops moving downward and reverses up. This feature is great if you have young children or pets.

When you start shopping for your garage door, purchase one that is not too big and bulky. A large garage opener can take up most of your headroom (the available vertical space of your garage) and limit your storage space. It also limits what type of vehicle that can enter and be stored in your garage. For instance, SUVs will be incredibly hard to park if you have limited vertical space.

Roller garage doors are easier to operate than sectional garage doors. They also have smaller and easier to handle panels, which greatly reduces the risk of accidents and also reduces friction to a degree.

Your garage door supplier in Melbourne will also give you a remote to automatically open and close it. When you are approaching the garage door, you simply press the button on your remote, and the door opens by the time you reach the garage. Then, you drive in, press the button again and the door automatically closes. The garage door opener utilises its Intellicode software that changes the passcode that is transmitted from its garage remote to the garage to open it. You never have to worry about someone electronically stealing your passcode, copying it, and opening it without your permission.

There’ll be times when your door may fail to operate. It happens from time to time no matter how well it is installed and maintained, so there is no need to panic. More often than not, the battery in your garage remote is dead or it is some other simple garage door repair. It is also a good idea to keep additional power backups with you such as a manual device (generator, UPS, etc) or additional batteries. Or, you can manually open the garage door until you figure out what is causing the problem.

If you need help, have questions or need a new garage door, call our friendly garage door sales and service team at Melbourne Garage Doors today.