Installation of sectional garage gates with your own hands

Automatic sectional gates today are the most important element of the exterior of buildings. They gained great popularity in garage construction due to high breakdown resistance. The elegant gate structure has an attractive appearance and is considered extremely convenient to operate. The functional value of such products is quite wide: sectional garage gates are used for thermal insulation and sealing various rooms.

Table of contents:

1. The design of the sectional gates
2. Preparation for the installation of the gate
3. Preparation of the doorway
4. Installation of sectional gates

The design of the sectional gates

Sectional garage gates consist of guides, modules and a spring mechanism, which balances the oscillation of the canvas. Additionally, the sectional canvas is equipped with special mechanisms that program to close and open the gate using a remote control. Operations for the closure and opening of the gate by force even to children through one pressing control panel.

Garage sectional gates are best suited for rooms with limited free space. The gates raised up, opening the entrance, save a useful area. Panels for sectional gates are produced in any color and with any image on the individual order of the buyer.

The panels at the manufacturer are covered with a special polymer coating to protect themselves from corrosion and ensure durable operation. If necessary, an acrylic window, which provides natural lighting of the room, is built into the gate canvas, if necessary. Sectional gates are capable of functioning uninterruptedly at different temperature conditions (-50-+70 degrees Celsius) thanks to the equipment of the product by thermo-insulating sandwich panels.

If we talk about safety, the locking of automatic garage sectional gates provide special locks of the locking system, which allows you to block the canvas in automatic mode after closing. With proper operation of the design, according to the user's instructions, the sectional gates are able to last at least 10 years without replacing components.

Preparation for the installation of the gate

So, you bought a sectional gate, now there is a turn of their installation. In order to facilitate the work of a private developer, along with the kit, an instruction is also supplied in which the entire installation procedure is painted step by step. You will need a couple of friends to help, because measuring the width and the height of the gate opening is more convenient together.

Of the tools, plots, a hammer, wrench, a drill with a set of drills, control and measuring products and roulette will not be superfluous. Remember the means of personal protection of the head, protective glasses and hand gloves.

Before starting the installation of sectional garage gates, it is worthwhile to verify in the presence of all the details of the instructions, which is attached to the kit. If fasteners are not provided for in the kit, then when choosing them, it is necessary to follow the recommendations of the manufacturer, from which it is impossible to leave in any way.

Preparation of the doorway

The installation of sectional gates begins with the preparation of the premises and the preparation of the doorway. For a comfortable installation and future trouble -free operation of the sectional gates, the opening for them must meet certain criteria. It is necessary that the nerds and tributaries are in the same plane, and the vertical and horizontal for the opening of the gate were precisely verified using a measuring level.

To calculate the minimum necessary garage depth, use a simple formula to add 50 centimeters to the height, in the case of installation of a sectional gate with a drive - 100 centimeters. You also need to take into account the installation on the ceiling of the outlet, the wire of which should be at least 1.5 squares in the cross section.

The tributary and the ceiling should be made of strong materials, because the main weight of the sectional garage gates will fall on them. The nerds of such a large load cannot be subjected to, but still should be strong enough, since guides are attached to them.

The optimal tributary size is 25-50 centimeters. With a smaller or larger size, the gates are installed, respectively, with a low and high rise. If you decide to buy this type of sectional garage gates, remember that they have a greater cost than standard products. Before starting work related to the installation of sectional gates, the opening should be plastered, which increases the density of the fit and thermal insulation.

Installation of sectional gates

If necessary, you need to remove the fragile coating from the walls of the opening and strengthen it. Check the horizontalness of the floor: so that the gate at the top of the opening does not have gaps, the error of the horizontal gender can be only 0.1 centimeters. If everything is in order with her, then you can prepare the panels for installation. Remember that the price of sectional garage gates is quite high, so when working carefully, handle the panels so as not to cause their appearance damage.

The next step is the marking of the mounting places and the installation of the guides. Then you need to assemble the canvas, starting work from the lowest panel. Carefully make measurements during installation, because this type of basic structures does not tolerate distortion. It is worth avoiding the use of different planks and damping of the gaps when leveling the structure, because this will further affect the violation of the sizes of sectional garage gates.

An ideal option is the use of metal gaskets that have different thicknesses. After that, it is necessary to fasten the parts of the control of the garage gates and the rise mechanism. The accuracy of measurements is recommended to check again, if necessary. It is also worth monitoring the performance of the entire system. Installation of sectional gates depending on the number of assistants and your preparation takes a couple of hours.

To collect sectional gates on their own, it is necessary, first of all, to familiarize yourself with the instructions for their use. Installation should be carried out according to all the manufacturer's regulations in order to avoid various troubles later, which are caused by errors in measurements and become noticeable only after installation.