Oak Garage Doors – Choosing the right Garage Door
Oak is traditionally an extremely difficult timber to make garage doors with, as it is extremely heavy and might be highly unstable in the varying air moisture content that we’ve got here in the U.K. Yet it is also an attractive grained timber and required by many individuals to match current doors, windows and other oak timber around the external house structure.
Oak garage doors
The weight of oak may be the bigger of the two problems as single garage doors contain 3 to 4 times the amount of timber that a front entrance door normally has and to lift it above your head in a one piece up and over panel is clearly going to be a safety issue as well as a mechanical issue without enormous springs and oversized lifting arms. Although it is possible, the sizes are commonly more restricted than with sectional or round the corner garage door systems. We can offer Oak garage doors created using the superb Hormann DF98 chassis system to manufacture a one piece up and over garage door panel in the UK with comprehensive CE compliance. Using various types of oak in varied designs, a Timber garage door can be produced up to about 4 metres wide maximum and a maximum height of about 2.4 metres.
Oak Door Designs
The designs in the oak garage door range can recreate very traditional styles and are only available in a clear base coat finish to promote the natural beauty of the Oak graining along with the warmth of the oak colour. The oak garage doors are built using simple joinery methods combined with elements from modern up and over garage door construction offering the very latest fully retractable operating gear fully compliant with the latest CE regulations. Engineered oak is the latest high quality material to create long lasting garage doors from. We are able to offer doors using this extremely stable version of oak and all estimates are on request.