The presence of an automatic gate in the garage is not a necessity, but to close / open the gate in the rain and the snow is so unparalle that you will unwind about the automation of this process. There are several ways - automate already available or install new ones. What are the automatic garage doors, about their device, advantages and disadvantages and talk on.
Get rid of the main flaw
The gate for a garage with an electric drive is good because to lock them out mechanically - with the help of locks or constipation - there is no need. The actuators are designed in such a way that in the closed state, they block the opening of the door web before entering the signal from the control organ (buttons and / or control panel). But automatic garage doors are dependent on the presence of power. No light - mechanisms do not work. Neither open nor close. The problem is solved in two ways:
- Installing unlock system that will allow you to open / close the gate manually. This is usually an option that needs to be ordered additionally, so be careful when ordering a complete set.
Automatic garage doors are convenient, and you can increase their reliability by installing the backup power supply.
- The presence of a backup power source. Most often put the battery, from which, when the power is disappeared, the engine runs, leading to the movement of the door of the gate. If the problem of the disappearance of the power supply is relevant, many are seized with electric generators. In this case, the garage doors should be included in the backup power scheme.
Moreover, no one denies the ability to install two systems at once. Automatic garage doors can be connected to a backup power source and, optionally, equip the manual unlock system. This will reduce the probability of refusal, practically to zero.
Management methods
Automatic garage doors of any kind may have control of several types:
- From the buttons located on the adjacent wall or somewhere nearby. Not the best option, because in order to open / close the gate anyway, you need to leave the car. Often this option is made as a backup - suddenly the remote control will be lost.
Buttons for gate control can be used as an emergency method.
- From the remote control. Automatic gate with remote control - in demand option. On the drive there is a receiving device, which when the signal is received, starts the door of the gate in one direction or the other side (depending on the received signal). The signal is transmitted from the remote control, which may look like a key chain, and maybe like a small remote. This method is convenient, as you can turn on / off the drive while in the area of the receiver, located in the garage. From the car, from the house, being in the yard - it does not matter. It is important that the remote control is within the signal range. But here there are nuances. The first - the transmission of signals occurs on the radio channel, that is, it can be intercepted. Therefore, when choosing, pay attention to the method of encoding and security system. The second is your neighbors or even you can have a remote control from another device that works at the same frequency. This will lead to confusion. Therefore, it is desirable to be able to change the frequency on which the control panel and receiver work. In addition, it will increase the reliability of the system - you can change the frequency of your own way.
The remote control for the automatic gate is convenient
- From a mobile device. Modern locking systems can be controlled not only from the remote control, but also from a mobile device with a special program installed. Signal exchange occurs on satellite communication system. In addition, you do not need an additional device (remote), but only a mobile phone, you can track the state of the gate at any time. But such a system is the road, although convenient.
Most often, remote controls are used to control automatic garage gates. They are comfortable, compact. Usually they are installed in a pair with a system of emergency unlocking. To disappear, you can open / close the gate manually (or with a manual gate).
Automatic swing gate
Most garages are equipped with a swing gate. Yes, the decision is not perfect, but everyone is accustomed to the advantages / minuses. If your garage already has such a gate, they can be turned into automatic. You need to choose a drive that will open and close the sash.
Swing Gate with electric drive
Types of drives
In general, the drive for swing doors can be two types - linear and lever. For the gate, they choose linear - they are more powerful and reliable, can be with the control panel, can work from the button or have a double opening system. The lever is designed for smaller masses and do not have such wind resistance - with strong winds break. After all, they will have to keep the massive door canvas on which the wind is affected.
The lever type of drive for heavy sash is not very reliable
There is still an underground system of opening the opening doors, but for this case it is absolutely unprofitable - the cost is high, complex installation, many problems with operation in the autumn-winter period. In general, the underground drive garage is better not to consider.
Advantages and disadvantages
Swing automatic garage doors have the same disadvantages as ordinary:
- Require a large free space before the garage. Moreover, the space is cleared. That is, after the snowfall, you will first have to clear the pad, so to open the gate. The meaning in automation in this case disappears.
- There is a chance to damage the car: putting it too close to the goal and without holding the sash, without fixing the goal's sash, get them "on the corpus" with a strong impact of the wind.
Swing Gate with electric drive
- Have a large sailboat, because when choosing a drive, you must take it with a solid reserve - to overcome the wind resistance and keep the sash in place.
- Usually represent a sheet of metal on the frame, that is, they are "cold". You can warm them, but it increases and so considerable mass, the drive is needed even more powerful (and expensive).
- It is difficult to achieve tightness.
Pluses of unpaved automatic garage gates - simplicity of mounting drive. In addition, you can not buy a drive, and a rammatature is a hydraulic lift of sufficient power from a device. There are no other advantages.
In general, the dispensed automatic gates for the garage should only be done if the gate themselves are already standing and operated, and the budget for the purchase of another system is missing.
Rotary lifting
The design of the lifting and rotary gates for the garage is not too complicated. This is a metal sheet in full width of the opening, which with the help of a special mechanism rises up, in the open position is fixed under the ceiling.
Rotary automatic gates - Requires a seat under the ceiling
Views of lifting
Lifting-rotary automatic garage doors There are different types - for different types of doorways, a different mass of the canvas:
- Standard type. Suitable for cloths weighing up to 870 kg, pitch height from 350 mm and above. Guides have a smooth bending with a radius of 381 mm and 305 mm, which provides minimal load on the springs. This type of lifting is considered reliable.
- Low lifting type. It is designed for a height of 250 mm high to 500 mm (the weight of the canvas is not more than 870 kg). For lifting the gate, special radius guides are used. The system is even more reliable than the standard one.
- High rise type. For a pitch height from 500 mm and above, the maximum mass of the web is 890 kg. With such a design, the opening requires much less space, but reliability downwards than the previous two.
What are the drives of lifting and rotary automatic garage gates
- Inclined lift. Also used for low perts - up to 500 mm high, ideal for inclined ceilings. The maximum weight is 1000 kg, the guides are located around the perimeter of the structure.
- Vertical lift. It can be installed on high perts - at a height of 500 mm. As it is clear from the name, the cloth rises up. The maximum weight is 1000 kg, the guides are installed as close as possible to each other. Characterized by a long stable work.
The choice of the type of opening of the lifting-rotary automatic garage gates is largely determined by the parameters of the opening, mainly the height of the pods and the mass of the canvas. When installing this system, it is important to prepare a good way - to drive it up with an accuracy of a millimeter, plastering on beacons. In this case, it will not be tight in this case, there will be no problems with purge.
Advantages and disadvantages
Let's start with the practical benefit of the installation of the lifting-turning mechanism on the garage gate compared with the swollen (even if automated).
- The place required to open the gate before the garage becomes much less.
- The performance of the gate is not much dependent on the presence / absence of snow before the web. Of course, if the gate has a snowdrift, it is better to throw it away. The power of the mechanism may be enough to move it, but there is no need to overload it. In addition, there is little pleasant if the snow will fall on the head with the canvas, then - to melt in the garage.
- The canvas does not interfere with the departure.
General device of lifting and rotary mechanisms
- The gate makes a metal sheet without additional rolling joints (welds are not counted). With proper preparation, the opening can be achieved good thermal insulation.
- It is possible to open such webs as automatically (button or control panel) or manually, which is not bad when the electricity is turned off.
- In the plane you can make a wicket or window and it will not greatly affect the cost.
- You can use insulated cloths and nicknames / seals - for heated garages.
In general, this design is much more convenient, less problematic during operation, but there are also disadvantages.
- In very low garages, you will not put such a system.
- Large sailboat, which requires greater drive power.
- Manually require solid efforts.
Rotary gates still require free space before the garage
- During the opening, it is still required in front of the gate, as the lower edge of the gate is advanced. Accordingly, there is a chance to damage the car if you put it too close.
- It takes a large space under the ceiling, on the sides of the passage, it will not be possible to deliver something.
What else can be attributed to disadvantages? Complex installation. Rotary automatic garage doors require proper installation of guides, springs and counterweight. All this should be securely fixed and debugged.
Sectional automatic garage doors
Sectional gates for the garage are similar to the lifting-turning. The difference is that the canvas is separate sections, movably articulated with a loop. These sections rise up on the guides (rollers are fixed on sections). Although the similarity is, but due to the fact that the sections have a relatively small height and "fold", the places when climbing / lowering, they do not take place in front of the gate. On the ceiling, they occupy the same place as lifting-swivels.
Sectional automatic gate for garage Many consider the best choice
Types and properties
There are two types of sectional gates for the garage - with a warmed and cold cloth. Sections without insulation are simply metal strips covered with a protective layer and painted. Warm sectional gates are collected from sandwich panels. The space between the two layers of the metal is filled with insulation, which determines the main characteristics of the gate. To reduce heat loss in the place of the joint panels, the seal is installed (usually elastic rubber). It has the same types of lifting as lifting-turning, only the parameters of the door opening are other (less).
Two types of automation drives
Two types of drives can be used for automation. The first put on the ceiling behind the ceiling guides. With the help of the cable it is connected to the web. Washing the cable, it pulls up the panel. This option has a small power, it is cheaper, used only for domestic garage gates. The second drive is axial. It is put on the side of the axis located at the top of the construction. Cars the axis, and the tan of the gate. This type of drive is more powerful, can be used on for a large mass sash.
Advantages and disadvantages
The main advantage has already been voiced - sectional automatic garage doors for work do not require space ahead. In some cases, this is really important. The rest of the pros look like:
- Warm models have the same heat insulation as a wall in a brick one and a half.
- High reliability. It does not compare with a steel sheet with a thickness of 4-5 mm, but rather high.
- Sufficient rigidity for wind load resistance.
- Non-futured installation. The design is assembled from small and size parts, which is somewhat longer in time, but it is much easier physically. With the installation of sectional automatic garage gates, it is possible to cope in the "one hands".
The view is also quite solid
- In the door of the gate can be set a wicket.
In general, it is not surprising that this type of gate for the garage is placed more often than the rest. Not bad choice. But there are disadvantages:
- High price.
- Not too high degree of protection. For installation in the yard is an excellent option. If the garage doors go out into the street, it is worth searching another, more reliable option.
If you need to choose an automatic garage gate for a protected area, the most optimal choice is perhaps the sectional. Of all they are the most compact, reliable, safe, have many versions. At the same price, not too different from automated swing.
Rolled (roller shutters)
What is a roller blind, everyone is imagined. This is a set of aluminum planks, which when opening are wound on the drum located under the ceiling. When driving, the plank slides on the guides installed on the sides of the opening.
Rolled automatic garage doors - a solution for those garages for which anti-burglar characteristics are not important
There is a manual opening option (tanks on the drum), there is a mechanized - with a motor that can be controlled from the remote control or from the buttons derived from the panel next to the gate.
Features of choice
When choosing a roller spirit for the garage, pay attention to such moments:
- Laminers for roller shutters are made by extrusion or rolling method. More reliable - made by extrusion, since in production, a semi-liquid mass is pressed into special forms. As a result, the outer walls and the inner partitions are a whole that much increases the rigidity and reliability of each individual plank and the gate as a whole. All anti-vandal rolled gates are collected from extrusion planks.
Labels are larger and of thicker metal, there are filled with foam - for better thermal insulation
- Warmed - with foam filler - lamellas are always made using rolling. To increase the rigidity of these slats, the filler takes increased stiffness - to add them resistance to mechanical effects.
- The dimensions of the lamellae used for rollers: height from 39 mm to 84 mm, thickness - from 8, mm to 13.5 mm.
- Type of lock that is used. There are usual - external, which are fought in the welders welded to the frame, are internal - spacer. If the position of the spacer, in the off-season, when the temperature in the region is 0 ° C, flowing through the surface of the condensate, falls into the lock mechanism and freezes. Open the gate can only set the ice (you can use a hairdryer).
Roller Garage Gate
Please note that the selection of the height of the slats in for a rolled gate is made on the basis of the width of the opening. Small height can be used for door openings, large - actually for the gate. For example, a lamella of 84 mm high can be used on spans up to 5 meters long.
Advantages and disadvantages
Rolling gates for the garage are considered to be the most unreliable and cold, but in the folded state they are the most compact and can be installed at a very small height of the room and low pertolock (from 100 mm). And this is their main advantage.
The fattest steel lamellas for garage rollers
Another plus - they cost less than lifting-swivel and sectional. It is probably necessary to find those that will be cheaper than swinging. But according to the degree of security, they do not go to any comparison even with the most non-composite steel gates. The anti-vandal steel profile has a metal thickness of 1 mm. And this is a maximum. He is worth a lot. The price is comparable to the same sectional.
Retractable (sliding)
Another type of automatic garage garage is retractable or sliding. By name it is already clear that it is tightly shifted to the side. This is the main feature of this - next to the opening should be free space by 1.5-2 meters more than the width of the gate. The canvas will be shifted here. Since the mass of the canvas is large, usually use the drive.
This feature strongly limits the scope of use of the sliding gate
Types of retractable gate
By design, the sliding gate is:
- Console. In this design, the main load from the gate canvas falls on the console (carrier) beam, which can be located at the bottom, bottom or in the middle of the dense. In the section, it resembles the letter "P", the rollers are inserted inside, which are fixed on a special stand. When moving the rollers slide on the beam, the canvas shifts. In this design, good balancing is important, then there are no problems with operation, such automatic gates can be used for decades. The minus of this type of retractable gate is in a difficult implementation, it is necessary to calculate and make the leather of the gate of the gate with a counterweight, set the support structure (concrete).
Console system
- Suspended. The carrier beam is located at the top, they also move rollers. But, in this design, the rollers are attached to the gate canvase and are on top. That is, the gate is actually hanging on the beam. Easy to implement the design, behaves well during operation. In the case of installing on the garage, there has one significant disadvantage - it is almost impossible to insulate to a normal extent.
Suspended automatic garage doors
- Reluced rail. In this system, the opposite is the opposite. The carrier beam / rail is at the ground level. Rollers are also moving along the guide, but attached to the gate canvas below. This is the simplest design, but also the most problematic in operation: the guide is clogged with mud, the gate canvas when moving is often thrown away.
The leaf of the gate is usually made from the metal sheet, you can use the usual sheet steel, profiled sheet, fill on the frame of the board, etc. There are no restrictions. Another thing is that preservation is important for the garage, so most often put sheet metal. But the gate at the same time it turns out heavy, which is necessary to take into account when choosing the power of the engine.
Advantages and disadvantages
In general, all the retractable / sliding gates are not able to ensure due degree of thermal insulation. They should move freely along the walls, therefore it will not be possible to ensure a dense fit. You can put seals, but they must be very elastic. And it is also a piece of wall / fence / free space near the gateway in the same plane - to be able to
Therefore, if we consider the sliding gate as garage, then only for a cold garage. At the same time, the design on the rail in the ground is not worth using at all. First, it is inconvenient, since it will have to move it and she will be clogged. Secondly, with such a device, the snow will be wound inside, the rain will be raining - the rollers have a rather large height and in no way this clearance is sealing.
Have sliding automatic garage doors and dignity:
- High resistance to hacking. The canvas can be made of sheet steel, which is good protection against penetration.
- Stability of work. Refsted are possible only if the beams are damaged, which is rare in the console and suspended design.
- Independence of work on the presence / absence of snow.
Most often used as a street gate for the entry of transport
- Low ability to refuse due to icing design.
- Retractable gates of any system can be made with their own hands - from the very beginning, to the very end. Buy only drive with a control panel, metal, rollers, parts of the support system. If the automatic gate with the remote control is not needed, you can accommodate any engine with a low revolutions.
In general, automatic sliding gates are not suitable for all garages. They are ideal if the cold garage has a shipment directly to the street and its opening is on the same level with the fence. The unheated freestanding is also suitable (if there is enough free space nearby and the open gate does not interfere with the movement by the site). In all other cases, you need to pick another design.
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