Canopy Retractable Garage Door

Up and over garage doors is a general term used to describe two specific types of garage door mechanism.

Canopy retractable garage door.

An up and over door is a one piece door panel counterbalanced with a spring s to make manual or automatic opening easy for the user. Hormann up and over garage doors are durable reliable garage doors which fall into two main categories for the type of mechanism canopy gear or retractable gear. Retractable plus door. When open the door panel protrudes approximately 1 3 forming a canopy.

Retractable up and over garage door gear is a very reliable robust and smooth operating mechanism that can easily be automated without the need for any additional conversion equipment. Hormann up and over garage doors. Canopy and retractable operating garage doors. The two different types are shown below.

Both gear types. There are no tracks running back into the garage when the door is closed. They are available as either fully tracked or trackless canopy mechanisms and in a wide range of materials including steel timber grp and abs. Retractable door gear is much more robust and the side spring mechanism can support the heavier double size doors that are wider than 8ft.

Door type 1 canopy up and over garage door. This is how the garage door panel opens and closes and both operating mechanisms have their advantages and disadvantages in different applications.