Electric Timber Sectional Door Price Guide

For any external timber the proper application of high quality microporous timber treatments is essential to allow the timber to breath and deal with the variations in air moisture content.

We strongly recommend factory finish options when it comes to timber garage doors as the treatment is applied in a controlled environment and should get to every part of the door sections inside and out.

Various shades of timber stains to highlight the timber graining and solid colours are available with timber sectional doors from white through to ebony.

Different rends mean new colours are available all the time and for a special request it is always possible to have the door finished to match other timberwork on site.

A sectional door is designed as a manual spring assisted door in its basic form and therefore has manual locking as a manual door. The standard locking is good, a large and unique internal latching mechanism which is locked via a euro profile hardened cylinder. However, most sectional garage doors are bought as electric operated and then the manual locking is left out completely and the electric boom type operator which drives the door is the locking. Most modern operators have some kind of security mechanism and a manual override internally but some go a bit further and some have even been given the Secure by design accreditation when specified in a certain way.

A sectional door by its very nature is very secure compared to most other garage door types because of the strength of the solid timber panels and the multiple rollers either side encapsulated into steel tracks. Forcing a sectional door is not going to get much movement at all, they sit solid and defiant when closed.. If a good quality electric operator is set up properly then trying to force the door from the ground upwards is near on impossible for a person with basic tools.

With the standard electric operator option all you have to do is press a button either on one of the 2 hand transmitters supplied or the wall mounted control station which sits inside your garage with a built in courtesy light also built in. If there is a power cut then you have to enter the garage by another door and release the motor drive to operate the door manually which will be quite effortless.

If there is no other access then there is a release mechanism which is attached to the handle or drilled into the panel as a key release mechanism with cable attachment.