Roller Garage Doors Safety

We take a look at the safety feature on a roller garage door.

Many roller garage doors now integrate innovate safety features to prevent any injury's as a result of its use. The motors used roller garage doors are compact but have reasonable amounts of toque to allow smooth operation of the door and as a result many manufactures fit the following safety aids.

Automatic Stop

This function automatically reverses the door from lowering if it sense an obstruction below the garage door.

Anti Drop Device

Prevents uncontrolled falling of the roller garage door even in the very unlikely event of a spring or cable breakage.

Anti trap zones

Depending on the design most manufacturers now build in features to prevent fingers from being trapped in the tracks which the garage door moves through. Also check measures taken by manufacture to prevent the door derailing from the track. If you are looking for a automatic sectional garage door check for safety aids to prevent figures being trapped as the sections fold together.

Manual Override

It is always useful to have a manual override to open and close the door in the even of power of motor failure giving the user the ability to winch the door by hand. This feature also prevents the risk of being trapped in the garage if the entrance is the only exit.

You need to check that you door has a CE Mark which has been mandatory for doors that have been made since 2005.

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Guarantee

Check to see how long the guarantee/warranty is for.

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