When it comes to looking for a new door for your garage, there are a number of factors that need to be considered before making a final decision, such as opting for a conventional garage door, or one of our electric roller garage doors.
After that there are questions around how secure the door is, how simple they are to use, and much more which we will be addressing in this blog post. To simplify things to help you reach a decision, we will be splitting this post into five parts: security, ease of use, efficiency, installation and pricing.
How secure is an electric roller garage door?
When looking at reasons to purchase a new garage door, security is understandably a big consideration. Protecting your home and your possessions should always be a concern for a homeowner, and securing one of the few entrances to your house with a robust and secure door is a priority.
Garolla electric garage doors are made from connected slats allowing it to roll up when the garage is open. Each slat that makes up a roller shutter garage door is made from twin-walled aluminium, insulated with high density polyurethan foam, making them rigid and secure.
By design, a roller garage door is more secure than a traditional one as it does not have a handle or visible locks on the outside that could attract opportunist criminals. Another benefit that our roller garage doors have is that they run inside side guide rails – these help provide rigidity and insulation, but also rule out another route of access for a thief compared with traditional up and over doors.
Additionally, every Garolla garage door we fit rolls around a secured octagonal barrel, which is then backed up by an auto lock system which does not allow the door to be lifted open manually by force.
How easy is an electric roller garage door to use?
Garage doors are often a blunt and brutish feature of your home, overlooked as an anonymous necessity. They can also be clunky, stubborn and awkward to use. But we don’t allow any of our other homeware to be anything less than convenient and attractive, so why allow our roller garage doors to be?
An electric roller garage door from Garolla is effortless to use and smooth to operate, featuring a simple wireless remote operating device to open and close your garage door at the touch of a button. You can open the garage door from anywhere within 20m of the control box, whether you’re in the house, the garden or approaching your driveway in the car.
Simply use the car-key-sized controller to operate the reliable electric motor inside your electric garage door. These roller shutter garage doors also feature an ‘electric eye’ system that detects objects under the shutter curtain and stops the motor before it touches anything in the way. This is perfect if you’ve got small children or free-roaming pets.
How efficient is an electric roller garage?
For garages adjoined to the home - and particularly those which can also be accessed from inside the home - the thermal efficiency of your electric roller door can be the difference between keeping warm this cold season or having an indoor winter wonderland.
As mentioned above, our slat anatomy and side guide rail system, along with the thick rubber seal fitted along the bottom slat, means that our electric roller doors offer excellent heat (and sound) insulation. This prevents draughts and water from entering your garage, giving you more options in how you use your garage. Compare this to the gaps which are seen all the way around a traditional up and over garage door...
When it comes to getting an electric roller door, you need to trust that it will enhance both your garage’s style and thermal efficiency. By using an electric roller door compared to a standard garage door, you can improve the thermal efficiency of your garage, and therefore your home.
If your garage is connected directly to your home, it is even more significant that your garage is sufficiently thermally efficient. Not only could insulated roller garage doors help reduce your overall heating bills, but they also ensure that your home isn’t impacted heavily by the temperature of your garage.
How easy is it to install an electric roller garage door?
Before choosing to install a new electric roller garage door, you need to decide what it is going to look like. This is often the most enjoyable part of getting a new garage door and is one that normally requires some serious thought.
Use our online garage door builder tool to explore our product range, apply different colours and choose from a range of optional extras. After choosing what your roller garage door is going to look like, go ahead and book a free survey with one of our local engineers who will be able to accurately measure up, talk to you about your new electric roller door and provide you with an accurate quote.
These measurements are then used in the manufacturing process, and based on your garage’s exact specifications, a custom-built electric roller garage door will be created. Installing the door is incredibly simple, as your engineer from Garolla will handle it all for you. Arriving at the pre-arranged time on the day of your installation, your local fitter is ready to start the installation, and shouldn’t take more than a few hours to complete. Your installer will can even dispose of your old garage door in most cases.
And, once the installation is complete, they will talk you through how to use your garage door. Don’t worry, this only takes a few minutes and before you know it you are ready to enjoy your new Garolla Garage Doors.
How much does an electric roller garage door cost?
When it comes to discovering how much an electric roller garage door costs, we need to take into account which door from our product range you are choosing, the dimensions of your garage opening, and whether you’re also choosing any of our optional extras.
Our online garage door builder will give you a great idea of how much your electric roller door will cost.
When it comes to pricing, at Garolla we believe in being crystal clear about all of our prices. This price guide includes measuring, fitting, delivery, VAT and we will also remove your old garage door for you. So, the price you’re quoted is the price you pay, no hidden costs.
If an electric roller garage door is something that you are interested in, and want to know more about, simply visit our website, where you will be able to see all our electric roller garage doors .
Alternatively, you can call our friendly customer service team on 0800 468 1027 to find the best Roller Garage Door for your home.