Up And Over Garage Door Mechanism

Canopy up and over garage doors have the simplest and most common type of garage door lifting gear.

Up and over garage door mechanism.

Up over garage doors are of a one piece construction opening outwards initially as it is lifted to its final resting position. One piece up and over canopy mechanism this is still the most popular type of up and over garage door gear for doors up to 8 feet 2438mm wide called canopy as about a third of the door panel height protrudes out from the framework when open forming a canopy. They have a pivoting hinge mechanism so they can tilt up into the garage. The up and over mechanism is normally manufactured from a single sheet of metal but nowadays they can be found in aluminum pvc and even fiberglass.

The up and over garage door mechanism is probably the cheapest and most commonly used garage door but still offers the customer a significant scale of reliability. The canopy style door sits parallel to the garage ceiling and extends past the front of the house when the door is open. Choose from a range for styles to suit your tastes. As the name implies a trackless canopy garage door forms a canopy roughly equivalent to one third of the garage doors height when fully opened.