Up And Over Garage Door Mechanism

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.

Up and over garage door mechanism.

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. 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. Canopy up and over garage doors have the simplest and most common type of garage door lifting gear. They have a pivoting hinge mechanism so they can tilt up into the garage.

It provides the maximum drive through width when open and is the easiest to install. 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. Up over garage doors are of a one piece construction opening outwards initially as it is lifted to its final resting position. Tilt up up and over canopy garage doors like side hinged styles the tilt up canopy garage doors don t have sections they re made of one solid piece.