Getting the right safety devices for your garage door
Instead of manually opening a garage door, many doors are now electrically operated and can open or close at the touch of a button. Because this can be done remotely, driving into a garage becomes really easy as you don’t even have to get out of the car. This also removes the problems associated with opening heavy garage doors by hand.
There are a range of different safety devices which are now used on automated garage doors to improve the user safety when operating a door.
Anti-drop devices now feature heavily in garage door design. An anti-drop device stops a garage door dropping to the floor in an uncontrolled fashion and thus reduces the chance of injury to a user. Many garage doors feature a tension spring, which stops the door dropping quickly. The spring counteracts the weight of the door and the gravitational pull on the door and thus the door is lowered in a controlled manner. In the unlikely event of a spring failure, some doors also feature an anti-drop catch which will stop the door dropping completely.
Some manually operated garage doors could derail if the door was lifted incorrectly. Having an automatic garage door stops this from happening. And because new style garage doors have adjustable rollers and use safety tracks, even the slightest chance of derailment is negated.
A concern for many who opt for an automated garage door is that fingers or feet may be trapped as the door rises or drops. New garage doors feature pinch protection sections, so fingers cannot be caught in the door panels. The side tracks are also totally enclosed so that fingers cannot be trapped here also.
New style garage doors have come a long way from the simple up and over doors of the past and are now available in a plethora of designs and in an abundance of different materials. All this makes choosing your new garage door easy.
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