Door Industry Journal - Summer 2013

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk TO INSULATE OR NOT TO INSULATE?... Insulate, of course, is the common answer, but is it the smart answer in all instances? Gliderol Garage Doors’ Safe•T•Glide single skin sectional garage door and its market leading GlideRol•a•Door continuous curtain steel roller garage door are a great argument to suggest an alternative way. The majority of garages are unheated and fitting an insulated door makes no difference to that fact! With no energy to be saved, a single skin door provides the best option. It still brings vertical travel for park right-up-convenience, inside and out - perfect for short driveways and fits behind the reveal giving extra drive through width - ideal for today’s wider vehicles and narrow garages. In fact, a single skin solution brings everything - effective weather closure, robust security, durability, ease of automation - except the price premium of one expensive element - insulation. Gliderol’s GlideRol•a•Door Single skin roller doors are almost improbably reliable, so refined is the design and they are very simple to automate. The continuous curtain design ensures safety requires no additional systems other than that provided by the motors load sensing circuitry; consequently the reliability of automated doors is equally impressive. The Gliderol Safe•T•Glide sectional door is no truncated narrow offer of selected sizes and finishes, it is the “real deal” offering over 50 stack heights, widths right up to 16’0” and four styles in a wide range of finishes. The price point of single skin doors is certainly appealing to consumers for small openings and becomes irresistible on larger openings. If you’ve been asked for a large up and over door, there are plenty of reasons to sell the benefits of a single skin vertical lift door as an alternative - the consumer will thank you for the better performance and it may well be what closes the sale for your business! So the next time you are competing for a sale, don’t automatically think insulated, think single skin and think of the Gliderol range! If you’d like a copy of the Gliderol suite of literature call 0191 518 0455 or email info@gliderol.co.uk for your copy. garage doors