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Side hung garage doors from Chapel Doors Ltd - Supplying Brands such as Hormann, Garador, and Alluguard

Chapel Doors have been installing traditional side hung garage doors for many decades. Side hung garage doors come in a range of styles and materials to suit your home, such as steel, timber, fibre glass or PVCu and are ideal if your garage will not allow for a tracked door to be fitted, such as a sectional or up and over door. Wonderfully versatile side hinged garage doors offer solutions to so many problems and provide opportunities not possible with other types of garage door. They are simple in operation and easy to maintain over the years with minimal moving mechanical parts.

Side hung garage doors are ideal for quick and easy pedestrian access, either a 50:50, or 25:75 split. Our side hung garage doors can even be automated to allow for easy access into your garage. Side hinged doors give you easy access to your garage without having to open a complete door panel up giving you frequent easy access to your garage with minimal effort.

If you would like to see the entire range of materials, finishes and colours, please call us for a FREE site survey. We can go over the options that will be to suit you and we will also give you a comprehensive quotation.


Why choose a Side Hung Garage Door?

Wonderfully versatile side hinged garage doors offer solutions to so many problems and provides opportunities not possible with other types of garage door. They are simple in operation and easy to maintain over the years with minimal moving mechanical parts.

Due to its nature, people are now looking at this more and more as a solution. The practicality of side hinged doors for busy lifestyles where the garage is NOT being used for a vehicle and frequent access is required as the garage is used as a large storeroom for bikes, toys, etc. and very often freezers or laundry facilities as well as workshop, gym or general room.

Did you know we supply and install side hung garage doors which are ideal for quick and easy pedestrian access?

Traditional side hinged doors give you easy access to your garage without having to open a complete door panel up - frequent easy access to your garage with minimal effort. Available in a wide variety of designs, materials and finishes, sinde hinged garage doors are a great way to add personality to your home.

The side hinged garage door set can be produced with either 50/50 split opening or a 1/3 and 2/3 opening in most designs. The 1/3rd and 2/3rd opening offers the best solution to frequent pedestrian access meaning only the smaller door leaf is opened every time access is required.

If there is a lack of headroom in your garage the side hinged garage door provides the perfect solution. Side hinged doors are a blessing for those whose garages are decked out internally with shelves or cupboards or garages that house intrusive gas/electric meters or pipework. The lack of tracks or panels protruding into the garage means that you have no worries about fouling door operating gear. You can utilise all of the drive through height and width (providing the doors can open to 90°). The lack of lifting gear also means that the side hinged garage door is wonderfully maintenance free apart from treatment of the timber. No springs, cones or cables to maintain or replace when they have worn out.

Diagram depicting the operation of a side-hinged garage door

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