New White or Brown powder coated steel side hung doors are now available on Compton garages.  These fully framed doors provide a 1.9m (6’2¾”) drive through height on standard buildings and 2.05m (6’8¾”) on high garages.  

Door stays are available separately (as shown), these reduce the drive through height by 85mm (3¼”).

Garador are now Compton’s new garage door supplier, detailed below are some reasons why the new range is better.

Manufactured in the UK at a state of the art facility, our new garage doors are better than before and include the following features:

·          Single garage doors are 50mm thick and stronger than previous.

·          Double garage doors are 80mm thick and are significantly stronger than previous.

·          The steel side frame jambs provide a superior stiffness to the front post connection, have rubber edge buffers to reduce door edge damage and recess the door from the face of the front posts.

·          The gear kits are much simpler and only contain coloured steel jambs, the lock pack and four-point latching if applicable. The springs and latching rods are cable tied to the door, specific to size.

·          The spring tensioning is improved with greater adjustment and added safety features included.

·          The interior and exterior handles have both been improved.

·          A quality paint finish requiring no further treatment.

Powder Coating

Our steel garage doors are a finished product.  They are a powder coated paint finish and therefore do not require re-painting.  

Colour options

We are now able to offer a choice of powder coated steel door colours.  The dark brown finish is available on horizontal, vertical or Georgian.  In addition to brown, we are now able to offer black, green, blue, red and dark blue colours.

Single Door Gear

Up & over garage doors up to 10’ wide are supplied with single door gear and colour co-ordinated steel side jambs 38mm thick.  Four-point latching is supplied as standard.  The clearance height on 6’6” high models is 1816mm (5’11½”) and on 7’ high models is 1968mm (6ft5½”).

Double Door Gear

Up & over doors over 10ft wide are supplied with double door gear, colour co-ordinated steel side jambs 68mm thick and 51mm (2 inch) steel head frame.  Four-point latching is not available.  The clearance height on 6’6” high models is 1778mm (5’10”) and on 7’ high models 1930mm (6’4”).

As well as consideration to what size garage you will need, you should also be thinking about what you wish to store in your garage and whether one of our higher garages may be what you need.

For example take our Apex Spar garage range:

The standard Apex Spar with an eaves height of 1.98m (6’6”) and a door clearance height of 1.83m (6’0”) is fine for a standard car and with the ridge height ranging from 2.26m (7’5”) to 2.74m (9’0”) depending on the size your require you will have a good workspace and most people will find adequate headroom to use the space as you wish.

The Apex Spar High garage range:

With an eaves height of 2.13m (7’0”) and a door clearance height of 2.01m (6’7”) the Apex High garage may be the best option for those who have a small 4×4 or an MPV.  With the ridge height from 2.49m (8’2”) to 2.90m (9’6”) depending on the garage size you can also use the extra space for working with taller equipment on larger projects.

The Apex Spar Super High garage range:

This is the tallest garage Compton can provide from the Apex range with an eaves height of 2.44m (8’0”) a door clearance height of 2.39m (7’10”) and a ridge height from 2.81m (9′2″) to 3.21m (10′6″) depending on the garage size, this height of garage would be great for people who have the largest 4×4’s or if you want to use your garage to work on a kit car or classic car as you would have room to use ramps and safely work under the car.

Garages are now used as multi purpose buildings suitable for so many different things and used by so many different people.  This isn’t surprising when you see the amount of choice available from concrete sectional garages.

Prefabricated in nature, such garages are ideal for meeting multiple requirements as they can be configured in different ways rather than a rigid one type fits all policy.  A concrete garage can be wide or narrow, short or long, low or high, with a flat, apex or more traditional pitched roof and that is just for starters.

Once the size and shape is sorted then the style can be worked on to make this functional space look nice!  There is a massive choice of doors, both garage doors and personnel (side) acces doors - these are mostly available in steel (although cedar is a viable alternative) in various different finishes as well as different colours - choices include horizontal or vertical ribs, Georgian style or a wood grain effect. 

A similar choice awaits with fascias.  Most garages include a timber fascia as standard, but upgrades are available to PVCu, woodgrain or cedar fascias.

The latest concrete garage industry initiatives surround the finishes available.  Long gone are the days when the spar pebble dash finish was the only choice.  Now garages are available in brick finishes or textured finishes in addition to the spar finish.

There is so much choice available, but one thing that never changes is that due to the many ways you can personalise your garage, there will be one that is right for you.

It was recently reported in The Sunday Times that North London is the area of the country with the highest risk of theft of motorcycles, with four times the national average of claims.  Several other London areas as well as Halifax, Manchester and Aberdeen also suffer from high rates of theft. 

The Home Office says about 25 motorcycles are stolen each year for every 1000 bikes registered.  As the recovery rate is only 32% which is half that for cars a Compton concrete motorcycle garage may just be the answer to help protect your bike and give you piece of mind.