Round the Corner Garage Doors

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Door Opening

Door Closing

Door Opening

Inside View

Side View

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Round the corner garage doors were one of the earliest types of garage doors to follow side hinged doors. Timber constructed door panels sliding on various different types of top hung rollers and bottom channels in the floor was the normal arrangement. The door was manufactured to almost any size from various types of timber, however the bottom channel was a weak point in the operation as it easily filled with leaves, gravel and all types of debris which unless regularly cleared out would upset the sliding operation of the door. The track would also perish unless stainless or galvanised steel options were used and replacement of perished tracks meant taking the door down, cutting the floor and reassembling the door.
Although today you can still buy the required hardware to enable assembly of a traditional round the corner door, the time spent installing combined with the expense of having door panels made by a joiner makes it an expensive package indeed. Remote control automation of the system is also very difficult, if not impossible in many cases.

Now there is a complete solution in the U.K. from one of two German manufacturers - Rundum Meir and Vertico by SWS U.K.

The garage doors are all factory produced as a complete unit assembled in a controlled environment. Both door types have a bottom tracking system which is installed onto the finished garage floor surface which also acts as a weather bar.
Rundum Meir also offer a sunken U channel version if required and the two types are shown in the diagram below, the one advantage the U channel version does have is to offer a better bottom seal with the bottom edge of the garage door closer to the finished floor level. As the door panels are top hung the bottom roller is only acting as a guide for the bottom part of the door panels.

Rundum Meir produce two main types of round the corner system and have done since 1968 - the Original Rundum Meir and the Side Sectional door. Both options can be produced in either timber or galvanised steel sections. Either system can be automated very easily and safely.
The timber types available include Norwegian Spruce, Superior Spruce, European Oak, Larch, Iroko, Mahogany and Douglas Fir.

General sizing Information

The Vertico range of aluminium doors have a maximum width of 5600mm. The Rundum Meir range of original round the corner doors can go up to very large sizes indeed. We have installed a bi-parting door 20 metres wide x 4.2 metres in height and it still operates as smoothly as a 7 foot wide door.
As the doors are all made to order then the only usual concern is sideroom and headroom although the headroom can be as little as 50mm!
The sideroom ideally is about 130mm for the Vertico and 200mm or more for the Rundum, both systems are made to suit larger returns to maximise inside space in the garage. False walls and shelving are available to make use of the wall the door opens against if required.
When there is insufficient sideroom available a false panel matching the garage door can be supplied to create enough room and still seal properly when closed.