Round the Corner Garage Doors
 
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Round The Corner garage doors were one of the earliest variety of garage door types on the market. Often constructed from Timber, panels are inserted on top hung rollers and guided through channels in the floor tracks to follow the desired path.
During their creation, many doors had problems with leaves, stones and other debris getting stuck within the floor tracks. Thanks to technological developments from leading manufacturers Rundum Meir and SWS, this is no longer a problem.
Round The Corner garage doors operate seamlessly using manual operation or the much preferred luxury of remote control operation.
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.
Installed Examples (click for larger picture)
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