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Traditionally timber fixing frames have been used for the installation of up and over and side hinged garage doors. Sectional and roller garage doors nearly always have their own steel or aluminium frame fixing system designed to fit directly to the brickwork opening.
Steel fixing frames have been around for many years with the original Hormann European range of up and over doors only ever having the steel frames for fixing the door to the garage opening.
Timber sub frames are ideal in one way as you can always shave a bit off if the brickwork or stonework is not totally square to enable a square frame to be produced to install the perfectly square garage door panel. You can also use almost any size of timber to produce standard sized openings to take standard sized doors if the brickwork opening does not conform to a standard requirement.
The downside of timber frames is perceived as maintenance, however properly applied modern microporous wood stains do give a very long and durable finish and of course if you are having a timber garage door panel you have to treat the door in some way anyway so you may as well match the timber sub frame. Steel frame systems are fixed in size, cannot be planed down if too big and have limited colour finishes but they do provide a strong and perfectly square sub frame.
Woodrite Doors have recently introduced a timber sub frame system that has combated the ever present problem of installing a cedarwood timber garage door using a softwood or hardwood timber fixing frame only to find if you are using a light coloured stain the timbers will not match.
Woodrite now offer a frame that has a front and internal face lined with cedar to enable the door and frame or match exactly in graining and in colour.
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