timber doors

technical details

Timber doors come in many designs, depending on the manufacturer of the doors they may be made of exterior plywood and cedar wood, or some doors are made of hardwood. The design will denote how the doors are constructed die plywood backing and cedar wood face or all cedar wood T & G. or even solid cedar wood or mahogany. The manufacturer will denote which material is used eg. Cedar wood or a softwood or hardwood. We would always recommend using Cedar wood as the most durable outside timber.


door sizes

Doors can be made in many sizes from 5'2" wide up to 20ft wide and up to 8ft high as an up and over dependant on the design of the door.

GEAR

See page on gears and locking. All timber doors are available with canopy or retractable lifting gear. Doors can be supplied unframed to fit to a timber frame or with a steel frame, Steel framed doors have the lifting gear fitted to the frame in effect this means that to fit, you only have to bolt this frame square into the opening.


HINGED DOORS

Hinged doors are available in some of the designs show, but they do have a restriction above 8ft wide due to the weight of the door hanging off the hinges, some doors are available over this width.

LOCKING

See page on gears and locking. Most timber doors have 3 point locking on canopy doors, Most tracked doors have 2 point. High security Euro profile locking is standard on both canopy and tracked doors with the exception of Wessex Mouldings.

SIZES of DOORS and FRAMES

Doors can be supplied at a standard size or at any made to measure size, in general the frame should measure 70mm x 70mm, and the lifting gear fits to the back of the frame, also allow 70mm for the top or head of the frame. Frame can be fitted within the brickwork opening, or if possible, sometimes may fit at the back of the opening.