We service New Jersey, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Westchester and Rockland. Call 973-471-4060 for more information or to make a same-day service appointment to repair your rolling door today. You can also email info@dockndoor.com to inquire about services or make an appointment.
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Side folding doors and grilles offer many security benefits, some of which you've never even thought of! For the curious or the unconvinced, this post lists out 12 of the top benefits.
Top 12 Benefits of Side Folding Grilles/Doors
Some areas just don’t have the right layout to afford a big, heavy door that closes at night. Yet certain high-value businesses such as banks, jewelry stores, document printers or electronics shops, to name a few, still need heavy security during off hours to protect against vandalism or theft.
Enter the side-folding door or grille, which you can install easily, requiring only a small amount of wall space for anchoring on each side. It provides top-notch protection for valuables and sensitive information, but opens and closes easily so any employee can operate it. These doors provide a versatile solution for inner spaces, such as those inside malls or hotels, as well as outer exits, and work for retail, industrial and commercial settings of all kinds.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves: read on to learn about 12 benefits of side-folding doors.
EZ's Side Folding by Overhead Door has a clear anodized aluminum pocket door with turn catch that gives a modern commercial finish. Rolling/Coiling leaves a gap in the ceiling.
EZ's Side Folding by Overhead Door requires zero floor space when built into 6 inch stud wall.
EZ's Side Folding by Overhead Door has a steel framed pocket that can support headers for smaller openings-the only "headers supporting" Side Folding Grille/Door in the industry.
ADA locking height is standard at 42 inches - perfectly in line with the ADA standards of 15 inches off the floor to no higher than 48 inches. Rolling/Coiling locking is on the bottom bar, on the floor.
Side Folding Emergency Egress Door has true push - outward action, Rolling/Coiling goes up - does not meet outward requirement code
Side Folding can flow almost any layout that can imagine i.e. special radius curves, neo-angels, circles - Rolling/Coiling can only be straight. Overhead Door is the only company that makes special curves "in house" in just days - not weeks.
Inside or outside comers do not need post/column when using Side Folding, keeping the opening clear from obstacles of view, Rolling/Coiling will always require post/columns.
Side Folding can be 100's of feet wide without support posts. Rolling/Coiling as with corners need support post/columns to make large straight layouts.
Side Folding requires only 1 1/2 inches of headroom for the track and never requires a bottom track. Rolling will require 10 to 20 inches headroom.
Servicing Side Folding Security Grille/Door will only require dropping on piece of track from the ceiling-Rolling/Coiling may require removal of the ceiling area entirely around the counterbalance assembly to service the product.
Side Folding never needs motor assisted operation, no matter the size, even over 100 feet wide. Rolling/Coiling will need a motor over 16 feet wide.
Any width Side Folding can fit i almost any high-rise buildings freight elevator, Rolling/Coiling is limited if the Grille/Door is wider than 10 feet, it will not fit it in most freight elevators and would require a major cost to install on the higher floors.
If you've been looking for one of the most cost-efficient ways to protect your property and building, consider the many benefits of high perfromance roll up doors.
A high performance door can help your organization in many ways--check out a few of the basics here!
If you are trying to decide on a worthy investment in the security, convenience and overall quality of your storage space, warehouse or loading dock, you should look at the possibility of adding a high performance door. Today’s high performance doors offer high speed, durability and they look good too!
Speed
High performance doors offer you more speed than any other type of door. This can help you increase your productivity and efficiency while remaining energy efficient. Plus, a fast door will allow you to get in and out more quickly—reducing energy expenditure in that manner too.
Security
One of the reasons you are considering the installation of a roll up door in the first place is security, so why not go with the very best in security possible? These high performance doors can help you protect your stock, your employees and your property from both natural and unnatural dangers.
Durability
Instead of springs, a high performance door uses a direct drive motor. This makes the door much more durable and less likely to experience those unexpected problems. In addition, with advanced diagnostics, troubleshooting is easier than ever before.
Added Features
A high performance roll up door offers a number of optional features that can help you achieve even more than you thought possible. This includes insulation, weather shield and windload options that can help these doors perform well even in harsh environmental conditions.
These benefits are only the beginning! If you would like more information about today’s high performance doors and how they can help your business, call or contact us at The Overhead Door Company of The Meadowlands and NYC. Our team of experts is here to help you!
A high quality, durable door can look good too. The Overhead Door Company offers a number of options that can improve your door's looks while adding strenght too.
There’s no reason to sacrifice style for the sake of durability! You may think that a door that looks good would be less durable or not as strong as one that is a boring grey, white or beige. However, nothing could be further from the truth. You can add colors to your door while adding strength too.
The Overhead Door Company offers Tiger Drylac Powder Coatings which not only offers you dozens of different color choices while at the same time providing added strength to your door. These coatings can protect your door from sun, rain and other hazards that over time cause a door to fade or lose strength. There is no better solution for you—and with a quick turnaround time too.
You don’t have to stick with that same old boring door color that everyone uses. If you would like to learn more about how we can add color to your doors, contact us at The Overhead Door Company of The Meadowlands and NYC. We can help you choose the right color to enhance the exterior of your building while retaining all the benefits of a well-made, high quality Overhead Door Company door.
Protecting your staff, and yourself, is very important to you, of course. Luckily, there is one way you can offer protection without too much added work or stress on your part--having your fire doors drop tested. Testing your fire doors is incredibly important. Consider these four reasons why you need to make it a priority:
Safety of Your Staff and Vendors – A well-maintained door that passes our drop test will keep you and those who work around it safe—even in an emergency situation.
Long Life of the Door – Our fire door drop test will help find small problems that could turn into big ones. By finding and fixing these issues now, you will assure that the door lasts for years to come.
Government Compliance – There are certain requirements that you must meet to assure that you are doing what is necessary to protect your building and its occupants. Our test will make sure you meet the standards put in place by NFPA, IDA, IDEA and UL. This can prevent costly fines or even potential closure.
Insurance Requirements – Your private insurance company may have further requirements when it comes to testing your fire door. Our standard drop test will meet or exceed all of these. If not, we’ll work with you to make certain we come up with a solution that does.
Don’t put your business, staff and structure at risk. Scheduling a fire door drop test is easy. Call or contact us at the Overhead Door Company of the Meadowlands and NYC today. We’ll help arrange a time to take care of this important task and put your mind at ease.
Find out how The Overhead Door Company can provide you with extra protection on your doors--giving you peace of mind now and for years to come.
Protect Against Rust or Reduced Life Expectancy
When you are in the market for a new garage door, you may not realize how different a door can be from one company to another. In fact, many local door companies may provide you with a door that has raw, galvanized steel and no protective coating. While you may save some money up front by buying one of these doors, you will experience a reduced life expectancy—in fact, some rusting may occur within the first five years.
However, The Overhead Door Company of the Meadowlands and NYC offer a number of ways to protect your door and extend the expected life. A few of these include:
Standard – Our Polyester, two-coat system with a polyester based top coat that provides excellent protection.
PowderGuard Premium – This is a weather resistant polyester Two-coat system with based top coat—available in 197 colors with custom color match for excellent options in color.
PowderGuard Zinc – This zinc enriched powder coat provide protection against corrosion and outperforms both hot and cold dipped galvanized steel. 197 colors and color match available for your convenience.
PowderGuard Industrial – This textured powder coat provides a thicker, more scratch resistant coat for added product protection. It also comes with all our color options.
Our powder coatings are available in up to 197 colors—so you can get the style you desire as well as the function. If you’d like to learn more about these options, call or contact us at The Overhead Door Company. One of our experts would be happy to help you make a decision that can protect your door and keep your door performing its function and looking great for years to come!
Don't struggle with a door that will rust and weaken over time. Check out the great options at The Overhead Door Company.
Your insulated rolling steel door has many important parts. These all come together to help the door work as it should, allow for easy access to your loading dock or garage area and protect against fluctuating outdoor temperatures. However, one part you may not think about are the insulated rolling steel guides.
What Do Insulated Rolling Steel Guides Do?
If your door does not have insulated guides, it is much easier for wind to get into your indoor space as well as for the air that you keep cool or warm per your specifications to escape. The simple addition of insulated rolling steel guides can greatly reduce the amount you spend on utilities each month. Plus, adding insulated rolling steel guides can often make the operation of the door a bit quieter—which can be vitally important in some particular situations.
How Does Installation Work
Installing insulated rolling steel guides is a job that requires expert attention to detail. If the right guides are not chosen and properly installed, the door will never function as it should. An overhead door expert should come to your place of business, check out the door you want to upgrade and work with you to decide the best course of action. After the guides are installed, you will not notice a difference in the operation of the door—it will still open and close just as quickly and accurately as it ever did.
If you have any further questions about insulated rolling steel guides or any other aspect of your rolling steel door, do not hesitate to contact us at The Overhead Door Company of the Meadowlands and NYC. Our team of garage and overhead door experts is always happy to help you with repairing or improving your current doors or making the decision about when the time is right to replace your door with something new.
Preventative Maintenance Program for Overhead Doors
WHY IS PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE IMPORTANT?
The Overhead Door Company strongly recommends a regularly scheduled preventative maintenance program for commercial overhead doors. Our preventative maintenance plans improves operational efficiency, safety, and reliability. Overhead door preventative maintenance not only decreases costly downtime by preventing some types of industrial door malfunctions, it can also decrease repair expenses over the long term. Scheduling commercial doors maintenance regularly reduces the need for emergency repairs to overhead doors.
Preventative maintenance is focused on keeping your overhead doors in peak condition at all times, instead of only performing maintenance in response to a needed repair. Among other things, preventative maintenance includes keeping the track surfaces of the overhead door clean and free of obstructions, grease, and oil, making certain bolts and fasteners are correctly tightened, and addressing any damage or wear and tear which has occurred over time. The door surface and hardware should also be checked on a regular basis, to maintain the functionality of the roller assembly, bottom seal, hinge points, and other elements. The counterbalance should also be examined periodically to ensure that the drum, cable, torsion spring, shaft bearings, set screws, and collars are working as intended. Some elements may need periodic lubrication, while others may need tightness adjustments or replacement due to corrosion.
WHY SCHEDULE PROFESSIONAL PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE?
Overhead doors include a number of elements which can be under high spring tension, including bottom fixtures, cables, drums, pulleys, shafts, and brackets and only a trained service person should attempt repairs to these items. Winding, repairs, and spring adjustments must also be completed by trained service professionals. In addition to these repairs and adjustments which can only be completed by trained professionals, it’s also wise to have a professional technician perform regular preventative maintenance because professional technicians have extensive experience in identifying the potential for problems before they have a chance to occur.
HOW OFTEN SHOULD PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE BE SCHEDULED?
The frequency with which a customer schedules service technicians to perform preventative maintenance on their industrial doors or other equipment will vary according to the climate and other conditions under which the door regularly operates. Some preventative maintenance may be required monthly, while other types of maintenance should be undertaken every three to six months. To determine the best preventative maintenance schedule for your overhead doors, contact The Overhead Door Company for a consultation.
High traffic situations call for a high-speed door. However, to obtain that high speed, you do not want to sacrifice security or good looks. Luckily, the Rytec Spiral high-speed commercial garage door can easily meet all your needs at a price that is comparable with other high-speed rolling steel doors.
This door offers and opening speed as high as 60 inches each second. This is a must in high-traffic areas, such as when you require an overhead door for a parking garage or other area. However, the speed is variable and you can program the opening and closing speed independent of each other to optimize traffic flow. Few doors offer this type of flexibility, let alone with the ability to reach these high speeds.
Installation made in Bergen, NJ (Alexan Cityview)
The Rytec Spiral is one of the most secure and durable. The opening mechanism has no metal to metal contact. The rollers in the track offer a whisper quiet opening, making this door a great option in spaces where a loud, clanging opening would be a burden. As far as durability, the reinforced hinges, durable membrane and high-quality seals offer 100% protection against dust, pollution and drafts. The anodized aluminum will not corrode—offering you a door that will look great for years to come in even the worst weather conditions. As an added benefit, the motion control and programmed opening width can provide energy savings too.
Finally, the good looks of this commercial garage door sets it apart from other similar doors. The crisp lines, modular construction and good looks will be perfect in many situations. When you need this or any other commercial overhead doors, call The Overhead Door Company of the Meadowlands and NYC and let us discuss the options you have available for you.
For more information, please give us a call at 973-471-4060 or email us at: info@dockndoor.com
For 24 hour emergency service, please contact us at 800-362-6367.
Everyone knows that aluminum sectional doors are a functional way to secure your building, and allow easy entry or loading/unloading of large items or even vehicles. However, if you are looking for form as well as function, take a page from the books of Dune Studios.
The Overhead Door Company of the Meadowlands & New York City had the pleasure of working with Dune Studios recently on a large renovation project. Dune Studios is a full-service studio offering photo shoots, equipment rental and other related services. Because of this, the company does need to portray sophistication with every aspect of their facility.
Our team of experts helped them choose the right commercial doors for their studio that would allow for ease-of-use, but at the same time would bring to mind the modern, sophisticated look that the rest of the facility demonstrated.
They selected an aluminum glass door that perfectly matched the rest of the studio, and makes the perfect backdrop to the type of high-fashion photo shoots that Dune Studios is known for in the industry.
While you may not have exactly the same needs as Dune, aluminum sectional doors are the ideal solution for any structure that requires an attention to aesthetics as well function. Spend some time looking through the selection of aluminum commercial doors at The Overhead Door Company, and see if this may be the right type of door for your project.
We take pride in our customer service, so if you have any questions or concerns, give us a call or contact us at any time. One of our overhead door experts will be happy to talk to you and help you make the decision that will work best for your particular needs.
For more information, please give us a call at 973-471-4060 or email us at: info@dockndoor.com
For 24 hour emergency service, please contact us at 800-362-6367.
