Types of Garage Door Openers & Garage Doors That Are Perfect for Car Dealerships [A Case Study]

These full-view garage doors are in the G-4400 design, 14' 0" X 12' 0 with an anodized aluminum frame.

Look at how phenomenal this area is! The ease and satisfaction of moving these cars around the service floor must be extremely sufficient. You can have one of your own! These are our full-glass G-4400 commercial garage doors.

There are several other approaches you use to make your car dealership more attractive to your potential clients. See how you can stand out among your competitors.

If you find yourself contemplating how you can make your business different than the rest, you’ve come to the right place! What really matters is the first impression your brand gives off to your customers. Luckily, it’s entirely possible to implement different marketing strategies to enhance your sales techniques.

According to RelayCars’ blog, consumers today have the tendency to research their potential vehicle purchases online. For a total of 13 to 14 hours, they will try to make an intelligent decision about their purchase, as they should! Customers only take time to shop at 1 or 2 car dealerships because they already know what they’re looking for and where to find it.

Because of their keen intellect regarding their perfect purchase, you will need to immediately impress them! Once someone makes an assessment of your brand, it can be extremely difficult to change their mind. Therefore, it is imperative that your business stands out from the rest.

By the time a customer walks through the threshold of a car dealership, they’ve already made an informed decision about how they view your business. You’ll want them to believe that your company is unique from the rest. That’s why you need to start making bold choices that will leave your customers seeing your company as reliable and professional with an edge on the rest of the competition.

Salesperson displaying various cars to potential clients in a stunning and bright showroom.

Allow your showroom to be perpetually more appealing to everyone that comes in. These should be decently lit and appropriately airy. Image from Freepik.

This blog is designed to show you all about a car dealership’s design. More specifically, we’ll go through the professionalism of your business as it pertains to garage door openers and commercial garage doors. FYI, when used for commercial applications, openers are also known as operators.

These full-view commercial garage doors are in the G-4400 construction, 14' X 12' with an customized color frame

2 high-speed overhead doors like our G-4400 can give you an apparent inside and outside view of the service area of your car dealership. This provides excellent service that your customers can see and will thoroughly appreciate.

Tips and tricks for picking the most impeccable commercial overhead doors and overhead door openers are just ahead. The display floor of your maintenance shop or dealership will instantly become more vibrant, practical, sustainable, and inviting. Your potential customers will immediately feel welcomed and appreciated.

Gloriously Showcase Inventory & Flawlessly Move Them Around with Full-Glass, Full-View Garage Doors

This full-view commercial garage door is in the G-4400 construction, 14'X 8' with an customized color frame.

This G-4400 all-glass garage door melds seamlessly with the structure. Our personalized garage doors come in a wide variety of colors. Compare these to your doors and window frames to add a harmonious vibe for your exterior designing needs.

Your artistic tastes and desires for practicality can be met only by our G-4400 garage doors. Come find out all the overhead door luxuries that we can offer you with these 3 captivating facts about our fully glassed commercial garage doors.

1. Choose the best color for you! We have a vast collection of choices, from your choice of semi-custom, and classic garage door colors. Natural colors are great for matching exterior or interior architecture.

An image of the garage door colors offered with our full-view G-4400 commercial garage door

Finding the matching color for various uses is easy. Find the comparable hues for aluminum coil suppliers ROYAL or GENTEK here if you require the same color for other purposes.

Something might make you crave a more personalized color. If you notice that we don’t offer an overhead door color here, just speak with our team of highly professional garage door experts. You have options! We can provide you with the perfect hue.

We allow you the option to have garage door colors that are entirely customized and will elegantly match our garage doors with your building, window frames, door frames, and doors. A brilliant splash of color may be just what you need to stand out above and beyond the rest of the competition.

Fun fact: Environmental factors may change the pigment you desire. Depending on the sheen of the paint, the material of the garage door, or the technique by which the paint was applied, the final color may look different. The paint sheen includes satin, gloss, semi-gloss, and flat, which could be painted on wood, aluminum, or steel doors using a spray or a brush. Any combination of these could make the appearance of the paint color differ slightly.

2. We offer 20 varieties of garage door glass. From a crystal Clear to an inconspicuous Satin Black, you’re provided with a choice of your desired level of privacy.

Image of the 8 different type of glass offered with our G-4400 commercial doors. Clear, Satin, Graylight, Mirrorpane, Satin Grey, SuperGrey Tinted, Satin Black, and Fluted Polycarbonate Bronze.

Our G-4400 glass garage doors are offered to you with a vast variety of choices for window glass. Our tempered and non-tempered choices meet all standards for safety.

Important facts about tempered glass:

Tempered glass is seen in most shower doors, car doors, glass tables, and other products where safety is the top priority. That’s because it has more than double the strength, and it is leaps and bounds more resistant to breaks. Tempered glass shatters in a way that is safe. It crumbles into teeny tiny pieces that make it harder for a person to get cut.

3. We offer limited warranties on our commercial all-glass garage doors

Standard garage door windows are covered with a warranty for a decade which protects them from defects in the seal. Rust-related aluminum perforation is also protected under a 10-year warranty, and all other garage door components are safe from other sorts of damages for one year.

Sectional Commercial Steel Garage Doors with Polyurethane-Injected Insulation > Stronger Than Ever Before

Energy-saving garage doors are what we’re here for. Our garage doors are the most well insulated that can possibly be delivered with high-quality garage door weatherstripping. Our doors can stand up against the internal loss of heat and energy and will save you thousands on yearly heating and energy costs.

Here are some more fun facts you should know about our garage doors:

These sectional commercial garage doors are in the G-5000 construction

Weather damage will be a thing of the past. These G-5000 commercial garage doors are infused with foam and high-pressure polyurethane. This gives exceptional insulation.

1. Check out these colors offered with our G-5138, G-5200, and G-5000 garage doors!

An image of the standard and premium garage door colors offered with G-5000 commercial garage doors.

Fun Fact: Just like our other choices, these commercial sectional doors come with the custom color option as well.

2. You deserve choices! Pick from 3 insulation options for these garage doors:

  • G-5200 = R-18
  • G-5000 = R-16
  • G-5138 = R-12

Optimized insulation depends on the R-value.

The variance of the R-value on a garage door is dependent on a few factors. These are your location, your space utilization, how well your space is insulated, and a few other things. The measurement of thermal resistance in the building and structure category is basically what R-value is.

Do you want the most energy efficiency? Your best bet is to go with garage doors injected with high-pressure polyurethane foam.

Why polyurethane is one of the best insulating materials:

  • It allows the garage door to stand firm without flexion
  • It provides a barrier against vapor and air
  • Cold weather and rain don’t stand a chance against it
  • Compared to insulation made from polystyrene, it is doubly as proficient

An illustration that explains the difference between  Styrofoam and polyurethane-insulated garage doors

Notice the apparent difference between a garage door that consists of insulation by polyurethane versus Styrofoam.

3. We have limited warranties on our commercial G-5000 steel doors also!

Seal defects on Standard windows? No problem! These are protected by a 10-year warranty. The same goes for wood end blocks if you notice rotting or cracking. For ten years, your steel doors are safe under warranty from rust perforation and delamination of the steel skin from polyurethane foam. If any other door components fail, they’re protected under a warranty for one year.

This commercial overhead garage door is in the G-5000 construction, 7' X 8', and insulated with injected with high-pressure polyurethane foam.

Whatever your project needs, we’ve got you covered. Who says you’ll need a giant door? This one here is 7 feet wide and 8 feet tall. It’s still our G-5000 garage door, and you can have one just like it!

The Most Popular Forms of Elevation for Auto Dealerships and Commercial or Industrial Buildings

For added clearance, this sectional G-4400 all-glass commercial garage door has high-lift tracks.

This garage door is installed with a high lift system. This offers more headroom when garage door tracks hug the roof. Watch how it opens completely to the wall in a straight-up fashion first then rolls horizontally.

Commercial and industrial garage doors are much different from your residential garage doors. This is what we mean:

Industrial and commercial doors work best with lifting systems that are specialized.

There are six different optimal lifts:

Standard lift This is used to accommodate a headroom of at least 10 inches. The standard lift is more commonplace. Illustration of Garage Door Standard lift
High-lift track Perfect for higher ceilings and ultimate overhead space, this lift offers more clearance than your standard lift. Illustration of Garage Door High lift
Full vertical model Commercial projects usually enlist these doors, which open vertically along the wall above it. These don’t turn horizontally at any point. Illustration of Garage Door Full vertical lift
Inclined garage door tracks These are necessary for slanted ceilings. Illustration of Garage Door Inclined track
Front and rear low headroom Necessary when you have minimal space between the ceiling and the door. Illustration of Garage Door Low front headroom

So, what are the best lifts for commercial doors? Clearly, vertical lifts and high lifts are the most necessary for enhanced overhead expanse.

This commercial sectional garage door is in the G-5000 construction and has high lift. With tracks close to the ceiling like this one, there is a lot of overhead clearance

Think of the multitide of uses this low-maintenance overhead door can provide. It’s nearly silent and extremely insulated.

Your Choice of Heavyweight Hardware Creates Big Differences for Industrial & Commercial Garage Doors

Garage door experts will be your best friends. They check the length and thickness of springs. Perfected and controlled movement and power depends on this.

The door opener gives the initial power. Once it gets moving, the springs do the rest of the heavy workload. Because of their size, commercial doors are much heavier. They operate more often than your residential systems. This means their hardware needs to be more tough.

Weight and physical transfer are what matters here, because number of cycles it can do depends on how long the spring is.

HOWEVER

Shorter springs make it stronger.

A tried-and-true garage door expert will understand the perfect balance and find the right springs for the job.

Commercial hardware comes in 3 types

Commercial doors usually have "high lift" hardware to provide optimized clearance and follow the ceiling, which you will find more often in commercial buildings.

Hardware Light Duty
  • 14-gauge steel tracks and mounting brackets*
  • Pull rope
  • Single hinges
Heavy Duty
  • 13-gauge steel tracks and mounting brackets*
  • Pull chain
  • Single or double hinges
Super Heavy Duty
  • 12-gauge steel tracks and mounting brackets*
  • Pull chain or chain hoists
  • Single or double hinges
  • Reinforcement bars
Hardware

Light Duty

  • 14-gauge steel tracks and mounting brackets*
  • Pull rope
  • Single hinges

Heavy Duty

  • 13-gauge steel tracks and mounting brackets*
  • Pull chain
  • Single or double hinges

Super Heavy Duty

  • 12-gauge steel tracks and mounting brackets*
  • Pull chain or chain hoists
  • Single or double hinges
  • Reinforcement bars

*The lower the gauge number, the thicker the steel

As for the commercial door…

  • Because the door is taller and provides more clearance, commercial hardware is heavier and larger.
  • When insulated with polystyrene or polyurethane, garage doors usually range in thickness.
  • Unlike residential garage doors, people tend to be more concerned with the health and energy efficiency of commercial doors
  • Polyurethane offers greater resistance to bending thanks to its ability to strongly adhere to the door's walls, as opposed to an uninsulated door

Finally, hardware is direly important. It’s the facet that ensures you have precisely what you need for your commercial door. It’s far and widely unique and simply won’t compare to residential hardware.

High-frequency operation is the name of the game for commercial doors. To make sure the mechanism responsible can keep up, it needs to be stronger, sturdier, heavier, and more reliable.

The distinction is clear from the tracks used.

  • Residential door tracks are made from thinner steel since they are not used as much.
  • Commercial doors have rollers and tracks that are longer. The steel used for these doors is thicker, so every other member of the door will need to be able to compensate.

The spring system differs substantially, so counterbalancing requires a contrary system.

Think about how many open/close cycles a door can handle instead of opting for a system based on the size of the door.

A commercial door that needs to be able to handle usage 25 to 50 times a day will need a spring that can prevail against 25,000 to 100,000 open/close cycles.

Another difference is evident in the way the door moves.

Residential garage doors operate with a reduced or standard level of clearance.

In addition to standard movement, commercial doors involve a movement concerning elevation being completely vertical. This, of course, depends on the total clearance above the door, and the height of the door.

Depending on how often they are used, there are other parts also used for commercial doors. This also depends on how much the building owner attaches to service interruptions of the doors and expensive servicing that will end up with the premature decline of important pieces of hardware.

Commercial Garage Door Openers > Considerably Strong

This is LiftMaster's RBH operator, a jackshaft-type that is robust and powerful with a chain to open it manually.

This jackshaft-type operator is perfect for high-lift garage doors since it is mounted on the door's sidewall. This one is our most beloved operators. The manual chain will allow you ease of access – not to mention how capable it is.

The price of door openers deviates depending on who you talk to. This is what you need to be particular about

Engine power

½, ¾, or 1 hp? ½ hp is for small doors, and ¾ is for larger doors. Think about how the opener only replaces pure human power.

Voltage

115, 220, 550 volts? Good question! It’s recommended that the voltage be amped up depending on the frequency of the door’s use.

Side or central opener

Jackshaft door openers are always required with doors involving any movement that is raised or entirely vertical. So, if you decide on a Jackshaft, be certain that it comes with a chain hoist.

North American commercially used door openers are powered by a 115-, 220-, or 575-Volt. Residential openers are powered with 115-Volt.

The BEST jackshaft‑type garage door opener for industrial and commercial uses is LiftMaster model RBH operator.

It’s robust enough to raise the biggest garage doors and perform the highest number of cycles. Furthermore, the LiftMaster is an exquisite choice for large sectional doors. When they are vertical or high lifts with rolling doors, these will perform at the top of their class.

Let’s explore RBH…

RBH stands for Roller Bearings and (chain) Host. When combined, the LiftMaster’s RBH operator defines impressive roller bearings that directly improve the longevity of the drive system. This ensures that the mechanism runs seamlessly.

The next drawing will make it easier for you to notice the basic components of a garage door opener so you can better grasp how it works.

LiftMaster RBH Features

Drawing of all the key components and parts of a commercial garage door opener. This is LiftMaster's RBH operator

Clutch

This is the device that makes everything move smoothly. It helps avoid damage by moving the garage door slightly.

The Motor Operator

  • It quickly starts thanks to the shaft coupling's high starting torque during the run-up.
  • If a problem occurs, an efficient error code will display, making issue diagnostic and repair simple.
  • If the motor gets too overworked, overload protection kicks in and shuts it down.

Timer

  • This can be set as desired. This means the garage door stays open from one second to 99 minutes before closing.
  • Motor idling is a thing of the past. The TimerSecure, Race timer function sees to that.
  • Save time and energy thanks to the Mid-Course Stop function.
  • Set your door to open or close to a custom height with the use of the Dealership Mode.

Wall control panel

After a specific number of executed closings and openings, the Maintenance Alert System (MAS), provides you with a visual flashing LED light alert. This is what makes you aware of impending inspections and preventative maintenance schedules. This can be programmed in steps of 1000 cycles.

Authoritative industrial dual-sided photo eyes (CPS-UN4) > Offered solely with G-4400 commercial garage doors

The housings are made from sturdy polycarbonate, and it resists dust, dirt, and water. These are capable of outdoor or indoor operations. Their sensor lights signal the proper alignment of the sensors. They are ideal for car dealers, washes, repair shops, and any other commercial area that deals with water, dirt, and oil. These can stand up against all of those elements easily.

Deciding on a commercial door operator that is cooperative with existing 575-volt commercial buildings is an exciting choice. This makes for lower energy bills!

If You Need Aid from Our Professionals, We Are Here to Assist You! Commercial Garage Doors and Operators for Your Auto Dealership or Industrial/Commercial Area

Take a minute to go over your specialized and custom desires, then talk about them with our garage door experts at Laurent Overhead Door Systems.

We offer

Make a choice that gives you exactly what you need and nothing less! Invest a little more for a more reliable garage door system, or spend a little and pay the bigger price for repair service calls… The choice is yours!

Don’t hesitate to contact us right away at 603-524-4778!

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