Roller Shutters: Keep out the Unwanted!

Roller shutters have long been a trademark of European homes and are recently being used more in the US as well. They are overhead shutters that are made of slats hinged together. They roll down over windows and doors, and can be rolled up into a casing or housing designed to blend in with your home’s architecture.

While an investment for your home, roller shutters offer many benefits, not the least of which being added protection against burglars and vandalism. These shutters also protect your home from the elements. They keep out both cold and heat and can also act as a sound and light diminisher.

They are available in all colors to match the style and colors of your home. There are also various styles of slats, some are solid, and others are mesh work. Obviously, the mesh does not offer the same protection from light, sound and weather, but still protects your home from intruders.

Roller shutters can come with an electric switch to open and close them. You can also buy shutters that are manually operated with a hand crank. Some shutter companies also offer a battery powered option so that they can open and close even in the case of a power supply interruption.

As you can imagine, roller shutters add a lot of versatility to your home. They give you the option to block out the day light, wind and cold, keep out the sun’s heat, and they are very difficult to break into. When looking into options to secure your home, the versatility of these shutters should certainly be considered. While they boost your home’s security, they also add a degree of comfort that other security options do not. They are easy to handle, manage and set up.

What are Roller Garage Doors?

I've posted about roller garage doors on many occasions, both on this blog and elsewhere, but I just wanted to take things back to basics for a moment. I'm sure you're familiar with 'garage doors', but are you familiar with the ones that roll? If not, please read on!

For years people have enjoyed the convenience and protection of roller garage doors, but to the newbie the question remains: what are roller garage doors?
Roller garage doors are garage doors that slide over the garage opening thus protecting the interior of the garage. These doors offer a variety of great features in regards to convenience, protection, and comfort in knowing that you have a door that can easily be used.

These roller garage doors come in both automatic and manual. You can just reach up and pull them down over the garage opening or you can use a panel or even remote control to control the opening and closing. There are also automatic timers to lower and raise the doors. The features are in that these doors can be customized with insulation and even decorative faces. Some people go to lengths of having some customized artwork like airbrush or decals done on their roller garage doors to spruce them up and stand out.
Another major feature is that these doors provide protection against the heat and cold. When constructed properly they keep that heat in lessening the costs of energy. In the warm and hot months they keep that air conditioning in and if you use your garage for work or play you'll appreciate this bonus. Also they can keep the outside noise levels down as well.

In addition, roller garage doors have safety features to prevent accidentally closing on an object or person. As mentioned earlier, there are various additional features to these devices as well as decorative choices. It's funny to see that there's a secondary market where people actually customize these doors with airbrushed art and even hand painted murals and decals. Let your creative side loose when you install these devices.

So if you're looking for convenience, protection, energy efficiency and peace of mind, you might consider getting roller garage doors to replace the ones you have.

Security Tips about Roller Garage Doors

With crime, break-ins and vandalism a growing concern of our time, residential homeowners and businesses need to consider all possible ways to protect one of their most valuable and cherished possessions, their home. A home or business should be able to rest at ease once it’s protected, knowing that there will be effective barriers installed. Besides the primary concern of securing doors and windows by installed special security grilles for protection, there remains another just as important consideration which is the garage space. If a garage is not included in a fortified security plan that can hold the potential to become a major security concern later on, if left unprotected. Therefore it’s not hard to understand why roller garage doors are so universally accepted today as an important security feature of a home or business.

Heavy insulated slats, called laths, are given extra strength through bonding two separate layers of aluminium with injected foam. This unique design of the laths gives the final product, the roller shutters, very strong appeal as a protective barrier. Roller garage doors are earmarked with another beneficial security feature, that of the auto lock. These roller doors come with an auto lock system which makes it virtually impossible to open the door once it has been closed. Then add to that the electromagnetic brake that stops the door from opening, and it makes for a very impressive security package.

From the safety vantage point of view, jumping to another important feature, the roller garage doors contain a set of photocells which will stop the door from hitting an obstacle while closing. And these powerful little garage doors do come equipped with a standard override manual crank system in case of power failure, or doing electrical work on the property.