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Functional accessories
These include motorisation, pedestrian door, mechanisms, seals and Silblock, and rotated counterweights and will allow you to make your door very safe and comfortable to use.
Motorisation
In its constant pursuit of quality, Silvelox believes in overseeing the manufacture of every component part that goes into our doors. And so it was logical that, rather than pass responsibility for making the electric motors to a third party, we should do it ourselves.
Produced entirely by Silvelox, and protected by an international patent, the motors are a marriage of functionality and aesthetics. But in this instance it’s a case of hidden beauty, as the motor drive is concealed in the upper cross-section of the door’s perimeter frame.
It operates faultlessly and almost silently, requiring no unsightly ceiling tracks or impeding passage in any way. It even thinks for itself. Using auto-diagnostic electronics to detect a malfunction, the system indicates which components require attention by showing a different number of flashes on an L.E.D. display.
Pedestrian door
A pedestrian door offers easy and quick access to the garage without having to operate the whole garage door. Hardly identifiable as a separate door, it is opened with an anticlockwise turn of the main garage door handle. The internal handle has indicators, so you can see at a glance whether or not the door is locked.
Security bolts, that lock as the door closes, ensure robust protection against intruders, while a perimeter seal guards against the ingress of rain. A hidden hinge system enhances the clean lines of the door further and allows it to be opened to a full 90° for ease of access. Furthermore, the height of the threshold has been reduced to the minimum that is technically possible.
Two options of mechanism
All Silvelox garage doors have what we call limited protrusion. This means that a much greater percentage of the door, when up and open, is protected inside the garage, thus shielding it from the elements.
A completely non-protruding mechanism is also available. With this, the door in its entirety slides effortlessly into the garage interior. Situations where no protrusion is important include locations where the garage faces directly onto a pavement, or in an arched opening where the geometry of the aperture would preclude any protrusion.
Neither our protruding nor our non-protruding mechanisms require the use of unsightly ceiling tracks.
Extra safety: seals and Silblock
A tubular perimeter seal between the frame and door acts as a ‘protective space’ should fingers stray there accidentally. The base of the door has an EPDM protective seal, with double tubular external and internal protrusions, to give similar protection at ground level. Furthermore, a Silblock device protects against the door dropping in the event of a power cut.
Rotated counterweights
When manoeuvring a car in or out of a garage, particularly at an angle, every centimetre counts. To allow a slightly more sideways approach we can, on request, turn the counterweight fabrication through 90° and locate it adjacent to the frame on one or both sides of the garage door.
Personally coded keys
Each garage door is supplied with three coded keys for the operation of the opening locking cylinder, which has anti-unthreading protection. Silvelox customers will receive a security card when their doors and keys are supplied. This will allow order of further keys via Silvelox or an authorised CISA point. If requested then the Silvelox garage and entrance door key can be the same.
Remote controls
For motorized garage doors two or four channel remote controls are available, both with rolling code ID protection. Rolling code is the very latest generation of cloning and hacker-proof technology that can be incorporated into a remote control. All Silvelox remote controls are compatible with Homelink systems.