FINDOOR Folding Doors in Saskatchewan
Folding doors for large openings where a sectional door will not work, built to operate in extreme cold.
When a sectional door is the wrong answer
Most overhead doors are sectional. The door lifts and folds back along a track above the opening, which works well and is what we fit most of the time.
It stops working when the opening gets very large, or when the building has no headroom above the opening and no room behind it for the door to stack. Older farm buildings and quonsets very often have both problems at once, and the answer is usually not a bigger sectional door.
A folding door solves it differently. It folds to the sides of the opening rather than stacking overhead, so the constraint disappears.
Why FINDOOR specifically
Because of the cold. FINDOOR build for extreme temperature operation, and that is not marketing language when the door in question is on a machine shed at minus thirty five and somebody needs the combine out.
Doors that work perfectly in a mild climate develop problems here that never appear elsewhere. Seals stiffen, mechanisms slow, and anything with marginal tolerances binds. A door designed for these conditions is a genuinely different product rather than the same door with a sticker on it.
Where they end up
Farms and grain operations first, on machine sheds, shops and equipment buildings. Then fire halls, where the door has to open reliably and quickly every time regardless of weather. Then workshops and commercial garages with large openings.
Measuring an old building
Agricultural buildings move. They are frequently not square, the opening is often not the size the plans said, and the framing may have shifted since it was built.
We measure the opening as it actually is rather than as it is supposed to be, and we allow for it in the specification. A large door ordered off a nominal dimension is an expensive problem that only reveals itself on installation day.
What's Included
- Large agricultural and machine shed openings
- Fire halls, workshops and commercial garages
- Designed for extreme temperature operation
- Suits openings where headroom is limited
- Powered operation
- Installed and serviced by our own crews
Other Services We Offer in Regina
FINDOOR Commercial Folding Doors Questions
When is a folding door better than a sectional door?
Mainly on very large openings, and where there is not enough headroom or backroom for a sectional door to stack. Older farm buildings and quonsets frequently have neither, which is where a folding door becomes the sensible answer rather than the exotic one.
Do they cope with our winters?
That is largely what they are designed for. FINDOOR build specifically for operating in extreme temperatures, which is the reason they turn up on Canadian farm buildings and fire halls rather than only on mild climate sites.
What size openings can they cover?
Considerably larger than a standard sectional door. We measure the actual opening and specify from that, which matters because farm buildings are rarely square and rarely the size they were supposed to be.
Who typically buys these?
Farms and grain operations, machine sheds, workshops, fire halls and commercial garages. Anywhere the opening is large, the equipment coming through it is large, and the door still has to work at minus thirty.
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