Common Types of Panel Garages

Panel only garages are defined by virtue of the fact that the panel is a one piece
section that sits on the garage floor and extends to the eves.
Heights for Marley, now Leofric, can be 7′ (2.135M) or 6′ 6″ (1.980M)
with a width of 16″, corner panels are 3″ wider.
Most other manufacturers are 6’6″ high with a width of 2′.

Marley Styles from their earliest versions include:

System FMTR

System-FMTR

This System FMTR Battery Garage type is based on an early Marley Panel Garage and could be refurbished with System X components on the fronts with aluminium posts and fitted with Roller Shutter Doors. To the rear we would fit uPVC gutters and downpipes.This concrete garage has the flared side posts but not the tapered wedges that create the roof slope of the MQ.

These garages have lintel/fascias that in many cases have completely broken down (having been constructed over 50 years ago).

Recently the lady using this System M-8G garage shut the door (perhaps too vigorously) whereupon the lintel on her garage, similar to the one two images above, crashed to the ground just missing her. Obviously this is dangerous to the person shutting the door or to children using the garage front for soccer practice or similar activity.

System P

System B battery garage form the garage stock of many local authorities and as the original mnufacturer went out of business 30-40 years ago we have manufactured moulds for all 12 concrete components.

Common problems are lintels failing, posts disintergrating, and door mechanism mounting panels cracking.

One of the photo’s above has fallen away exposing half of the downpipe and in the photo above the lintel has fractured.

Probably still in place by collapsing onto the door and the door frame.

These designs can be refurbished with System LX components, usually for considerably less than replacing the concrete parts and our new powder-coated aluminium extrusions will last indefinitely. Even without the change to System LX the up and over doors on System B battery garage units can be fitted with our roller shutter doors, as in the photo below

rose-before-3-battery-garages

Doors Before

In the event of a door collision our roller shutter doors are far easier and cheaper to repair with damaged slats costing only a few pounds each in replacement costs, versus about £900.- or more for a new up and over door with fitting.

System L

System-L

However in some cases re-manufacturing the metal box is more desirable as it matches adjoining garages as shown below.