Protective rolling shutters: market overview. Manufacturers and parameters of lamellae and drives. The cost of mounting structures.
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In Russia, the shutters are known for the time of time. Closed flaps defended housing from curious views and unborn guests, and just served as a sign that the owners do not expect anyone. Now this element of the architecture returned to the construction in the form of protective shutters.
In Sweden, for example, protective blinds are rare. But in Sweden they do not steal, and in Italy and Germany with this worse. Because, apparently, it was in Italy that the first wooden rollers were made, in our time most often called rolling shutters.
Roller shutters are installed both on the windows and on the door. Of course, these designs cannot turn the house into an impregnable fortress, their task is modest: to hold out 10-15 minutes before the emergence of the representative of the rule of law. It is curious that even the very presence of protective blinds produces disconnecting effects on intruders. It is not that the blinds are much more complicated to break the blinds than, for example, to fill the steel window grille. Most likely, the reason is different: there is no way of imperceptibly and silently "figure out" with rolling shutters. In addition, the roller shutters on the windows mean that the owner of the house seriously refers to his property, and who knows how many more surprises is waiting for a faith indoors. One way or another, statistics argue that the cottages are protected with the help of shutters attack less often than those unprotected. Plus, it is saved to this roller shutdown from noise and annoying sunlight. There are structures with an additional mosquito net. If the blinds are equipped with an electric motor, their operation can be adjusted from the remote control or be programmed by a specific scenario. For example, they are able to automatically open in the morning and close in the evening. For people who do not leave the house without armed guards, bulletproof rolling shutters have been developed, as well as even more effective rolling shutters, which close the window opening for a fraction of a second.
Throughout the century, the design of protective blinds has changed many times. Relative time Roller shutter is a metal web, assembled from horizontal lamellae and capable of moving along the guides. Lovely state blinds are rolled into a roll and are in a metal box. To close the opening, the cloth unfold and fix the locking device of a particular design. The mechanism is controlled by a manual drive or electric motor.
The Russian protective blind market has already been about ten, and now in Moscow alone work with a dozen large and several hundred minor firms. These are Russian companies, but rental and components (canvas, engines, accessories) are used mainly Germanic, Polish, Italian and Belarusian. Large firms buy a rental and configuration abroad, collect and establish blinds and, in addition, supply components of small firms. The lion's share of the metal canvase (70-80%) comes from the Belarusian company AlUCH, so in appearance sometimes it is difficult to determine the manufacturer of roller shutters. Nevertheless, the number of variations of protective shutters is extremely large. I ran out to spend your strength to find an option optimal from the point of view of guard functions, appearance, durability, convenience of operation and, of course, prices.
Lamella
The legislator of the fashion and the discoverer of the Russian market of protective shutters is considered a large German company Alulux. It produces high-quality and expensive products. A little later, Aluprof (Poland) was rented in Russia. But at the present time all the profile of the Belarusian company AlUCH. Bavarian roller shutters from Heinzmann and Italian from Sipar and Croci are also found. Metal domestic manufacturers is rarely used due to low quality. True, in exotic cases (for example, if you need to make bulletproofable blinds), orders are placed on the Moscow-plant "Mosmetutor block" (cityvidnoe).Lamins are made from an aluminum or steel profile. Steel stronger and more expensive. Alulux vagins (German manufacture) to increase corrosion resistance applied galvanized steel sheet. The non-zinc steel sheet is not recommended, necessarily rushes. Steel roller rolling profiles filled with polyurethane foam are painted or covered with special polymers. More popular than other, brown, gray colors. Many firms offer to choose from up to 1500otten stages that meet the European standard RAL. This allows you to accurately pick up the color of the blinds for the design of the building. Alulux products costs a few mansion-fighting fake firm uses its original color gamut. It makes sense to check whether the certificate confirms the stability of paint to ultraviolet. Otherwise, when replacing any lamella, the new item will differ from the burnt "neighbors".
Aluminum profiles made by roller rolling and filled with polyurethane foam, easier steel. The filler is introduced, first of all, so that the lamellas are not crushed during bending, and not at all to improve the heat-shielding properties of the structure, as stated in some advertising prospects. Extruded (solidized) Aluminum profiles without filler have another edge rigidity and therefore stronger. The profile is 45-55mm wide. The wider the opening, the more there should be a width of the slave. But it is necessary to consider that the heavier the protective shutters, the more expensive it will cost (due to the need to use a more powerful electric motor or compensation spring). The same than the wider canvas lamella, the greater the size of the box, and, accordingly, the more problems occur during its installation, for example, in the window opening. The cost of the web depends on the choice of material and the width of the lamella. Say, the price of 1M2 of the product with the most popular size of the lamella 55mm is from $ 70 to $ 110.
The choice of material and parameters lamella is a detailed conversation object between the customer and the manufacturer. You can recommend installing steel rolls on the first floor of the cottage and lightweight aluminum- on the second and higher. Fortunately, painted aluminum is difficult to distinguish from painted iron. Subsequently, with the advent of a solid solid-dimensional aluminum profile, steel structures are used less often.
Parameters of aluminum profile lamella
| Main settings | Model | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AER45 / S. | AER55 / S. | AER42. | AR / 37. | AR / 40. | AR / 55. | AG / 77. | |
| Solid profile | Raya profile | ||||||
| Availability of filler | Not | Not | Not | there is | there is | there is | there is |
| Profile thickness, mm | 8.75 | 13.5 | 8,2 | 8.5 | nine | 13.5 | 18.5 |
| Profile height, mm | 45. | 55. | 42. | 37. | 40. | 55. | 77. |
| Mass 1m2 canvas, kg | 6,44. | 7,51 | 4.23. | 2,70. | 3.35 | 3,73. | 4,73. |
| Number of profiles in 1m height of the canvas, pcs. | 22,22. | 18,18 | 23,81. | 27.03. | 25.00. | 18,18 | 12.99 |
Drive, Management and Compensator
Automatic operation of protective shutters is provided by the electric motor inside the shaft. More often than others apply engines of French, German and Italian production. There is no domestic product. It should be noted that the electric drive developed by engineers from Western Europe was accustomed to work in its climate. Unas The weather is contrasting, and Italian techniques are in times refuses to frost. Franco-German engines of Somfy and Germani from Becker and Elero are considered more reliable. When choosing an electric motor, you should make sure that it is adapted to the conditions of the Russian winter and is not sensitive to the whims of our power grid. To do this, check the temperature and electrical parameters of the performance in the certificate or passport of the instrument.The electric motors are usually a guarantee of 1-1.5 years. But to determine the reason for the failure of the system, for example, the engine of the company Somfy and make a decision to replace only specialists from distant Germany. To do this, you will need to send a failed device to the manufacturer and wait for a response. Thus, the theoretical possibility of replacing the engine within the warranty service is difficult to implement in practice. Some companies, for example, "tradeuminous", at the time of decision making a new engine. Avot will continue to work as part of warranty service or his work will need to pay, depends on the conclusion of German specialists.
In order for the owner of Hollyuvene, he trapped in his own house when the electricity is disconnected, drives with double-controlled electrical and emergency manual. But such devices are more expensive. The price of the electric drive largely depends on the popularity of the manufacturer, the presence of additional manual control and power. The engine that lifting the lougement of 25kg is about $ 150. Electric drives and automation, including remote control, are developed by one of the most famous companies in the Russian market by Somfy (France-Germany).
The easiest way to control the louvre is the general access button, usually located indoors. The remote control can be made in motion all the shutters at the same time, and you can alternately (the InteoIB system). The wind speed sensors with thermometers (Chronisunol) are convenient, automatically lowering rolling shutters during hurricane or heat. There are timers (Chronisuno system), which on schedule early in the morning sunlight sunlight, and in the evening, the shutters will close without reminders. Single Program Security can even be deceived by the potential attacker. During a long lack of hosts, the program itself will vary the opening and closing time of the blinds in the range of 15 minutes.
Commands controlling motion can be supplied from the control panel using a radio signal. Electronic code locks are also offered and much more.
If there is no need for an electric drive, the most convenient to use the compensatory springs mechanism, which balances the canvas and facilitates its lifting manually. Foreign manufacturers offer a torsion spring mechanism for $ 40-50. Such springs allow us to cope with a web mass to 80kg. To increase the range of operating parameters, engineers from oootie together with Imaashran developed a spiral spring-based mechanism. A well-balanced compensator allows you to lift without effort and lower the web weighing up to 100kg with the back of the up to7m.
For lung blinds, you can use a ribbon, cord or knotted (cardan) drives. All these mechanisms are manual. However, their use is limited to the mass of the canvas (40kg). The cost of a set of manual drive with a gearbox is approximately $ 50.
Selecting the type of optimal drive is determined separately for each specific case. Let's say, for the garage gate, an electric drive with remote control is convenient (there is no need to explain why). But the drive itself should be necessarily supplemented by the mechanism of emergency manual lifting, otherwise in the event of a turning off the electricity will have to postpone the current affairs for the searches of the electrician. Or imagine, for example, the situation when the roller shutters closes the windows on the facade of a high-rise building, and the installation produced professional climbers, going down from the roof on the ropes. This case on the reliability of the electric motor is better not to save, its repair or replacement will cost more.
Sometimes in the mornings after night frosts, roller blinds are frozen and refused to open. Most often, the problem is allowed, if you simply dislike the lamella's hand in the areas of the guides. When you try to automatically open thoroughly sample shutters (for example, on the second floor), at best, the thermal automatics of the engine shutdown is triggered, in the worst, the engine tears the cloth or fails. Therefore, experiments of this type are better not to conduct and "wait for the weather." On the upper floors, it is wiser to put a roller shutter with manual (zero) or a combined drive. As an option: Next to the guides, the heating electrocabolic is laid (it is successfully used for thawing icicles on the roofs).
Technical characteristics of the model line of electric motors of SOMFY
| Type of electric motor | Shaft diameter, mm | Load capacity, kg. | Price, $ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H = 1.5 m | H = 2.5 m | |||
| Jet | 60. | twenty | 17. | 135 (270) |
| Ceres | 60. | 25. | 21. | 145. |
| Atlas | 60. | 37. | 32. | 150. |
| Meteor | 60. | fifty | 43. | 160 (270) |
| Gemini. | 60. | 63. | 53. | 170 (280) |
| Apollo | 60. | 75. | 64. | 170. |
| Helios. | 60. | 88. | 75. | 180. |
| Mariner | 60. | 100 | 85. | 190 (305) |
| Vektran | 60. | 112. | 96. | 190. |
| Orion | 70. | 90. | 78. | 195. |
| Vega | 70. | 135. | 117. | 210 (360) |
| Sirius | 70. | 180. | 157. | 240 (395) |
| Jupiter | 70. | 190. | 165. | 250. |
| Titanium | 70. | 213. | 185. | 260 (515) |
| Tauras. | 70. | 270. | 234. | 320 (540) |
| Hercules | 102. | 205. | 205. | 515. |
* - HT- lifting height;
** - in brackets indicated the price with an emergency lift system.
Installation
The cost of mounting roller shutters is 10-20% of the order value. If the house is already built, protective blinds can be mounted inserted, while the guides are fixed on both sides of the opening, and the box is attached to it. This scheme is suitable for all types of drives, easy to perform, but most vulnerable in terms of security. It is much better when mounting the folding is carried out before facing the facade. In this case, you can decorate the box and hide the guides.When mounting the design in the window opening, a part of the useful area of the window is lost, and the guide and boxes themselves are viewed from the inside. In addition, with such a scheme, it is harder to provide manual drive. Generally speaking, use manual drive control protective blinds in a residential building, when you want to open and close the shutters from the inside, many manufacturers are strongly recommended. On the details of such a mechanism in the cold season, condensate will definitely be formed. Apparently, the process of its formation is so individual and unpredict that the builders are not taken to predict the consequences. The Solid Party, the specialists of the company "Profaluminy" argue that in their many years of practice, no complaints with claims, no failures due to condensate.
When the house is already under the roof, the window openings are prepared, but the windows are not embedded and the interior decoration has not begun, this is the most convenient time for mounting the blinds. The warmed box can be hidden in the wall, and the guides drown in the window opening. The result is ensured by the maximum reliability of the design and all flaws are excluded. Yes, and from the point of view of the appearance, this scheme is the best.
Conclusion
At the end, let me give one advice. Since the purchase of components, assembly and installation of protective blinds do not require ultra-high construction skills, many are taken for this case. Range of organizations, ready to put on the windows and doors of the roller shutters, very wide from large enterprises to the brigade "on the Garage". By the way, it is not necessary for such a "garage" brigade to work badly. But more reliable, in our opinion, use the services of a large construction company which has its own production facilities and is responsible for the high level of building culture of its employees.
The editors thanks the company "Profaluminia", Victory, Dunmar and the Information Technology Institute for help in the preparation of material.