Door can be described as a panel that covers an opening in a building, room or vehicle.They are usually made of a hard, semi-permeable, and hard-to-break substance .Doors are often attached by hinges to a frame.They have some locking mechanisms to ensure that only some people can open them. It provides access into and out of a space and ensure privacy.

1. Differnt Types of Doors

2. DOORS
❖ Door - a panel that covers an opening in a building, room or vehicle.
❖ They are usually made of a hard, semi-permeable, and hard-to-break substance .
❖ Doors are often attached by hinges to a frame.
❖ Have some locking mechanisms to ensure that only some people can open them.
❖ providing access into and out of a space
❖ Ensure privacy.
❖ Doors may have artistic, significant, conventional purposes.

3. Materials Used to build doors
➢ FiberGlass
➢ Wood
➢ Aluminium
➢ Vinyl

4. Types of Doors
➔ Hinged Doors
➔ Folding Doors
➔ Sliding Doors
➔ Rotating Doors
➔ Up and over doors

5. Hinged Doors
★ Allow one side of the door to pivot away from the doorway direction, but not
the other.
★ Axis of rotation - vertical
★ For hinged garage doors, axis of rotation - horizontal above the door opening

6. Folding Doors
★ This type of doors which opens by folding back in sections or so-called
panels.
★ Folding doors are also known as ‘bi-fold doors',
★ Folding doors can be used as internal or external room dividers and are made
from a variety of materials.
★ Most folding doors are glazed and the panels have frames of different
materials
★ They can open up and fold either internally or externally and are widely used
in modern extensions.

8. Sliding Doors
★ They are often useful to have doors which slide along tracks, often for space
or aesthetic considerations.
★ The doors can slide in either direction along one axis on parallel overhead
tracks, sliding past each other.
★ Doors which slide inside a wall cavity -Pocket Doors.
★ This type of door is used in tight spaces where privacy is also required.
★ The door slab is mounted to roller and a track at the top of the door and slides
inside a wall.

10. Rotating Doors
★ A Rotating door has several wings or leaves, generally four, radiating from a
central shaft, forming compartments that rotate about a vertical axis.
★ A revolving door allows people to pass in both directions without colliding,
and forms an airlock maintaining a seal between inside and out.

12. Aluminium Sliding Folding Doors
★ Aluminium Sliding / folding doors are stackable folding doors of multiple
panels that slide and stack neatly to one or two sides.
★ This allows for a seamless transition between indoors and outside
entertainment areas free of any barrier or obstruction.
★ With multiple combination openings of up to 10 or 12 meters can be easily
managed.

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