This section of the Door and Window Experts Website provides information and highlights the products, hardware and brands of aluminium systems for commercial installations. Anything that is not to a dwelling, dealing directly with the homeowner is usually classed as a commercial installation. For example developments of flats and houses.
Commercial doors and windows are designed to withstand the more intensive day-to-day use, far exceeding the demands placed on the doors and windows in our homes. Schools, hospitals, shops, offices and transport hubs all have significantly higher usage and traffic levels than regular domestic glazing. In this section, you’ll find articles and information about commercial doors and windows.
Fitting a front door or shopfront to commercial premises is a very different proposition to fitting residential doors. Whilst it is understandable that the small business owner would contact their local double glazing firm in the first instance, they could be creating a significant problem for themselves. That being said …
What is access control on commercial aluminium doors? Access control is the simple requirement of many shops, offices and other public building to control who can get in and out. A regular shop wants to welcome all its customers with a door that is permanently unlocked and allows any potential …
In choosing hardware for doors, whether internal or external, there is a huge choice of products available. With door sets requiring closing devices, locks, panic hardware, door handles, hinges, fire protection and automation, it can often be difficult to see a wide choice of products in one place. Product literature …
If your business premises are used by disabled people or even people with moderately impaired ability it is likely that even with manual doors they may find it difficult to operate them. Our article on the advantages of having automatic doors in your premises explains more about the features of …
It is not just the door closer, the glass or the weight of the door that can affect its ability to make it easy to use and comply with Part M and BS8300. The other important hardware fitted to the door such as handles, locks and hinges can also play …
Do you give thought to compliance with the regulations concerning commercial doors, are you breaking the law? Approved Document M and BS8300 are part of the current Building Regulations therefore doors must meet the design considerations laid down in these documents. In this article we explain how different regulations apply to …
Any service provider must ensure they make reasonable adjustments so that their doors can comply with their legal obligations under the Equalities Act. If you are a door and window company that is involved in either the specification of products or helping your customer choose doors for commercial premises are …
Many businesses might consider automatic doors as a luxury or unnecessary expense when designing or refurbishing their building. But installing automatic doors to even a small shop can bring advantages you may not have considered before. You may think that automatic doors are only installed in large hotels, shopping centres …
Concealed door closers, transom closers or concealed overhead closers as they are also known are today widely used in all types of metal, wood or steel doors. Designed to provide a hidden solution to visible door closers they remain the first choice for shop doors particularly in aluminium, otherwise known …
A new commercial door has been launched by the well respected Senior Architectural Aluminium that offers several improvements over their existing well designed commercial door. Commercial doors must be used in any non dwelling environments where a reliable high traffic entrance door is required. If you are an installer that …
The aluminium commercial door is the number one choice for use in just about every type of commercial building. In commercial environments there are regulatory requirements in addition to aesthetic considerations; in particular doors may be required to open and close in a particular manner. In this article we’re going …
The latest generation of Jack Aluminium TD68 commercial doors substantially improves the existing design of these high-traffic aluminium doors for shops, schools, offices and commercial buildings. Easy to make, fast to fit and meeting all manner of specifications for front doors. Jack Aluminium Systems presently offers commercial doors improving substantially …
Aluminium louvre doors are sometimes easy to overlook by installers as a specialist product, but often these are commercial door products, glazed with a suitable louvre system rather than glass units or aluminium panels. Advice, information and where you can use aluminium louvre doors. Where you can use aluminium louvre …
The market for commercial doors continues to be a buoyant one with many trade manufacturers reporting healthy order books for this product. Specified correctly only a commercial door is suitable for shops, schools, office buildings or anywhere that requires a reliable entrance door. PVC entrance doors have only been designed …
Commercial Aluminium Doors in a high traffic application with automatic operator As a general rule, a pvc door should only ever be fitted to a dwelling. Any other installation should be fitted with an aluminium commercial entrance door. Consider that our front entrance doors at home are opened and closed …
What sort of aluminium doors and windows maintenance is needed once your new glazing is fitted? Depending upon use, all aluminium doors and windows will require some periodic maintenance over time, but it should only be about once or twice a year. You should not assume once fitted, your windows …
In many buildings, the main entrance door must control traffic flow yet remain secure when closed. Aluminium commercial doors with magnetic locks provide an attractive, cost-effective and reliable door solution. What are commercial doors with magnetic locks? Commercial doors with magnetic locks are aluminium doors fitted with a proprietary magnetic lock, …
Panic hardware fitted to the final exit doors of a building has to perform the function of both allowing emergency exit (egress) when needed and also be secure. Final exit doors are often misused as they can provide a ‘shortcut’; this often compromises security, especially if they do not lock …
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