At Auto Door Specialists in Warwickshire, Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry & Leicester we use the latest technology from Italy, Germany and Switzerland to power our automatic sliding doors. All of our products are CE approved very high quality and are proven to be reliable. We have a range of automation units including one which is only 10cms (4″) high; this product fits unobtrusively into almost any opening. It is particularly appropriate where headroom is limited and for ‘all glass entrances’ where larger automation units would spoil the overall appearance.
All of our products are extremely reliable, low maintenance and are suitable for both single and double leaf doors. Heavy door leaves can be automated through the use of additional heavy duty carriagesStandard features we offer on all sliding doors are:
The minimum brick to brick width required for a single sliding door allowing a clear opening of 1,000mm is 2,450mm, with a pocket screen this reduces to 2,250mm.
The minimum brick to brick width required for a pair of sliding doors allowing a clear opening of 1,000mm is 2,770mm, with pocket screens this reduces to 2,430mm.
The measurements shown allows the back stile of the door to stop 200mm from the brickwork to prevent trapping hazards and to comply with EN16005. Pocket screen/s can be erected in front of the fixed side screen to create a pocket for the door to open into. Pedestrians are protected from trapping hazards by the screen so the door can open right back to the walls thus increasing the available clear opening by 200mm for a single door and 400mm for a pair of doors.
Where the opening is narrow, providing there are no impediments to the door opening over the face of the building, the door/s can be hung on the inside face of the opening and the door/s can then open over it.
Fully automatic doors are most commonly found on retail and commercial sites. These require no action by the user to open them so safety must be built in to the installation. The doors open as they are approached from either side when they are sent a signal to open automatically, usually by motion sensors.
The revised regulations, EN16005, have increased the levels of safety required for automatic doors. Previously doors which required the user to activate the door, usually by pressing a push pad required less safety features to be compliant.
Under the new guidelines any door which may be used by infirm, elderly or disabled users must be fitted with full safety features. Automatic doors activated by push pads can still be used as manual doors by the able bodied as the resistance posed by the operator is no more than a standard manual door closer.
All automatic doors are a perfect solution for compliance with the Equality Act 2010.
