Modern doors

Yegor Slavin Modern gates are gradually becoming part of the "smart home". Architectural element that connects the building with the adjacent landscape, the mobile component of the facade and at the same time, small architectural forms part of the infrastructure, often - the town-planning element - these are all the gates. Modern doors - made of polymers and steel - are equipped with drives and automation. Automatic systems in all areas are developing faster conservative "glands." In specialized exhibitions sometimes shudder of surprise, still, everything around is moving and flashed - opened in 2 seconds, plastic gates, flashing beacons, continuously operating turnpikes. Expanding range of electronic devices with a clear tendency to the formation of integrated complexes of the type of "smart home". All systems appear more wind, light rain and automation. However, this is a topic for another story. It all begins with "iron", and here the choice of actuators, security systems and automation is wide enough to ensure that all technical problems were solved on a modern professional level. Thus, the gates must close the large opening. And if you discover where the "cap" put? Device Cover - fold - and kinematics of its motion determine the classification of the gate: folding sliding (sliding) tilt-sectional shutter Different versions have different purposes. For insulated garage, workshop, warehouse suitable hinged, tilt-up, sectional and rolling design. Entrance gate to the area or territory may be hinged or better yet - sliding. Swing gates swing gates - still the most common type of gate is a simple, traditional and still most common type of gate. They are irreplaceable in the arches, and any other limited openings can be opened both inside and out freely fit into a ready-made fence, easy to install and use. However, to make a wide swing gates with wings is difficult, we can not deliver to him the car back to back, fold needs space to open, and always cleared of snow, a gust of wind can slam a big flap like a sail. The gate consists of two boards-vorotin, hinges on the side pillars, and open like doors or shutters. For the manufacture of such structures requires welding machine and some metal. For facing the use of conventional corrugated or smooth steel plate, decorative corrugated sheets with a polymer coating, imported or domestic sandwich panels, welded mesh, aluminum profile. Products that use forged items sometimes become a real work of blacksmith art - witness the gates of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Necessary part of good doors that open easily and quietly - quality loop. The easiest way to use a loop with a thrust bearing. If desired, the gates are fitted with electric remote-controlled and alert razblokiratorom the case of a power outage. Self-locking worm gear drive ensures secure locking of the gate without a lock. The actuators are placed on poles or conceal the opening in the floor that allows you to save a historic facade. Sliding (sliding) doors These simple and robust design has been used for decades in the domestic construction industry - one-piece shield is suspended on rollers to the guide rail, and opening up, shifting sideways along the fence or wall. If there is enough space, there is no problem - opening doors do not clutter up the territory of either before entering or after him, no need to clean the area before the gates, door opens easily and smoothly, and you can make a gate of almost any width and height - at least for aircraft hangars and user-friendly suspension allows you to perfectly withstand wind loads. Due to various finishing gate is easy to write on the architectural appearance of any country house or city buildings. Finally, these designs are attractive not only in appearance - they are durable, economical, easily fitted with manual, mechanical or automatic drive. Tilt-up doors tilt-up doors - solid fabric in the entire area of ??the opening, rises up and is in open position parallel to the ceiling tilt-up doors represent the whole fabric of the entire area of ??the opening, rises up and is in open position parallel to the ceiling. There without a drive, let the relatively simple, and not do - one-piece flat flap gate (up to 6x2, 2 m) moves along the guide rails on the sides of the opening and the ceiling of garage. Use of plastic rollers in the bearings, shock absorber and spring contact strips for easy, smooth and quiet operation of the drive. Leaf weight in any position offset hinge-lever mechanism and springs installed at the side of the protective covers. Durability design contribute to galvanizing and high-quality paint components. To take full advantage of construction, the door leaf made as a sandwich panel - outside of galvanized and painted steel sheet, thickness 0,5-0,9 cm, inside - polyurethane foam insulation thickness of 40 mm, equivalent to the thermal insulation masonry and a half brick. Among the other advantages of the design - simplicity and reliability, relative cheapness. Finding fault, flaws can be considered unless: opening the door leaf is beyond the opening, not allowing to park close, to seal the bottom seam in the doorway requires a low nut, tangible when driving; imagination of the architect is limited - openings may only have a rectangular shape, with no arches; impossible to replace part of the leaf in the repair, only completely; not always possible to provide high-quality sealing of joints. But the possibility of finishing the gate just limitless - in the flat sheet can be embedded windows, peepholes of reinforced glass and door-wicket. The most practical canvas texture is shaped rib, which are imperceptible scratches and dents. Furthermore shaped and smooth, painted in various colors of the gate, the gate can be coated with aluminum in bronze, copper, walnut, marble, fine wood and even semiprecious stones. That is to say, there is prestige. Sectional Doors Sectional gate design consists of 4-6 horizontal sections of sectional door design was developed in Germany about 40 years ago and combines the advantages of other types. The canvas consists of 4-6 horizontal sections of a width of 350-610 mm, connected by a powerful loops. Along the edges of the sections are placed rollers with built-in bearings and moving on steel rails vertically upward, with the rotation of the ceiling. If you're just going to build a garage, then we can recommend to lintel height of about 400-500 mm. The minimum height of lintel - about 200 mm. Size of the section allows you to dial the door leaf with a multiplicity of 110 mm in height, the length of the section can be any of a range of 5 m. The maximum height of the gate - up to 3-4 meters, depending on the system. Each section is usually a sandwich panel thickness 40 mm with an effective thermal insulation. Wall sections made from galvanized sheet steel and filled with rigid polyurethane foam, providing additional structural strength. The joints of sections manufactured in Europe have provisions to protect against finger. Outside sections stained resistant polymeric dye. In the design can be incorporated elements of glazing and a garden gate. There are dozens of options for finishing the gates with plastic, heat-resistant glass, aluminum alloys. Sectional doors, complemented by stained glass windows or windows that can become a true home decoration. In comparison with other types of gates sectional advantages are: the most efficient use of interior space and a garage area in front of him. The machine can drive up to the gates close, convenient operation, easy and effortless opening, high levels of heat and sound insulation, durability and reliability of operation, the diversity and attractiveness of design. Sectional garage doors for a modern cottage or country house becomes an attribute of the livability and comfort, versatility, ability to use the premises of any size, regardless of roof slope and form of the opening; reasonable cost. At the present level of prices insulated metal gates will cost almost as much as a sectional garage, which is much more convenient to use - even without the use of automatic actuators. In the Russian market are well represented parts and panels of high quality, so the installation of modern garage doors afford motorists even middle incomes. When choosing a particular design, pay attention to: quality guides - the thickness and quality of metal, fitting elements directing the production and installation; rollers - the presence of bearings with an indoor cage, torsion mechanism - the quality of manufacturing springs, no mechanical damage, additional protective mechanisms, cables - the quality of , thick, properly secured, finger protection at the junctions of the sections, the reliability of automation and its setting, selecting a drive, adjusting the provisions of the terminal leaf, the presence of automatic lock the drive in case of contact with a foreign body under a sheet, a locking device in case of breakage spring suspension, other devices security. Rolling (role, roll) Gates Rolling (shutter) the gate similar to the blinds, roller shutters: when you open the sheet rolled into a roll and wound onto the shaft, located in a protective box. The box can be installed both inside and outside the garage. Rolling doors take up little space. They are the most inexpensive of the automatic garage door, but somewhat inferior to others in terms of reliability. Usually supplied with electrical and control system, but their small size may well be maintained and manually. Equipped with manual torsion drive and locking device - a locking bolt or manual. The automatic transmission can be equipped with remote control systems, access systems based on the key switch, magnetic cards, electronic keys touch memory. Advantages of the gate: reasonable cost, ease of automation, aesthetics, fast installation, they do not require cleanup of the site from the snow. Lack of design - the gateway limit the height of travel, can not be used in intensive mode (the recommended number of cycles of boom-and-dropping - about ten times a day).