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MARCH 2015 PRO INSTALLER
FROM THE INSIDE
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A DAY IN THE LIFE
OF AN INSTALLER
Three Elements of a
Premium Quality Door
Now, presuming you have found a unit of the right material, style and colour, Roto Frank
suggest these are three of the most important benefits when manufacturing a door:
1. Security & Safety
It is most people’s prime emotional concern: the feeling their
home is adequately protected
against intruders. However, as
well as keeping unwanted visitors out, you also need a door
that allows you to get outside
quickly in the case of an emergency, a fire being the most
likely imagined scenario.
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2. Sealing
Keeping wind and rain and,
in some cases, floodwater
out of the home is obviously
important. Plus, there is no
point in having good thermal
performance if the door isn’t
kept permanently, tightly shut.
A good weather seal also helps
reduce noise, keeping out
traffic sounds and whistles due
to wind.
3. Long-term Reliability
A door should be reliable for
at least ten years, and can last
much longer if properly maintained.
Three sides to
every door
To be assured of those three
benefits, you need to consider
three aspects of the door. These
are the locking side, the hinge
side and the threshold. The first
two have always been important of course, but that third
one, the threshold has become
increasingly relevant in recent
times as more doors are specified in line with accessibility
requirements.
The Locking Side
When it comes to door locks, no
range of products would be complete without manually-activated,
mechanical systems. Traditionally,
these are either completely cylinder-operated, in which the user
turns the key several times to lock
or unlock the door; or they can be
of the lift-lever type. These locks
allow the user to lock the door by
lifting the lever handle and then
making one turn of the key.
For cylinder-operated locks, the
Roto Safe C range has all you
need. However, if your customers
would like to take advantage of
the convenience of lift-lever operation, check out Roto Safe H.
The Roto Door Safe A category
includes all of the automatic multi-point locking systems for doors.
By “automatic” we mean doors
that lock themselves with minimal
input from the user. An example
of this is the Tandeo system, in
which the main locking points on
an entrance door all click shut in
the manner of a central latch. This
immediately provides a high level
of protection against unauthorised
entry. For night time locking, the
cylinder can be used to further
deadlock the system.
Then of course there is the wide
range of electromechanical options under the Door Safe E brand.
With the Eneo C/CC system, you
can lock and unlock a door without having to find your keys. The
system can be configured using a
one-click remote control, Bluetooth mobile phone connection
and even fingerprint recognition
as well as a PIN code keypad.
For every cylinder requirement,
there is the Roto Cyl-Tec range,
which includes keyed-alike and
knob-turn variants of all cylinders.
Six-pin technology and 240,000
combinations are just two of the
reasons why Roto cylinders comply with Grade 6 of the EN 1303
standard.
‘The level of
attention to detail
that has gone into
the development
of the Roto Eifel
rang e is reflected
in the range of
Accessories
available for
the system’
The Hinge Side
Any door is only as reliable
and as secure as its hinges.
Butt-type hinges may be seen as
the more basic option, however the Roto Solid B range
of butt hinges offer a number
of benefits, especially for the
installer. They are adjustable
in three directions, and by just
one person alone. They have
pre-assembled parts to reduce
installation time.
For heavier-duty applications,
there is the extensive Roto Solid
S range of surface-mounted
hinges. This includes models
that can be used on doors up to
160 kg. Roto surface-mounted
hinges are available for PVCu,
aluminium and timber profiles.
The Threshold
Last but not least, everything
for this area can be found in the
Roto Eifel range of thresholds for
barrier-free doors.
Eifel T is the threshold for main
entrance doors; Eifel TB works
on Turn-Only terrace and balcony
doors. As with all Roto door
products, these thresholds are
designed with both the fabricator
and end user in mind. For the
manufacturer, there are 15 installation depths to choose from,
covering 40 to 140mm. Striker
plates can be inserted straight
in without having to modify the
threshold profile.
For the homeowner, the products provide resistance to driving
rain and a high level of isothermal efficiency. They are also
designed to reduce the risk of
condensation forming around the
base of the door. If weather-sealing is proving difficult to achieve,
check out the Automatic FloorDoor Gasket Texel, which seals
the threshold by moving downwards as the door is closed.
The level of attention to detail
that has gone into the development of the Roto Eifel range is
reflected in the range of Accessories available for the system.
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