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Rototranslating Doors for Disabled People

Rototranslating doors are built especiallyroom.
for places and people with little room to
manoeuvre such as disabled people and smallThe rototranslating door is also useful for
rooms. They are also useful for places withplaces such as homes for the elderly, schools
high hygiene and health issues due to theirand for use as hospital doors as they are
ability to be cleaned quickly and frequentlyvery easy to clean quickly and efficiently
such as hospitals and public places. They aredue to the way they open. This makes it easy
very attractive and come in a wide range ofto give them an all over antiseptic clean to
finishes and sizes to cater for differentcomply with health and hygiene regulations
tastes.not to mention how much cleaner our wards
will be. Hospital doors will be able to be
They are perfect as doors for the disabled ascleaned far better than with standard doors
they swing and rotate both ways in the dooras all sides of the rototranslating door can
frame so anyone wheelchair bound would bebe accessed and cleaned whereas there are
able to go through with ease form either sidecertain parts of a standard doors frame such
of the door (please visit for diagrams).as the hinge which are extremely difficult to
Once through the door it is also extremelyclean.
easy to close making it the ideal replacement
for cumbersome standard doors. The idea isThey also come in handy in everyday houses if
that rather than have a standard door with ayou have particularly small rooms in your
circular motion, you use a variable-radiushouse and just require an extra bit of room.
longitudinal arch that is very similar to aIf you have an extremely small bathroom and
cycloid.find your standard door bangs on the sink
when opening it, get a rototranslating door
Due to the dimensions of the rototranslatingfitted and you will be amazed at how much
door, they can be fit into any standard doorroom  you  will  acquire.
frame and when open will only take up around
half the space of a conventional door. ThereThe cost of rototranslating doors is
is no need for any extra work to be done onextremely competitive when compared to the
the door frames, the rototranslating doorsprice of standard doors which is to be
can be fitted directly into standard doorexpected because no extra building work is
frames of many sizes. This makes them perfectrequired to fit them into standard door
for small rooms where there is little or noframes and they can be fitted easily and
room to manoeuvre.e.g. If a standard doorquickly. This keeps the costs down and makes
when open comes out a total of 1000mm thenthem an ideal competitor to standard doors
the rototranslating door will only come outespecially where disabled doors and easy
around half that, about 500mm. That means youclean doors are required.
have an extra 500mm space to manoeuvre in the



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