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