| Rototranslating doors are built especially | | | | room. |
| for places and people with little room to | | | | |
| manoeuvre such as disabled people and small | | | | The rototranslating door is also useful for |
| rooms. They are also useful for places with | | | | places such as homes for the elderly, schools |
| high hygiene and health issues due to their | | | | and for use as hospital doors as they are |
| ability to be cleaned quickly and frequently | | | | very easy to clean quickly and efficiently |
| such as hospitals and public places. They are | | | | due to the way they open. This makes it easy |
| very attractive and come in a wide range of | | | | to give them an all over antiseptic clean to |
| finishes and sizes to cater for different | | | | comply 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 as | | | | cleaned far better than with standard doors |
| they swing and rotate both ways in the door | | | | as all sides of the rototranslating door can |
| frame so anyone wheelchair bound would be | | | | be accessed and cleaned whereas there are |
| able to go through with ease form either side | | | | certain 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 extremely | | | | clean. |
| easy to close making it the ideal replacement | | | | |
| for cumbersome standard doors. The idea is | | | | They also come in handy in everyday houses if |
| that rather than have a standard door with a | | | | you have particularly small rooms in your |
| circular motion, you use a variable-radius | | | | house and just require an extra bit of room. |
| longitudinal arch that is very similar to a | | | | If 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 rototranslating | | | | fitted and you will be amazed at how much |
| door, they can be fit into any standard door | | | | room you will acquire. |
| frame and when open will only take up around | | | | |
| half the space of a conventional door. There | | | | The cost of rototranslating doors is |
| is no need for any extra work to be done on | | | | extremely competitive when compared to the |
| the door frames, the rototranslating doors | | | | price of standard doors which is to be |
| can be fitted directly into standard door | | | | expected because no extra building work is |
| frames of many sizes. This makes them perfect | | | | required to fit them into standard door |
| for small rooms where there is little or no | | | | frames and they can be fitted easily and |
| room to manoeuvre.e.g. If a standard door | | | | quickly. This keeps the costs down and makes |
| when open comes out a total of 1000mm then | | | | them an ideal competitor to standard doors |
| the rototranslating door will only come out | | | | especially where disabled doors and easy |
| around half that, about 500mm. That means you | | | | clean doors are required. |
| have an extra 500mm space to manoeuvre in the | | | | |