There are many types of security doorsets available. From a functional point of view, a door is a generally rotatable opening in a wall that closes a passageway. While a door usually leads into the interior of a building or within it from room to room, the usually larger gates often lead to interior heights, courtyards or in utility buildings such as barns, stables or workshops. Looking only at the different door types themselves, they can be categorized according to many criteria. Below we introduce the most important types for security.
Apartment (entrance) doors in apartment buildings and room doors (space doors) in apartments. Exterior doors, on the other hand, are doors that close a wall opening of the building to the outside world. You are in contact with wind and weather. Classic exterior doorsets are for front doors and balcony doors or patio doors, however, this distinction is very basic and fails to recognize the often-complex structure of a building made up of exterior and interior spaces and numerous intermediate zones. Therefore, a distinction according to the functional and physical requirements, which are made to the respective door types, makes more sense.
As a so-called standard door is called classic room doors, ie interior doors. These are usually hinged doors, often in wood look without great demands with varying lock shapes: Buntbartschloss, toilet lock or profile cylinder lock. In a soundproof door, the door leaf is filled with a sound-absorbing and / or sound-damping material . This type of door has at least one all-round circumferential sealing plane, wherein the threshold region is usually realized as a lowerable bottom seal.
A radiation protection door is a type of door designed to protect against radiation. In terms of construction, this is achieved with lead plate inserts. The value of the protection is given as lead equivalent in millimeters (mm). A lead equivalent of 2 would therefore correspond to the protection afforded by a 2 mm thick lead plate. Such protection would be suitable, for example, for shielding X-ray rooms. The door type door we have already mentioned above.
A so-called wicket door is a type of door that is built into a larger door to secure a slip-through opportunity with less effort. This relieves the opening and closing operation required for the door.
The cell door is a type of door that can be recognized by a massive door with peephole and latch. It’s a door as well as the wall surrounding it papered, so quasi disguised, so that they are not immediately recognizable as a door, (keyword: secret door), then it is the door type wallpaper door .
A massive steel door with one or more security locks is a door of the kind vault door. Even a floor-level and usually drivable horizontal door is a separate door: floor door. As the elevator doors is called sliding doors giving access to an elevator installation. The secret door was already mentioned as a type of door : These are disguised, revolving or sliding access doors to hide.