The front door is the interface
between indoor and outdoor, private and public space. The most important tasks
of the front door: To protect against cold, to provide security and to
represent the house attractively.
If you want to buy a new front door,
you will find a huge range in all sorts of styles, materials and price ranges:
from the simple, inexpensive plastic model over historic-looking wooden doors
to the modern designer door in aluminum and glass. However, decisive purchase
criteria should be the "intrinsic values" of the door, which ensure
safety and thermal insulation. The Security Doors North Vancouver services
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What distinguishes
a "real" front door?
The quality criteria of front doors
include stability, longevity, weather resistance, thermal insulation and
burglar resistance. The minimum requirements are specified in the product
standard DIN EN 14351-1. Safety and thermal insulation are also regulated in
our own DIN standards, for the latter also the requirements of the Energy
Saving Ordinance (EnEV). High-quality doors can be made from all common
materials or material combinations.
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Safety as an
important purchase criterion
When buying a new front door property
owners should pay attention to the resistance class according to the European
standard DIN V ENV 1627. Burglar-resistant doors are divided into six
resistance classes (RC 1 - RC 6). This classification is identical to the valid
until September 2011 classification WK 1 to WK 6. After all, RC means nothing
more than Resistance Class, too German resistance class.
RC1 represents the lowest security
level, RC6 the highest security level. For private households, the police
recommend security class RC2 or RC3 doors.
In order for the front door to
actually meet the requirements of the test standard, it should also be
certified, for example by the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) or the
Association of Property Insurers (VdS). In addition, it should necessarily be
mounted according to the instructions of the door manufacturer - preferably by
a specialist.
