The right door: safety and thermal insulation are important

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 are there now.

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.