How to Choose a Quality Door for Your Commercial Building

When it comes to doors for commercial use, it’s good for us to focus on security and endurance. The doors should protect the people and valuables inside a room or the building as well as endure the frequent use and their exposure to daily contact and environmental elements such as sunlight and moisture.

How to choose a quality door for your commercial building

Although the architect or contractor will give you an excellent recommendation, it’s still good to be reminded of what features to focus on when it comes to choosing the doors to be installed in your building. As mentioned earlier, it’s good to focus on security and endurance.

It’s especially the case with internal doors where there’s heavy frequent use (including doors for personnel access). With daily usage, the main door material, frame, jamb, knob and handle can accumulate scratches, dents, rusting and other damages through the months and years. Those damages not only affect the doors’ aesthetics, but also their strength and security. For example, when the door’s material and hardware have already rusted, it becomes easier for intruders and burglars to break in (and expose your valuables and merchandise to theft resulting in huge financial losses). This also endangers the people inside the building.

One way to prevent that is to choose a door that can withstand the impact and attempted break-in. In addition, it should also last long so that corrosion and other signs of damage won’t be a problem. For this, steel (with the appropriate protective coating) as well as aluminium are popular choices. Doors made from these materials are commonly installed in most buildings.

However, it’s not enough that the materials are strong, secure and long-lasting. To ensure that the doors will be truly secure and durable, they should be installed by professionals. This way, there will be an exact fit and that there will be no loose hardware. In addition, you’ll gain peace of mind about the door and its installation.

The goal is to make it one less thing to worry about. The doors should just work silently in the background without us thinking about their integrity. This way, we can better focus on the other important aspects of our lives and business.