Security gate makes a property secure and separated from the rest of the environment. It’s the security doors that enable us to live freely within the property area. The security doors enable us to enter or exit the property; it makes it possible for people to restrict people from entering or exiting a property.
It is the most important element of your house, industry or the commercial building. It is essential that you install a good, proper security door. For the best results it is essential that your doors function properly and are controllable.
A door is nothing without its fence, as the fence would actually surround the whole property, while the doors are usually on the front side of the fence.
Types of security doors and their benefits:
The main function of a door is same, i.e. tocontrol the in going and outgoing of people. Whenever someone says security doors, they think of the automatic doors, since they are fit for the job of stopping someone, but there could be another type of door that could be manually handed, such doors are also used as security doors. But still because of it structure or nature of use there are few types of doors available in the market:
- Vertical Pivot Gates:
It is the most secured type of gates available, these doors might look like normal gates at first but their opening and closing style is the most different; the door opens horizontally upward. The whole 8 feet door is parallel to the ground, and looks the coolest.
But these doors cost the most too, the whole gates are made up of steel, sometime the whole driveway is covered with a single gate, or sometimes is covered by two gates, that meet at a central point.
These doors are mostly used for industrial properties.
- Sliding Gates:
As the names suggest these doors slide in and out, these might be the most sensitive type of doors available. The doors slide on a particular path or track that has to be kept clean for the easy movement of the door.
The door might make sounds during the opening and closing, and might require some really good maintenance, therefore are not ideally preferred everywhere.
- Swing Gates:
The most common type of doors ever used, they are the traditional style doors that require very less of maintenance and your time. These are single door or bi-door, doors. Single door is ideal for using as the entrance inside the house, while the bi-door is more commonly used for the driveways.
Because of its traditional style look, they look the most beautiful. These doors could be steel made or even wooden, as you like. These require very less maintenance too.
- Manual Vs. Automatic Gates:
All the above mentioned types of doors could be further divided into two types that would be manual or automatic gates; the gates that would need a person to operate are the manual gates while the gates that could be operated with the help of a wireless machine system.
Because of its convenient usage the automatic gates are a more popular choice.
Author’s bio:
Jackworks with a private architectural firm, he says that the emergence of overhead doors in Toronto has opened up new market for the door manufacturers; he has written many articles on this very subject.