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All About The Doors In Your Home

31 March 2021

Ray Moreno

Knowing about the different materials, systems, and elements in your home puts you in a much better position when it comes to making your house a safer, more comfortable, and more efficient home for yourself and your family. One of the areas of concern should be the doors throughout your home. They are each important for some of the same reasons, as well as for some different reasons. You can learn more about the doors throughout your home and some things you should realize about them here so you know if there are changes that should be made. 

Front Door

The most important function of your front door is to protect the family from intruders. This is why the front door should be strong and have a good fit. It also needs to have solid locks on it, with one of them being a deadbolt that goes a good depth into the frame. The front door also needs to help properly insulate the inside of the home, and this is another reason why the fit is crucial and is a reason why the door should be made of materials that help with the insulation of the interior of the home. Finally, the front door is often a focal point of the home's exterior, so it should be a nice-looking door that adds to the aesthetics of the home. 

Back Door

The back door also needs to be made of very strong material and fit well because it offers another way to enter into the home. As with the front door, the back one should also have durable locks that include a deadbolt to help better protect the home. It also needs to provide adequate insulation. However, unless the back door is also visible from the street, you can go a bit more modest with its look because it won't act as a focal point like a front door does. 

Bathroom Doors

The bathroom doors in the house should provide two main functions. For one, they should offer privacy. For another, they should offer an appropriate level of soundproofing, so noises made in the bathroom can't be heard in other areas of the home. Something that should be done with bathroom doors when there are household members with mobility issues or health concerns is that the doors should be installed to open outward. Some bathrooms don't offer this, and it can be a problem if someone has an emergency while in the bathroom because help may not be able to quickly get into the bathroom if someone has fallen in front of the door. Also, the locks on bathroom doors should be ones that can be opened from the outside if needed in the case of an emergency. 

Bedroom Doors

The bedroom doors also serve the same two main functions as bathroom doors: privacy and soundproofing. Also, like the bathroom doors, the bedroom doors should be easy to unlock from the outside because it can be easy to accidentally get locked out. If there are small children in the home, then their doors should not have locking doorknobs or the little ones can lock themselves inside the bedroom and this can be dangerous.

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