Sliding Doors

[dellzeqq]

not the film, the doors. Why? Trains I can just about understand, Very confined places maybe (but actually they don't really save space). Otherwise they completely defeat me. Why would you want a sliding door? What's the point?

 

[Danny]

Funnily enough I was asking the same question when I was looking at shower units the other day (what an exciting life I lead).

 

[Midnight]

...Otherwise they completely defeat me.

Slide 'em. Don't push...

 

[theclaud]

Slide 'em. Don't push...

 

[GilesM]

Sliding french windows opening onto your decking don't get caught in the wind and knock at high speed against the large plant pot with the apple tree in it. The mechanism for an automatic door is much easier if it's a sliding door, and a fast automatic sliding door is cool, but a fast automatic normal door would take out seveal people everytime it opened, which could be great for the comic value, but would have a few serious limitations.

 

[Globalti]

Conventional doors are weatherproof and almost airtight if fitted correctly so safer in the event of a fire.

 

[GilesM]

Sliding doors are more likely to make a cool swishing type of noise, like a Blakes Seven door, Blake never walk through a nromal door.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Sliding doors on MPV cars are great for dealing with infants or the infirm.

 

[dellzeqq]

Conventional doors are weatherproof and almost airtight if fitted correctly so safer in the event of a fire.

hahahaha

a long time ago I specified hinged doors to third and fourth floor south facing terraces - they were long terraces and there must have been about a dozen doors - maybe fifteen. The client insisted on sliding doors. I took advice. Nobody would guarantee that the rain would stay out. I wrote him a letter...... the sliding doors went in. Years later, long after I'd left the practice I met one of my former colleagues for a drink. The client was threatening to sue for the cost of replacing the doors and making good the walnut floors behind the doors. I asked if they hadn't referred him to the letter. They'd wiped the hard drive of all 1400 letters I wrote on the job. To save disk space. And put the paper files in 'storage'. Whoops!

Sliding doors on MPV cars are great for dealing with infants or the infirm.

I'm sure you're right.

 

[Aperitif]

All the 'Spaceship Films' would be crap with hinged doors, but there's nothing better than a hung parliament...

 

[Davidc]

Hinged doors on trains used to kill and maim people when it was possible to open them before the train had stopped.

Even now, when they've been modified so you can't do that they hold up trains when people don't shut them and someone has to walk along to shut them.

(Yes, all the London trains from South Wales and the West of England still have hinged doors).

 

[MacB]

I quite like the odd slider but revolving has to be the bees knees

 

[Flying_Monkey]

not the film, the doors. Why? Trains I can just about understand, Very confined places maybe (but actually they don't really save space). Otherwise they completely defeat me. Why would you want a sliding door? What's the point?

You've clearly never lived in Japan... it's all about the elegant preservation of the maximum amount of limited available space and of course, flexibility.

 

[PalmerSperry]

Even now, when they've been modified so you can't do that they hold up trains when people don't shut them and someone has to walk along to shut them.

You can have auto-closing with non-sliding doors, Deutsch Bahn has it on some of their coaches.

 

[jonesy]

Hinged doors on trains used to kill and maim people when it was possible to open them before the train had stopped.

Even now, when they've been modified so you can't do that they hold up trains when people don't shut them and someone has to walk along to shut them.

(Yes, all the London trains from South Wales and the West of England still have hinged doors).

However sliding doors don't have as much time advantage as you'd expect because of the delay between the audible warning and the doors opening or closing. Indeed, I have heard that on a busy train with well-trained passengers the slam door trains can have lower dwell times than power-train trains.