The bathroom door is a point that we need to pay attention to when decorating. If the door is not selected well and aesthetics is put aside, at least it will have a short lifespan and be difficult to use. When choosing a bathroom door, users often struggle with the opening and closing method and material. Today we will talk about how to choose between these two characteristics.

Switching mode

There are no more than three door opening and closing modes, swing door, folding door doors and sliding doors. For interior doors such as bathrooms, the most commonly used ones are swing doors. Swing doors are the most durable and the cheapest. However, some users find it rather rigid and featureless. Moreover, the door needs to move through a sector during the opening and closing process, which also takes up a lot of space, so sliding doors and folding doors are chosen.

When installing a sliding door in the bathroom, because the door opening is relatively small, the only choice for the sliding door is a barn door. The track of this kind of door is on the top. When it is opened, the door leaf can be pushed to the wall next to it, freeing up the space at the bathroom door.

This kind of door is the most fashionable, but it is also the least practical – the sealing performance of barn doors is extremely poor. When you use the toilet in the bathroom, the sound and smell can come out; when you take a shower in the bathroom , the wind will also whir into the crack of the door. So although it looks good,Not many people actually install it in their homes.

The sealing of folding doors is much better than that of sliding doors, but it is still inferior to that of swing doors. Its advantage is that it takes up less space than a swing door when opened, and there are no requirements for the installation location – when installing a barn door, it is required that the bathroom door has a relatively wide wall on at least one side, while a folding door does not require a wide space outside the bathroom door. There are no requirements.

The biggest problem faced by folding doors is their short lifespan. They have both hinges and bearings. With so much hardware, they often don’t survive long in such a humid environment as the bathroom.

Summary: Users who highly pursue aesthetics can choose sliding doors (barn doors); the space at home is very Users who are small (the area inside and outside the bathroom is very small) can choose folding doors; for ordinary users, it is recommended to choose the most cost-effective flat door.

Material

The material of interior doors, common wooden doors, metal doors and plastic doors. Plastic doors are plastic steel doors with poor thermal insulation, poor sound insulation and poor texture. They generally only appear in rental houses, so we won’t go into details here. The bathroom doors used in general households are still mainly wooden doors and metal doors.

The application of wooden doors is more conducive to maintaining a unified interior decoration effect. After all, the doors in other rooms must be wooden doors, and wooden doors are also used in the bathroom. As long as the same style is chosen, there will not be too much deviation – on the other hand, metal doors can easily become a failure if the appearance is not chosen well.

The most common problem when using wooden doors in bathrooms is moisture. The humidity in the bathroom is inherently high, and wooden doors, no matter how good their quality is, cannot meet the requirements of long-term use in a humid environment. So if you plan to use a wooden door in the bathroom, you must do at least the following two points:

1. The bathroom must have adequate ventilation (windows or high-quality exhaust fans), At least the bathroom can be kept dry.
2. There must be proper dry and wet separation. It is best to use a shower room to prevent water from splashing directly on the door.

Metal doors have extremely low environmental requirements, so they are also the main material for bathroom doors. Metal doors are divided into aluminum alloy doors (aluminum-magnesium alloy) and titanium alloy doors (titanium-magnesium alloy). The difference between the two is that titanium alloy has stronger corrosion resistance and greater hardness, and the frame can be made narrower. If you have no requirements on the appearance of the door, it is enough to choose aluminum alloy;If you want to make the door more atmospheric, you can choose titanium alloy.

Metal doors must be used with glass, and wooden doors are often decorated with glass. For the glass of the bathroom door, generally use flat glass with a thickness of 5mm or more. Of course, the thicker the glass, the better. It has higher hardness and better thermal insulation and sound insulation effects.

In order to protect privacy, we can also choose to polish (mirror effect), frosting, embossing, etc. on the glass. Of course, these have no impact on the practicality of glass. Which one to choose depends entirely on the user\’s aesthetics.