Pay attention to the \”difficulties in entering the home\” of major appliances丨The design of the entrance door is flawed, and the appliances just can\’t get in

Editor’s note: In recent years with the development of the economy and society and the improvement of living standards, when people buy home appliances and furniture, they want to buy big ones. , but unexpectedly encountered embarrassment when carrying it home. Entrance doors that meet national standards are still so large, and even suffer from \”shrinking\” in width due to design flaws. What should people do if it is difficult to get in large appliances and furniture while moving? The South China Morning Post has launched a series of reports to tell you what to pay attention to when buying home appliances and the risks of lifting mahogany furniture. It also calls on relevant industries to adopt design first to truly resolve the awkwardness of transportation from the source.

Some consumers in Nanning have encountered trouble when buying appliances: the refrigerator is too big and cannot fit through the entrance door or kitchen door. They need to remove the outer packaging or even the refrigerator door before moving in. An interview with the South China Morning Post client reporter found that the reason for this phenomenon is that some home appliances tend to be \”big\”, while some new home entrance doors cannot be fully opened due to design flaws, and the passage width is \”shrunk\” due to the door leaves. Relevant industry insiders said that related units in residential development and decoration should pay attention to this issue in advance and consider avoiding the above embarrassment at the beginning of residential design.

The refrigerator encountered \”difficulty in entering\” and the delivery man refused to enter.

Mr. Luo, the owner of a new community in Shajing District, Nanning, said that a certain brand he bought When the refrigerator was delivered to your door, it was blocked by the entrance door. The delivery man said: \”The height, width (left and right dimensions), and depth (front and rear dimensions) of this refrigerator with outer packaging, the smallest depth is more than 80 centimeters, and the width of the entrance door of your home is only 78 centimeters. Centimeters, can’t be moved in at all.”

This refrigerator is too big to move into your new home.

Mr. Luo told reporters that the bare depth of the refrigerator he purchased is 75 centimeters. According to the width of the entrance door, it can be moved in after removing the outer packaging. However, the delivery man said that transporting bare metal would easily get scratched by the door frame, so he was not responsible for transporting the bare metal. At the same time, he asked the owner to sign for acceptance.

In another new house in this community, the refrigerator (including outer packaging) purchased by the owner barely passed through the entrance door, but encountered a problem at the kitchen door: the width of the kitchen door was only 75 cm. The same depth as the bare metal of the refrigerator means that the refrigerator shouldWiping the door frame before moving into the kitchen. Upon seeing this, the delivery man also asked the owner to sign for acceptance, and asked the owner to contact after-sales service to remove the refrigerator door or find a way to move it in by himself.

Wang Jiuling, the Nanning market sales manager of a certain brand of home appliances, said that according to the home appliance service process, delivery workers are responsible for delivery. If the owner needs to remove the refrigerator door to facilitate transportation, the home appliance after-sales service personnel should arrange for home appliances professionals to come to the door. service.

Living standards are improving, and home appliances are becoming “big”

On May 22, the reporter visited some home appliance markets in Nanning and found many selling points of home appliances It is a large capacity, and correspondingly, the \”bulk\” of the product has also become larger. For example, a large-capacity refrigerator launched by a certain brand has a minimum body size of 81 cm, indicating that the minimum width of the refrigerator\’s entry door or kitchen door must be greater than 81 cm. Another large-capacity refrigerator with a capacity of 524 liters is also much larger than a traditional refrigerator, with a minimum body size of 74.5 cm.

Consumers cannot just look at the body size when purchasing home appliances, because the refrigerator is packaged before it is put into the home. A salesperson from the home appliance department of Nanning Department Store told reporters that the outer packaging of the refrigerator is about 10 cm thick, which means that the minimum sizes of the above styles are \”74.5 cm\” and \”81 cm\”. With the outer packaging, it reaches more than 80 cm and 90 cm. Many centimeters.

The reporter learned from the Guangxi Electronics and Electrical Appliances Industry Association that with the improvement of people’s living standards, the consumption trend of the domestic refrigerator market has shifted from single-door and double-door refrigerators to three-door, four-door, and bi-fold multi-door refrigerators. Such as high-end refrigerators, the body size increases accordingly.

Wang Jiuling said that in the home appliance industry, refrigerators and washing machines are mainly the ones that are difficult to get into. Today\’s refrigerators on the market tend to be larger. The common minimum size of a large refrigerator is 71 to 75 centimeters. Compared with traditional small refrigerators with a minimum size of about 60 centimeters, large refrigerators have higher requirements for household entry.

Large-capacity washing machines are also a trend. The reporter visited and found that some washing machines on the market are extremely large, reaching 70 cm wide and 70 cm deep. In addition to the outer packaging, it is also an issue that needs to be considered whether it can be installed in the home. In some second-hand houses and special individual new house types, the owners have to put the washing machine in the bathroom, and the bathroom door is relatively narrow, so whether it can pass through the bathroom door is also a problem.

Wang Jiuling said that there will be two situations when the capacity of the washing machine is increased. One is that the fuselage increases with the capacity, and the other is that the capacity increases but the fuselage does not increase. The latter is better than the former thanks to technological improvements.

There are flaws in the design, and the traffic width has been \”shrunk\”

The reporter found in interviews that some home appliances are too big, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult to get in. , Another reason is that many entrance doors in Nanning have design flaws that prevent the door leaves from being fully opened, causing the passage width to be occupied by the door leaves and \”shrunk\”.

The reporter conducted on-site calculations with multiple owners in a newly built community in Jiangnan District, Nanning. In House No. 3 on the 11th floor of the communitytype, the owner has not replaced the entrance door yet. If the door provided by the developer (the door leaf thickness is 7 cm) is opened normally, its passing width is 84 cm. However, the door cannot actually be opened normally. After the door leaf is opened outward, it is blocked by the wall. If it is blocked, it can only be opened at 90 degrees, and its actual passing width is only 81 cm. The situation of the other two apartment types in the community is similar.

The entrance doors of the left and right units cannot be fully opened, and the door leaves will occupy the passage width. There are many such apartment types in Nanning.

It is a common phenomenon during renovation that owners replace the thin doors provided by developers with thick doors (i.e. entrance doors with 9 cm thick door leaf). In this community, actual measurements by the owners found that after the above-mentioned apartment types were replaced with thicker doors, the traffic width \”shrunk\” more seriously. Taking House Type 3 as an example, the designed passage width of the new entrance door is 80 cm. Since the door leaf cannot be fully opened, its actual passage width is only 74 cm, which is difficult to meet the transportation requirements of conventional refrigerators.

In fact, among the many newly built communities in Nanning that the reporter visited, there were many units whose entrance doors were blocked by walls or fire hydrants and could not be fully opened.

Ms. Jing, the Nanning market manager of a well-known domestic brand of security doors, told reporters that according to the design of the entrance door, as long as the door leaf can be opened more than 120 degrees, the problem of the door leaf affecting the traffic width can be avoided. In Nanning, after such embarrassment occurred, some entrance doors could be moved left and right or the door openings could be enlarged. However, some of the entrance doors had load-bearing walls or public walls and could not be moved at all. The corresponding developers should pay attention to this to avoid the embarrassment of \”difficulty in getting in\” for relevant owners.

There are standards for the width of door openings, but some apartment types do not meet the standards

Industry insiders remind owners that before decorating, they must consider whether the size of home appliances matches the indoor space. If When buying large appliances, you must also consider whether and how you can get in. Some merchants did not remind them about home entry issues during promotions, which resulted in owners being in a dilemma after buying \”big\” appliances. Some owners chose the helpless method of dismantling the entry door for transportation.

A person familiar with the matter revealed that there is another phenomenon in Nanning’s new residences that is worthy of consideration by all parties, that is, the width of the entrance door openings of some residences is less than 1 meter, and the width of the bathroom door openings is less than 0.7 meters. According to the requirements of the national standard \”Residential Design Code\” jointly issued by my country\’s housing construction department and the former national quality inspection department, entrance doors, sanitaryThe width of the door openings should reach 1 meter and 0.7 meters respectively. In addition, the specification also requires that the width of the kitchen door opening must be 0.8 meters.

The reporter’s actual measurement in a newly built community in Nanning found that the width of the entrance door of multiple house types is only 0.97 meters, and the width of the kitchen door is only 0.78 meters. However, the width of the bathroom door opening is up to standard. An entrance door installer said that in Nanning, he had seen entrance doors with a minimum size of only 0.9 meters, which would greatly affect the width of the entrance door.

Author丨South China Morning Post client reporter Wang Guangjiawen/pictures

Editor丨Chen Cheng

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