How to pick the right flush door

Flush door systems are a home improvement feature which can immediately elevate your interior design and are also a neat feature for the workplace too. And even though the key design element of the flush door system is its simplicity, there are a number of options which you need to consider. Making the right choice of flush door system means your home or workplace functions as you want it to, it means you will satisfy relevant safety requirements and it also means you will make the installation process simple. But first, let’s understand exactly what a flush door system is.

What is a flush door system?

A flush door system is a type of door design that is based on simplicity. This means the door design has no bevels or panelling and has no texture or design elements. Flush door systems also have no surrounding architrave, while the mechanics of the door, the hinges, are concealed from view. The overall effect of this is that flush door systems sit seamlessly along a wall so that they are barely visible, and for this reason flush doors are also sometimes called concealed doors, invisible doors secret doors or hidden doors. Sitting flush with the wall creates a clean, sleek and stylish effect which is ideal for contemporary homes or workplaces.

Flush door systems allow you to offset their simplicity with design elements elsewhere, but they are versatile in that their simplicity suits any existing interior design. Flush door systems are easy to install and maintain, and they also offer good thermal and noise transfer properties. However, despite flush door systems having effectively no design features at all, they do provide some versatility in that they can be used for almost any type of room or location in a property, and also, there are some options for what you can choose to install, and this is what we will look at now.

Choosing the right options for your flush door system

Here we have outlined the main variants in flush door system, which can help you choose the right one for you:

• Fire-rated or not? – You will need to research the safety regulations which apply to your building to establish whether fire-rated or non-fire-rated doors are needed. There is no difference in how these types of doors look, but fire-rated doors are made from denser materials and are tested to withstand the spread of smoke and fire for a specific amount of time. Most doors in commercial properties are required to be fire-rated doors, while some doors in domestic properties are required to be fire-rated also. Make sure you are fully compliant by researching this and making the right choice.
• In or out? – Do you want your flush door system to swing into a room or out of a room? This very much depends on how you want to use the room and what type of area the door is located in. So if you have a small room that requires maximum space, you might want the door to swing out of the room and to avoid creating ‘dead space’ in the room that you can’t use. Alternatively, if the doors will open out into a corridor which could have a high volume of traffic, or it is a small landing with lots of outward-opening doors, this could become an obstruction and a hazard.
• Left or right – You can configure the door handles and the hinges to have the door opening from the left or the right-hand-side of the door frame. This usually comes down to how the user prefers it in practical terms.
• Latch type – You can also choose from three different latch types; handles, bathroom thumb turn, touch latch and key cylinder. This decision will usually depend on the type of room the door is being used in (bathroom thumb turns are most often used in toilets, bathrooms and en-suites for example) and the level of privacy and security that is needed.
• Size – Flush door systems can be supplied in a range of sizes to suit the size of your door opening. At MB Direct we have seven different door sizes to choose from.
• Colour – With the flush door systems supplied by MB Direct we offer you a choice of three colour finishes, satin, black and gold. This allows you to enjoy the simplicity of the door systems but also apply some creative freedom to match other interior features.

Flush door systems from MB Direct

So the Ultra Flush door supplied by MB Direct is a great design feature which allows you to introduce calmness and simplicity to the home so that you can relax, and also brings focus and serenity to the workplace too.