What are rocket pocket doors?
The re-emergence of pocket doors as a popular interior design feature in the 21st century has brought a number of high qualify brands and manufacturers to the fore. Between them they offer a wealth of products for every style of home and for every standard size of door. The Rocket Pocket Door originated from the USA and has now consistently delivered design and manufacturing excellence for over thirty years.
Rocket pocket doors use a style of pocket door frame which make them more adaptable to homes and workplaces, and ensure you can find the right size based on standard door sizes in the UK. The Rocket Pocket door:
- Is easy to assemble using a lightweight steel frame
- Is supplied as a complete system ready to assemble
- Is a cost-effective way of modernising the home or workplace and bringing practical benefits
- Enables you to utilise your choice of door
- Can connect two single doors together to make a double Rocket pocket door.
The benefits of the Rocket pocket door
The obvious benefit of the pocket door is the space-saving qualities it brings, and the Rocket pocket door is no different. Because the Rocket pocket door opens along an overhead rail, this means it doesn’t encroach into a room when you open the door, instead it travels into a wall recess – or ‘pocket’ – in the adjacent wall. A hinged door would open in an arc into the room, and therefore you couldn’t store or install anything immediately behind that door. So the Rocket pocket door immediately creates around 10 square feet of space, enabling you to move furniture closer to the door or to install shelves or other internal furniture behind the door, thus utilising space better space and opening up more opportunities for what you can do with a room.
Rocket pocket doors for the home
If you install a Rocket pocket door you can use space much more effectively in the home, which can be transformational. So you can create an en-suite bathroom, add an extra bedroom by splitting a larger room in half with a new stud wall, or you can create a small home office in a room that is also a guest bedroom.
Downstairs you could create an additional toilet under the stairs, or create some much-needed storage. You could also create a utility room running off the back of the kitchen. And if you have the layout to create an open-plan living space, the Rocket pocket door is ideal for opening and closing off space as and when it is needed. So when entertaining you can open up space between a kitchen and dining room or living room, to create flow and a better atmosphere, and then when you want quiet reading time, an intimate dining space or a cosy space for watching a family film, you can close these spaces off again. In most of these cases you would use a single Rocket pocket door.
Rocket pocket doors for the workplace
In the workplace, the Rocket pocket door is also useful for storage and for creating small office spaces. The glass Rocket pocket door is ideal in this scenario as it lets light flow into a room and makes a small office space less claustrophobic and more comfortable, hence protecting the wellbeing of an employee and encouraging more productivity. Other popular uses for the Rocket pocket door in the workplace is for small kitchens and drinks-making facilities, for photocopier or mail rooms, and for IT server rooms. Using double Rocket pocket doors, and particularly the glass double Rocket pocket door, you can also create an impressive entrance for boardrooms or meeting, demo or training rooms. These are all spaces which require a classy and professional door entrance, because they are often used by visitors, customers and VIPs, so the double Rocket pocket door is ideal in this instance.
Of course, in the workplace an employer has a legal duty to manage the health and safety of employees and this includes fire safety. We can supply fire-rated Rocket pocket doors. These are FD30-rated doors, which means they have been tested and certified to withstand the spread of fire for up to 30 minutes. In a regular sized business this is sufficient time for buildings to be safely evacuated.
Accessories for your Rocket Pocket door
Along with the choice of doors and system to suit your Rocket pocket doors, at MB Direct we can also supply a range of accessories to retro-fit to your Rocket pocket doors. The most popular of these are the soft-close accessory, which takes control of the closing action of the door so that it doesn’t slam shut. This can help avoid accidents and trapped fingers, but can also avoid damage to the door or wall and also avoids repeated loud noises. The self-close accessory is similarly practical in that it closes automatically after someone has passed through the door. A timer can be set to close the door without user intervention, which is ideal for people with limited mobility or people often carrying items through a doorway, and also helps with climate control and security.
The range of Rocket pocket door systems supplied by MB Direct is practical, innovative and stylish, and will bring contemporary style and functionality to your home or workplace, so check out the Rocket pocket doors on our site and order online today.