Design Features

1. Hinged doors unlike sliding doors are not included in the current Australian Standard AS2047 and many manufacturers take advantage and do not test them. But this will not console any customer when water floods across their expensive carpeted floors. The solution would be to tile the floor behind the hinged door and supply the home owner with a mop and bucket or preferably fit a Vantage Series 548 external swing hinged door has been successfully tested to 300Pa water resistance and the internal swing door to 200Pa. These two water ratings would allow you to install these doors in very exposed locations.

2. The Vantage Series 548 hinged door features an unusual design embellishment - extra wide top and bottom rails that
give the door the chunky appearance of traditional timber designs. This strength of appearance is also backed up by true structural integrity. Vantage Series 548 doors feature a thoughtful but invisible innovation - specially designed backing plates at the four corner joints of the door to make sure that the door stays rigid and square. Compare our door with others available and you will see what we mean about strength and rigidity.

3. Rebated door stiles give a flush appearance when the two doors meet and provide superior weather protection.
Unsightly applied rebates are eliminated.

4. Concealed lock keeper specially designed to fit in the cavity on the leading edge of the "lazy side" door and eliminates unsightly holes milled in the aluminium for latch and lock bolt. This recessed keeper plus the rebated stile makes it extremely difficult for intruders to access the latch and bolt for forced entry.

5. Doors can be supplied with standard or multi point lever lock installed in the door stile or with a tulip knob lock placed in a door chair rail.

6. Mitred frame for maximum weather performance as the weather seals are continuous. The sump type sill drains the water down and out.

7. No unsightly shims and packers under the keeper and or hinges as we use custom injection moulded lock keepers, flush bolt
blocks and flush bolt guides.

8. Custom hinges wrap around the door stile and jamb removing the need for notching and shimming. These custom components dramatically improve the appearance.

9. Two frame widths, the Universal 80mm or the 102mm wide frame that will couple with any of the Vantage window to door
couplers as detailed later in these notes.

10. Custom Parliament hinges can be fitted to 80mm universal frame and allow french doors to project out and avoid opening
against the brick jamb, can open a full 180 degrees and lie parallel with the exterior wall. These hinges are unusual in being made from extremely strong, extruded aluminium rather than die cast aluminium. They have been tested to more than 120,000
opening cycles without any diminution of performance.

11. Bi-fold panels can be fitted with ClearVENT™ sashless double-hung panels, refer section 27.

12. WERS (Window Energy Rated System) tables are in section 04. Sound reduction ratings can be found in section 55.