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Doors are a big consideration. Home owners typically have one of two basic schools of thought. One is to conceal the elevator - put it behind a manual swing door that matches other doors in the house. The other approach is to treat the elevator as the featured focal point for the house. In which case, the home owner may want fully automatic doors for convenience or that "classic elevator look."
You can use the same type of door as is found in the rest of the house as the hoistway door - just add an interlock. An interlock is an electromechanical device that is wired into the elevator's control to ensure the door only opens when the elevator is at a landing.
Please be aware the frame may have to be altered to reflect specific running clearances. The elevator code requires very specific tolerances. The distance between the hoistway side of the landing door or gate and the car door or gate shall not exceed 5 inches (125 mm) and the clearance between the hoistway door or gate and the hoistway edge of the landing sill shall not exceed 3 inches (75mm).
Elevators have two doors: one for the car (interior, called the car gate) and one for the hoistway (exterior). Here are four possible combinations:
1) a manual folding accordion gate as the car door and a manual swing door for the hoistway.
2) a manual folding scissors gate as the car door and a manual swing door for the hoistway.
3) an automatic bi-fold car door combined with manual swing hoistway doors.
4) fully automatic sliding car and hoistway doors (available only with a LULA or Article 15)
Automatic door/gate operators can be added for an additional touch of convenience.
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