An automatic door not closing is usually a sensor, a track or a setting rather than a failed motor. What to check, what is safe to adjust, and when to call.

An automatic door closer shuts a door; an operator opens it under power. Which one your entrance needs, what each costs to run, and how to tell them apart.

Choosing an automatic door operator is a sizing exercise, not a shopping decision. Four numbers decide it, and getting one of them wrong produces an entrance that works on the day and disappoints for years.This is how we size an…

In most cases you can automate an existing door rather than replace the entrance — and it is usually the cheaper answer by a wide margin. Keeping sound joinery and adding a drive to it is a fraction of the…

Shopping centre automatic doors are not ordinary automatic doors with more traffic. They are a different specification, because the entrance has to survive tens of thousands of cycles a month, cannot be taken out of service during trading, and is…

The honest answer to how often automatic door maintenance is needed is: it depends on cycles, not on the calendar. A door in a trading centre can do more work in a month than an office side entrance does in…

Almost every automatic door has two kinds of automatic door sensors doing two completely different jobs, and confusing them is the single most common reason a door misbehaves — or hurts somebody.One opens the door. The other stops it closing…

Automatic doors and load shedding is a South African problem with a South African answer. Most automatic door literature is written for countries where mains power is assumed. Here it is not, and that changes how an entrance should be…

If you are planning an automatic entrance for a commercial building, the first question is almost always the same: what do automatic door prices in South Africa actually look like? The honest answer is that the figures below are starting…