Door rotators (revolving doors)

Jean-F said:
They were fitted at the small shopping mall at Surrey Quays, I think that they worked via a sensor.
They were quite big, and if you stood inside the radius of the doors, they would start to revolve and you slowly followed the movement of the door until you were inside then went where you liked.
They were posted, AUTOMATIC, DO NOT PUSH, but inevitably some impatient cretin would disregard that and push the door if he/she deemed it to be too slow, result? doors came to a standstill for a couple of seconds
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Ikea Croydon. Exact. Same. Thing. Does my nut in every time.
 
Jean-F said:
They were fitted at the small shopping mall at Surrey Quays, I think that they worked via a sensor.
They were quite big, and if you stood inside the radius of the doors, they would start to revolve and you slowly followed the movement of the door until you were inside then went where you liked.
They were posted, AUTOMATIC, DO NOT PUSH, but inevitably some impatient cretin would disregard that and push the door if he/she deemed it to be too slow, result? doors came to a standstill for a couple of seconds
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Although people pushing the door may be impatient fools, I'd argue the bigger cretin was whoever designed the door system. People are used to being able to push rotating doors to operate them, so designing one which deliberately prevents this for some reason is just foolish imo.

Surely all the design needs is a little freewheel mechanism of some kind and voila, the door will no longer throw a tantrum if it gets pushed.
 
GreatAuk said:
Although people pushing the door may be impatient fools, I'd argue the bigger cretin was whoever designed the door system. People are used to being able to push rotating doors to operate them, so designing one which deliberately prevents this for some reason is just foolish imo.

Surely all the design needs is a little freewheel mechanism of some kind and voila, the door will no longer throw a tantrum if it gets pushed.
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That would be fine until you get an overzealous fellow speeding it up and the doddery old granny goes flying out the other side :D
 
Morrisions always used to have them. Every time I entered I just pushed the disabled button and the doors would open much to the annoyance of the staff. It meant quick and easy entry and exit. No messing around with people bumping their trollies into the door and causing it to stop.
 
englishpremier said:
Morrisions always used to have them. Every time I entered I just pushed the disabled button and the doors would open much to the annoyance of the staff. It meant quick and easy entry and exit. No messing around with people bumping their trollies into the door and causing it to stop.
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You are part of a very special group of absolute heathens.

They are there to regulate temperature and avoid wasting energy. Each time you spank a great big hole in the side of the building you are killing mother earth.

Your kind do it all the time at the building my company is based in. A polite note was placed but the intersection of "your type" and "Karens" complained that it was unfair that disabled people got to use it and no-one else :rolleyes:
 
NotAGolf said:
That would be fine until you get an overzealous fellow speeding it up and the doddery old granny goes flying out the other side :D
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That is probably the reason they're speed regulated, to prevent people going through too fast on one side for the old dear/young child on the other :)

dLockers said:
They are there to regulate temperature and avoid wasting energy. Each time you spank a great big hole in the side of the building you are killing mother earth.
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And more importantly as far as the stores are concerned, you cost them money!

Both my Morrisons (then a safeways) and Tesco had them when they were first built, a few years later they redid the entrances so they're now basically two sets of doors with several meters between them so that people typically go through one door, and by the time they reach the second the first is shutting.
The morrisons store has completely separate (next to each other with a full divider) entrance and exit to do it more efficiently as it reduces the chance of both inner and outer doors being open simultaneously.
 
The fix is to have two sets of doors rather than a revolving door. Either way outside air is being introduced. UX trumps energy saving. The type of revolving doors I've come across do not provide a good user experience.
 
englishpremier said:
The fix is to have two sets of doors rather than a revolving door. Either way outside air is being introduced. UX trumps energy saving. The type of revolving doors I've come across do not provide a good user experience.
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As with anything, the first fix is attitude which unfortunately is too difficult, so a technical solution is once again required.
 
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