The entrance door to the apartment, a private house, a cottage, a school building: how should it open correctly - out or inside? In which direction should the front doors open?

How the entrance doors should open, inside or out.

Not so long ago, a fire safety regulation was canceled (PPB 01-03), which clearly spells out the possibility of opening the doors when leaving the apartment building, as well as opening the door itself to the apartment. Now there is another regulatory document where these rules are missed and not spelled out. In this article, we will try to figure out how to install the front door to the apartment.

The rule of installing and opening the entrance door to the apartment, a residential building according to fire management standards: SNiP requirements, description

According to the canceled document, additional sashs were prohibited. In the same way, it was forbidden to change the direction of their opening. In the current document about the rules of opening and its direction, nothing is said. Perhaps in SNiP 21-01-97 “Fire safety of buildings and structures” they simply forgot to indicate such subtleties. In general, very stringent requirements and the rules were established regarding evacuation outputs. If less than 15 people are in the room, then you can install the front door as you want, if this does not interfere with your neighbors on the site.

That is, you can set the gates that open both out and inside. In this case, the product should not interfere when the neighbors leave the apartment. In case of fire, the neighbor must freely leave the room and your sash will not block its exit. Accordingly, some difficulties arise if the apartment is located in the letter G and the doors are perpendicular to each other and open out. Thus, some gates can block others. Therefore, if the neighbor does not like the similar installation of your door, he may well go to court and win it, because the product interferes with its exit from the apartment.

The front door to the apartment: how should it open correctly - out or inside?

Regarding the evacuation exits, they must be opened out so that you can freely leave the room. But apartment buildings and the entrance sash in the apartment do not apply to evacuation exits, so such requirements are not presented to it. According to the current document, you can set the gate, which open both out and inside.

Subtleties:

• In this case, the change in the direction of opening is not considered a violation and redevelopment. Therefore, if it is more convenient for you to rearrange the loops on one side to the other, you may well do it.
• Please note that when constructing old panel houses, all entrance wings open inside. This is due to the fact that the layout and location of the apartments are created in such a way that if the wings are opened out, they will always block the output to another. It is for this reason that all the gates that were established in Soviet times are opened inside.
• After that, it became popular to install the second metal doors in order to protect housing and make it safer. It was for this purpose that additional metal sashs were installed, which could not open inside. The fact that they open out is not a violation. This can be done according to all fire safety rules. But the fact is that the inhabitants of apartment buildings were faced with the fact that one door could block the exit to another neighbor. Therefore, if this happens, then a neighbor can forcibly make you change the direction of opening the wings. We'll have to change the side on which the loops are attached and the door opens.
• If you have some narrow vestibule, and after that, another sash, which is the way out of this vestibule or partition, as it used to be fashionable, in this case the doors from the apartment should open in the direction inside the housing. And the exit from the vestibule itself should open in the direction of the site or corridor.

Entrance door to a private house, cottage: how should it open correctly - out or inside?

Very often, especially in the old villages of houses, it can be noted that the entrance gates in almost all cases open in the direction of entering housing, and not out. This is due to the fact that if there is a strong blizzard, then the way out may simply be replaced and you cannot leave housing if the gates are opened out. It was for this purpose that the gates were set, which open inside. Now, according to the rules of fire safety, if this is one single sash that leaves your home, you do not have a vestibule and corridor, then the doors should open out, not inside.

Although in a private house they can open anywhere, as they cannot interfere with the evacuation of neighbors. Because they are not next to them. It takes place that during a fire a person should lean on the sash and it can open if it opens out. If it opens inside, this is simply impossible to do. It is for this purpose that it is recommended to install the door that opens out. In a private house, a person can decide which way his gate will open and how the entrance will look. Often, so that the door does not freeze, the vestibule or a small corridor will equip it. In this case, the door, which is closer to the street, should open out, and the one that is closer to the house should open inside.

The front door to the school building: how should it open correctly - out or inside?

School is a place where a large number of children study, so evacuation should occur as soon as possible, without crowds, possible crush of children. Therefore, the doors that are evacuation without fail should open on the street, that is, along the path of evacuation. This is done so that the person who breathes smoke, swallow it, could easily open the door, leaning on it, pressing on the handle.

The requirements for the doors that are installed in the school are a huge number. The fact is that they should be fire and have a certain certificate. When heated, they should not expand, thereby prevent the evacuation of children.

In which direction should the front doors open?

As you can see, the current legislation does not clearly regulate the position of the installation of wings in apartments and private houses. Therefore, every owner can choose which way he wants to open the door.

Peculiarities:

• In private houses, the vestibures and corridors are often installed and equipped, because the front door often freezes. In this case, the door, which is closer to the apartment, should open in the direction of entrance to the housing, and the one that is input should open out.
• Although many of the old residents of the villages also remember that the doors of private houses and small houses all the time opened in the direction of entering housing. This was due to the need to dig the doors if there was heavy snowfall.
• The most basic requirement is due to the fact that during the fire a person can quickly leave the room. Therefore, the best option would be to open the door to the outside, but in the event that this does not interfere with the neighbors to leave their housing.

Now the rules for installing doors have changed a little, so there are no clearly spelled out norms in which direction the wings should open. The main task and duty of the owner of the apartment or at home is that the open gates do not interfere with the withdrawal of neighbors from their apartment.

Video: Features of the installation of the front door