2016-10-28 · Facebook (in Russian)

Glass doors in entrance halls: two prejudices

When you suggest to residents that they install glass doors in the entrance, there are usually two arguments against:

1) Not in our country, they'll get smashed 2) The entrance hall will be cold.

I see glass doors all over the city. At the entrances to banks and restaurants, for example. There are no maniacal villains who, as soon as they see glass in a door, immediately want to break it. The overwhelming majority of people who live in Yekaterinburg are good people.

We have glass doors, for example, in the residential complex on Krasnykh Geroev Street in Berezovsky. It is a building without security, not in central Yekaterinburg. But in three years the door there has been broken twice. And even then not on purpose, but by accident. The cost of replacement was about 8,000 rubles for both times. And both times the cameras showed who broke the door.

There are also glass doors in an old building on Nekrasova Street, not far from the railway station. Areas around stations are usually not the calmest, but nobody breaks the glass there every day either.

As for the cold coming into the entrance hall through glass doors: old buildings have at least one vestibule. New ones usually have two. You can install doors with thermal protection. That is certainly better than the uninsulated steel door that most buildings have.

Having dealt with these two prejudices and taken the risk of agreeing to a glass door, we get:

• safety. A bright entrance hall that can be seen from the street. You can see whether there are intruders on the stairs and whether it is safe to go home

• beauty. Our entrance builder shows that it is enough to replace just the door and put in a transparent one. The whole look of the building changes at once. You may not even need to do anything else

I think that within the next two years we will install transparent doors in all the buildings we service, both existing and new.

Translated from Russian. First published on Facebook on October 28, 2016.