Airtight Swing Door for Wards & Isolation Rooms

The airtight swing door for wards and isolation rooms: a hinged leaf with perimeter compression seals, for the positions where a sliding door is impractical but the room still must be sealed.

Where a Swing Door Beats a Slider

The airtight swing door is a hinged door with perimeter compression seals, designed for rooms where a sliding door is impractical: tight corridors, corners, or rooms with limited wall space on either side of the opening. When the leaf closes, the hydraulic closer drives it against a continuous silicone gasket running around the entire frame, creating an airtight barrier that maintains the room pressure differential.

Isolation Rooms and Negative Pressure

For isolation rooms, the door maintains negative pressure (2.5-10Pa below corridor) to contain airborne pathogens. Vision panels in tempered glass allow nursing staff to observe patients without opening the door. For airborne-infection isolation rooms (AIIR), the vision panel frame is sealed to the same airtightness standard as the door perimeter.

Leaf Materials: HPL or 304 Stainless

The door leaf uses HPL laminate on both faces (antibacterial finish) over a honeycomb or mineral core. Stainless steel (304) is available for CSSD, wet areas and pharmaceutical cleanrooms. All surfaces withstand daily disinfectant wipe-down with alcohol, chlorine or quaternary ammonium agents.

Single and Double Leaf Configurations

Single-leaf configurations suit standard door openings and isolation patient rooms. Double-leaf pairs serve trauma suites and main theatre corridors; one leaf can be held with a flush bolt for everyday single-leaf operation, released when full-width passage is needed for beds and equipment.

Hydraulic Closing and Compression Seals

Sealing a hinged door is a closing-force problem, and the hydraulic closer solves it: every close compresses the perimeter gasket evenly, and the closer's speed and latch action are adjustable to the room's traffic. The result is an airtight swing door that staff never have to remember to push shut - the seal is made the same way on every cycle, shift after shift.

Ordering and Positioning

Swing doors quote position by position like everything else: leaf width and handing from the corridor geometry, seal class from the room's pressure duty, vision panel and closer settings from the nursing workflow. Double-leaf pairs are coordinated so both leaves close in order, and every set ships labeled to its position with the closer pre-set to its leaf. Production runs 20-35 days after drawing confirmation.