Close doors quietly
Door slamming puts a strain on nerves, family peace and neighborhoods, and sometimes also on the material, for example when Glass doors are damaged by a strong impact. Here's what you can do about it.
In fact, many doors slam not because someone slams them out of anger, but because many simply don't know how to avoid it.
What's the reason?
If it is not due to quarrels, then either defective or undamped doors, or carelessness. All of these problems are easily solved, whether they are Glass doors, Sliding doors or Wooden doors.
What to do about door slamming?
If the door bangs loudly because wood hits wood, the solution is clear-cut sealing tape. The fact that a door has no sealing tape at all usually only happens with old doors. When more modern doors rattle, it's usually because the tape is out of place or damaged.
Clean the finishes well and, if necessary, remove old sealing tape completely. Then you can simply stick on the new self-adhesive door sealing tape and you have two improvements at once: The door will no longer bang and None will get through.
Glass doors in particular are often heavy and sometimes frameless, so the drop stop can be noticeably noisy as the only contact with the wall side. But Wooden doors with sealing tape can also be noisy when the metal drop barrier slams shut.
If it's not the door leaf that's the problem, but it's the lock case that's rattling, a so-called "whisper lock" can help. A whisper lock has a plastic top with a rubber damper over the metal drop stop that muffles the loud clatter of metal on metal so the door "clicks" shut pleasantly quietly.
Another option is to brake the door when it slams shut. This is particularly worthwhile where children are running around wildly, where there is a lot of public traffic or in the case of passage doors that you pass through very often and sometimes with one or no hands free. A door damper fitted to the top of the door and door frame ensures that the door is slowed down and no longer slams shut, but slides shut slowly and quietly. Doors that have a door closer (these are mainly office doors, store doors, front doors in apartment buildings and doors in doctors' surgeries, rarely doors in apartments) usually include a damping function in modern versions, and some even allow the closing speed to be adjusted. One of the two should be present to prevent the door from crashing into the lock.
However, the cheapest and simplest of all measures is and remains: take care and be considerate. If you live in a shared house, a sign can be helpful. Even doors without a sealing strip and whisper lock can be closed quietly if you: first press the door handle fully down or turn the door knob fully, then do not drop the door, but move it slowly towards the frame and finally do not move the handle up again too quickly. This requires a little patience and good will, but is otherwise completely free and contributes enormously to good coexistence.
If you would prefer to try a quiet sliding glass door instead, our Griffwerk experts will be happy to help you at any time.