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Home cellar company Spiral Cellars has chosen leading access doors and vents manufacturer Bilco to supply its TER floor door to wine cellars across the UK. Spiral Cellars install watertight cylindrical systems that are sunk into the ground allowing wine storage space of up to 1,600 bottles. The floor doors provided by Bilco are 898 x 1500mm in size and are designed with a pan cover to accept a variety of flooring materials up to 25 mm in thickness. This allows the cellar doors to be hidden in the floor and allows it to be placed in any room in the house. Simon Shand-Brown, sales and marketing manager at Bilco, said: 'A key distinguishing characteristic of a Bilco floor door is the way it operates. Each door is engineered to provide smooth, easy and controlled operation, even when filled with york stone or ceramic tiles'. Features that come as standard include a positive hold open arm that engages automatically when the door leaf is fully open, heavy duty hinges and a stainless steel slam lock with removable top-side handle They also feature anti-corrosion hardware. TER floor doors are constructed of 6.35 mm aluminium diamond pattern plate and built to withstand a 732 kg/m² live load.

Double-leaf drainage doors from Bilco have been installed at a laboratory to allow staff to winch equipment between floors quickly and safely. The covers are constructed of 6.35mm aluminium diamond pattern plate and reinforced to accept a 1464kg/m? live load. They feature anti-corrosion hardware and an anchoring system.

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