Bi-affleurant

English translation: flush both sides

14:46 Mar 30, 2007

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / portes et fenêtres

French term or phrase: Bi-affleurant

Portes pivotantes bi-affleurantes
Un ou deux vantaux affleurants 2 faces, ép. 60 mm, âme incombustible

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Voir: http://www.dagard.com/pages/es_gsp_port.htm

Graham macLachlan KudoZ activity Questions: 41 (none open) (8 closed without grading) Answers: 1448
Local time: 17:45

English translation:flush both sides

Explanation:
You know how often French doors have an overlap on the frame, unlike English ones? I strongly suspect this means a door (or other opening element) that doesn't; i.e., only the door jamb stops it from being able to swing either way through the opening.

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Tony M
France
Local time: 17:45

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Thanks Tony, this is what I used
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

NFG

Bourth (X)

2 +1

flush

Alain Pommet

1 +1

flush both sides

Tony M

Discussion entries: 2

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bi-affleurant

flush both sides

Tony M
France
Local time: 17:45
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 1250

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Thanks Tony, this is what I used

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

flush

Explanation:
I haven't found this in English - but I have found a picture! Page 19 of the link. Porte bi-affleurante - it fits into the frame on 2 shoulders rather than the mono-affleurante one which has a single shoulder.

However your link also uses the word affleurant to mean flush on each side of the door - as Bourth points out.

Maybe someone will come up with the English equivalent.

Reference: http://www.sopromeco.com/Sopromeco-SB.pdf

Alain Pommet
Local time: 17:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 149

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Asker: Thanks for your help Alain

37 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

NFG

Explanation:
A number of sites suggest that "bi-affleurant" is used in relation to clean rooms etc. where any form of ledge, etc. is a dust trap (skirting, for ex. should be flush with the wall surface). A number of sites talk about any glazing in clean room doors being flush on the clean side, bevelled on the other, but I suppose in many cases they may be required flush both sides. The same applies to architraves and such like, i.e. no architraves standing proud of the wall surface (with which the door leaf must also be flush). Pivots rather than hinges are also a hygiene measure: you know how the tops of hinges standing proud of the door/wall plane accumulate dust?

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Note added at 39 mins (2007-03-30 15:26:14 GMT)
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The fact that they are pivotante suggests that they are swing doors in any case, so jambs etc. preventing opening doesn't come into it. Also, being swing doors, the "outside" plane of the door could, when the door swings into the clean room, carry in dust etc. were it not designed flush to reduce dust traps. In the case of a hinged door opening OUT from the clean room, the outside face of the door would never be in contact with the clean room interior, and need not involve the same precautions.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2007-03-30 22:24:21 GMT)
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I wish now I'd saved the sites I referred to. They ARE there, talking about glazing etc. on doors. But Alain's diagrams below indicated that it refers to whether or not both sides of the door are in the same planes as both sides of the wall the door is in, i.e. whether the door is the same thickness as the wall, or less.

Bourth (X)
Local time: 17:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4135

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for your help Bourth

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