While brass remains the most common type of metal used for door knobs stainless steel and plastic have grown increasingly popular and cheaper as a material choice and that may be bad news for cutting back on the spread of germs.
Materials used in door handle.
The average doorknob is 2 25 in 5 715 cm in diameter.
Examples include brass white porcelain brown mineral cut glass wood and victorian bronze.
For any large door such as a pantry and any pull out door including pull out base pantries or trash pull outs use a pull.
It is much more comfortable to open a drawer using a pull.
Brass is one of the most popular materials because of its excellent resistance to rust.
Although not as popular porcelain door handles are available in many different colours.
Doorknobs have been made of many materials including wood ceramic glass plastic and different types of metal.
The most common types of door handle are the lever handle and the doorknob.
As a material for door handles stainless steel is thus best applied to heavily used doors particularly those in public buildings such as the public authorities hospitals on ships in motorway.
Door handles have been in existence for at least 5000 years and its design has evolved since with more advanced.
Porcelain is mainly used for internal door knobs and is a very practical and low maintenance material.
Egg shaped door knobs are the easiest for most people to use.
One preference is to use knobs for all doors and pulls for all drawers.