Location

P C Henderson's Straight Sliding 307 door hardware has been specified for the main access door to an elephant house at Skandavale Monastery in Carmarthen, Wales.

The monastery, which is home to a resident community of 25 monks and nuns, welcomes over 90,000 pilgrims to worship in it's three multi-faith temples each year. As well as it's temples, the monastery is also home to an onsite hospice and animal sanctuary.

Requirements 

The most famous resident of the monastery's animal sanctuary is Valli, a three tonne Sri Lankan elephant who resides in an enormous purpose built elephant house. Built in 2013, the elephant house features heated walls, sandpits, a waterfall, plunge pool as well as a large sliding access door, measuring 3.9m x 3.2m, which Valli opens herself. 

After just five years the orginal sliding door hardware (not manufactured by P C Henderson) was unable to cope with the force in which Valli uses her trunk and head to open the door and the track collapsed, meaning a replacemnet was needed.

Solution

Brother Stephan, who resides at Skandavale, contacted P C Henderson to specify a track which would be robust and hard wearing enough to cope with Valli's strength. The door itself weighs 500kg but due to the extra force being used, our Straight Sliding 307 system was specified, which can cater for doors weighing up to 2000kg.

Why P C Henderson? 

Brother Stephan, commented "We're very pleased with the new system, which is now fully installed. It's easy to see that the new design and material of the track and components are of the highest quality and we're confident it will withstand the test of Valli over the years."

P C Henderson's Straight Sliding system is available in five different ranges to cater for maximum door weights of between 150kg and 2000kg, making it ideal for anything from light commercial doors right up to heavy and large industrial applications. The system is available for wooden and metal doors and allows doors to slide to one or both sides and are also suitable to cover any width of opening.