Protect your students … your building … your budget for DECADES.

It only takes one door to jeopardize your school’s security.

Despite all of the time spent checking your school doors, it only takes one to put students, staff and property at risk. 

Too often the door that jeopardizes your school’s security is one that has hinges that look like one of these below. The decision to install “inexpensive” butt hinges results in six repairs. De-icing salt corrodes pivot hinges. A competitor's continuous hinge isn't built to last. That raises questions: How much did you save buying these low-cost hinges? Was it worth the security risk?

Chronic butt hinge repairs

Pivot hinge destroyed by salt

Competitor's Continuous Hinge
Worn bearings cause 1/4" drop

Fix your high-traffic door hinge problems for good.
Retrofit with a SELECT geared continuous hinge.

• Tested to last 60+ years in high traffic entryways. After 25,000,000 cycles, there was no measurable change to the hinge or door.
• Backed by our exclusive Continuous Warranty™  — a warranty that never ends for a hinge that never quits.
• Reuse doors and frames. No need to start over when installing SELECT full surface, half surface and concealed geared continuous hinges. 
• Hinges fit doors better and last longer because the matched leaves are manufactured, machined and anodized after machining — together.
• Consistent templating ensures hinge holes line up precisely which smooths installation.
• Lifetime lubrication delivers quiet performance; eliminates periodic maintenance.
• Qualifies for LEED points. Hinges are made from up to 100% recycled aluminum and their durability reduces environmental impact.
• Ships in 48 hours. 99% of all SELECT hinge orders are "Geared to ship in 48 hours." You will be able to start improving your school’s security and cost savings in days, not months! 

Not familiar with continuous geared hinges? Here is how they work.

A+ installation decision for new buildings.

Maintenance crews will thank you for decades.

Constructing a new school? SELECT offers geared continuous hinges in full mortise, half mortise and concealed models for your high-traffic entryways. Our geared continuous hinges are ideal for clean-and-simple to high-end, architectural-style entrances. Once installed, no one has to mess with these hinges for 60 years. Should your school outlast its SELECT hinges, we will replace your worn-out hinges for FREE. Now that’s a smart hinge decision! 

Designed to stand tough against whatever comes. 

Maximize the security of your vestibule entryways.

To protect our embassies overseas, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) requires strength testing of its entrance systems. Our SL27 LL underwent an independent lab’s grueling Forced Entry and Ballistic Resistance tests. Attackers couldn’t breach the entrance. No bullets penetrated the hinge. That earned the SL27 LL approval for all DOS doors – a level of security you can add to your new school’s vestibule entryways, too. 

Gain critical minutes.

Almost every SELECT hinge is rated by UL® for 90 minutes fire rating, too. We can use a patented process to earn a 3-hour fire rating for your hinges as well.

New or retrofit  — SELECT Hinges will lower your costs for decades.

Protect fingers and minimize injury claims.

Install an SL71 or SL77 safety hinge and prevent young and old from pinching (or worse) their fingers between the hinge leaves when the door closes. The SL71 gives a large 19/32-inch clearance and the SL77 gives 13/16-inch between the door and frame on the hinge side.

Fix electrified door wire problems in 5 minutes.

Electrified door hinges are notorious for failing. When they do fail, accessing the wires to fix them can take a long time. The SELECT Accessible Through-Wire (ATW) concealed geared continuous hinge prep is everything you’ve been wanting to make your maintenance job easier. From start to finish it takes less than five minutes. Even better, with ATW’s innovative design repairs are a rarity!

Reduce toilet partition door repairs, too.

Kids can wreck a toilet stall hinge in no time. So, we engineered SELECT toilet partition door continuous hinges to hang tough. They install quickly and easily between pivot cutouts, provide years of maintenance-free operation and improve privacy, too. Use these hinges for renovations or new construction installations.

Calculate Your Hinge Savings

No more problem doors for 60 years.

Let’s talk today. Learn how quickly you can protect your school … and what’s inside … with money-saving SELECT Hinges.

Connect with Your Rep