Bi-Folding Doors

You will immediately recognise the ingenuity of a bi-folding door design the very first time you experience operating one. The way the individual door leafs fold will mesmerise you and have you scratching your head wondering how such a staggeringly clever design could have been developed. What makes them all the more remarkable is that they’re crafted from aluminium, so you would anticipate them being hard to manoeuvre, when the exact opposite is true.

There is undoubtedly no other door solution quite like a set of bi-folding doors. The majestic way they move is unlike anything else and the reason why so many householders are attracted to them. Once installed, you will be desperate to show them off to people as they have real show-stopping attributes.

A vital component in a bi-folding door design is the brush present on one end of the running track. This brush keeps the runners free from dirt so that the doors continuously move swiftly from one side to the other with no hindrances.

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There is only one configuration for a 2 pane bi-fold door but, as with all bi-fold doors, this configuration can be manufactured to either open-out or open-in. This minimalist style of bi-fold door could be used internally to connect a room with an orangery or conservatory, or it could be used on one of the smaller facets of an orangery or conservatory.

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Practical – The length of a bi-folding door will have no bearing on its overall practicality, whether you go for a compact 2-pane design or lengthy 7-pane solution. In both circumstances, you have an infinite number of possible openings. Consider the inclusion of a ‘passenger door’ if you want a bi-fold that opens like a standard hinged door.

Effortless – Surely such a domineering door design requires a huge amount of effort to open and close? Quite the opposite actually! These aluminium doors only demand the tiniest of pushes to provide the flexible opening that they’re so synonymous for providing as they virtually feel weightless.

Contemporary – Improvements can always be made to your home and what better way of doing it than integrating bi-folding doors into a property. A bi-folding door installation will modernise the house and get it looking more fashionable than ever before.

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Security is of the utmost importance to householders and we have acknowledged this by integrating a multi-point locking system into our revolutionary bi-folding doors. Shut the lock and it engages at several different points, in several different directions, and into resilient lock keeps to keep the door sash firmly fixed into the door frame. Whether double glazed or triple glazed, the glass also delivers amazing toughness and has been internally beaded so that it’s only possible to remove the glass from the inside of the house.

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Bi-folding doors cover a large amount of wall space and therefore need to offer the highest standard of insulation so that as little heat as possible is able to escape from your home. You can ask for double glazing or triple glazing to be put into a bi-folding door and the glass used will reflect any heat generated by your boiler back into the house. Stand next to the bi-folds and you will feel the heat. There is a cavity between the two (or three) glazed panes and they’re filled with argon, a dense gas that aids heat transfer.

Seals and gaskets within the bi-folding doors also prevent heat leakage at the point where two panes of a bi-folding door meet and the bi-fold is thermally broken to stop the aluminium material from conducting heat.

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Contemporary Handles – Our contemporary, two-part handles owe their styling to both the brushed steel finish which is the epitome of sophistication, and a separate escutcheon plate which encases the cylinder lock. Three variations of this handle are available, each one intricately and ergonomically different to the next. Suited brushed steel intermediate and D-handles are the automatic choice if you opt for a contemporary master handle.

Traditional Handles - Traditional all-in-one handles are understated, unfussy and available in chrome, gold, black and white which is particularly useful if you wish to match the hardware used on your bi-fold door with the hardware used your windows and other doors in your house. Again, colour matched intermediate and D-handles are available in chrome, gold, black and white so that the various panes of your bi-fold door are in harmony with one another.

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We have a standard colour range for customers buying bi-folding doors, comprised of three timeless shades: gloss white, matt grey and matt black. Our matt grey is a particularly popular choice as it really looks the part when applied to the aluminium frames of a bi-folding door and exudes contemporary styling. Other colours are available and pleasingly for customers, they are all completely maintenance-free and deliver lasting appeal.

Woodgrain Finishes

“Your bi-folding doors are crafted from aluminium aren’t they?” We absolutely promise they are, it’s just that we have three sublimated woodgrain finishes up our sleeve that help to make bi-folding doors look as though they’re made from authentic timber. Employing a process called sublimation adds contours and dimensions like you would see in any wood-based product and your options are a Walnut, Rosewood and Oak finish. Wood is certain to never go out of fashion, so picking a woodgrain finish will pay off.

Dual Colour

You need the outside face of your bi-folding doors to suit the architectural features of your property and the inside of them also need to complement your interior, otherwise there’s a risk that they will look out of place. A sensible way of ensuring both faces work is to pick two colours, one for the outside and one for the inside as we’re more than happy to supply bi-folding doors in a dual coloured finish. The favoured dual finish for most is a ‘grey-on-white’ – matt grey on the outside and gloss white on the inside. We particularly like a woodgrain finish on-white so that the external woodgrain face fits in with the nature outdoors.

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