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Pivoting bi folding doors

The frameless bifolding doors you see on this website are known as “pivoting Bi Folding doors“, this means that each leaf slides, pivots and then folds.

The alternative type of doors is the hinged bifolding door.  Each type of opening action has its own unique features and it is up to you to decide whether a hinged or pivoting door will work best in your home.

More about pivoting bifolding doors

Our doors feature hardware that gives them their unique style of operation and of course enables them to be frameless as well.  Is there a best type of opening action? We believe ours are superior by nature of their design and overall appearance.

However, in order to help you make an informed decision we explain how each type works.

Hinged bifolding doors

internal view of glass bifolding doors


A typical full framed bifolding door will have doors connected to each other by hinges.  Each leaf is connected to the other and upon releasing the locking mechanism these will fold in or out and then slide in the required direction.

You can easily recognise a hinged and fold door by the zig zag pattern they all have. Once all the leaves are released or unlocked, the connected leaves all slide together.  Depending upon the number of leaves the doors possess, they will either all slide to one direction or with larger doors you may find half the leaves slide to the left and the other half to the right.

Sliding and Pivoting Doors

Doors such as those you see on this website are different.  The first thing you will notice about our slide and pivot doors is that there are no visible hinges.  Each door slides to its desired position and then folds either in or out.  Another major difference is that unlike the connected doors ours are all independent leaves all operating as stand alone doors yet all come together brilliantly when fully opened.

Advantages of pivoting bifolding doors

The obvious and visible advantage to pivoting doors is that they are much slimmer as there are no visible hinges.  Even the very best fully framed bifolding doors utilising the slimmest types of hinges will still have these visible.  By nature of the door leaves not requiring any aluminium to bear the hinges in place means you can have frameless glass bifolding doors where all the doors meet in the closed position.

Taking our doors as an example, notice how we only use frame at the top and bottom of each door leaf and on the outer frame of the product. This lack of aluminium profile where many other types of door rely on it for strength and integrity is that in the fully open and stacked position our doors will take up significantly less space as well.

Finally, because pivoting and sliding bifolding doors work as independent leaves you have far more flexibility as to how you use your doors.  For example, you can slide just one door leaf and then hinge it open to provide ventilation rather than having to open all your bifolding doors at the same time.

If you would like a demonstration of our outstanding frameless bifolding doors or a further explanation on the differences, please contact us.

We also offer a full range of aluminium windows, bifolding and sliding doors,
and front doors as FGC Bespoke Aluminium.

Visit the FGC Showroom

You can now visit our showroom in Strood, Kent.

The full range of Frameless products are on display in wide variety of configurations.

We request you contact us to make an appointment before visiting to avoid overcrowding.

Find out more about the FGC Kent showroom.

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What our customers say

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Mr & Mrs White
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The whole experience with FGC has been really positive from the visit to the factory to the final installation. The glazing is stunning.  Highly

Julie
Julie in Surrey
The installer was excellent. In spite of being let down by another member of the team he got on with with the job in a positive manner. Disruption was kept to a minimum and he cleared and tidied up. He demonstrated how to use the doors, ensured I knew how to operate them and answered any questions before he left. He is a credit to your company. Overall: I am very pleased with my frameless

Putting a frameless glass walls between our South facing lounge and dining room conservatories was one of the best things we have ever done in our house. When shut, they keep out the cold in winter and, most importantly, the heat on very hot summer days. When open during sunny winter days, the heat warms the whole house and reduces our heating bills significantly. FGC are a marvellous friendly company. Very efficient and a pleasure

Heather Glasgow
Heather
Just wanted to say a big thank you for coming up to Manchester from Kent to service our doors. My wife and I appreciated the service and continue to be really pleased with them. Lots of friends comment on how lovely they look and the window cleaner took your card this week, he is thinking of calling you! I would happily recommend you to anyone considering having frameless glass curtains. If there is anyone in

Hi Sara Just to day a big thank you for relating the doors the guys did a great job I had to leave them to it as I was in London Regards

Mellissa
I am really impressed with the finished product and service e provided by FGC. I had an image in my mind of how I wanted the end result to look. The “invisible” glassing was the most difficult and important part to source. FGC came through with flying colours, right from the initial contact, design and survey discussions, to the installation visits. FGC have been superb at meeting my requirements and timescales. The fitting was carried

David, Surrey

Our FGC sliding doors were installed in May 2018. Although we have had two relatively minor problems – neither of which stopped the doors from working – FGC have attended very promptly to carry out remedial action. Excellent customer service from head office and excellent service from install technicians. Many visitors comment most favourably on appearance and functionality. Overall rating 10 out of

Nick Medlam
Medlam
It is a good time to say to you that while we still very much the windows, the ease of opening, the views closed or open, now that the weather has turned colder we have been struck quick dramatically by the improvement in insulation.  The large windows here that you/we have replaced were double glazed but quite tired – more than we knew it would seem.  The whole house has benefitted greatly from your magic. I

After visiting a NT stately home which had a glass porch entry I asked fgc to see if they could do one for us. I had the vestiges of a porch with brick sides but no front. The installation made the entrance a feature which is declared up market and interesting. It is a halfway point for exotic plants, deliveries and keeps draughts out. Modern but understated. The support team is good and responds fast.

Professor Eaton
Professor

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Published on September 30, 2015

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