Our bespoke frameless slide and fold doors are exclusively designed, made and expertly fitted by our family-run business.
With so many bifolding doors on the market, we set out to create a unique frameless bifolding door, unlike anything else on the market. We are confident our advanced, minimalist slide and fold doors are the best possible door for your home. No other door offers the best possible views through the glass, greater flexibility in summer or winter and an altogether better folding door to enhance and add value to your home. Click on the highlighted areas on the image below to find out more.
10 Features
Clicking on the image above will reveal what we believe are the top 10 features of our Frameless Glass Bifolding Doors.
These are just some of the features that make our frameless slide and fold doors one of the most technically superior and visually appealing doors on the market. At FGC we give you total peace of mind. We are one of the few companies in the UK offering you a slide and fold door designed, made, installed and supported by us from start to finish.
We have transformed houses all over the UK with our premium quality slide and fold doors, entrance doors, frameless porch doors, internal doors and room dividers. Our vast number of testimonials are a testament to our product and service.
Unlike conventional bifolding doors that have all the panels connected together with hinges, our doors all work independently. Frameless slide and fold doors give you better ventilation, opening options and access than a conventional folding door.
Our doors give you the benefit of a convenient traffic door. You can partially open every folding panel to create a glass curtain with controllable air-flow. You can even position furniture right up to the glass on your doors even if they open inwards - something that can’t be done with a regular bifold door. And best of all there are no visible hinges and our doors don’t need any additional handles on the inside. Find out why our doors work better.
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1. No visible mullions
If you desire the functionality and convenience of a slide and fold door but are concerned about the thick visible mullions obstructing your view, only our frameless slide and fold doors give you no visible mullions.
Other ‘frameless’ doors claim to offer the same, but study them closely and you’ll see they rely on plastic or metal trims and capping pieces covering the glass edges. On our doors you will see only our purpose-designed grey PVC bubble gasket on each curtain edge. When your doors are closed you get great compression, weather protection and a clear uninterrupted view. Take a look at how other doors compare to ours for sight lines.
2. Technically Superior Glass
We hold a Patent on our unique glass units that you will not find on any other door. Unlike other doors we do not rely on standard double glazed units with plastic spacer bars separating the glass. Our spacer bars are made of toughened glass at the vertical edges. The glass in your new frameless door gives you minimal sight lines and an altogether cleaner appearance.
You also benefit from high-performance glazing with excellent thermal efficiency. Choose from toughened safety glass with light reflective or St. Gobain Planitherm 4S energy efficient glass with argon gas filling. For internal doors, our 10mm toughened single safety glass gives you one of the best room dividers on the market. Take a look out our patented glass units
3. Superior Weather Resistance
Frameless slide and fold doors have been independently tested to protect your home from the weather. Despite the minimal aluminium framing your new frameless slide and fold doors offer weather protection including critical areas such as between the doors when they are closed.
You benefit from a weather resistant door giving you uninterrupted views in the winter when shut and a beautiful open aspect in the summer. You benefit from the peace of mind that your stunning new doors meet British and EU standards for air permeability, water tightness and wind resistance. Find out what makes our doors weather resistant.
4. A true low bifolding door threshold
Even the lowest threshold on other conventional bifolding doors can’t go as low as 5mm. On a frameless slide and fold from FGC, it can. At more than half the height of many aluminium thresholds, our doors give you a true level access between the inside and outside of your home.
Best of all, ours is one of the few minimal thresholds on the market with a weather rating. You benefit from a discreet threshold and step-through, safe easy access in and out and weather protection at the bottom of your doors. Your inside and outside flooring can also line up to the threshold as well.
5. Light and smooth to operate every time
The engineered rollers found on our double glazed doors are our own design. Not only do they allow even the biggest, heaviest doors to open and close effortlessly, their design allows wider and taller doors than aluminium bifolding doors.
Hidden within the bottom track, weight bearing and ultra-reliable, our unique roller system enables our doors to offer invisible hardware, a frameless appearance and the best possible views to the outside.
6. Slimline doors when closed, even slimmer doors when open
Frameless slide and fold doors feature profiles nearly half as thick as conventional folding doors with no loss of strength, performance or structural integrity.
Our doors are only 45mm thick. A regular four-panel bifold with the doors folded fully back can take up 450mm of your available space. Our four-panel door fully folded back occupies just 180 mm. Whether you have a large or small patio area, your doors open in or out, no other slide and fold door stacks so neatly with impressive slimline proportions. See how our doors work
7. Bigger doors, more glass, less aluminium
Frameless slide and fold doors are possible taller and wider than conventional doors. With heights up to 3.2 m and widths over 1.2m, our doors are ideal for existing openings and the best choice for new extensions with oversize door requirements.
Because our doors go taller and wider than other bifolds, you benefit from less folding and sliding panels, better views, more visually appealing glass areas, improved thermal insulation, high security and weather performance. Find out more about the benefits of bigger door panels.
8. Fewer locks and handles with no loss of security
Our purpose-designed locking system offers colour coordinated inside locking with excellent security. Our doors feature just one locking point without needing intermediate shoot bolts and pull handles found on other doors.
Frameless slide and fold doors protect your home with one highly secure lock, premium, quality door cylinder, key locking and peace of mind from an anti-bump cylinder feature. We’ve also independently tested our doors for security. You can find out more about the security of our doors.
9. Contemporary and Stylish glass handles
Our doors give your home a frameless minimalist appearance and the same should apply to the handles. We work the leading glass designers to create bespoke glass handles that are only available with an FGC slide and fold door.
Unlike other doors, our handles give you access from either side of the doors, without the visible bulk of conventional lever handles. Best of all our handles enable doors to stack neater than other door and we don’t rely on unsightly door magnets to hold our doors open.
Stylish and minimalist, our glass handles are available across our entire range of internal and external slide and fold doors, hinged doors and room dividers. Find out more about our handles and door hardware
10. Low U-Values
The critical element of a door for thermal performance is the glass. The more glass, the less aluminium, the better the thermal performance.
FGC slide and fold frameless doors use energy efficient glass units with U-Values as Low as 1.0Wm2K centre pane. This means your glass keeps you comfortable in summer, loses less heat in winter and out-performs the centre U Values of many standard aluminium doors on the market.
