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Sliding Patio Doors or Frameless Bifolding Doors?

Bifolding doors are one of the most popular types of patio door, closely followed by the sliding patio door.  If you’re undecided as to what is the best we are going to guide you through the options.  And introduce the idea of our bespoke frameless slide & fold doors which provide an uninterrupted view, with the option to open the space up completely.

Rooms featuring a large “glass wall” or opening to a garden or outdoor space can create a really special impression.  Everyone who sees our frameless sliding patio doors is immediately taken by the clear uninterrupted view, and “wow” factor.

What is best? A frameless bifolding door or a sliding door?

Frameless bifolding doors offer several advantages over sliding patio doors. There are several factors you’ll need to consider when comparing our frameless bifolding doors to an aluminium sliding door.  Every home is different.

For smaller properties, it is quite likely that your new doors may be your only access into your garden.  If this is the case, then patio doors will require you to slide the door open every time you use it. With a frameless bifolding door you have an access leaf.  This is one door that swings open like a traditional single door.  The advantage of this is that you don’t need to fold your doors back partially or fully to gain access into your garden.

Therefore if your new doors are the only back doors in the home, a frameless bifolding door with an access leaf may be the more convenient option for you.

Comparing frameless door and patio door glass sizes.

One advantage of a sliding patio door is that it can accept far larger panes of glass than any swing door, French Door or bifolding door.

Modern aluminium patio door systems can be made over 2.5 metres high and some doors up to 3 metres wide.  The advantage of this is that sliding doors give you expansive views through large panes of glass. Bifolding doors can also be made taller with modern aluminium systems but these are still restricted when it comes to the width of your glass.

A typical full framed aluminium bifold is limited to approximately 1metre in width for each folding panel. Some systems will go up to 1.2metres but this is still far smaller than the glass possible in a sliding door.

Therefore if you want the largest possible panes of glass to look through as well as creating a panoramic effect to the back of your house, patio sliding doors will be better.

However, our frameless bifolding doors don’t have any intermediate aluminium sections like other bifolding doors do.  When patio door are closed each sliding panel closes in front of the other. IN the middle of the doors (the interlock) you’ll find deeper frame sections and visible aluminium.  Even with the slimmest folding door you still have aluminium profiles around each door and these sight lines can be well over 100mm when all the doors are closed.

Our frameless doors have no aluminium between the doors. Therefore you can still enjoy a full glass effect when looking through closed doors.  And better still, with an access leaf and our doors opening independently, means greater flexibility in ventilating your room compared to sliding patio doors.

Threshold differences between frameless doors and patio doors.

Modern patio door systems today can accept single, double and even triple tracks.  With a sliding door covering a large opening a multi-pane patio door is popular.  However, the more sliding panels you have, the deeper your threshold and surrounding frames.

Some homeowners may not like so much visible ‘bulk’ in their doors.  This is where our frameless doors are so much better.  Our frame profiles and thresholds are ultra slim meaning even on the largest types of doors; aluminium sight lines remain at a bare minimum.  And don’t forget that the threshold height on our doors can be as low as 5mm! This is something that cannot be achieved with a sliding patio door in aluminium.

Patio doors can’t provide a full open aspect.

Patio doors can lose you up to half of your available opening. Unless your sliding doors are one of the exclusive systems designed to slide into a wall, you will always lose part of your clear opening when you open your doors.  This is because sliding doors must slide to one or both directions when they’re fully opened.  This means you may lose up to half your overall opening with a patio door.

With our frameless glass doors they’re designed to stack tightly together and better than an aluminium bifold.  So if you’re looking to maximise your clear opening when the doors are open frameless bifolding doors are far better than sliding doors and aluminium folding doors.  You gain the biggest clear opening out to your garden.

Frameless bifolding doors offer many features over even the latest aluminium sliding door. These include:

  • No intermediate frames when the doors are shut.
  • A bigger clear opening when the doors are open.
  • A more convenient method of opening and closing your doors with an access leaf.
  • Lower thresholds
  • Slimmer frame sections
  • A greater choice of door handles.

If you’re undecided as to what is best, a sliding door or a folding door, contact us to view our frameless glass doors and how vastly different they are to a patio door.

 

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Cor-Vision Sliding Doors

We just want to write to say how pleased we are with the sliding door installation – the quality of the doors is superb and they look fantastic and operate really well. The installation team were first class too. Couldn’t be happier with the whole process and everyone who’s seen the doors think they are… Read more “Cor-Vision Sliding Doors”

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Just what we were looking for :-)

Excellent supplier and excellent product.
All the staff were very helpful an communication
was quick an easy. Very pleased.

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Huge thanks to FGC for

Huge thanks to FGC for fitting a replacement picture window instead of my old UPVC window. The difference in light is incredible. More importantly the company have been fantastic to deal with. Really responsive to my queries, flexible and friendly. The fitters were also great and v helpful. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this company.

Helena D

A pleasure to deal with

Dear Adrian & team I just wanted to say a big thank you for helping to organise the installation of my new kitchen window. I’m absolutely delighted with it and the guys who installed it were a pleasure to deal with.  

HD

Great aftercare

We had our doors fitted in 2015 and have been very pleased with them. As with most things there are times when an adjustment is required to the doors or in our case a door needing to be replaced as it had developed a problem with condensation. The company has been very good at resolving… Read more “Great aftercare”

S Parekh

Excellent windows!!!!

We have patio doors and a large matching picture window, these are well designed, manufactured and installed and are noticed and acknowledged by all visitors to our house. The customer service is also excellent so highly recommend these products and company.

Phil

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