When we purchased our house, it had two sets of timber bi fold doors, each spanning an opening of approx. 5m. These caused us a lot of problems with warping through the seasons, and the ration of timber to glass limited the light into the rooms.
We therefore replaced them with the frameless curtain system and could not have been happier. We could only be bothered with the faff of struggling to open the timber doors for special occasions, whereas the new doors we can open much more easily. However most importantly they let in considerably more light.
We were delighted with both actual product and the installation.
Replacement of Timber Bi Fold Doors with Frameless Curtains
We also offer a full range of aluminium windows, bifolding and sliding doors,
and front doors as FGC Bespoke Aluminium.
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You can now visit our showroom in Strood, Kent.
The full range of Frameless products are on display in wide variety of configurations.
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What our customers say
As it happens, we are still sadly not in the house. We should be however at the end of February which will be great!
I can however pretty much respond to the below as I have been able to test the doors.
1. Your performance was excellent from what has been reported by the builders. They mentioned that you were happy to leave you to complete the work and had no problems. They did unfortunately give you a wrong height for the doors meaning their is a little lip on both inside an outside but I can live with that and it is not your fault! With respect to dealing with me – I have been very happy with the service (although I haven’t yet been sent the additional rubber bits agreed) and you sent a copy of the keys promptly after they had not been left in the doors.
2. With regards to the doors – they look great and they slide beautifully … or at least the 1 door I have tried does. The only issue at the moment is that we are protecting them with sheets in front so I cannot exactly see them in all their glory … soon I hope!
With regards to the review, I can write a more complete one when the guys are finished – the question re tidiness is not one I could answer as it is a building site and very messy beforehand so hard to notice additional mess! Joking aside, I’m waiting works to be finished to send you an unbiased review (which I’m sure will be positive) and also to include some nice photos that I would be more than happy for you to display on your website.
Thank you all for such a tremendous job – I’m hoping to have an article written in Country Living about the house later this year and I will certainly mention you guys!
CM
Read more “Impressed with your team and with the final result.”
On first contact you talked and demonstrated the unit, the installers were very polite, clean and tidy. I am very pleased with the product and I would recommend FGD to other people.Read more “Mr E @ Elmwood lane Berwick on Elmet”
On the day of installation your fitters arrived on time and commenced with the installation. They were courteous and polite and left the work area clean and tidy. I would be happy for you to use the installation as a promotional example of your work.Read more “ABCO, Southampton”
The service from your company has been exceptional throughout, cannot faultRead more “The service from your company”
We are pleased with the service, and the quality of finish so far, I look forward to seeing how they look after a few months. My only issues was the timings and delays, but I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you and indeed have already a few times or use you again.Read more “Mr R D @ Stowmarket”
From the start they have been knowledgeable, polite and happy to spend time helping us with our queries. From ordering to installation they kept us informed and kept to realistic deadlines, managing our expectations well.
During installation they were on schedule, prompt, respectful, clean, tidy, and cleaned up after themselves.
After sales service has been excellent.
We are happy if people would like to come and see the product in situ provided it doesn’t prove too onerous.
Thanks Raie and please thank Liam and Rick for a clean, quick and efficient job. They were good ambassadors for your company – perhaps you might like to feed that to their manager.
20150713
Initial contact was great! You may remember that we first visited one of your existing customers in Henley. I honestly can’t remember the ladies name but she was really helpful, was happy to invite us round the next evening and was clearly delighted with the finished product. We subsequently (next weekend) arranged to come over to your manufacturing site and spent some time with Paul who explained in more detail how the product was conceived, how you manufactured, the options available and the process going forward. All really helpful, friendly and informative. We left knowing the whilst your product is roughly 2x the cost of “bog standard” bi-fold doors, in reality there is really no comparison. All the people we’ve shown so far have been blown away with the installation and at the moment they don’t look as good as they will with a finished floor and finished patio.
Arranging installation (were we on time and on schedule)
Installation was really simple – you and your team worked really well with my builder – Mike Nash @ BCS. We needed to delay the originally agreed upon date due to some extra worked required to install steels etc. Your team were able to flex the install date and work seamlessly with our builder to get the doors installed. Our builder commented how slick your team was installing the product. He’s so impressed I think it’s a feature he may well recommend to future clients working on similar projects.
Were we clean and tidy?
As clean and tidy as you can be on a proper building site!!
And finally are you pleased with our doors (would you Recommend us)?
We’re delighted. Obviously we’re not living with the door yet, but we’ve been over a few times and played opening and closing them. They look great in the building site location and we know they’ll look and work even better once we’re complete and decorated. I’m happy to update this section in April once we’ve been in for a while and happy to take some photos once we’re decorated and have the outside landscaping complete. I think they’ll look really special then!
May I also ask if you would like to be on our list of completed installations?
Yes, happy to be listed, need to wait until March before we can really show them.
As we often get asked if we have anything people living locally can view
If we can help show your product – we’ll do so willingly. We both work so will need a little scheduling but in principle – absolutely.
We pay £50 each client and an extra £50 if they buy our product
Great! I think the lady who acted as a reference site in Henley told us that you’d really looked after her in terms of after-sales service and this also sold us on the product and company.
20160115
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 these matters in an efficient and timely manner.
We highly recommend the product which has made a big difference to how we interact between our house and the garden.
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 RegardsRead more “A big thank you”
I asked to see if it was possible to view some already installed close by. Luckily there was, we went and viewed and was very impressed. I’ve seen lots of companies do bi-fold and there is actually one that is on the same industrial estate where I work, but no of them had the vision I was looking for.
I was impressed with the service I received from the initial enquiry to the eventual placing of order (we were longer getting round to doing these than first thought but I was never hassled from FGC)
The guys that fitted did a great job, very friendly and tidy.
I am very pleased with the doors, I can now sit in my lounge and clearly see the garden (next project) I would recommend FGC.
Their tools were left in one corner so they are not on the way of anyone, even though none of my guys were working I the same area, and they left no rubbish lying around.
I’m sure it was Adam I spoke to, and I can say that he is top notch guy, very friendly, polite and helpful.
Overall I would say that the provided service was very professional and definitely I would recommend you to my clients.
20150218
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