Sliding Folding Door Guide
Sliding doors are a brilliant asset to your home or business. They are quite often found in restaurants and hotels especially in countries where good weather is in abundance. The doors can be opened up allowing access onto a terrace, effectively increasing the number of the seats available to the restaurant owner during busy times. People, while on holidays, if the weather is good, do enjoy having a meal outdoors to enjoy the weather. Should the weather change all of a sudden everyone can move inside and the sliding folding doors can be closed over, making the premises weather proof again.
These door systems can be used very effectively in quite large openings up to 6 – 7 m. The doors, when installed, are basically a sliding glass wall on an elevation of your premises. The facade opens in a sliding and folding motion. The opening width is divided into an equally spaced number of doors, no more than 1 m wide, making up the door system. To slide open the glass wall, you firstly swing open the first door like a traditional door, fold it over against the next door and start the sliding motion, so that each door will fold on top of its neighbour, while the whole door system is sliding to the side. When fully opened all the doors are parked to one side leaving up to 90% of a clear opening. Sometimes it is possible to increase this percentage by having the doors parked within a recess constructed in the side wall. In this instance, the outer face of the stacked doors will be in line with side walls of the room and therefore increase the usable opening.
Aluminium is probably the most common material used in these large sliding doors. Aluminium sliding door systems, and any other types, incorporate large areas of glass; so if you are thinking of installing a system, pay particular attention to the use of thermally efficient glazing systems.
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