patio doors -I really want sliding doors but I'm told it's not an opti
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k_smith33
8 years ago- PRO
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoThe reason that you're dad is telling you this is because of the sizes of the doors. Each door will be less than 3ft wide, and ordinary sliding doors do not slide back completely behind the other, therefore, the gap that you walk through to get outside will be impeeded, probably by around 10-12 inches. When you take into consideration the width of the frame on both sides, your gap will be tiny, i'm hazzarding a guess at somewhere in the realm of 20-24 inches.
Of course it is possible, you can have them whatever size you like. Just ask the window company what gap you'll be left with to walk through ! Other sliding doors ( the expensive ones ) - push out then slide over, making your gap larger.
If you can afford it, then bi-folds will work, other than that two lovely large patio doors that open out mounted toward the outer edge of the building so that they fold as flat a possible agains the outside walls.
We put these on one of our builds, and it's fabulously light and airy inside and the doors open a long way out and back
These are the sort that you mean, and we have put them on builds, but you end up having to turn slightly sideways to go through them because of the diminished gap!
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8 years ago
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8 years ago
PROIQ Glass UK
6 years agoIt is possible. You will want to opt for a system with as small a frame as possible as it will be a small opening, you want to maximise glass and minimise frame.
the rule of thumb is normal that you cannot have a sliding door pane with a width less than a 1/3 of the height. For example if the sliding door were 3m tall the panes could not be less than 1m wide.
This is a good example of a really small opening with sliding doors >
Camberwell · More InfoIt used the minimal windows sliding doors into a structural glass box design
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