Furnish Your Home with These Tips and Tricks About Bi-Folding Doors

When you want to buy new bi-folding or sliding doors, are you happy or nervous? If you do feel stressed, then you need to find out more about making the process go much more smoothly for you. A bi-folding or sliding door can be installed wherever you want to transform your home, conservatory, kitchen or living room - the choice is endless. You can install bi-fold door on your conservatory to open up the whole back elevation of your home for maximum light and space or install them in your home as an opening into your conservatory making one large room.

At Lordship Windows Ltd. http://www.lordshipwindows.com bi-folding doors are available in a wide range of colours. They have a standard policy to install multi-point locking systems to keep the home safe and secure. Bi-fold doors at Lordship Windows allow the maximum use of space and glide along aluminium top and bottom tracks using stainless steel rollers - making opening and closing effortless. The material used for Bi-fold doors i.e, aluminium is thermally efficient and will keep the home warm and help reduce heating bills.  Lordship Windows Ltd. is a one stop shop where you get a complete solution related to windows, doors etc.

Some suggestions while choosing good bi-folding doors:

• The quality of the aluminium used in a bi-folding door system can vary from system to system: The strength of the frames is one of the key elements to consider when investing in new doors or windows. The premium grade aluminium is the best to manufacture energy efficient, strong and durable frames, which gives more advantage when using wood and UPVC. The inner strength of aluminium means the frames are extremely narrow, allowing for an expansive view and plenty of natural light.

• The smooth finishing of the bi-folding door: Normally, aluminium manufacturers polish the dye used to cast the frames to reduce the chance of corrosion and to avoid contamination on the surface of the profile, giving a high quality finish ready for the powder coating process. The proof of premium quality aluminium is in the surface finish. Good quality aluminium should have a perfectly smooth and consistent finish, while poor quality may have pitting from when the door has been heated during powder coating.

• The weather guarantee is the most prominent one. On an external door, it is recommended to have a rebated threshold and then sinking it a further 1cm into the floor. This would only give you a step height of just   1 - 1.5cm (the thickness of your finger). The last thing you want is wind whistling in under your new set of doors come winter time.

• Purchase bi-fold doors that pass the current building regulations. Building regulations are constantly updated, so ask if the bi-fold or sliding doors you wish to buy pass the current regulations.

• Avoid bi-fold doors with an external track. There are some bi-fold doors on the market that have an external track that the doors slide along. These doors are not purpose built bi-folding doors; they have been adapted to make them work as bi-folds. There is a security risk here as the track can be levered off. A purpose built bi-fold door should have all the tracks built into the frame.

• Be sure of the quality of bi-fold doors while purchasing it. Just by paying more doesn’t make it good quality and paying less make it poor quality.