stacker door versus double sliding door

Choice between 3 panel stacker and double sliding - is there any advantage of one over the other? Is a stacker door more expensive to get flyscreens for?

Thanks

We're having stackers. . . with six doors! Gives you more open space.

I think they're more expensive than double doors - you need another rail to run the third door(s) on.

I would imagine the fly screens wouldn't be too much more expensive though? We had everything included in the price so I wouldn't really know.

We have got stacker doors at the back of our house. Can't comment on them too much because I haven't moved in yet but I do know they are more expensive. I don't think it would really make a difference as long as they opened up enough you would still get the effect your after.

I modded out the stacker doors for bifold doors. another option to consider.

We got the stacker doors and sorry I don't know what the difference was, but bifolds weren't an option, we have a lot of mozzies and flies in summer, which I detest, and I need my screen protection.

I'll be able to screen the bifolds

I looooove bifolds . . . but they're expensive.

You can get the retractible fly screens for them I think. . . is there anything else you can get? We'd have loved bifolds, but we've got a border collie who would probably go straight through them, and a cat that likes to scratch holes in things. . . And I'd probably go through them too after a few too many wines.

If I thought for a second you could put screens on bifolds...I would have them noone told me wouldn't it look a bit weird

Hi Suh . . . My friend's got retractable screens on her alfresco, imagine a roller-blind that travels from side to side instead of horizontally. . . I don't think they've had any problems with theirs so far. . . one thing though, they had the bottom frame recessed into the slab, so it wont get damaged, don't know how tough they are?

FYI...

Stacker doors are (or should be) only slightly more expensive than a centre opening or biparting sliding door. Some brands don't have a track for flyscreens/security screens, that can add $400. (EcoClassic has the track incorporated). The flyscreens should be the same price.

You can get flyscreens for bifold doors - they work out about $1,200 for a 3 metre door. They are at risk from high winds, pets and children. Ultrascreen is about the best value.

Ed

I've got a four panel alum double glazed stacker. Very good quality, bit heavy if you're weak in the arms though. One big regret is not getting the flywire track made at the same time. I have had Centor out, can't do it and another company said 'difficult'! I'm now ringing the fourth screen door guy.

We got stacker doors over double sliders for a number of reasons.
1. more opening space (double sliders would both have a fixed panel)
2. I have a friend who dislikes her double slider as the doors are not quite as big as a usual sliding door and they tend to only open one side when taking a basket of washing out etc and it isn't quite big enough for that. of course this varied depending on the size of the opening!!!

We went to a couple of window/door suppliers, we have a huge mozzie issue and two of us react very badly to mozzies so flyscreens were not negotiable, one supplier was immediataly discounted due to not doing flyscreens on the stackers.

The flyscreens aren't that much as we compared one quote with another, one with and one without screens the the difference was tiny. We were comparing apples with apples as the two companies had quoted very closely a number of times before with the builder.

We would have loved bifolds but as ed said the flyscreens are expensive and at risk to pets, kids and highwinds, all of which we have at our place!!

Ask your window supplier, they should have what you need... (at a cost)

Ed

Hi Guys,

Have a pair of stackers on our new home.

Flyscreens - we are getting a pair of bi-fold screens on the external openings of our alfresco. Clear vinyl panels can also be added to keep the weather out.

Co website: http://www.bifoldsolutions.com.au/

& if you need a cost ~ $6300 for a 3 + 4 mtr opening

Crikey... I can supply almost 2 double glazed bifold doors for that...

Hi,

We have cornerless triple stacker doors from A&L. The Flyscreen track came as standard.

We had quotes up to 5k to supply the doors we wanted (security mesh), we found a local guy who made them for us, plus the double front door security doors for 3.5k. His workmanship is excellent and really easy to deal with. He had never seen the cornerless doors before and would not accept any payment until he was satisfied that the job was done correctly.

We live in Melbourne Northern Suburbs

Contact Shane:
Nillumbik Security Doors & Screens
0417 467 093

I have double slider bi part doors from our family room - so a fixed panel either end and the doors open from the middle - so the opening is double width door at full opening - the doors seem normal sliding door width to me - dont have any other sliding doors in house to compare though.
Out of curiosity, I just went and measured - each sliding door opens to 900mm, so 1800 if both open. My laundry door, which is a hinged door, opens to 802 mm - so would be more width to take a laundry basket thru a single open sliding door than the laundry door.
I never do this though because the laundry, and the clothesline, is on other side of house - have never had problems getting laundry basket thru 802 mm so your friend must have a very narrow sliding door . Or a very large basket

In practice 1800mm has been wide enough for anything we want to get thru - including large furniture like queen size beds, couches etc - I cannot really see why you would need any wider than this.

Mine are pretty much the same as Helyn, they are over 4metres wide all up including fixed panels. One door opens up to as much as our normal single slider. I have seen some pretty narrow ones though and I think they would have been better with stackers or even a big single slider.

I wanted stackers but changed to a double slider because of the central opening. Just the way our house is designed I think the way we have it suits better, so I guess that's another thing to look at.

I prefer stacker doors

3600 sliding doors have an opening less than 1800 because the handle and interlock prevent them opening level with the fixed panels, probably more like 1500. A laundry sliding door is usually 1450 wide, and again the opening panel can't open the full 725, it is closer to 600.

Many people want the wider opening to bring the outside in... especially so with bifolds. A stacker door at 3600 would have an opening around 2200, bifolds around 3300.

Ed