Sliding Door or Bi-Fold Doors?

Tolstoy · Aug 25, 2008 8:33 am

We are in a bit of a dilemma... We have added a wall to our Lounge to close off and create a Theatre Room. Problem is to retain the 5 star rating we've been told there needs to be a 2100mm wide space in the wall to allow natural light to enter the room. After handover, we were originally going to put a sliding door in to close off - but now believe it is too wide, so bi-folds are the only option... Any ideas?

Also, how difficult is it to install a sliding door into an existing wall/space?

Thanks.

Daffy Duck · Aug 25, 2008 12:11 pm

Instead of Bi fold doors for our home we are putting in sliding aluminium stacker doors. Cheaper than Bi folds and also can have flyscreens.

It would be cheaper to have it done now rather than later, although it can be done later if you so wish but it will cost!

Judie · Aug 25, 2008 11:58 pm

Is the wall space on an outside wall or an inside wall?

Judie

snhouse · Aug 26, 2008 12:44 am

We are doing a similar sort of thing with our living room, we are going to put in custom made wall hung sliding doors. You can buy the track/hanging section and then get the doors made to suit the opening ie: 2 x 1100 wide doors in your case.

Peter_OZ · Aug 26, 2008 8:42 pm

we have same thing and are going for 2 x 1200 sliding timber w/ translucent glass doors.

cheers
Peter

Tolstoy · Aug 27, 2008 9:05 am

Thanks for the feedback all. We are now looking at having internal bi-folds as we think it may be a bit difficult installing sliding doors after wall/plaster is completed.