help bi-fold doors

mandm65

Looking for some help in deciding bi-fold doors for our extension. While there are many suppliers available consequently selection will not be easy. Anyway while we contemplate on suppliers we would like to hear from you if you have those bi-fold doors installed. We are having difficulties in deciding whether to go with flushed or step over option, although most pics we have seen appears to have flushed doors?
Just unsure if flushed is the option, considering kind of wet weather we have been having?

Rodney_Trotter

What are your plans for outside if you are thinking of going flush?

There is a cill that goes under the doors 68mm from memory.

Also what flooring are you considering?

mandm65

Thanks for your response, no plans at this stage just tiled/patio outside.
Flooring will be concrete with UFH and tiled so kind of matching with outside.
Hope above helps.

Rodney_Trotter

Everyone seems to show a tiled floor with no step and it does look nice.

You'll need to drop the frame down to match the floor height inside. The hardest bit about it will be finding an installer who will work alongside your builder. The two need to talk because a standard patio door cill is about dpc level, hence the step over it. A flush bifold will need the dpc lowering around the door and a means to disperse water on the outside.

mandm65

Rodney_Trotter wrote: »

Everyone seems to show a tiled floor with no step and it does look nice.

Yep we noticed that and that really inspired us.

Rodney_Trotter wrote: »

You'll need to drop the frame down to match the floor height inside. The hardest bit about it will be finding an installer who will work alongside your builder. The two need to talk because a standard patio door cill is about dpc level, hence the step over it.

Yep we will initiate the discussion with the builder on this topic and hope to have the installer finalised prior to extension work commenced.

Rodney_Trotter wrote: »

A flush bifold will need the dpc lowering around the door and a means to disperse water on the outside.

Water disperse is our main concern hence the reason for posting here, we thought someone on this forum must have done that so the question is what would be the best way to address this?

franklally

Step up for us.
We spent ages looking for bi-fold doors and went with ID doors - very expensive but worth the wait (from Germany) and money.
I would suggest you go for the best thermal glass they offer - it is incredibly warm.
We were broken in to this year and they gave the doors a really good battering - the handle snaps off from the outside and they go into lockdown mode - no way could anyone have got in through these doors.

Rodney_Trotter

mandm65 wrote: »

Water disperse is our main concern hence the reason for posting here, we thought someone on this forum must have done that so the question is what would be the best way to address this?

I used arco hex drain between the wall and slabs.

mandm65

Rodney_Trotter wrote: »

I used arco hex drain between the wall and slabs.

Ah hex drain, fantastic, you just settled an argument here, any specific type you recomend?

Rodney_Trotter

franklally wrote: »

Step up for us.
We spent ages looking for bi-fold doors and went with ID doors - very expensive but worth the wait (from Germany) and money.
I would suggest you go for the best thermal glass they offer - it is incredibly warm.
We were broken in to this year and they gave the doors a really good battering - the handle snaps off from the outside and they go into lockdown mode - no way could anyone have got in through these doors.

I'd beg to differ, just because the thick druggie who tried your house couldn't doesn't mean anyone couldn't. If you didn't mind the noise and mess it would take 30 seconds to get in.

Rodney_Trotter

mandm65 wrote: »

Ah hex drain, fantastic, you just settled an argument here, any specific type you recomend?

It's a compromise so anything you find least offensive to the eye.

mandm65

franklally wrote: »

Step up for us.
We spent ages looking for bi-fold doors and went with ID doors - very expensive but worth the wait (from Germany) and money.
I would suggest you go for the best thermal glass they offer - it is incredibly warm.
We were broken in to this year and they gave the doors a really good battering - the handle snaps off from the outside and they go into lockdown mode - no way could anyone have got in through these doors.

[FONT=&quot]Thanks for the input/recommendation, i guess best thermal glass = uvalue?
What was your opening and did you go for the flushed, what sort of budget you put aside for this?[/FONT]