Sliding glass door

Clive_Woody

As part of our ongoing renovations we are opening our kitchen up in to our dining room. We want to have a sliding frosted-glass door to close off the kitchen when required. It will be a standard width opening (76cm approx) and we would like a soft close fitting.

Can anyone recommend somewhere online we can get a frosted glass door, with soft close runners?

We would like a decent door, with robust quality runners that are going to last. Budget up to around £500. I've tried hunting around but there seems to be mixed reviews, some places the runners seems awful and a real challenge to fit (it will be done by our kitchen fitter/builder), others the runners alone costs £500+ before you add the door.

Thanks in advance :money:

SHAFT

76cm is hardly opening it up.

Clive_Woody

SHAFT wrote: »

76cm is hardly opening it up.

Compared to 0cm it most certainly is, but thanks for the helpful input nonetheless.

Doozergirl

Eclisse are recognised as a good company.

http://www.eclisse.co.uk/vetroglide-minima-sliding-glass-door-system-with-bar-handle/

This is clearly at the lower end of the scale, price wise, however this one seems to fit your budget although I'm not sure on the soft close element and wouldn't be surprised at this price point if it didn't.

In honesty, I wouldn't be that reassured if they're not expensive. It's a specialist product that not many people have. Knowing how much shower doors can cost, £500 seems cheap for something of quality.

Clive_Woody

Doozergirl wrote: »

Eclisse are recognised as a good company.

http://www.eclisse.co.uk/vetroglide-minima-sliding-glass-door-system-with-bar-handle/

This is clearly at the lower end of the scale, price wise, however this one seems to fit your budget although I'm not sure on the soft close element and wouldn't be surprised at this price point if it didn't.

In honesty, I wouldn't be that reassured if they're not expensive. It's a specialist product that not many people have. Knowing how much shower doors can cost, £500 seems cheap for something of quality.

Thanks, if we were to increase our budget is there a good quality sliding glass door with soft close that you could recommend?

Happy to pay more to get something that is going last as this is going to be pretty high use.

Doozergirl

I'd look at what else Eclisse do, to do be honest.

We've never done an internal glass sliding door, just the pocket sliders that disappear into the wall with 'normal' doors.

gavw

Hi Clive - can I ask, did you go ahead and get the Eclisse door? I'm looking for something similar, and I'd be keen to know if you had a good or bad experience with the company. Thanks, Gavin

Clive_Woody

gavw said:

Hi Clive - can I ask, did you go ahead and get the Eclisse door? I'm looking for something similar, and I'd be keen to know if you had a good or bad experience with the company. Thanks, Gavin

Hi Gav, yes we did get the Eclisse door and are really pleased with it. We had lots of communication and updates following the order and delivery was prompt (although this was pre-Covid). The guys who fitted the door said it was very straightforward to fit and they were impressed with the quality. It slides open and closed very smoothly and looks great.