hot hot hot - and loving my bifolding doors with blinds!

From a member of our marketing team, working fom home: 

Phew! Finally, a few warm summer days and I have my folding-sliding doors on a south facing lounge. This morning, I kept the doors and the integral blinds closed to keep the room cool as I worked, just stepping through the single opening door when I ventured out to the garden for a small break, now and then.

Eventually, as the intense sun stopped beating down directly on the glass doors, I opened up the whole wall of bi-folds, in one smooth movement, to let the breeze waft in from the garden, carrying with it the fragrance of roses, honeysuckle and the early-bird menu from the local pub.

It was heaven - and I felt compelled to write this before stopping work for the day and enjoying the late afternoon shade on the patio.

Bi Folding Doors with Integral Horizontal Blinds = Customer Satisfaction

SunSeeker Doors installed a set of bi folding patio doors with integrated blinds for a customer living north of London almost three years ago...

"We still really like our bifolding doors, so clean-looking and easy to live with plus they feel so sturdy, unlike the pvc doors we have elsewhere. Our decision to order the bifolds with blinds inside the double glazing was the easily the best decision we made, even though it pushed the price up.

"Last week, the cable TV engineer was here and he much admired our doors and blinds; this week, the new window cleaner remarked how impressed he was with them. In both cases, I'm sure they thought I was a sales rep for SunSeeker Doors because I so proudly demonstrated the ease of aluminium frames, dust-free blinds, etc!

"We've had the bifolds since 2007 and we're as pleased with them now as the day they were new. If we ever move, we'll buy them again. I can't imagine why anyone would choose anything else!"

Visit SunSeeker Doors web site to view the photograph gallery of some of our bi folding door installations plus features, benefits, technical details and a no-obligation quotation form.

Frameless Glass Doors for Hotels, Restaurants, Cafés

Fabulous views for your guests with SunSeeker Doors' Frameless Glass Doors (Frameless Glass Curtains) using 'unbreakable' single glaze panels.

A newer alternative to bifolding doors, Frameless Glass doors are now available, made to measure in the UK.

More information is available on our website. View our Frameless Glass Doors Gallery and our Frameless Glass Technology page, and click on Quick Quote to estimate your required budget for us to install them in time for this summer.

Announcing Double Glazed Frameless Glass Doors

This is the first photograph of our latest product to be manufactured and installed in our UK: double glazed, Frameless Glass Doors with excellent thermal values. 

Based on the frameless Glass Curtains concept (which are single glazed glass barriers, popular in Mediterranean Europe) of each door panel sliding to the side of the aperture and pivoting 90 degrees to stack neatly to the side of the opening, SunSeeker Doors' double glazed frameless glass doors are the latest development in patio doors with the ultimate viewable area.

Also in the photograph is a white framed, traditional sliding patio door. Comparing the walk-through space when the doors are open, Frameless Glass Doors enable almost double the access width of the sliding door system.

For more details and a no-strings quote, visit the SunSeeker Doors web site, Double-Glazed Frameless Glass Doors.

Patio Door Frame Colours

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Your decision regarding patio doors will affect the next ten or more years of your life, whether you stay in your home or decide to sell it, therefore there are two aspects to consider ... what do you want now and what is a good, longer-term investment?

Longer term, especially if you may be selling your home, the patio doors need to look good and work efficiently. Aluminium framed doors are strong, almost impossible to damage with normal use and are virtually maintenance-free.

As for now, SunSeeker Doors' slimline frames give greater viewing pleasure than many alternatives. Not only are the frames narrower than those made of flimsier material but there is a vast choice of colours.

Aluminium frames are powder-coated, often in natural white so could be mistaken for pvc, but this process allows for the frames to be coated in any colour from the RAL range. Click here for a frame colour chart. Additionally, the frames are "thermally broken" for excellent insulation qualities, far greater than most wooden framed patio doors.

SunSeeker Doors offers traditional two-door patio doors plus bifolding options up to 7.2 metres - you can replace a whole wall of your house, providing the construction meets building regulations.

We measure, manufacture, deliver, install, test and guarantee our product and labour. SunSeeker Doors are made in England, to order; white frames can be installed in a few days, if necessary (see our Express BiFolding Door Service).

Check out the gallery of installations on our web site - then use our quote request form for a no-obligation quotation. Give your home a makeover with SunSeeker Doors. What frame colour will you choose?

Commercial applications for SunSeeker Doors

In this article about bifolding and frameless glass doors for commercial properties, the benefits of aluminium for bi folding door frames and types of glass for frameless glass doors are considered.

Further information is also available on our web site, www.sunseekerdoors.co.uk

Bifolding Doors and Blinds - discussion on MumsNet

Q: Anyone got those bi-folding doors- what do you do about blinds?

Our thanks to one of our customers who provided this response:

"I've been through all this three years ago!

We didn't choose wooden doors for the reason given above (we'd had wooden in our previous house) so we compared pvc with aluminium and there was no comparison! Aluminium won hands down in all areas except price.

The frames are stronger and much narrower so that you are looking through the glass rather than at an ugly plastic frame, and they come in a range of colours (in the end we played safe and opted for white).

Following a demonstration of doors and blinds at a SunSeeker Doors installation, we felt confident enough to spend the extra on integral blinds inside the glass. They come with a guarantee but because there is no strain placed on the blinds' mechanism when it is being opened, closed, etc., there's little chance of it going wrong.

That was three years ago and (touch wood - oh no, I can't, I opted for metal!) the blinds have worked perfectly and we have had absolutely no problems sliding and folding the doors.

I don't like curtains and all the vertical blinds we've ever had have gone wrong so every window has slatted venetians but only the bifolding doors have them inside and all the other blinds in the house are dusty! (and a couple of them have gone wonky with boys - includes husband - tugging at them but this isn't a problem with the integral blinds).

I don't know which area you live but it might be worth checking www.sunseekerdoors.co.uk as I can recommend them. They measure up and manufacture to order, in England, so they can install quite quickly too (this service is in the price).

I hope that helps." 

Please take a look at our bifolding doors, integral blinds and NEW frameless glass doors.