Buying aluminium windows / doors

[Ali]

I'm needing a 3.6m x 3 leaf bi-fold and matching window for an extension. I'm shopping around the local suppliers, but there are a lot of online shops too - I'd be getting someone else to install anyway due to building control etc.

Has anyone used a 'mail order' supplier and would you recommend them?

Disadvantages if you have warranty issues? But then you don't always get the best service from someone round the corner either.

 

[keithski122]

I had some of these fitted by a local company, been in about eight years and have only needed slight adjustment of the catch and a replacement roller which was replaced under warranty (though might have been caused by something jamming it up).

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[Ali]

I had some of these fitted by a local company, been in about eight years and have only needed slight adjustment of the catch and a replacement roller which was replaced under warranty (though might have been caused by something jamming it up).

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Thanks, did they supply them as well or did you buy direct?

 

[keithski122]

Thanks, did they supply them as well or did you buy direct?

They supplied and fitted, 3m wide plus a single back door, all stainless fittings. Not cheap though, think it cost £5k/£6k ish all in.

 

[gaz1]

I'm needing a 3.6m x 3 leaf bi-fold and matching window for an extension. I'm shopping around the local suppliers, but there are a lot of online shops too - I'd be getting someone else to install anyway due to building control etc.

Has anyone used a 'mail order' supplier and would you recommend them?

Disadvantages if you have warranty issues? But then you don't always get the best service from someone round the corner either.

id be looking at a bifold door and a door with a catch on it

this is so only one door can be opened and closed when needed

then in summer all the doors can be opened up or just a single side can be

 

[addjunkie]

I have accounts with a few builders merchants when I first did the house, then the cottages, it was always cheaper to get the mkm rep to get me made to measure prices than going direct. Both lots were upvc was going to go ali for the cottages but they were several grand more. They even came and measured. Online once you add in risk, hassel and miss measures. It was a no brainer to by from the rep. There fault if they didnt fit either as one didnt.

 

[Ali]

id be looking at a bifold door and a door with a catch on it

this is so only one door can be opened and closed when needed

then in summer all the doors can be opened up or just a single side can be

Good shout Gaz

 

[gaz1]

to give you an idea

you dont need it if you have a back door but if you havent they are handy to have one

there known as bifold with a master door

 

[Gareth J]

I used slideandfold a few years ago for an off the peg set of aluminium patio doors without issue.

 

[iNf]

id be looking at a bifold door and a door with a catch on it

To allow you to do this the door needs to have 3 sections, like gaz video. We just had an extension and a 2.7m wide bi-fold plus a 1.4x1.6m window in aluminium. It was £4.7k fitted to give you an idea of cost, supplied and fitted by a local guy.

 

[RWD3M]

I now get all my doors and windows from my son who is the Swindon branch manager for a manufacturer based in Manchester. I knew he'd come good in the end!

 

[keithski122]

to give you an idea

you dont need it if you have a back door but if you havent they are handy to have one

there known as bifold with a master door

That's exactly what we have apart from ours opens the opposite end, pretty much the same size.
We have ours open quite a lot of the time during spring/summer as we are south facing. The biggest problem we have is that it somehow attracts all the flies and midges into the house so I have tried everything to stop it, best thing I have come up with is a pull across net curtain although even with weights in the bottoms still flaps about in the breeze.

 

[gaz1]

use magentic net curtains

 

[keithski122]

use magentic net curtains

Blue tac might be better!

 

[angellonewolf]

bifolds are nice but alot of cost and they need to realy be serviced every so often

also they dont responed to heat and cold as standard size door does

 

[Ali]

bifolds are nice but alot of cost and they need to realy be serviced every so often

also they dont responed to heat and cold as standard size door does

The more I think about it, if we had just one 'main traffic' door like Gaz mentions, the actual bi-fold would probably only get used on occasion - especially with the weather we've had in recent years I guess this would prevent a lot of dust and crud getting in the tracks and save on general wear and tear.