Bi-fold Doors in Leicester and Leicestershire

Why bi-fold doors are specified the way they are

Bi folds do one thing no other door does: they take almost the entire opening away. On a wide rear extension, opening a whole wall onto the garden genuinely changes how the room is used in summer. The question worth answering honestly before you buy is how often you will actually do it.

The specification we fit as standard

Panels hung on a top running or bottom running track with hinged links between them, in aluminium or reinforced uPVC. The running gear carries all the weight and takes all the wear, so the hardware set is most of what you are paying for. A locking traffic door with multi point hooks and a 3 star cylinder, shootbolts on every intermediate panel, and laminated glass throughout. The stacked panels lock as one when closed. More sealing line than any other door type because every panel joint is a seal. Good systems handle this well, cheap systems whistle at the joints in a crosswind.

• Quality running gear rated for the panel weight, adjusted on handover
• Traffic door with 3 star cylinder plus shootbolts on every panel
• Structural and threshold assessment included at survey before we quote
• From £2,650 fully fitted for a standard three panel set. Price rises with panel count and glass area, and the survey establishes whether the opening needs structural work first.
• For households that fold the doors back most weekends from May onwards, they are excellent. For households that mainly want light and a view, a large slider costs less, has fewer frames in the sightline and needs less maintenance. We quote both on the same opening so the comparison is yours to make with real numbers.