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Sliding door kits

  • 18-01-2020 6:59pm
    #1
    v638sg7k1a92bx
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    Anyone suggestions for good quality sliding door kits. Any if the ones I’ve seen, the doors have been very wobbly almost like sliding wardrobes but was in Germany recently and they seem to use them a lot more over there, restaurants and offices in saw them everywhere and they were good quality and very sturdy not like the wobbly ones that are hanging tail that we have here, these were like an actual door that would slide into a fake wall.

    Can anyone suggest where to get these kits?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,802 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Pocket door kits?


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    v638sg7k1a92bx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭v638sg7k1a92bx


    kceire wrote: »
    Pocket door kits?

    Sliding door kits is the new way of saying it. They changed it a few weeks ago.


  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,802 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Christian Little Udder wrote: »
    Sliding door kits is the new way of saying it. They changed it a few weeks ago.

    Sliding doors would be a term more commonly used for external doors.

    What you are looking for are pocket doors.

    Look at Henderson sliding systems - https://www.pchenderson.ie/product/pocket-door-pro/


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    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,143 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Klein are the best, if your on a real tight budget:
    Hafele


  • #6
    krazyklown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭krazyklown


    just curious - why aren't this type of door more popular considering the amount of space you lose with swinging doors? are they more problematic or is it they cost a lot more to install?
    Cheers.


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  • #7
    mickey15ie
    Registered Users Posts: 335 ✭✭mickey15ie


    krazyklown wrote: »
    just curious - why aren't this type of door more popular considering the amount of space you lose with swinging doors? are they more problematic or is it they cost a lot more to install?
    Cheers.

    Need double plasterboard wall, and an absolute pain if they break. Mechanism is expensive but so if the builderswork associated with them.


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    v638sg7k1a92bx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭v638sg7k1a92bx


    mickey15ie wrote: »
    Need double plasterboard wall, and an absolute pain if they break. Mechanism is expensive but so if the builderswork associated with them.

    In the grand scheme of things I think the extra spend is worth it. Kits seems to cost about e200 - e500, plasterboard and frame e100, labour e200, door e100. About e900 in total but the extra cost is just the kit because the other materials and labour your going to have to pay for if you putting in a traditional door anyway.


  • #9
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,143 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    krazyklown wrote: »
    just curious - why aren't this type of door more popular considering the amount of space you lose with swinging doors? are they more problematic or is it they cost a lot more to install?
    Cheers.

    4 times the price to install and contrary to safe access/egress fire regs in some cases.


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    v638sg7k1a92bx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,913 ✭✭✭v638sg7k1a92bx


    BryanF wrote: »
    Klein are the best, if your on a real tight budget:
    Hafele

    Are klein for glass doors only?


  • #11
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,802 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    krazyklown wrote: »
    just curious - why aren't this type of door more popular considering the amount of space you lose with swinging doors? are they more problematic or is it they cost a lot more to install?
    Cheers.

    I see them in a lot of new housing. But only 2 storey housing. They can’t comply with the fire regs for 3 storey houses and many new houses in Dublin are narrower but taller (higher density) And 3 storey is very common.


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  • #12
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,143 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Christian Little Udder wrote: »
    Are klein for glass doors only?

    Not necessarily. It’s just a system, you choose the door. As per other poster, it’s about upfront cost v maintenance/disruption & cost to fix long term.


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    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭Calibos


    kceire wrote: »
    I see them in a lot of new housing. But only 2 storey housing. They can’t comply with the fire regs for 3 storey houses and many new houses in Dublin are narrower but taller (higher density) And 3 storey is very common.

    Have a Bedroom and Bathroom in an Attic conversion (ie Ground Floor, First Floor and Attic Conversion). Seperate doors off a small landing at the moment but I planned to move the stairs, close up the current door into the bathroom and install a pocket door on the shared wall between bathroom and bedroom turning it into an en suite. Would this fall foul of the fire regs for pocket doors on 3rd Storey buildings??


  • #14
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,802 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Calibos wrote: »
    Have a Bedroom and Bathroom in an Attic conversion (ie Ground Floor, First Floor and Attic Conversion). Seperate doors off a small landing at the moment but I planned to move the stairs, close up the current door into the bathroom and install a pocket door on the shared wall between bathroom and bedroom turning it into an en suite. Would this fall foul of the fire regs for pocket doors on 3rd Storey buildings??

    Not for an en-suite door.
    As long as the door from the bedroom to the landing is still a fire door or retrofitted self closers after the loft conversion.


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