EXTERNAL SLIDING DOORS

The cost of a sliding door depends on the door system you choose. A traditional sliding patio door is the most cost-effective option, with a starting price of under £4,000 for the installation of a new and bespoke door.

However larger doors with massive glass areas, and lift and slide doors with additional components will cost more, as will installations where four installers are needed to safely install the glass.

You can visit our individual product pages for more information on our door prices or request a quote directly.

You can read more about how our door types compare in our article comparing bi-fold and sliding doors.

Our slimmest sliding door is now the XP Glide. This system uses structural bonding for thinner panes and boasts a sightline of just 20mm. The XP Glide is available with a twin or triple track outer frame and is suitable for installations right across the UK.

For a more cost-effective option, we also offer the XP Slide 25, another slim framed external sliding glass door with an extremely slim sightline of just 25mm.

Absolutely! Because our patio doors are bespoke, we’ll precisely measure them, so the inside of the track sits flush with your internal floor level along with a track’s draining system.

This type of finishing detail is displayed within all our showrooms, and our expert staff will be able to provide help and assistance to you and your builder to ensure you achieve the finish you require.

The large increases in energy prices in recent years has had a big impact on the price of glass, causing glass prices to increase significantly across the whole industry.

Because our slim framed sliding doors contain so much glass,  they’re now generally slightly more expensive than our bi-folding doors.

The price difference between a sliding door and a bi-folding door will always be a few hundred pounds, but because you’re going to use and enjoy the benefits of these products for years, it’s always best to choose the product needed for your home rather than trying to make a small saving.

We offer two types of patio sliding doors: sliding and lift and slide doors.

Lift and slide doors contain a mechanism within the gearing that lifts the door up slightly, making it easy to slide, as well as the option of locking it in any open position. Traditional sliding glass doors, on the other hand, don’t have this mechanism, so the weight is always directly on the steel rollers.

Sliding patio doors also tend to have much slimmer frames and sightlines, whereas lift and slide doors have chunkier frames. They’re popular amongst the elderly and families with busy households and children as the doors are easy to operate and can be locked open, which is ideal if the kids are running in and out. That said our cost effective lift and slide door the XP Slide LS25 is available on a twin track with a sightline of just 25mm, a great product that offers the benefits of a lift and slide door but with a real slim sightline.

Yes, but bigger doors come with size restrictions. Within the XP Glide and our lift and slide doors we can offer integral blinds in overall glass sizes up to 2.2m2 per panel. Electric blinds are also available within our twin-track lift and slide doors in glass sizes up to 5m2 per panel.

Size limitation is based on a height-to-width ratio, so we recommend keeping each glass panel under 5m2 so 6mm toughened glass can be used within the door. When 5m2 is exceeded, we have to use 8mm toughened glass, which makes the price jump considerably, as well as the weight of the glass within the door itself.

We do offer door products that can create huge sliding door panels, offering sliding doors as wide as six metres in two panels and up to eight metres in three panels, but we will limit the maximum height of these doors. We’ll also have to consider how we’ll get the glass to the site and how to install it safely.

Slim framed sliding doors will always feel heavier than our lift and slide equivalents because the weight is directly placed onto the sliding door runners. However, the quality of the running gears within our doors means they always slide with minimal effort, but once glass weights start approaching 200kg or you slide two panels at once, you can feel the weight.

The glass options within a sliding door selection are the same as what is available within windows and other door products, except that the glass itself often must be thicker.

Once a glazed area exceeds 2.4m2 the thickness of the glass itself must increase from 4mm thick to 6mm thick. The current demand for large expanses of glass and slender profiles means most aluminium sliding doors are fitted with 6mm toughened glass.