Sliding plastic doors: what are and how to choose the best

Attitudes toward sliding doors as systems that can protect a house from noise, cold and dust are biased by many. If you focus on interior design, the way it is: they do not have similar properties. But not so long ago plastic sliding doors appeared on the market that meet all the requirements of energy efficiency, noise insulation, etc.

These are already familiar to all windows, but larger in size and with other mechanisms of action. Let's see which ones are suitable for glazing terraces, which can be put on the way out of the house to the loggia, and which is better to stay in the apartment as a sliding partition.

Types of sliding plastic doors

By the type of opening these doors are divided into several types. The most popular and popular ones are worth describing in detail.

Inclined sliding

Professional name - PSK-portal. To visualize how they open, remember the time of opening doors in modern buses. At first they move forward slightly, and then drive off to the side.

The same principle is taken as a basis here.

Distinctive features of these doors are listed below:

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	The flap of the tilt-sliding door can be tilted back, as in classic hinged windows.
	And also push parallel to the frame and leave a small slot for airing the room.
	The bottom profile of such a door is rather massive and high, forming an uncomfortable threshold that is easily damaged.
	In PSK systems, only one flap moves - one that, when opened, extends and enters the deaf part. The door frame can be filled with glass completely or partially. It is possible and completely plastic performance.

Note. For tilting structures there is a limit on the width of the canvas to 130 cm.

The advantages of such a system include good tightness, the possibility of ventilation, high performance of heat and noise insulation. Also affordable price.

This is a great option to fill the openings between the living room and the loggia or balcony (see Balcony doors and all about them).

Lifting-sliding

Professional name - HST-portal. If in the previous construction it was necessary to slightly pull it towards yourself, then the mechanism is different. To move the door, it must be raised to release the free motion of the rollers.

This is done automatically when you turn the handle, so no effort is needed, even if the canvas is very large. And it can reach 250 cm in width.

Unfortunately, the mode of ventilation in such systems is not available. And they are more expensive.

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	The profile of the frame built rollers, rolling along the guide.
	Each leaf has its own guide.
	The bottom profile can be drowned in the floor so that the threshold does not protrude above the surface.

When you close the sash and turn the handle, it automatically goes down and presses against the profile of the box, ensuring high tightness.

In contrast to the inclined, at the lift-sliding doors all the doors can be working and move in any direction. Therefore, there may be several variants of their execution. Due to this, and also due to the greater width of each web, they can close a rather large non-standard opening.

These design features, as well as the absence of a threshold, allow it to be installed as a fence for terraces and porches. And both from the side of the house and from the side of the street.

Gowns

These systems work quite differently and are more likely to collapsible. But since all the doors can also move to the side, freeing the opening and not taking up space in the room, they can also be included in the category of sliding.

Such an accordion door or partition consists of several sashes connected with each other by hinges and, with a guide, by rollers.

It is important. It is unable to provide high-quality protection against the penetration of cold, dust and noise, therefore, it is most often used indoors or as a light envelope for unheated balconies and terraces.

Energy efficiency designs

Sliding plastic doors are warm and cold.

Their ability to keep warm indoors depends on several factors:

• The type of frame profile, its equipment with special termovstavkami and seals.
• The thickness of the glass in the glass. In cold constructions, it is usually 4 mm.
• The number of cameras. Those doors that are intended only to protect against dust and precipitation may be generally tubeless, that is, consist of a frame and one glass. If they are installed at the exit of the house or apartment, the instruction requires to install double-glazed windows - one, two-chamber and more, depending on climatic conditions.

• View glasses. They can be simple and energy efficient. The latter have a special coating that reflects infrared radiation and prevents heat loss.

• Constructions of the door itself. This has already been said above.

And, of course, no one has canceled the quality of products - the materials from which they are made, the quality of assembly and installation. Therefore, you need to order them only in reputable firms with an impeccable reputation, which give a guarantee on their products.

What are good plastic sliding doors

If you list the advantages of such doors, then you need to talk about the design itself, and about the material that is the basis for their production. And compare with swing analogs and canvases made of wood, wood-like materials and metal.

Pros and cons of sliding structures

Perhaps, there is only one lack of quality sliding doors - this is the need for space along the wall for the sash to move. Or a wide opening. They can not replace the door in the balcony block, if not to destroy part of the wall under the window.

But the advantages are much greater. Judge for yourself:

And still movable systems can be automated and managed not manually, but from the remote control.

The advantages of plastic

Sliding designs for balconies and terraces can be not only plastic, but also wooden or aluminum. Each of these materials has its own advantages, but not without drawbacks. You can not say about the PVC profiles.

With its drawbacks with a big stretch can be attributed perhaps that the artificial origin of the material. But at the same time it is completely safe and environmentally friendly. After all, we are not afraid of plastic dishes and buy plastic toys for children.

As for the benefits, they are obvious. It:

• Easy to care. Wash smooth plastic is very easy, you can do it yourself without any special tools.

• Durability, comparable with metal structures, but exceeding the service life of wood.
• High degree of tightness and heat insulation. The metal is cold on its own. Wood has a low thermal conductivity, but cracks and deforms from weathering. Plastic lacks these shortcomings.

• The same applies to the ability to isolate extraneous sounds from the street.
• A variety of choice of forms and decorative design profile. Plastic doors can imitate wooden or be painted in any color that fits your interior.

• Finally, the most important thing: plastic doors are not susceptible to corrosion, they are not afraid of direct exposure to moisture and sunlight, do not attract pests, do not rot.

That is why today the most popular material for the manufacture of windows and doors has become a plastic profile. With so many virtues and a democratic price, he is truly worthy of leadership.

Conclusion

There are many reasons to install plastic sliding doors instead of swinging doors. This is the narrowness of the room, and the desire to add zest to the interior, and the need to protect the porch from the weather, without hindering the penetration of sunlight into it and without depriving yourself of the panoramic view of the site.

But you need to choose them very carefully, paying attention not only to the mechanism of action, but also to the quality of materials and the reputation of the manufacturer. It is best to focus on the reviews of those who are already their satisfied owners.

To decide which construction is best for you, the above information and video in this article will help.