We install premium aluminium bifold doors throughout all ares of Cheshire. With 25 years of experience fabricating the best quality bifolding doors, you are guaranteed doors that will add value to your Cheshire property and improve its appearance and comfort.
Aluminium Doors
Bifold doors could completely transform your Cheshire property, bringing natural light into an open-plan kitchen/dining room, or enabling you to create a new relationship with your garden.
Whether you’re looking to replace an entire wall of your Cheshire home or install a couple of doors in a small opening, bifold doors are ideal.
You can install doors from 2 panels upwards in most sites, including corners and bay windows.
It is also easy to source blinds for bi-folding doors and windows, offering privacy when you need it.
Bifolding doors with several panels are most suited to replace a whole wall. In these cases, a ‘traffic door’ can be included in the structure, allowing you to make quick entrances and exits without opening and closing several panels.
Unlike traditional patio doors and many other sliding doors, bifold doors don’t need to be fitted onto raised tracks and will not create a potential trip hazard. They are installed flush with the floor level and will stack neatly when opened.
Similarly, bi-folds can be installed with a variety of safety features that prevent accidents, especially concerning small children.
Visofold doors offer a choice of opening configurations to suit any application. Depending on your circumstances, you can choose to fold the sashes internally or externally; to fold all the sashes one way to create a single folding door; or split them in the middle to create a double folding door.
All our bi-folds feature double glazing and a polyamide thermal break that enhances the thermal performance of the glass and improves the overall U-Value. This means that, despite having more windows in your house, the thermal efficiency of your Cheshire home will be increased or maintained. EPDM high quality gaskets and weather brushes also aid weather resistance and durability.
Bi-folds could dramatically improve the appearance of your house in Cheshire. Not only do they make the internal space light and airy, but they provide a sophisticated atmosphere as well.
There is a misconception that bifold doors are only suited for modern homes, but in reality they are available in a number of styles, configurations, and designs which look wonderful in any type of household.
Here at Hive Architectural, we create bespoke designs to enhance homes of every size, including unconventional layouts.
Aluminium doors are strong, light and durable; perfect for the frame of a bifold door. If you’re after a more classic finish, timber frames and wooden bifold doors are also an option but they will require more maintenance and may need to be strengthened with an aluminium core.
When it comes to the colour of your bi-folding doors, we offer a great range of standard and non-standard colours. We’ve created 9 unique palettes, each featuring 10 shades on a particular theme.
You may choose to complement the colours of your house in Cheshire, or go for something entirely new.
We hold the most popular aluminium powder coatings in stock, allowing us to offer short lead times. These include metallic, wood grain, dual colour and the Smart’s unique Sensations range of textured finishes.
No matter your Cheshire property, whether it is domestic or commercial, Hive Architectural can kit it out with the best-selling Visofold aluminium bifold doors.
Bi-folds are a great alternative to sliding doors and can be used to open up an entire wall, making the most of a beautiful view or bringing a garden into the home.
We have fitted doors for many commercial customers, such as bars, cafés or restaurants. Often these sites require a glazed screen that allows for maximum ingress of light in inclement weather, but easy outside access in warmer weather.
With this configuration, both panels will move in the same direction, so either both will slide to the left or to the right; however, with a two panel bi-folding door both door panes will slide to create a full opening, unlike a traditional two panel front door, where the access door swings behind another fixed panel.
In Cheshire, we offer bifold doors with up to 7 panels organised into a concertina structure.
There are different opening options to these doors:
The design you choose for your sliding doors will depend on the size of the space and the ways in which you would like to use the bi-folding doors.
Each and every one of our bi-folding doors is completely bespoke and custom-made to measure in our dedicated factory.
The tailored manufacturing process is outlined below:
Our doors are manufactured using both precision machine-based methods and expert hand crafting techniques. Materials are quality checked upon arrival and at every other point along the production line. Before the installation of your completed doors in your Cheshire home, they will be safety tested for structural integrity.
Once pre-delivery checks have been carried out, your new bi-folding door will be loaded into our company vehicles so that they’re delivered safely and on time. Our team of fitters will install them quickly and efficiently so that you can enjoy the benefits as soon as possible.
If you’re looking for a fast turnaround and competitive prices, Hive Architectural can guarantee both. We provide comprehensive after-sale support to clients in the Cheshire area, with a one-to-one service that ensures your requirements are met.
The Visofold quality aluminium doors that we supply our customers are compliant with the Building Regulations Document L 2010.
They are secured with multi-point lock mechanisms on the main opening sashes, and shoot-bolt locking on floating mullions.
Despite being made largely from glass windows, aluminium bi-folding doors can in fact enhance your security, protecting your residence from home invasion.
All Visofold doors have the option of either low thresholds for unimpeded, easy access, or rebated thresholds that offer improved weather resistance.
You can contact us online with any enquiries, and call 0161 339 9375 or email darren@hive-arc.co.uk for more information about bifold door solutions.
Hive Architectural Ltd
Office 3 Boodle street
Ashton under Lyne
OL6 8NF
From our base in Manchester we cover the whole of the North West of the UK and surrounding counties including Cheshire, Merseyside, North Wales, Cumbria, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
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