How to replace sliding glass patio door with pocket door ,LONG
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Pocket /Folding Lanai Doors or Set of 4 Sliding Patio Doors
Comments (6)I looked into the nana wall and several other options as well --- They are really cool, but in the end, we determined that our house location and set up didn't warrant the expense of these. Now, if we had an awesome view, we might have done this. My recollection of this in terms of pricing for Nana Wall and some of the other brands: I believe it was about $800 a foot for this --- so for a 12' opening, it worked out to about $9600 --- I looked at several manufacturers and the pricing was all in that ballpark. Will your doors open to a patio, a screened porch? This was a concern for us in this decision. We ended up putting a screened porch, so the Nana concept would have been great, because opening the doors wide would still be within the screen.... thus no bugs, etc invading the house. If not, you might want to consider with lights on in the house and the doors wide open, you might get every moth in town visiting! Another consideration is how to stack the panels. In our plan it was working out to be awkward --- and the "stack" would have been in the way. Just make sure that if you go with these, you have that planned carefully... some of them can stack inside a wall, which is pretty neat. Another consideration to think about..... look back at your pictures linked.... the transition from inside to outside.... if you are trying to make a very open space, be careful of that little half step transition.... it looks like a tripping hazard to me. I would want either a full step down, or preferably a level transition there to open up the space. The top picture has a small step, which can be an ankle breaker! Finally, if you are trying to maximize your view through the house straight out the back, maybe consider an odd number of doors so the exact center is glass, not the door frames meeting in the middle (your bottom picture does this glass in the middle way). If you think about your set of 4 doors concept, the dead center part will be about 8" of door frame, vs. glass. If you use 3 or 5 panels, the center view would be glass. This is why in the first few pictures they show the doors open, because it looks way better open than closed. But in the last picture, the view is great regardless. And.... while I think the standard is to have the center 2 panels open on french doors, it makes furniture placement more difficult, so just make sure you've thought about it! Good luck would love to see pics of the view, etc! Rachel...See MoreCrash course on doors? Pocket Doors, sliding barn door and swing doors
Comments (36)"I went to work in an office that had a pocket door that never worked right because someone had driven nails into it at some point and it was never the same after" (palimpsest) Yes. This happened to us when DH nailed the baseboard on the wall between the laundry and kitchen. The door came off track. When we renovate I will replace or remove. However, this was builder grade. On our extension I added three pocket doors. The one I had put in for the powder room is a solid core door, not thinner than most doors, as I wanted as much sound-dampening as possible with such a device. We used Johnson Hardware - not the home depot variety which runs $ 40 or so, but commercial grade. Look at the Johnson site under 1500 Commercial Grade and you will also find non-standard size frames (door max thickness 1 3/4"). Use a good carpenter....See MoreGuidance re: replacing sliding patio doors
Comments (12)Fiberglass doesn't really bring anything to the table that cannot be had with the "Big 2", vinyl and wood. There are some excellent performing fiberglass products coming out of Canada, but most of the stuff state-side doesn't present anything compelling, again, unless it fits a narrow set of circumstances. The long and short of it is this: Wood is better at being pretty, and vinyl is better at being energy efficient, cost effective, and low maintenance.... These comments refer primarily to a full fiberglass product. If you are looking at fiberglass construction with a wood interior, something like a wood/ultrex Integrity, wood/fg Pella Impervia, and the like, I'd lump them in with wood clad products personally. Still have interior maintenance (primary risk is condensation), and you are choosing form over function. A full fiberglass unit is kind of the worst of both worlds (not as pretty as wood or as efficient as vinyl but still has the high price and generally lesser warranty), but let's say you want a painted interior other than white. If I was shopping for a window or sliding door that could be painted gray, I'd definitely lean toward fiberglass over wood. You lose the beauty of wood when its painted, and fiberglass won't ever rot....See MoreReplacing a ~96"x80" sliding glass patio door with swinging glass door
Comments (3)I agree with Fori, you are talking to the wrong sales people. For years early in my career, seems almost all I did was change out sliders to french doors. For your opening size and situation, you could use several combinations of door and sidelight combos. For example, a pair of 32" swinging french, with a 32" fixed sidelight. If your rough opening won't accept that, perhaps a 30" sidelight and/or 30" doors....See Morehendricus
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