Just started a renovation of kitchen/great room in our own home in Southern California/Laguna Beach and we have reviewed Fleetwood/Nanawall/ and La Cantina. As a Designer and builder I saw the best value in La Cantina although the other systems are excellent as well.

I had a very unfortunate experience with La Cantina. After investing nearly $50,000 in five units for a renovation, delivery was delayed three months, then arrived with damaged components. Found other components to be missing. Resulted in three months of delays and thousands of dollars in lost man-hours. Their customer service was inept and rude. Management was unresponsive. DEFINITELY USE NANA WALL OR OTHER PROVIDER if time and expense is important to your project!

We just installed these in our personal remodel, they are La Cantina doors. They were ordered 12 weeks prior to us needing them and they arrived on time. Because of the lot we required a crane to bring them up to the property. They run very smoothly and are very easy to open and close. We love them. I looked at Fleetwood and Nana wall and for the money these were the best value and have a good warranty.These function as pocket doors as they go into the walls adjacent to them.

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Hi, KB, original poster.. do you have follow-up pictures you can share? I am in your situation now, and am deciding between vendors. How have the La Cantina doors held up? I'm also looking for doors with a screen option. I've love to hear how you like yours.

HI KB. My photo is posted above under Design Intervention pot. We have screens on them and the doors are performing beautifully. Probably the most popular part of our remodel.

Wow! I love it. I too want to do a corner, so It's great to see this done and to know they are holding up well. Thanks for sharing!

My only concern with the La Cantina wall from looking in the showroom is the metal scraping sound you get when you open the single walk through door in the folding door system - has anyone else noticed this? bothered by it? Found a sensible way to mute the metal on metal scrapping?

We are planning getting the La Cantina multi-slide system for a 72x84 opening. What has your experience been with the multi-slide system and what screen options work well?

We love the door. We ended up designing a custom slide screen for the door because the option they presented was priced ridiculously at $1500. The only issue we had after 1 year was that the outside hardware was starting to show pitting. We live very close to the ocean so we expected a bit of that, but not after just one year. They came right out and replaced it for us.

I've specified the door in other projects and so far everyone loves it.

thanks for the info! i would appreciate if you would share the vendor you used for the custom slide screen.

We designed it and used our local screen guy to manufacture it. It is not an item that is available for sale. But you can contact a local screen vendor in your area and ask them to come take a look and see what they can customize for you.

thank you for the suggestion

We're looking to do a 50-75% glass house with 8' tall sliding doors, non pocket. Some fixed windows like bedroom areas. A 1,600 SF flat roof modern mixed with boardformed concrete inside and out. Is this crazy expensive as we are trying to keep under $200/sf???

Without seeing the entire project, all I can say is that the windows alone are going to run you around 50-60K. So based on not knowing anything else about the project perhaps that will help you glean the costs.

See my post near the top (ilovedenver)

May I ask this gang of people, if anyone has installed centaur folding doors? With or without screen

I wish the screens weren't so expensive, I think they've be a brilliant idea. Thanks for all of this great information everybody! HenryHestor60, your house is Stunning!!

We replaced a 25-yr old triple bifold door (12’ space) with a triple sliding LaCantina a year ago & I love it! Bi-folds are such a waste of space & much more high maintenance! This door glides open silently with a finger & better price than Fleetwood, Western! Door installer prefers LaCantina over all doors. I’m now building a house & will be using all LaCantina!

How’s the quality of LaCantina compared to Fleetwood? Also, has anyone ever had experience with Sky-frame?

Can anyone speak to if they used aluminum or vinyl? Pros and cons? Most likely going with bi-fold. We are in the planning stages of a remodel and are in southern California.

@gwgcc2000 may I ask how much did triple bifold la cantina cost for 12’? We are about to remodel our home and have the same space for a door like that

That was several year ago, 2016 I believe. I doubt that the pricing would be the same.

We just got quoted $23K (pleated screen included) for a 14’ 5 panel la cantina aluminum bifold system … and $14K to install (minor demo between 2 existing old sliders + new header). is this insane?

This does seem very steep! thats around what i was quoted total 3 months ago from Andersen i have 12’x8’ la cantina bought by jeld wen which sells these doors at lowes for about 900 per linesr feet id assume la cantina would be the same especially since thier website roght now states cost is between 800-1200 per linear foot so id assume your doors would be like half your quote since aluminum isnt even thier top end