From just inside the threshold of a period reception room, slightly off axis, a white timber pair open outwards to 90 degrees with the leaf edges and monkey-tail handles side-lit.
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French and patio doors
A hinged pair for openings of 1.5 to 3 m and period elevations, with no track or running gear to maintain.
- Sightline
- 48 mm
- Pair width
- To 1800 mm
- Lead time
- 6–7 wks
- Aluminium, uPVC or timber
- Espagnolette locking on both leaves
- 15 mm low threshold option
The whole french and patio doors square on and filling the frame, in the pair, opening in configuration, shot level in flat overcast light against a plain wall so the proportion and the frame-to-glass ratio can be read without perspective. Unit at 900 x 2400 mm.
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Close detail of the meeting line at eye level in raking light, tight enough that the joint and the seal are legible and the 48 mm sightline can be measured off the frame, with the background thrown out of focus.
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The hand-level detail: espagnolette multipoint locking photographed in use on the 213 ral colours finish, close enough to show the surface texture and the fixing, with a hand on the handle for scale.
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From inside the room looking out through the french and patio doors, the unit open where it opens, late afternoon light on the floor, so the product is seen the way it is lived with rather than the way it is sold.
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The french and patio doors at dusk from outside, closed, the room lit behind the glass, so the finish and the glass line read against the light.
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Specifications & options
French and patio doors
Description
Two hinged leaves, one master and one slave, opening in or out. There is no track to clean and no running gear to fail; the moving parts are three hinges and an espagnolette a leaf. Leaves run to 900 x 2400 mm and 85 kg, so a pair covers 1800 mm and a pair with two side panels covers 3 m. Uw is 1.3 W/m2K. This is the only door on this page we make in timber as well as aluminium and uPVC, which is what a listed or conservation-area elevation usually needs.
Specify it when
An opening of 1.5 to 3 m, a period elevation, or anywhere a track and a stack of leaves would be more maintenance than the job needs.
Specification
- Sightline
- 48 mm
- Frame depth
- 75 mm
- Maximum leaf
- 900 x 2400 mm
- Maximum pair width
- 1800 mm
- Maximum leaf weight
- 85 kg
- Uw
- from 1.3 W/m2K
- Glazing
- 28 to 44 mm sealed units
- Materials
- aluminium, uPVC or timber
- Threshold
- 15 mm low or 55 mm rebated
- Guarantee
- 10 years
- Lead time
- 6-7 weeks from survey to install
Configurations
- Pair, opening in
- Pair, opening out
- Pair with two side panels
- Pair with a top light
- Unequal pair 2:1
- Single patio leaf with fixed light
Glass
- 28 mm double
- 44 mm triple
- Georgian or slim astragal bars
- Laminated inner pane
- Obscure, levels 1-5
Finishes
- 213 RAL colours
- Anodised silver, bronze or black
- Dual colour
- Painted or stained timber
- Woodgrain foil on uPVC
Hardware
- Espagnolette multipoint locking
- Lever/lever or monkey-tail handles
- Flag or butt hinges, 3 per leaf
- Shootbolts top and bottom on the slave
- Restrictor stays
- Cranked stay for outward pairs
Performance
- Thermal
- Uw from 1.3 W/m2K
- Acoustic
- 36 dB with a 44 mm unit
- Security
- PAS 24, Secured by Design, espagnolette on both leaves
- Weather
- BS 6375, 600 Pa water tightness on the rebated threshold
From just inside the threshold of a period reception room, slightly off axis, a white timber pair open outwards to 90 degrees with the leaf edges and monkey-tail handles side-lit.
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More in doors
Straight-on from the pavement at dusk: a black anodised entrance door with one side panel, hall light behind the laminated glass, the 90 mm frame reading as a hard black edge.
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Entrance doors
Close three-quarter view of a woodgrain composite door in a terrace porch, morning light raking across the slab so the grain texture and the chrome letterplate catch.
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Composite doors
From the back of a kitchen looking out through a closed three-panel slider, framed so the single 20 mm interlock sits dead centre against the garden.
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Sliding doors
Low exterior three-quarter on an exposed coastal terrace, one 3 m lifting leaf half open with the handle turned down, flat sea light behind it.
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