Sliding doors or otherwise sliding doors are a very convenient option, especially for small apartments. In addition, they are very stylish and in themselves are a spectacular element of interior decor.
Sliding doors come in several types depending on the design; in addition, you can choose the option of their finishing. Like any thing, such doors have both pros and cons.
Pros of sliding doors:
- save space compared to swing analogues;
- no thresholds;
- easy to open and close;
- They have an elegant look and fit into any interior.
Disadvantages of sliding sliding doors:
- do not provide absolute isolation of the room, including sound;
- require a large free space on the wall next to the door where the closing leaf will “ride”.
Types of sliding doors
First of all, doors can differ in appearance, that is, they can be monolithic or glazed. You can also often find mirrored sliding doors, they are good for the bathroom, however, you can install such a door in the bedroom – here we also urgently need a reflective surface. But most often, sliding doors to a dressing room or doors of wardrobes are lined with a mirror, and in order to somehow decorate it, photo printing is often done on the doors or designs are embossed with a sandblasting machine.
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Full glass sliding doors look interesting. Interior doors with frosted or transparent glass look light and elegant. Such sliding doors can serve as a partition when you need to subtly divide a room into zones, without having to build walls or use drywall that everyone has long been tired of.
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Sliding doors also differ in their design. For example, there are radius sliding doors – they can have several sliding sections. Typically, such doors are equipped with sliding wardrobes with an extraordinary round or even more complex shape.
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And for rooms where there is no room for a moving sash, there are built-in sliding doors, in which the sash “goes” into the wall. It is better to entrust the installation of such doors to specialists, although with great desire and skill you can do it yourself.
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Types of sliding mechanisms in sliding doors
There are two main types of retractable mechanisms:
- Doors with top roller. Doors with a top guide roller practically hang in the air. The rail on which the roller rides is located at the top, which is very convenient, since in this case there is no need for a threshold and a lower rail.
- Doors with bottom roller. In this case, the interior door has a bottom guide roller. The design, accordingly, consists of a bottom rail and a roller that runs on it. The door leaf from below rests against the rail, and the upper guide and roller hold the door in the opening. This design is more complex, but more reliable. Its disadvantage is the presence of rails at the bottom, which creates some inconvenience when installing the floor covering and difficulties during daily operation of the door.
Types of sliding doors according to other parameters:
- number of canvases – can be one-, two-, three- and four-leaf, so that a sliding door can cover an opening of any width;
- number of parking spaces” – that is, the sections of the wall that limit the door when open can have single-parking and double-parking doors, that is, they can be moved in one or both directions.
In any case, sliding sliding doors solve several problems at the same time: they separate adjacent rooms, help solve design problems, for example, in cases with studio projects they act as temporary partitions.
The only drawback of this design is its high cost. But if you take into account the stylishness, practicality and comfort of the solution, the price issue fades into the background.
