Patio door options

[SarahG]

I had a quote for some Heritage Aluminium french doors last year which was £4468, I have just had a revised quote which is now £6400. I was of course expecting an increase but now I am wondering if there is a cheaper alternative we can use. We are worried about the costs spiralling so trying to keep them down as much as we can.

 

The dimensions are 4448w 2600h so I think potentially bi-fold doors are not possible due to the height, the French doors we had planned have a fixed panel at the top.

 

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions of alternative patio door we could look at for these dimensions? Or even any suppliers they could recommend.

[Bramco]

Try Express bifold in Leeds.

 

We have sliding patio doors from them and pricing was reasonable. It will of course have gone up in  the meantime.

 

Simon

[bmj1]

@SarahG - do you mind me asking - which french door product are you going with ?

 

You mention that they are 4.448m wide - is that 2.224m per leaf/single door ? Or is it multiple sets of double doors ?

[SarahG]

@bmj1 I've not decided yet, we thought we needed to make a decision for our BR drawings, but luckily we don't yet.

 

I think probably having got a reasonable amount of quotes we will go with bi-folds, as we are on a tight budget. I did see some the other day that had panels at the top, which could be an option if I can find a supplier. I think we need to wait and see what u-value we need to achieve, most of the ones I found were 1.0 for the glass and then 1.5 overall. I don't know if this will achieve the current BR though. We will see what our architect has put on the spec doc when we get that through.