Traditional swing sash are not always a good solution. When opened for such a model, you need to leave an unnoticed pretty decent area. But the sliding doors on the rails and rollers of space when opening do not occupy at all.
Mechanism of sliding folding doors
Sliding system mechanism
There are several options for interior doors of this kind, but the principle of movement remains the same in many ways. Its essence is to ensure not opening, but shifting the sash along the wall or second sash. At the same time, the area near the doorway remains free, and the doorway is open.
Lower guide of sliding doors
To achieve such an effect, use a special mechanism. Along the movement of the door leaf on the floor, wall or ceiling, the profile of a special type is fixed - guides or rails. On the door itself, rollers are installed. When opening the rollers move along the guide, and the sash shifts to the side.
Sliding doors with glass inserts
There are 2 types of such a system.
- Outdoor - the door canvas insert into two guides - the upper and lower. The main rollers at the bottom of the canvas provide advanced on the bottom guide, the top is moving along the top rail, while holding the cloth in a strictly vertical position. This option is very reliable and durable.
- The suspension system involves the absence of a lower guide. In this case, the rollers are fixed only at the top of the product. When opening, the rollers are shifted along the top rail, simultaneously providing both moving and hold in a vertical position. The option is more effective and for interior doors more suitable: the lower guide forms an unpleasant threshold, and in this case it is missing.
Suspended Sliding Door System
However, the suspension system requires enhanced accessories, so it is not suitable for sashs from heavy materials - a wood array, glass, for example. In the photo - door on the rails in Leeramer.
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Varieties of interroom doors
In Russia, the decision of such a plan is unusually popular, so it is possible to find products, the optimal cost and quality can not only in specialized stores, but also in large hypermarkets, for example, Leeramer. There are always several dozen different models in the catalog.
Door-harmonica in Lerua Merlen
But before choosing a product in color or form, you need to decide on the type of interior door and the opening principle, and they are different.
- Sliding flaps - 1 or 2, the most famous option in Russia. This is a classic model - suspension or outdoor, performed in all possible styles. Guides can be installed both on the wall and on the opening or even on the ceiling, and the material for the manufacture is used the most different - from chipboard to glass.
From the option for a wardrobe, sliding interior doors are distinguished by the principle of convergence.
Folds do not enter one over the other, but they are joined in the center of the doorway, so only one rail is fixed on the floor.
- Cassette - the sash moves along the same principle, but not shifting along the wall, but inside it. It is more likely to mean not a deepening in the overhaul, but a false panel, which is mounted on the outside of the wall. It looks like a very elegant. Doors can be both single-handed and double.
- Folding - the mechanism of interroom doors on the rails and rollers of this kind is different. The sash at the opening folds at least twice, and then shifts the side of the opening. In this case, part of the opening it blocks, but practically does not occupy the area of the room. Rollers are fixed only on the top of the product in the center of each part of the sash. They move along the upper guide, the bottom is missing. Folding the canvas provide conventional door loops.
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Folding doors may not include 2, and 4, 6 and even more fragments, only narrower. The folded door canvas in this case resembles the harmonica, for which it got such a name. This model is made only from lightweight materials like plastic, fabric. In Russia, it is not too popular and more often used to overlap economic premises or niche. In the catalogs, Leeramer can find samples of such products.
Radius - until recently, this option was performed only for shower cabins from polycarbonate sheets. However, now the interior doors in Russia may have such an original form. It is used infrequently, since, unlike the usual sash, saving space does not contribute too much. However, as an architectural detail model is very effect. In the photo you can see the sample.