Can you see the steel posts just inside the frame – on both sides? this meant on-site notching of the sliding sill and head to suit, and then cladding the entire beam in cedar to blend/match.
That post next to the sliding door panel is the steel beam. it has been clad in cedar, and you can see the Kapur sill has also been patched/reblocked to look seemless. (the post is slightly wet from wiping the woodglue down).
The double-glazed panels ranged from 70-115kilograms.
This is going to be a very technically challenging job. This is a right angle sliding door – the opening panels meet at the corner. Once fully working, this frame is going to be disassembled, and ikea-like we will “flat pack” it to the install site. We then need to bring it all inside and rebuild the frame in the room. To make it harder we will need to notch the sill and head for steel posts that will meet. To re-build the frame the fixed panels need to be screwed from underneath – so once we assemble the main frame we need to raise it high enough to get underneath the frame and fit the panels in… then fit the frame…
it will all be double glazed after we fit it all (by us too).
We headed out an hours drive from Adelaide for this job. We removed 4 sections of a window frame (1 awning and 3 fixed panels).
added cowdroy top hung track systems on the inside and outside of the frame. Prior to coming out we had made a pair of doors and a pair of flydoors (in meranti to match).
added flydoors to external track and glass doors to internal tracking. Added rubber seals around doorstop of the glass doors for good weathersealing. Glass doors were double glazed.
Yesterday we installed a cedar sliding door into a prepared opening. Glass by others (will be double glazed). We are also removing fixed panels of bronze float glass and installing opening casement sashes (opens like doors). Up in the hills overlooking the city.
this 4 panel sliding door with flydoors is glazed with clear comfort plus 6.38 laminate glass and ready for delivery today
This is a photo from the builder Egritech / Tiny houses. We have been supplying them windows and doors in a number of their little house projects. Their details below;
This new sliding door frame is ready for the glass. We are glazing this with double glazed units.
4mm clear toughened 8mm argon gap 4mm claer toughened.
Builder will install themselves, so we wont get to see the finished result.
A client asked if i made 3 panel sliding doors. We do. But looking through my pictures, i dont see one on my site. So here is an aluminium sliding door, with 3 panels. One of the fixed panels has a doggy door.
Diamond Grille 007 security door.
3 panel sliding door
I thought i had posted this photo a while ago – its on my instagram page.
new WRC sliding door
WRC sliding door
Im not in the office much lately – too many installs where im needed to give a hand. So here are just a few more photos of some of the things going on around now
Original and new timber flyscreen
Cedar casement windows ready for transport
a small selection of our frames in the factory today. an arch, a sliding door, some doorframes with sidelites etc.
THE WINDOW MAN 