Beautiful bifold doors offer a lot of benefits for your Essex home. Over the past few years, they have become a luxurious space-saving alternative that can add value and increase ambience into your living area.

Suited for residential and commercial projects across the South East, including London and Essex we can create the exact look you are searching for. Whether you are looking for oak effect bifolds tailored to traditionally styled homes or the ever-popular Chartwell Green for your modern apartment in Chelmsford. Whatever your requirements, we are confident that we can help you.

With the choice of two high-quality bifold profiles; the Visofold 1000 and the even slimmer profile of the Visofold 6000, we can guarantee that your bifold doors will enhance kerb appeal. And what’s even better is that either option meets industry standards for powder coating, quality of extrusions, weather performance and security.

Do bifold doors open in or out?

With a wide range of opening configurations available to you, it is easy to see how bifold doors accommodate and improve any setting with ease and low maintenance.

Proactively stacking each door behind the other to create a seamless blend between your garden and indoor living space, you can choose from internal or externally folding sashes (inside or outside opening), side openings, a single entrance door or a double door opening. For practicality, most of our customers tend to choose the outward mechanism – especially as there is usually more space outdoors compared to a living area full of furniture.

How about having beautiful bifold doors that open up striking swimming pool areas? Or a delightful dining room that embraces outdoor living whatever the weather? Sounds glorious.

How many bifold panes can I have?

The number of bifold panes you can select for your bifold doors will depend on the space you have. Here at Chigwell, we have a variety of sizes available from two-panes up to seven-panes so you can rest easy knowing that whatever your available space, we can manufacture made-to-measure aluminium bifold doors to suit your individual requests, for example, corner configurations, dual colours and many more.

Do bifold doors fold back flat?

Bifold doors simultaneously slide and fold back on themselves. The tracking system that the panes are fixed on allows smooth motion and ease of use.

Depending on how you have built and designed your bifold doors and their configurations, they can sit flat against one or perhaps even both walls. Either way, the folded panes take up very little space on either side of the aperture compared to sliding doors or hinged doors.

Are bifold doors energy efficient?

Aside from offering a huge range of configurations to make them bespoke to you, bifold doors are also very energy efficient. Combining high-quality gaskets and weather brushes to repel the harshest of weathers, our bifold doors offer impressive U-values as low as 1.5 m²K, keeping your family warm even during the harshest of weathers.

What locking mechanisms do your bifold doors feature?

The Visofold 100 features a domestic style ‘lift-up’ handle. Whereas the Visofold 6000 features a high-security glazing, robust locking mechanism that includes multi-point locks on the main opening sashes and shoot-bolts on the floating mullions. Both of these two high-quality bifold door profiles offer high security features so you can rest assured knowing that you and your family will be safe and sound.

Doors in London, Essex, and Manchester

Here at Chigwell, we are specialist manufacturers of high-quality aluminium, composite, and uPVC doors, from bifold doors through to front and back doors. View our installation gallery for more inspiration and to see how we combine striking finishes with outstanding heat retentive and secure qualities that are the envy of our competitors.

Get in touch with us today, or alternatively give our team of experts a call on 0203 667 9707.

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