Sliding doors is a type of door which can be opened horizontally by sliding it. Sliding history has its history back then in the first century in Pompeii, Italy. To operate a sliding door, you need sliding door gear which comes in two types, bottom rolling and top hung. The most used one is top hung which has two trolley hangers on top of the door. The function is to move and slide two sides of each door. Since it has two sides of doors, it potentially crashes each other if you close them too hard. To avoid this, there is a track stopper. Both sides of door potentially to swing sideways besides crashing each other, so you need more equipment called threshold guiding. Manufacturing a sliding door can be done in many ways, you can even ask the company to make you custom sliding doors and of course it will give you different cost. Normally you also can have one side sliding door which is simpler for other certain people. It also has track stopper to prevent crash with the wall.
We also have aluminum sliding doors which you can see on every frame of the doors and the door itself is made of glass. Usually it is used in hotels, bathrooms, relaxing room or family room. This is also perfect to be installed in your beach house. Imagine you wake up in the morning and you can enjoy beautiful scenery through the sliding doors. Speaking about aluminum, it is not only available in white but also black color.
You can also install contemporary sliding doors for your modern style house. Modern style house is really simple, clean, and comfortable to live in. Usually homeowners emphasizes on simple furniture, fixture, and other home appliances including sliding doors. There are wooden made sliding doors as well which is suitable for old style house or country style house. Sliding doors have other types called arcadia sliding doors, pocket doors, and bypass doors. Usually you can see arcadia sliding doors in offices, such as meeting rooms or working room for staffs. It forms into a small room where you will be surrounded by glasses and aluminum frames. It also can be installed at home if you need some private space in your living room whilst your kids playing around. A pocket door has its special features and usually made from wood which has several separated glass material, could be three big rectangular shapes or mini rectangular in more numbers.
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