You may be looking to improve your home with aluminium sliding doors or for replacement doors for your existing patio door. Any type of patio door, including sliding doors and bi-fold doors, can be a great addition to your home, helping to add value and improving the look and feel of your home, both inside and out. However, when choosing sliding doors, it’s important to choose the right manufacturer, as this can have a huge impact on the quality, functionality and longevity of your new doors.
When choosing a manufacturer for your sliding doors, it’s important to know the difference between a system company and a fabricator. A system company designs the look, feel and operation of a window or sliding door system, whereas fabricators buy the components required from the system company and manufacture the doors for sale themselves. Origin offers both under one business, so we exclusively design and manufacture our own doors and windows, giving us full control over the process. This means that if you buy a door or window from Origin, it will only have been made by our expert craftspeople in our state-of-the-art facility.
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Find out more about why it’s important to think about the manufacturer you choose for your sliding doors.
Learn more about the factors you should consider when choosing sliding doors for your home.
Learn more about Origin’s manufacturing process when it comes to sliding doors.
Find out more about Origin’s range of Sliding Doors and the benefits of installing them in your home.
Find answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about sliding doors.
Why is it important to choose the manufacturer of your sliding doors carefully?
Whether you’re looking to install aluminium sliding doors, folding doors or French doors or any window or glass doors in your home, it’s important to choose the right manufacturer as this can have an impact on the following factors:
Door quality
Choosing a manufacturer that produces low quality doors can cause an array of problems over the long-term. Low quality doors can lead to leaks and draughts, which will cause low energy efficiency and can affect your heating bills. There can also be security concerns too because the doors will be less strong and durable.
Functioning and longevity
When bought from the wrong manufacturer, the doors might not function as they should, leading to damage or doors that will not open, close or lock properly. This will also mean a much shorter lifespan and higher repair cost or even replacing the doors much sooner than you would expect.
Type of systems available
When choosing sliding doors for your home, it’s important to know what sliding door system they offer. Different systems will offer different functioning, greater, or lesser, energy efficiency, lifespan, sizing options and design or colour options. You will need to find the manufacturer that provides the system that’s right for your home.
Quality
Since quality is so essential when choosing a manufacturer, it’s important to know how to differentiate between high-quality and low-quality sliding doors.
High-quality doors will not only meet basic manufacturing standards, but will also exceed them. Low-quality doors will just about meet them. With high-quality doors, top performance will be spread across every components of the door, including the frame, locking systems, handles and hinges with no weaknesses in the doors. Most high-quality doors will also come with a longer manufacturer’s guarantee which is a signal that the supplier is sure of the quality of their doors.
What to consider when choosing a sliding door manufacturer
There are many factors to consider when choosing a sliding door manufacturer to ensure that your door is as high-quality and functional as it is aesthetically pleasing. Some important factors to consider are:
Quality of frame and material
Ensuring that the frame and material you choose for your sliding door is of a high quality will help to protect against wear and tear and ensure the doors function properly over the long-term. When high-quality aluminium is used to make the frames, you can expect a strong, durable and long-lasting door that will continue to function well over the long-term.
Origin is able to guarantee that our aluminium frames are ultra-slim and lightweight whilst also being strong and durable. This means better functionality and offers guarantees of up to 20 years, as well as maximum natural light being allowed into your home.
Weather resistance
As exterior doors to your home, sliding doors should be weather resistant in order to avoid any draughts or water leaks. Origin’s aluminium sliding doors are fitted with advanced weather tight seals, ensuring that, no matter the conditions, the door’s effectiveness will not be impacted. Making sure you have the right installer will ensure this is optimised too.
Thermal efficiency
To reduce the risk of heat loss and expensive energy bills, the doors should be thermally efficient. Sliding doors are already more thermally efficient than other types of patio doors, but Origin Sliding Doors take this thermal efficiency to a new level with aluminium frames, double glazing or triple glazing, polyamide breaks and weather seals to prevent the heat from escaping your home.
Sightlines
The sightlines on your sliding doors are important for determining how much light your doors allow into your home without affecting your view. Sliding doors can act as a window to the outside and offer a lower glass to frame ratio than folding doors which feature more frames due to the nature of the doors. Aluminium doors offer slimline frames that cannot be achieved with uPVC and timber doors. Sliding doors offer much better sightlines that folding doors when they’re closed, but if you’re looking to open the entire space up, bi-fold doors are a better option. Sliding doors slide behind each other, so one pane of glass will always remain across the opening.
Origin Aluminium Sliding Doors offer some of the slimmest sightlines on the market, with options available in 20mm, 29mm, 44mm and 77mm. This allows us to achieve the best quality and stability without compromising on the views.
Security
Since a sliding patio door will provide access to your home, it’s important for their security to be as good as possible to prevent intruders from gaining access into your home. Origin Sliding Doors have a minimum six-point locking system along with toughened glass, so you can rest easy knowing your door is extremely difficult to break into.
Guarantee
Door guarantees can provide peace of mind knowing your door is highly durable and can be fixed should any problems occur before the end of the guarantee. Origin offers industry-leading guarantee of up to 20 years on our Aluminium Sliding Doors.
Lead times
Lead time are an important factor to consider because it could affect the timeline of your project, and longer lead times can leave you with a hole in your wall for long periods of time which isn’t good for security and some insurances may not cover this. Quicker lead times can make the process much more efficient. Origin Sliding Doors can be supplied to your local installer in as little as a week, depending on your system chosen and choice of colour.
Manufacturing process
It’s important to know whether your doors are manufactured entirely by the company you purchase them from, or whether the door is manufactured by an independent fabricator, who will not be part of same company as of the brand name you’re buying from.
By having multiple fabricators operating under one system brand name, this can affect quality as the manufacturing expertise, machinery and outfit will vary fabricator to fabricator. However, Origin Aluminium Sliding Doors are all designed and fabricated in-house, meaning we have complete control over the full design and manufacture process for a high-quality door that is checked and tested at every stage.
How does Origin manufacture sliding doors?
Origin has an innovative and effective manufacturing process to ensure that our Aluminium Sliding Doors offer the best quality and reassurance for our customers that doors will be secure and long-lasting, as well as offering a slim, aesthetically pleasing sightline.
The doors are designed and fabricated entirely by our own team, which allows us to have complete control over every aspect of the manufacturing process and ensure full care and detail over our doors is taken. Moreover, our state-of-the-art factory combined with our dedicated research and development team helps to create the highest quality doors.
We partner with trusted partners to install our doors, all of which are offered training in specifying and installing our products correctly. Get in touch with your local installer today for a quote on sliding doors for your home. You can find out more about choosing the best supplier in our guide.
Origin Sliding Door range
Origin’s range of sliding doors is available in two different systems:
Artisan Slider (OS-20)
The Origin Artisan Sliding Door provides an ultra-slimline frame of just 20mm, maximising the natural light and views from the doors. It’s a bonded system, meaning the glass, which is low-emissivity, and frame are bonded as one, increasing the airtight seal and thermal efficiency of the doors.
For security, the door is fitted with a multi-point locking system and toughened glass to prevent intruders from gaining access to your home. The Artisan Slider has a 4-week lead time and a guarantee of up to 10-years.
Patio Slider (OS-29, OS-44, OS-77)
The Origin Patio Slider is available with three different sightline options:
29mm
44mm
77mm
This door is a semi-dry glazed system in which the glass and frame are installed using gaskets. Not only does this provide a weathertight seal, but in case of the glass breaking, the glass can be replaced rather than having to replace the whole door.
The Patio Slider can be available in as little as a week (depending on the colour selected) and a guarantee of up to 20-years is offered.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the advantages of aluminium patio doors?
Aluminium patio doors are much stronger than uPVC and timber alternatives. uPVC doors can degrade over time which can have an impact on their thermal efficiency and security, making uPVC doors a lower quality choice. Aluminium doors offer better thermal efficiency, slimmer sightlines, better security systems and a wider range of design options.
What different types of aluminium doors are available?
Origin aluminium doors include Sliding doors, Bifold doors, French doors, single doors and front doors. At Origin, we also supply aluminium windows so you can ensure that the glazing systems within your home match.
What should I look for when buying a sliding patio door?
When buying a sliding patio door, look for a manufacturer that produces a high-quality door sliding system. This will ensure optimal security, longevity and thermal efficiency.
What are the standard sizes of aluminium sliding doors?
Sizing needs can vary, but Origin has created sliding doors tailored to your home’s requirements. The Artisan Slider can accommodate individual panel sizes of up 2.2m wide and 3m tall (or 6m2 overall), and the Patio Slider can be installed in apertures as wide as 11.9m.
For more information on Origin Sliding Doors and installing them in your home, contact your local installer today.
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