Pocket sliding doors are really convenient for a number of different reasons.
Sliding door that goes into wall.
Mount hangers on the top of the door this is how the door will slide.
Place the hardware and the door into the slider track.
When closed they create a stately wall of light.
Up to 10 tall and 48 wide.
These exterior pocket doors come in aluminum and aluminum clad.
Installing a pocket door is an excellent way to increase the usable space in small rooms.
Hook the hangers onto the carriages.
Regular doors that swing open into a room create unusable.
How to put a sliding door inside of a wall.
This innovative design gives you the flexibility of an open plan feel while allowing you to instantly close off an area when you want some privacy.
Two adjacent pocket doors leading into separate rooms can both use the same cavity if a wide enough cavity is planned in from the outset you can even configure curved doors sliding into curved walls.
The aluminum frames and panels are thermally broken with a full weather stripped structural interlock system for improved.
Your door panels can even slide into the wall cavity to be completely tucked away when not in use.
Folding door folding glass walls.
A pocket sliding door will have a single panel and features no hinges at all.
Then slide the wheeled carriages into the track.
When fully open the glass panels slide into the wall pocket and completely disappear from view.
The door slides right into a space in the wall when you need to open it.
Doors in these walls will have headers usually laminated beams over their openings.
Another space saving option is to have one door sliding across two openings typically a bathroom and a cupboard.
A different approach to removing the lines between indoors and out.
Expand your living space with pocket sliding glass doors.
In the former case the door opens by sliding alongside the wall while in the latter case the door opens by sliding inside it running into a system commonly known as the counterframe.
Before we get into pocket door installation it s important to understand the function and design of this door type.
Top hung system allows for easy operation.
A pocket door slides into a metal and wood cage that is installed as the walls are framed.
The most apparent convenience of these doors is that they will disappear into the wall.
The counterframe of a sliding pocket door is a metal pocket that allows the door to slide inside the wall concealing from sight.
Doors can open from left right or center.
Installing a pocket door in a load bearing wall requires replacing the old header with a longer one.