Servery and kitchen bi-folds that fold right back and leave the opening clear.
A bi-fold window is priced on the width of the opening and the number of panes that have to fold into it. A two pane servery over a kitchen worktop is at the modest end. A four pane run across a garden room wall costs more, because the frames carry more glass and need heavier hardware to keep folding smoothly for years rather than months.
We survey the opening free of charge and price it properly, including the sill, the fitting and the making good inside and out. If your worktop or bar run has to line through with the sill, that gets measured at the survey rather than assumed, because a servery that sits an inch proud of the counter is a job nobody enjoys looking at.
More panes means more hinges and more weight on the frame, so the price moves with the number of folds, not just the metres.
Aluminium keeps the frames slim on a wide servery. uPVC is the better value option on a smaller kitchen opening.
Running a sill flush with a worktop or bar top is neat but takes more setting out. It is worth deciding before we order.
A ground floor opening in sound brickwork is straightforward. Rotten timber or a distorted opening adds preparation time.
Bi-fold windows are a small job with fiddly setting out, so the survey does most of the work. Here is the running order.
We measure the opening, check the sill line against your worktop or bar, and talk through which way the panes should stack so they are not in the way when the window is open.
One figure covering the window, delivery, fitting, sealing and the clear up. No call out fee for the survey and no separate delivery charge bolted on later.
The window is made to your measurements. We confirm the lead time in writing and ring you when it arrives with us. Delivery to us is free.
Old unit out, new frame packed, fixed and sealed, then the panes hung and adjusted until they fold and latch cleanly. We take the old frame and the packaging with us.
Most go over a kitchen worktop or a garden bar so the whole opening clears in one go, rather than a hinged casement sitting in the middle of it. If you serve food or drinks through it, or you want a real connection to the garden without a door, it does a job an ordinary window cannot.
On most openings yes, provided there is a clear run of wall on the side you are stacking to. If there is a downpipe, a light or a corner in the way we will spot it at the survey and stack the panes the other way.
It locks on multipoint hardware like any other window we fit, and the panes pull tight onto the seals when the handle is thrown. Ground floor openings are the ones people worry about, so we go through the locking with you at the survey.
Aluminium if the opening is wide, because the frames stay slim and you see more glass. uPVC if the opening is modest and budget matters. We will tell you which genuinely suits the opening rather than pushing the dearer frame.
Ten years on the entire window. That is the frame, the sealed units and the hardware, which on a folding window is the part doing all the work.
