Folding Doors

The most versatile door style on the market for private, business and industrial use is the ubiquitous folding doors. The push aside design has been utilized and modified for many purposes where space allotment is such that you do not have the area available for the traditional swinging doors.

The uses of domestic folding doors run the gambit from closets, where it is desirable to access a wide entry space, to folding glass shower doors where door space can be at a premium. Other applications of the interior folding door design are on kitchen and storage cabinets and across utility room areas. Folding French style doors work wonderfully when leading off onto a patio or other outside decks. Accordion folding doors can be used to divide a large room into two smaller chambers to customize your home's look for different events.

Exterior applications for the folding door are in garden storage sheds where you would need the extra wide space to remove lawn work machinery. And they are a great alternative to motorized garage doors.

The folding accordion door is used to good advantage in business environments to partition off office spaces or make a firm divider between different types of merchandise on the sales floor. Restaurants and motels find the interior folding door a boon when needing to partition some space for private gatherings from the general public. A series of portable folding door panels can quickly customize a convention hall to fit the customer's needs.

Industry finds uses for both the folding exterior doors in loading docks and storage facilities and the interior folding door to divide work spaces and quickly alter the layout of production lines that require special attention. it is hard to believe how some of the huge steel folding doors in a modern factory can be the same basic structure as a delicate folding glass door in the shower.

While the folding door style does not have the strength of a solid panel or sliding door, it more than makes up for its lack by utilizing the space needed for opening into a compact area when your business needs to maximize its available floor space. The external folding door has even been modified for enclosure purposes and has been adapted by chain link fence makers to create collapsible gateways around factory parking lots where security requires the gates to be opened and shut regularly.