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Pocket Doors

  • 17-09-2016 8:24am
    #1
    vanman99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Hi, looking for advice from anyone who has pocket doors? What style of door do you recommend for the pocket. Clear glass, glazed or solid wood? If you were doing them again what would you do different?


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  • #2
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    What to rooms is it between?
    Frequency of use?
    Etc


  • #3
    vanman99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭vanman99


    Hi, separates the kitchen and living room. New build so no idea on frequency, assuming it will be open a lot more than it's closed but wondering if it is better to close off a room with pocket doors and have solid doors or use glass doors...


  • #4
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    vanman99 wrote: »
    Hi, separates the kitchen and living room. New build so no idea on frequency, assuming it will be open a lot more than it's closed but wondering if it is better to close off a room with pocket doors and have solid doors or use glass doors...

    I'd go for fully glazed door, but that depends on the family(usage/safety/cleaning)


  • #5
    cork2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭cork2


    I'd agree with BrianF. A fully glazed door to allow the maximum amount of light into the room. In the last two years I've fitted a dozen or so sets of pocket doors. Mostly using glazed pocket doors. The most important thing I'll say to you is put a track in the floor for the doors to slide. Designers hate the track in the floor as they like floors to flow from room to room seamlessly. The problem given time and timber warping is that when closed the doors won't be flush. if you have underfloor heating, this problem is even more of an issue.
    The last few I did I put a stainless channel into the floor finishing flush with the tile/timber. A nylon grommet or stainless bar fitted to the underside of the door slides in the floor track and you will never have trouble with the door functioning.


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