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Lift-and-slide doors
A lift-and-slide door does one thing an ordinary slider cannot. Turning the handle raises the whole leaf clear of its seals and sets it down on the running gear; turning it back lowers the leaf again onto a continuous gasket. Closed, it behaves like a hinged door, because the weight of the leaf itself is what presses the seal home. Open, it behaves like a slider, because the leaf is riding on bogies rather than being dragged — which is how tall, heavy glazing ends up being moved with one hand.
- lifts, then slides what the handle does
- the leaf's own weight what presses the seal
- one hand effort to move it
The mechanism behind the handle
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Cam gear
Lifting gear
A handle turn raises the whole leaf
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Continuous
Seal
The gasket the leaf sits down onto
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Bogies
Carriages
Loaded only while the leaf travels
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Parked or pocketed
Open position
Behind a fixed pane, or into the wall
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Stops anywhere
Positioning
The leaf stays where you leave it
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Advantages of working with us
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In-house production
Windows, doors and glazed structures are made at our own factory in the UAE. Manufacturing takes 3–5 weeks from the survey, and the dates are written into the contract.
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Room measurement
After a free consultation, an engineer comes to measure within 48 hours and answers the technical questions on site — openings, profile, glass and hardware.
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Delivery of products
We deliver with our own transport across Dubai and all Emirates, and the installation date is agreed in advance so the crew arrives with the finished units.
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Installation on site
A "clean" installation is carried out – all construction debris is removed, and dust and dirt are cleaned. Work can be conducted with or without your presence. The date and time are discussed individually.
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Guarantee
The structures we make and the installation our crews carry out are covered by one warranty under one contract. The profile system also carries the manufacturer's warranty — up to 20 years, depending on the system.
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Service
Warranty cases are handled by the same crews that did the installation: send the address and photos, and in most cases we can say before the visit whether it is an adjustment, a gasket or a glass unit.
What we work out before quoting a lift-and-slide
- Leaf area and glazing build-up calculated The gear is chosen from weight, not span
- Where the moving leaf parks Behind glass, or inside a wall pocket
- Threshold set against the finished floor Flush is possible; drainage decides how
- Handle side and reach agreed The whole leaf is worked from one point
- Hardware finish checked for salt air Coastal elevations are harder on gear
- Three to five weeks from approved drawings Assembled and glazed at our Dubai plant
Partitions
Office partitions made of aluminium profiles are a simple, quick, and cost-effective way to organise efficient zoning within a large space, while maintaining interior unity.
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Aluminium office partitions with glass
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Full-glass office partitions
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Transformable partitions for the office
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Accordion partitions for the office
Aluminium windows of any configuration
Made to size in our own factory in Dubai — in 3–5 weeks.
We will find convenient opening options:
The honest downside
Where lift-and-slide is not worth it
Lift-and-slide solves one specific problem: sealing a heavy leaf that still has to move by hand. On a modest balcony or bedroom door there is no such problem, and the heavier gear, deeper frame and cost of the mechanism buy little over a well-built conventional slider.
In one respect it is still a slider. Unless it runs into a wall pocket, the moving leaf parks in front of a fixed pane, so only part of the opening clears. The handle has to be turned fully each time to lift and lower the leaf, the cam gear sits at the bottom where sand gathers, and a flush threshold works only with a drained channel outside the line of the door.
For an ordinary opening, a standard sliding door does the job for less. Lift-and-slide remains the right choice for tall, heavy glazing, for rooms cooled hard against a sea breeze and wherever a level threshold is not negotiable.
Consider instead
Sliding doors
Frequently asked questions
The handle drives a gear along the bottom of the leaf. In the closed position the leaf rests low, squeezed down onto a gasket that runs the full length of the sill, and the carriages carry nothing. Turning the handle rotates cams that push against the track and lift the leaf a small amount — enough to break contact with the seal and transfer the weight onto the bogies. From that moment the leaf rolls. Turning the handle back reverses it, and the leaf settles onto the gasket under its own mass.
Because a plain sliding leaf drags its seals and wipers along the frame the whole way, and that friction grows with every extra metre of gasket. A lift-and-slide separates the two jobs: sealing happens only when the leaf is down and stationary, rolling happens only when it is up. Nothing rubs while the door is in motion, so a leaf far too heavy to shove as a conventional slider glides with a light push.
Yes, and it is one of the reasons people choose the system — the seal does not depend on a raised upstand, because the leaf comes down onto it vertically. What a flush threshold does depend on is somewhere for water to go. We set the level against the finished terrace at the survey and run a drainage channel outside the line of the door, so the sill is a level transition indoors and a drained detail outdoors.
It earns its place where the glazing is genuinely large, where the room is cooled hard against a coastal breeze, or where a flush threshold is architecturally non-negotiable. On a modest balcony door of ordinary size a well-built conventional slider does the same job for less, and we will say so at the survey. The system is about sealing a heavy leaf, not about opening a wide one — for the second question the answer is usually folding or panoramic.
Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- Apartment doors
- Automatic doors
- Balcony doors
- Bi-fold doors
- Black doors
- Bronze doors
- Brown doors
- Corner sliding doors
- Double-leaf doors
- Entrance doors
- Fire-rated doors
- French doors
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