Terrace doors
Terrace doors belong to ground-floor rooms that spill into a garden: opened for guests, for the pool, and for the months when the evening air is finally worth having. That asks for wider openings and more panels than any balcony needs, and for a threshold people will cross carrying trays. Beside irrigation and chlorinated water, the details that decide the job are drainage at the sill and hardware that shrugs off constant damp.
- two to six panels
- flush or stepped threshold
- sliding or folding leaf action
Choices behind a terrace opening
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Sliding or folding
Panel movement
Stack aside, or fold back against a jamb
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Flush option
Threshold
Level crossing between floor and paving
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Serviceable
Rollers
Carriages reachable without cutting the frame
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Garden facing
Glazing
Coating balances the view against afternoon heat
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Coastal grade
Fixings
Specified for salt-laden air and pool damp
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The Pinnacle Building · Sheikh Zayed Road
- Address
- The Pinnacle Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Office 607, Dubai
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 9:00 – 18:00
Profile Options
Consult with a specialist
Profile finish and coating options
Powder coating in any shade of the RAL palette; the colour is confirmed against a physical sample at the survey.
Anodising builds an oxide layer on the profile itself, so the colour belongs to the metal rather than to a film on top of it and cannot peel.
Wood-grain and stone-effect finishes are transferred onto the powder coating. The profile keeps the strength of aluminium and never needs repainting.
Available colours (200+ RAL shades)
- White
- Anthracite
- Brown
- Black
- Grey-anthracite
- Grey
Anodised finishes
- Natural silver
- Champagne
- Light bronze
- Medium bronze
- Dark bronze
- Black anodised
Wood-grain and special effects
- Golden oak
- Walnut
- Dark oak
- Concrete
- Basalt
- Wenge
Planning a terrace opening
- Opening measured with the paving levels taken Engineer attends within 48 hours
- Stacking side agreed against the garden layout Panels must not block the route out
- Threshold type chosen Flush for step-free, stepped where rain drives in
- Irrigation and pool splash reviewed Constant damp changes the fixings used
- Manufactured to the surveyed opening Three to five weeks from the approved drawing
- Installed, levelled and rollers regulated Panels tuned to glide with one hand
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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
The honest downside
When a wide terrace door is not the answer
A multi-panel terrace door is built for the evenings when the room is thrown open. Through much of the summer it stays shut with the air conditioning on, and then it is a wide expanse of glass facing the garden sun, several panels to clean and a long track collecting sand and garden debris.
Width brings its own upkeep. More panels mean more rollers to regulate and more seal lines, and at ground level more glass to secure. A flush threshold works only where the paving falls away from the house and the channel beneath is drained.
If the opening onto a shaded or covered terrace is modest, or used mainly to step outside, a French pair seals on every edge and costs less than a multi-panel set. A wide terrace door remains the right choice where the garden, the pool and the living room are really meant to become one space.
Consider instead
French doors
Frequently asked questions
Yes, when the drainage is designed with it. A flush track needs a drained channel beneath the frame and paving that falls away, otherwise a level threshold is simply an invitation for water. Where the garden already slopes back towards the house we keep a small upstand and hide it in the floor finish.
Not when the carriages are matched to the panel. The weight rides on rollers, so what your hand feels is the quality and the alignment of the running gear rather than the mass of the glass. Panels that have turned stiff are nearly always out of level or full of grit.
The track wants a brush seal and a profile you can actually reach with a vacuum. We avoid deep enclosed channels on garden-facing openings for exactly this reason: a track that can be cleaned stays a track that works.
Not for the aluminium, but it changes the hardware. Chlorinated moisture together with salt-laden air attacks ordinary screws and springs long before it troubles a coated profile, so terrace sets beside a pool go out with fixings specified for that exposure.
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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