Pivot windows
A pivot leaf turns about an axis that runs through the middle of the frame rather than down one edge of it. Half the sash travels outward while the other half comes into the room, and the two halves trade places every time it is worked. Because the bearings sit near the balance line, the leaf is carried close to its own centre of gravity, so a wide field stays light in the hand where a side-hung sash of the same size would be hanging its whole weight off one jamb. The price of that is paid in two places: the gasket has to change which face of the window it seals on, and everything that normally lives in the plane of the frame — a screen, a blind, a curtain — has to move out of the arc.
- through the frame where the axis runs
- carried near its balance the leaf
- clear of the arc screens and blinds
What turning on an axis asks for
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Horizontal or vertical
Axis
The room decides which way
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Two bearings
What carries it
Set on the balance line
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Crosses over
Gasket
Outer face becomes inner face
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On the outward half
Drainage
Water must leave low and outside
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Set back in the reveal
Screen
It cannot sit in the frame
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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 settle before a pivot is made
- Axis direction agreed with the room Which half you want coming inward
- Arc drawn on both sides of the wall Nothing may stand where the leaf turns
- Crossover points detailed at the pivots That is where a poor one leaks
- Stops and a lock chosen for the leaf A turning sash has to be held
- Blind and screen placed outside the sweep In the reveal, not in the frame
- Balanced, glazed and set in Dubai Three to five weeks from the drawing
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The honest downside
What a pivot window is not good at
Turning the leaf brings the outside in. Each time it goes round, the face that has been collecting dust since the last shamal swings into the room, with the sand settled on the outward half of the frame and, near the coast, a film of salt. That is the feature that makes cleaning easy, but it means a wipe before the leaf is left open over a sofa or a bed.
Open, the leaf never leaves the opening either. It stands across the middle and splits the gap in two, so there is no clear space to lean out or hand anything through.
Where the opening is of ordinary width and the priority is a tight seal, a side-hung casement closes against one continuous face of the frame with no crossover points to look after. The pivot stays the right answer for a wide leaf high up, where a balanced leaf and inside cleaning matter most.
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Frequently asked questions
Two reasons that only apply to this geometry. First, the bearings hold the leaf near its own balance line instead of at one edge, so a field that would drop out of square on side hinges turns with one hand. Second, once the leaf has gone round, the face that was looking at the sky is standing in the room, so the pane is washed where you are standing. On a tower that removes the whole question of getting to the outside of the glass.
It seals differently, and the difference is worth understanding. A side-hung sash is drawn against one continuous face of the frame all the way round. A pivot cannot be: the half that swings out has to close against the frame from outside, the half that comes in closes against it from inside, and at each bearing the gasket has to step from one face to the other. Those two crossover points are the whole job. Done as a moulded transition with the drainage kept on the outward half, a pivot holds up here; done as a straight length of gasket cut and butted at the pivot, it is likely to weep after a shamal.
Not in the frame, because the leaf sweeps through that plane on both sides of the wall. What works is a roller cassette set back in the reveal, behind the arc, so the mesh runs down clear of the turning leaf and can be wound up when the window is worked. Our sister brand Mosquito Nets UAE can build that type to the measured reveal. Anything fixed across the opening will be caught by the sash the first time somebody opens it fully.
Everything the leaf passes through. Indoors that means the swing depth in front of the window, so no tall furniture, no long curtain hanging in the plane of the glass, and no ceiling track running across it. Outdoors it means the projection: a pivot on a walkway elevation or over a neighbour's terrace is the wrong choice however well it works in the room. The travel can be restricted where children use the room, and we mark the arc on the survey drawing so it is argued about before manufacture rather than after.
Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- Aluminium-wood windows
- Arched windows
- Bay windows
- Casement windows
- Corner windows
- Custom shapes
- Double-panel windows
- Energy efficient windows
- Fire-rated windows
- Fixed windows
- Floor-to-ceiling windows
- Folding windows
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