Open plan offices are more efficient in using space. This can lead to lower overheads, which can translate into higher profits or lower losses. However, there may be a need to have a private area for meetings and conferences. A virtual wall of frameless, glass doors can be as wide as eight metres in width, yet they only occupy a small footprint against a wall when fully opened.
Doors are made from tempered glass. They slide along guides in ceiling and floor until they reach side walls, where they pivot ninety° to stack neatly against that wall. Because the glass is very thin, a stack of eight doors will barely exceed a hand width.
Although the doors can take hours to stack, they can be quickly rearranged and slid into place in less than a minute. To slide along the guides, the first door is turned 90 degrees. The next doors are then placed until the last one is in place. The main door opens in the traditional manner so that guests, staff and executives can enter and exit the room in their usual way GlassPartitions Manchester .
Frameless glass stacking doors should not be confused for purely sliding doors or glass walls with two opening doors that do not allow maximum access to areas. Only one of these systems allows for full open office environments: the slide-pivot stack glass door system.
For private functions, frameless glass partitions are increasingly popular in large restaurants and hotels. Tinted glass is also available for privacy.
The doors are being installed at the property frontage of smaller restaurants to expand their dining spaces on sunny days. The slide-pivot stack method is superior to bi-folding doors for its narrow profile when fully opened and stacked. The reason is that the individual doors are either stacked away or in place along the guideline to form a window wall, whereas bifolding doors slide together and leave a protrusion along any remaining guides.
Frameless glass doors, based on the European concept of 'glass curtains,' are now available for order. They can be made in England and installed as part of the quoted price.
The frameless glass room partitions can be used for commercial purposes as well. A double-glazed frameless patio door version with a frameless glass roof was also launched to meet building regulations for domestic dwellings. Double-glazed doors can be frameless, but they have an opaque gasket on the sides of the panels to seal the space between the panes.
