Sliding Doors in Dallas

Sliding Doors in Dallas

The sliding doors we see today are much different from the ones of years past. Stronger locks and frames and heat reflective glass make a modern sliding door both thermally efficient and a source of great light and openness in the living area..

 

Modern sliding doors can be built from Vinyl or from Wood in most cases but there are composite frames also out there. I think they are a bit cost prohibitive but they are an option. Sliding doors can be as much as $12,000 to $15,000 from the big names like Renewal by Andersen, Pella, Marvin, Statewide Remodeling and others. We are proud to have high quality products with equal quality and workmanship for often a third of the cost.

We offer sliding doors from NT Window, Alside, Burris and Associates, Don Young Company and Atrium Window and Door. All have some great features and our recommendation is usually related to what window would be best in the home over the long run. We look at the home value, your estimated time to live in the home and what the neighborhood itself is doing. Doors do have some tax benefit as well in the form of a rebate on Federal Taxes for Energy Star rated products.

Sliding doors will have Low E Glass with Argon from Cardinal, PPG or from Guardian and will offer Energy Star Approval with great performance and a streamlined modern look. All of the ones we sell are great, they just have different applications based on the variables that you and your home bring to the table. One of the main reasons we offer 10 different manufacturers is to bring what's best for the home and the application. It's what makes our approach better.

Sliding Doors from NT Window - The 650 Series

Sliding Doors let in more light than french doors as well as having the ease of operation and a sliding screen door. By contrast, french doors don't have screen capability from most vendors. The glass in a sliding door is easily 30% greater than the typical swinging door.

These doors are available in White, Almond, Sandstone and a number of other colors including black and bronze (dark brown). The first three are standard colors and less costly than the custom exterior color option. Most custom exteriors are painted and the painted finish is warranteed for ten years. We have been installing these doors for 20 years and have not had a warranty claim or a concern expressed over paint finish and durabilty. The right window and door manufacturers have perfected the process. This is a good place to note that it's a high end option and many of the cheaper vendors do not use as efficient a process in creating custom or darker colors for the exterior.

Most high quality vinyl sliding doors will have a lifetime warranty on the door and the glass package, hardware etc. On this install, we also cut in this flanking window into the adjacent wall to lend more light to the room. The Window Connection is proud that we put 40 years of experience on every project. Never cutting corners, always doing what is best for the home and the homeowner.

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Top of the Line Alside Sliding Door

This has been one of our favorites for many years. The Alside Company makes a few different models but the top of the line one is our real go to product. The top picture shows a cutaway of the frame and it's more than impressive. It's made of treated wood with a vinyl clad covering and aluminum tracks. It's more than 5 inches thick and has a lifetime warranty. I think these doors will be sliding along in 50 years personally.

Beige and White are the standard colors but they can have a laminated cover to achieve any one of a number of color schemes. You can find out more about custom exterior colors for sliding doors and windows to match at the following link.

Exterior Colors for Sliding Doors

The real plus side to sliding doors as opposed to swinging doors is the space it saves. A sliding door allows space in front of the dead panel in a way that a swinging door just can't. The added space is a real plus. Most of the time when I hear of someone wanting to replace a slider with a swinging door it has more to do with their perception of the old time sliding doors than real understanding of how awesome the new ones are.

I many folks prefer the additional light from more glass you'll see with a sliding door. Sliding Doors have about 30% more glass than do even full glass style swinging doors. More light and better usage of space are both great reasons to find a good sliding door with the modern glass packages and be truly amazed at the performance.

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Sliding Doors and the Adjacent Window we see in a Fox and Jacobs home.

Fox and Jacobs, later known as Centex, built literally thousands and perhaps tens of thousands of homes in the North Texas area from Garland to The Colony, from Duncanville to Mesquite, Flower Mound, Lewisville and beyond all have sprawling communities with this exact window and sliding door configuration.

They were all terrible when they were built and time hasn't made them any better. I replace a lot of these. I would guess I've fixed this set up a few hundred times. The main conversion is to change out the gold aluminum post for something more presentable, usually a clear select pine works well. These are also often short doors coming in at 78 1/2' tall instead of the typical 80" tall. I don't know who saved 37 cents by installing ten thousand really short doors, but the homeowners are surely dreading it now. They do require a custom door or a header cut to work out correctly and the window has a lot to do with the installation as well.

All of these doors have lifetime warranties, sliding screens, low e glass with argon gas and some amazing performance.

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