Anyone fitted (or even seen) one of these concealed sliding doors?
http://www.eclisse.co.uk/construction-details.htm

They look a lot better that the old 70's efforts that I remember, which
had a tendency to fall off their runners. It would give me a valuable
few ft^2 of space in re-laying out the bathroom ...

Andy Burns wrote:
Anyone fitted (or even seen) one of these concealed sliding doors?
http://www.eclisse.co.uk/construction-details.htm

They look a lot better than the old 70's efforts that I remember, which
had a tendency to fall off their runners.

IIRC, they could be lifted off the rails fairly easily and only tended
to fall off badly put together ones.

It would give me a valuable few ft^2 of space in re-laying out the bathroom ...

I can't see that they can be all that much different. I was also going
to say they are or were nearly impossible to draught seal but of
course, for a bathroom that isn't so important.

Is there no way you could have the present door opening out? Replacing
a door frame or turning one around is not that big a deal. No more than
messing with one of these anyway.

Weatherlawyer wrote:

I can't see that they can be all that much different. I was also going
to say they are or were nearly impossible to draught seal but of
course, for a bathroom that isn't so important.

Is there no way you could have the present door opening out? Replacing
a door frame or turning one around is not that big a deal. No more
than messing with one of these anyway.

My sister did that in her tiny newly built house & now regrets it. If
someone is walking along the landing when someone else exits the bathroom a
collision occurs.


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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
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The Medway Handyman wrote:

My sister did that in her tiny newly built house & now regrets it. If
someone is walking along the landing when someone else exits the bathroom a
collision occurs.

Having it open outwards would seem "odd" to me, whereas a sliding door
would merely count as "unusual".

Weatherlawyer wrote:

IIRC, they could be lifted off the rails fairly easily and only tended
to fall off badly put together ones.

In the student houses I remember them from, I'm sure both factors applied.

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What a pity that message is going to go the way of all non digita. What
a loss to the whirl.