| ADVANTAGES
over Swinging Door
1. 50" Door is no problem. Swinging
doors can be up to 39" with expensive hinges.
2. The Bi-Fold folds up against the wall for
full access to the tub. Swing doors are not wide enough to
block over spray and require a fixed panel.
3. Minimal wall space. A 50" Bi-Fold
door only requires 10" on each side of
the centerline, which is probably 7 or 8" on each side
of the curb. Swinging Doors often hit the sink or toilet.
4. Real Estate is expensive. 2 - 30"
wide swinging doors take up 10 square feet of your bathroom.
In San Francisco, real estate costs $750/s.f. That's $7500
of your house, which, if you install a Bi-Fold Door, can be
used for other things. The door might cost $800 to $1500 or
$2000 installed, but you save $7500. Can you afford to not
follow this logic?
5. Flexible design. We can make a two panel
Bi-Fold for shower door openings. We can make a Bi-Fold for
a corner shower with a fixed end panel.
6. Water on the floor. Does water dripping
off the swinging door onto your floor bother you? We can make
the Bi-Fold Door fold up to the inside of the shower, if the
opening is small enough.
7. Wheel Chair Access. The Swinging door
is difficult to open from a wheel chair and there is a limit
to the width. The Bi-Fold can easily handle 50" width
and opening it is easy, since it folds up to the side and
doesn't swing right into your face.
8. Kids like to take baths. It is unpleasant
to have most of your access to the tub blocked by fixed panels
and swinging doors. The Bi-Fold Door folds up completely out
of the way giving you full access to the tub with nothing
on the edge or curb.
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ADVANTAGES over Sliding
Tub and Shower Doors
1. Access. Sliding doors allow less than
50% access to the tub or shower opening. The Bi-Fold can allow
nearly 100% access.
2. No sharp metal. The Bi fold has nothing
on the curb or sill or edge of the tub. If you want to lean
over the edge to clean or bathe your young child, it can be
dangerous and unpleasant to have sharp ridges of metal pressing
into your elbows.
3. Safety. 3/8" tempered glass is unbelievably
strong. Our company picture on our home page shows all of
us standing on a piece of heavy tempered glass supported on
two edges only. Thin glass sliding shower doors are very breakable
and relatively unsafe when compared to heavy glass showers.
4. Great Looks: American style sliding shower
doors have lots of aluminum all around the opening. The Bi
fold has small hinges and a header with one roller and that's
it. It is a very clean modern look.
5. Clean. No jambs or Sill track to collect
soap and so forth. No strips of ridged metal that literally
can't be cleaned. There is also no flat header to collect
dust. The header of the Hydroslide Bi-Fold is round and easy
to clean. The Exposed Stainless Roller Bi-Fold is also easy
to clean.
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WHY BUY FROM WILSON GLASS?
We try to always stock the hardware. It's most likely ready
to ship.
If you want to have the glass made locally, right now, we will
make the drawings for you.
We have been in business for many years - over three generations
- going on four now. If something goes wrong, we do not abandon
our customers.
Prices of glass from us, even including shipping across the
country, are often cheaper than your local glass company. Not
always, but often. |
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Hours:
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