Champion offers an extensive selection of sliding glass doors for your home. They come with different frame materials for aesthetic preferences and thermal performance. Wood frames offer a classic look, while fiberglass and aluminum provide resilience against swelling, rotting and warping.
This window style blurs the line between indoor and outdoor spaces, providing a light-filled ambiance and enhancing ventilation. They can also increase energy efficiency and revitalize outdated living areas.
They Enhance Aesthetics
Sliding glass doors are essential to modern home design, blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor spaces, offering a seamless connection with scenic settings, and creating a light-filled ambiance. They also improve ventilation, boost energy efficiency, and revitalize outdated living areas.
These doors offer a wide array of customization and personalization options that allow homeowners to become co-creators of their homes. They can choose from different frame colors and finishes, as well as customize the handles, locks, jambs, and tracks to suit their aesthetic preferences and home schemes.
Moreover, they are designed to save space as they move horizontally along the wall rather than swinging open, unlike traditional hinged doors. This makes them a good option for tight or restricted living spaces where optimizing space is crucial.
They Provide Natural Light
Sliding glass doors make a beautiful addition to any home, providing many aesthetic and practical advantages. They enhance interiors with natural light, improve ventilation, increase energy efficiency and more.
Traditional door designs often prioritize soundproofing and security at the expense of natural light introduction. Sliding glass doors, on the other hand, often feature large expanses of glass that blur the line between indoor and outdoor spaces.
The ample natural light they let in can create a bright and inviting indoor ambiance while reducing the need for artificial lighting. Moreover, they help promote fresh air circulation throughout the house, eliminating mildew and other unhealthy odors. Besides sliding doors, other options include double-hung windows that have two operable sashes and French or pivot doors. These windows can be paired with window shadings like Luminette(r) Privacy Sheers from Hunter Douglas for additional control over natural light and privacy.
They Improve Ventilation
Sliding glass doors offer a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living spaces, flooding rooms with natural light and creating a warm ambiance. They also provide improved ventilation and help reduce energy costs.
Modern sliding glass doors are designed to be energy-efficient, with features like double-paned glass and weather stripping. This helps them keep cool air in during summer and warm air out in winter. It can even reduce heating and cooling bills.
To ensure that your sliding glass doors are able to provide natural cross-ventilation throughout your home, be sure to regularly clean them and inspect them for signs of wear and tear. Also, apply lubricant to the track and rollers to allow the door to slide smoothly and effortlessly. You can find lubricants that are compatible with various frames, including wood, vinyl, and fiberglass, at retailers like the Home Depot.
They Increase Energy Efficiency
Sliding glass doors create a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living spaces, allowing natural light to flow through homes. They also improve ventilation, increase home value, and enhance comfort.
However, these doors often become conduits for heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer, which requires a strategic approach to insulation. Hanging insulating drapes and applying window film can help prevent air infiltration and energy loss. Weatherstripping and draft stoppers can further minimize cold air infiltration, boosting home energy efficiency.
For the best results, homeowners should choose ENERGY STAR certified sliding doors with low U-factors and double glazing. These doors are available in a variety of frame materials to suit aesthetic preferences, including wood, fiberglass, and aluminum, and they have superior insulation capacities than older single-pane windows.
They Increase Security
Sliding glass doors create a seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living spaces, improve ventilation, and increase natural light. They are also energy efficient, ensuring a comfortable and healthy home environment. They’re also visually appealing, and provide unobstructed views of the outdoors.
Most sliding glass doors feature a simple latch lock during factory installation. Unfortunately, this type of lock is easy to disable and doesn’t offer enough security for your family’s safety.
Burglars use a variety of methods to gain entry through your home, including using force or leverage to break the lock, jimmying open the door or its frame, picking locks, or even breaking the glass panels. To prevent these issues, consider installing shatterproof security film or bars on the track to prevent lifting and door reinforcements that secure the frame to the floor.