New home – door choices
Dave W| Posted inGeneral Questionson
(Are you all getting tired of my questions yet?)
We have a couple of design choices we can make with our new home and wanted to get feedback on “standard” doors vs. sliding glass doors. Northern exposure. Will either be a “full daylight” standard (french?) door or sliding glass. Looking for input on pros and cons of each from a thermal protection standpoint.
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Dave,
Sliding doors have more air leakage than hinged doors. If you care about energy performance, choose a hinged door.
Just as I suspected....thank you for verifying!
Any particular brands that you've been impressed by?
A nit-pick of a clarification: A double door with an integral multi-point lock. Otherwise, many of the 'popular' manufacturers' double active doors will be the worst opening in your house. Serious Windows and Doors makes an impressive door.
"If you care about energy performance, choose a hinged door."
lift-slides can be fairly airtight, and have been installed in many high performance passivhaeuser in the EU and US...
Sorry for not replying in a more timely fashion.....thank you all for the advice....sliding door is being taken out of our plan and replaced with hinged door.