Patio & French doors · Staffordshire & Cheshire
Patio & French DoorsFitted Properly inStoke-on-Trent
Doors that glide with one hand, lock without a shove and keep the weather outside where it belongs: surveyed on site, fitted level, sealed against wind-driven rain, and covered by a 10-year insurance backed guarantee.
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Installations independently checked against Building Regulations.
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Every installation covered by an insurance backed guarantee.
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Family-run since 2019
Company No. 12220717, based in Stoke-on-Trent.
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Surveyed, priced in writing, with no obligation to proceed.
The service
The doors you use most should be the doors that work best
Patio and French doors are the largest moving opening in most homes, and they take more abuse than any window. A sliding patio door carries its weight on rollers that run a track thousands of times a year. A French door pair relies on two leaves closing against each other and a fixed rebate with millimetre accuracy. Both need to be level, square and properly packed or they will not stay smooth for long.
The service suits anyone opening a living room, dining room or kitchen onto a garden or patio, replacing a tired 1990s aluminium slider, or converting a solid rear wall into a glazed opening as part of a wider improvement. It also suits households where an existing set has become so heavy or unreliable that everyone uses the front door instead.
You need this work when the door drags on its track, when it takes two hands and a lift to lock, when the seals whistle in a westerly, when condensation forms between the panes, or when the frame has dropped enough that the leaves no longer meet cleanly at the centre. Those symptoms all get worse, never better.
Professional installation matters more here than anywhere else on the house. The opening usually sits under a lintel carrying real load, the threshold has to shed water away from the floor build-up, and the frame has to stay dead level over a wide span. Get the packing or the threshold detail wrong and you get a door that binds, a track that floods, and a draught along the full width of the room.
Who it is for
Homeowners opening a room onto the garden, anyone replacing worn aluminium or early uPVC sliders, and households whose existing doors have become too heavy to use daily.
When it is needed
Sticking or dragging slides, doors that need lifting to lock, whistling seals, misted panes, dropped leaves that no longer meet, or a rotting timber set.
What is included
Survey, measurement, supply of the door set and glazing, removal and disposal of the old doors, fitting, threshold and perimeter sealing, adjustment, testing and guarantee registration.
What happens if it waits
A door you have stopped using is a room you have stopped enjoying
Failing patio doors change how a house is lived in. When a slider becomes heavy, people stop opening it. When a French door pair has to be shouldered shut, it gets left locked all summer. The room loses its connection to the garden, and the household quietly writes off the space it paid the most to glaze.
There is a cost as well as an inconvenience. The widest opening in the house is also the biggest potential heat loss. A worn seal along a two-metre threshold leaks far more warmth than a bedroom window ever will, and a track that no longer drains sends water inwards to the floor edge, where it soaks skirting, flooring and the screed beneath.
The mistake we are called out to fix most is a wide opening fitted without adequate support or packing. The head deflects a few millimetres, the leaves start to catch on the frame, and the fitter's response is to plane, adjust and force rather than to correct the fit. Within a season the gear is worn and the only remedy left is a new door set.
Water reaching the floor build-up
A blocked or badly set threshold pushes rain inwards. Skirtings, flooring and screed edges absorb it long before anyone notices a leak.
The biggest draught in the house
A perished seal along a wide threshold leaks more heat than several windows combined and puts a cold line right across the living space.
A weak point for security
Worn rollers and misaligned keeps mean the locking hooks do not fully engage: the most accessible opening in the house is also the least secure.
Escalating repair costs
Once rollers, gear and seals have worn against a distorted frame, individual part replacement stops holding and the whole set has to be renewed.
Our process
From survey to a door that moves with one finger
Wide openings leave no room for guesswork, so the sequence is deliberate and each stage is signed off before the next begins.
- STEP 1
Inspection
We check the opening, the lintel, the threshold level and the floor build-up, and confirm what the structure will take before anything is specified.
- STEP 2
Diagnosis & specification
Sliding or French, opener configuration, threshold type, glass and hardware: all agreed and priced in a written quotation with no obligation.
- STEP 3
Manufacture & preparation
The set is made to your survey dimensions and the site is prepared so the opening is only exposed for as short a time as possible.
- STEP 4
Installation & sealing
Frame packed dead level, mechanically fixed, threshold bedded and drained correctly, perimeter sealed inside and out, trims finished neatly.
- STEP 5
Testing, sign-off & guarantee
Rollers or hinges adjusted, locking tested through the full throw, operation demonstrated to you, then registered under the 10-year insurance backed guarantee.
What you get
What a correctly fitted door set changes day to day
One-handed operation
Correctly set rollers on a level track, or hinges adjusted to a square frame, mean the door moves with a fingertip rather than a shoulder.
Locking that engages cleanly
Multi-point hooks and correctly aligned keeps throw fully every time, without lifting the handle against a dropped leaf.
Weather kept outside
Brush and compression seals plus a drained threshold stop wind-driven rain finding a route to the floor edge on exposed elevations.
Warmth across the widest opening
A-rated sealed units and continuous perimeter sealing remove the cold line that used to run the full width of the room.
Daylight without draught
Slim sightlines and large panes bring in more light while the frame does the insulating work behind the scenes.
Ten years of documented cover
Assure certified installation and a 10-year insurance backed guarantee covering the set, so heavy daily use is not a gamble.
In detail
Sliding, French, thresholds and glass: the choices that matter
Which set suits you comes down to the space you have, the way the room is arranged and how exposed the elevation is. Here is how we advise on each.
Sliding patio doors
A slider takes no swing space, which makes it the right answer where furniture, a narrow patio or a path sits immediately inside or outside the opening. The moving leaf runs on rollers within a track, so the whole performance depends on the track being dead level and correctly supported along its length.
We specify adjustable rollers and stainless tracks where we can, because they can be trimmed years later rather than replaced. Anti-lift blocks stop the leaf being levered out of the track, and the drainage path through the outer track is checked as part of the installation, not left to chance.
French door sets
French doors give a full-width opening with both leaves back, which suits garden access, moving furniture and rooms used for entertaining. The pair closes against a rebate and, on most sets, a removable or fixed centre mullion, so hinge adjustment and frame squareness govern how they meet.
Side screens and top lights extend the glazed area where the opening is wider than a standard pair. Where a wide opening exists but only occasional full access is needed, a single opener with fixed side panels gives most of the light for less moving hardware to maintain.
Thresholds, drainage and access
The threshold detail decides whether the set stays dry. Standard thresholds provide the most weather protection and are the default on exposed elevations. Low thresholds reduce the trip step for prams, wheelchairs and everyday traffic, and need careful setting out against the external levels.
Whichever is used, the outer drainage path has to fall away from the building and stay clear. We set the threshold on a bedded, continuous seal rather than a run of silicone, and we check the external ground level so a raised patio does not defeat the detail.
Glass, security and commercial use
All doors and side panels are glazed with toughened safety glass as a critical location. A-rated sealed units with low-emissivity coatings, warm-edge spacers and gas fill are standard, with laminated or acoustic options where the property fronts a busy road or security is a particular concern.
In commercial settings (offices, cafés, function rooms) the same sets take far higher cycle counts, so we specify heavier-duty gear, and we schedule the work outside trading hours where the opening cannot be out of use during the day.
Recent work
Patio & French Doors we have completed locally
Common questions
Answers before
you commit
If your question is not here, call Anthony Jones on 01782 479526. A two-minute conversation usually settles it, and there is never any pressure to book.
How much does a patio or French door set cost?+
It depends on the width of the opening, whether it is sliding or French, the threshold type, the glass specification and the finish. We survey the opening and give a written price that includes the set, fitting, removal of the old doors and guarantee registration.
Which is better, sliding patio doors or French doors?+
Sliders suit tight spaces because nothing swings into the room or the patio. French doors suit rooms where you want the full width open and have the clearance for the leaves. We look at the space at survey and tell you which will actually work better.
How long does installation take?+
Most single door sets are completed in a day. Wider openings, structural work or making good can extend that, and if so we confirm the timescale in writing before the work starts.
Can you replace old aluminium patio doors?+
Yes. Replacing worn 1980s and 1990s aluminium sliders is common work for us. The old frames come out and are taken away as part of the job.
My existing doors stick: can they be repaired instead?+
Sometimes. If the frame is sound and the problem is worn rollers, seals or hinge adjustment, a repair is the sensible route and we will say so. If the frame has dropped or distorted, replacement is the only lasting fix.
Are the doors secure?+
Yes. Multi-point locking with hooks, anti-lift protection on sliders, toughened safety glass and internal beading come as standard, with correctly aligned keeps so the locking engages fully.
What guarantee applies?+
Installation is Assure certified and covered by a 10-year insurance backed guarantee, with the certification handled for you.
Can I have a low threshold for wheelchair or pram access?+
Yes, where the external levels allow it. We check the ground level and drainage at survey, because a low threshold on an exposed elevation needs the outside detail to be right.
How long should a patio door last?+
A properly fitted set should give many years of daily use. Rollers, seals and handles are wearing parts and are replaceable, which is exactly why we specify adjustable, serviceable hardware.
Do you cover Crewe, Sandbach and Alsager as well as Stoke?+
Yes. We work throughout Staffordshire and Cheshire, including Crewe, Sandbach, Alsager, Stone, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Birches Head and Milton.
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Next step
Open the room up properly this year
Send us the opening size or call and we will survey it, tell you honestly whether sliding or French suits the space, and put one clear written price in front of you.
Assure certified · 10-year insurance backed guarantee · Rated 5.0 from 99 Google reviews