EXPLORE OUR BI-FOLDING DOOR RANGE
The absolute pinnacle in innovative design, we’re proud to reveal our most advanced range bi-folding doors yet. Engineered to perform effortlessly, our range of bi-folding doors are incredibly slim and lightweight for smooth gliding but hides a super strength that ensures your home is secure and protected.
ECLIPSE BI-FOLDING DOORS
Most Worcester double glazing companies don’t offer two premium bi-folding door options. 5 Star also fit the Eclipse aluminium bi-folding door system. British designed and made in Gloucester. Choices so good, it’s hard to choose between them.
ORIGIN BI-FOLDING DOORS
5 Star are proud to be Worcester’s Accredited Origin Partner with over 10 years’ experience fitting British made Origin bi-folding Doors. Bi-folds are a life changing investment, transforming your home.
Bi-Folding Doors for your Worcester home...
Worcester City and the outlying conurbation is packed with a wide variety of houses, many have benefited from the addition of bi-folding doors…is yours next?
If you live in a picture-perfect village on the outskirts of Worcester in a cottage, and want to be able to open your home onto your garden with beautiful bi-folding doors, 5 Star are ready to help.
Maybe you live in a ground floor Worcester City apartment and are looking to add that wow factor by adding bi-folding doors onto a walled courtyard near Diglis marina, or even overlooking Worcester Racecourse, 5 Star have just the product range to make you the envy of your friends and family.
Create a 5 Star opening...
You’ve just retired and have purchased your dream bungalow in Warndon Villages and want to create that amazing living space, incorporating your kitchen, lounge, and dining room into one open plan room with 5 Star opening up the back wall and then fitting stunning 9.4 metre wide bi-folding doors across the full rear of your bungalow onto the garden terrace.
Developing a larger detached family home on the edge of Worcester City centre, adding two sets of bi-folding doors – the first opening the kitchen onto a new entertaining patio area and the second opening in the opposite direction in the adjoining lounge, opening onto the family garden.
Adding the wow factor...
There are few better ways to improve your Worcester home, or with a higher wow factor, than installing bi-folding doors. The 5 Star team have installed over 1,118 different bi-folding door systems in homes across Worcestershire, West Midlands, and Warwickshire. Bi-fold doors are visually pleasing and use space fantastically. Whether you have an existing door system to upgrade or a desire to have your home wall taken out to create a flexible bi-folding door installation, 5 Star have the skilled Worcester team to carry out the makeover.
Style and security
Choosing the safest bi-folding door possible is important. 5 Star only sell bi-folds with a multi-point locking systems at the heart of the security of your bi-fold door. Regardless of which system you choose, once locked, the multi locking points engage in each direction, and into the strongest of locking keeps, ensuring that the door sash is securely locked into the door frame. If security is important and the bi-folding doors are not being used as an entry point, then all our doors can be specified without an external keyhole or external handle. This further reduces opportunity for a would-be burglar. So, wherever you live in Worcester you will be secure with bi folding doors from 5 Star.
CHOOSE YOUR BI-FOLD DOOR OPTIONS
As soon as you have informed the consultant of the coloured finish you want and the hardware for the design, work will begin on creating your aluminium bi-folding doors.
Bi-fold doors can be made with as few as two panes.
Your new bi-folding doors come in as few as 2 doors, and up to 8 doors spanning up to 9.4 meters. If you live in a small terrace house in Worcester but still want the benefits of bi-folds, we can help. The configuration possibilities are almost endless, with open doors stacking out or in, left or right. You can split 1, 2, 3 or more doors off in one direction with the rest of the pack opening the opposite way. Doors can also wrap around a corner post opening in two directions and can stack towards, or away from the post. If the space allows for a cantilever, the doors can wrap around a corner without a corner post. Please do have a chat with one of our Worcester based designers in our Kidderminster or Worcester showroom or in the comfort of your own home. Call us on 01562 60800 to arrange.
More options than a rainbow
Bi-fold Doors can be bi-coloured – that is a different frame colour on the inside to the outside – and are available in almost any colour, including trendy black, brilliant white and all the modern greys. As our bi-fold doors are made from powder coated aluminium, there are up to 150 different RAL colours to choose from, depending on which manufacturer’s system you choose. Wood-grain colour options are also available if required.
Origin doors, one of Worcestershire’s most popular systems, is coated with the highest-grade powder available. Applied using an electrostatic process after a special pre-treatment, it is then cured at 200°C to form a robust coating that is tougher than conventional paint, whilst maintaining a completely smooth surface. Aluminium doors are resistant to scratches and are unlikely to fade.
More colour and style options
Each of the hardware handle options are available in a choice of finishes, styles, and colours. The owners of modern homes tend to choose silver, while older properties look stunning with a bi folding door in a gold or black finish. There’s also a minimalistic simplicity to white which is always popular, it’s the timeless colour. If you have young children in the house, Stainless-steel handles are a great choice because they require less maintenance, are incredibly durable and are easy to clean.
You’ll also want an easy-to-pull handle, so children can use easily. One of the most important handle options that 5 Star has to offer, is not having a handle on the outside at all, for your ultimate security if your bi folding doors are not used as an entry point.
Ultra safe bi folding doors
We have bi folding door systems which pass PAS23/24 tests – and pass the Police ‘Secure by Design’ standard. You can choose a 3 Star barrel lock with British Standards accredited Magnum security cylinder, proven to protect against snapping, picking, drilling, and bumping. All our bifolds come with multiple locking points and are fitted with toughened glass as standard which is 8 times stronger than normal glass.
Minimalise the trip and avoid a draught
Your threshold is the track which the door carriage slides in. Our different systems offer slightly different options so do spend a little time and understand the benefits of a flat entry with the accompanying negatives of a slightly less weathertight seal in some conditions. 5 Star recommends a weathered threshold (also known as a ‘rebated’ threshold), which can be sunk into the floor, it leaves a minimal lip, (just 14mm from outside to in) and the seal on the bottom of the bi-fold door compresses against the lip to create a protective weather tight seal.
A non-weathered thresholds gives a flat transition between the in and the out. There is no raised section, which means as the door seal doesn’t have a solid lip to compress against, optimal weather performance is not guaranteed. This track system is only recommended for internal or very sheltered areas. In exposed areas some water egress could occur and a slight under draft is possible.
Winter - warm me up. Summer - Cool me down.
For all its advantages aluminium is not a thermally efficient material, which is why 5 Star’s systems all have thermal polyamide breaks designed to limit the heat transfer from inside to out. This, with sophisticated weathertight seals, ensures it’s warm in the winter, cool in the summer. In real terms, this helps to reduce your energy bills. For example – The U-Value of doors measure how effectively they insulate, lower U-Values are better. The Building Regulation require doors and windows to have a U-Value of 1.6 W/m2K and for replacements, 1.4 W/m2K. 5 Star’s premier bi-fold door range exceed British Building Regulation requirements across all its bi fold doors.
Glass and glazing options
The double glazed or triple glazed glass units used to finish the doors are exceptionally strong and tough to break, toughened glass is eight times stronger than normal glass and if preferred laminated glass is almost impossible to get past. Designed to keep you and your home secure, our bi-folding doors are as secure as possible. The glass we use is also super clever, it is coated with an almost invisible film which reflects the heat back into your rooms to keep you warmer in the cold weather and helps reduce your energy bills – brilliant news!