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PVCu French doors
Thermaframe French doors are double-glazed and sealed to keep your home warm and draft-free.
French doors are the traditional way to bring the outside, inside. With two opening doors, French doors provide a large opening area, ideal in the Summer when they provide extra ventilation and easy access to the garden. By adding energy efficient glass, it is possible to create French doors which provide much better thermal insulation than older-style patio or timber doors.
Call 01959 534 720 to make a free, no obligation appointment to see how our PVCu French doors might improve your home.
Warm & Secure
- Internally beaded Frames (Intruders cannot remove glass from outside)
- Energy saving, Low-E glass as standard, (Document L Compliant)
- 28mm double-glazed Sealed Units for maximum sound and heat retention
- Additional reinforcement around the locks
- Secure multipoint locking system
- Choice of Lead / Master door
- Open In or Out
- Safety Glass
Attractive & Low Maintenance
- Wipe clean PVCu
- Black lowline Gaskets for increased sightlines
- Choice of handles, colours and finishes
- Will NOT rot, crack, absorb water or peel
Environmentally Friendly
- 100% Lead & Calcium Zinc FREE
- 50% less steel re-inforcement used thanks to the intelligent profile design
- Recyclable
Why choose PVCu French doors?
French doors are a beautiful alternative to sliding patio doors, and are ideal for traditionally designed homes, bringing a touch of elegance and style. They have the advantage of allowing the full width of the door space to be opened and are available in both very high gloss white and woodgrain foils. They are also strong and secure with multi-point locking and shootbolt security available.
You can choose a pair of doors or as we offer two frame profiles you can match your French doors to your windows maintaining a cohesive look to your property. Thermaframe French doors are perfect for your conservatory, orangery or garden room as well as enhancing the rear view of your home. Manufactured in the UK using Liniar lead-free PVCu.
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PVCu French door profiles
Thermaframe offer two types of French door profile, Bevelled and Ovolo.
Bevelled Frame
Our bevelled frame has a flat neat profile which creates a clean look to your French doors and offers more visible glass and less PVCu frame. This allows a vast amount of extra light into your home. It is ideal for a wide range of properties in particular 1920's buildings and modern new builds.
Ovolo Frame
The Ovolo frame has a more rounded profile ideal for conservatories and larger French doors where the amount of light is not an issue for you. The traditional frame size also comes with in a wide range of colours and finishes to ensure that your doors fit perfectly with both the inside and outside of your home.
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Glazing Options
Thermaframe offer a vast selection of glass options for your French doors. Choose from low emission, energy efficient glass, Georgian bars or leaded glass in diamond or square patterns with authentic solder joints.
Decorative coloured or bevelled fan lights are also available which can be designed to match your windows.
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Low Emission Glass
Thermaframe supply a full range of Low-E glass with laminated and tempered glass options to provide safety and security where needed. Low-E glass was once an optional extra, but is now a standard option when installing windows and doors in the main dwelling of your home since it became compliant in April 1st 2002. As members of FENSA (The industry Gold Standard for Building Regulations compliance in replacement windows and doors), we follow their strict requirements on all replacement window and door installations. We also have 3-4 random inspections a month by the BBA (British Board of Agrément) to ensure the correct glass is being used.
Benefits of Low-E Glass
Low-E glass provides colour neutrality in both reflection and transmission giving the window a natural appearance and maintaining the natural colours of everything seen through the glass or reflected in it. Most Low-E glass offered by our competitors has a yellow appearance to it, leaving your net curtains looking stained, and tarnished. With the uniformity provided by Low-E glass there are also no unsightly banding effects within the glass panels.
Low-E glass is a fantastic way of reducing energy bills as it provides excellent thermal insulation with U values down to 1.4 W/m2K (when gas filled). It allows high light and solar heat transmittance for the best use of natural lighting and beneficial solar heat gain.
NB: It is not compliant yet in conservatories or porches although it can be added as an optional extra.
For an example of how good this glass looks, visit our showroom to see the differences for yourself.
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Bevelled Fanlights
The Diamond Bevelled range comprises patterns with combinations of individual pieces of bevelled glass. Each piece is bonded to the glass surface giving a stunning three dimensional effect that can if required be combined with SGO Colour. Available in a wide range of styles and colours.
Preview our bevelled fanlight range
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Colour fanlights >>
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Colour Fanlights
This hand-crafted glass range is a combination of colour, lead and glass. Whether applied to a new project or installed as replacement glazing, they can be used in windows, doors, side panels and conservatories. These exclusive designs with their comprehensive warranty are a valuable addition to any interior design.
Preview our coloured fanlight range
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Georgian Bar Options
Integral Georgian Bars
Integral bars add great character to your property, yet still retain the ease of cleaning and maintenance to your windows as the feature bars are located inside the double glazed sealed units. Available in white, silver aluminium or any of the wood grain finishes we offer within our PVCu window range. 18mm or 25mm widths.
Astragal Georgian Bars
Astragal Georgian bars are a new development to the PVCu market and look more in keeping with the traditional georgian bars found on timber windows. We offer two different bars to suit each of our Whiteline NRG PVCu window profiles: Ovolo Georgian bars and Bevelled Georgian bars. The Ovolo Georgian bar is designed with a more rounded profile that suits the Ovolo frame.
The Bevelled Georgian bar is designed to replicate the traditional style and variety of timber frames, the slim bevelled sash bar is more angular in appearance and works well with your choice of bevelled frame The authentic finish of the fully scribed cruciform and bead jointing, combined with the appearance of individual panes of glass created by duplex spacer bars, make these replacement products look just like an authentic Georgian window.
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Leaded Glass
Lead is used to add style, character and authenticity to your new windows and doors. The lead is blackened at factory prior to fitting your new windows and doors to give the lead that darkened, aged look. This technique gives great authenticity to your installation and ensures that the lead on the inside of your property remains the same colour as the lead on the outside. Soldered joints are an optional extra that also gives you that real antique look. Lead is available in 4mm, 6mm, 9mm and the traditional 12mm widths.
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Furniture Options
Why not enhance your new French doors with some elegant features?
Thermaframe offers you a range of additional add-ons for your new French doors that not only act as decoration but enhance security, safety and protection from the elements.
Thermaframe use some of the most exquisitely designed door handles in the world with a Lever/Lever or Lever/Pad combination. You can even opt to have a letterplate added.
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Door Handles
We offer a range of door handles to compliment your French door and colour of your other French door hardware. Choose from our Standard or Designer range of door handles.
Standard handles
Chrome Lever/Lever
Chrome Lever/Pad
Gold Lever/Lever
Gold Lever/PadDesigner handles
Athinal
Bergen
Capri
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Letterplates
We offer a variety of letterplates to compliment your French door colour and other French door hardware. The quality of the fitted components is at the leading edge in terms of looks, durability of construction and technical design features. Our letterplates are available in black, chrome, gold or white.
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Built to last
The Whiteline Group has been manufacturing PVCu French doors for over 25 years. With a 10 year guarantee you can rest assured our French doors are the best on offer.
Environmentally friendly
Our PVC-u doors can be recycled and don’t require solvents to maintain them, making them kinder to the environment.