Aluminium Bi-fold Doors Hardware

Our SMARTS 1000 aluminium bi-folding doors now come with more robust Pendulum handles on each intermediate panel. The pendulum handle gives you the ability to have outside access without the need for a traffic door.

If your chosen style includes a traffic door then you can have either a conventional lever-lever handle, which is functional and easy to use. Or you can have a pendulum handles for the traffic door as well, giving you a consistent and coordinated look. A traffic door provides quick and easy inside and outside access without having to fold or slid any panels.

Lever-lever handles on traffic doors, and Pendulum handles on the intermediate panels - as an ergonomic and functional option

Pendulum handles on all the intermediate panels and for traffic doors - giving consistent and co-ordinated aesthetics

See below for more details on the hardware available on our SMARTS 1000 Bi-folding Doors

Pendulum Handles - giving you a consistant and co-ordinated look

Pendulum Handles - shown here used on all the handles on a five pane bifold door. Including the traffic door

NEW Pendulum Handle Range
Now available on our SMARTS 1000 these more robust handles have been introduced as an alternative to the locking-lever and D-handle combination. They operate heavy duty shootbolt's at the top and bottom of the doors and give you the ability to have outside access without the need for a traffic door. These handles can be used on both the intermediate panels and traffic doors.

Available Colours:
White, Black, Chrome, Brushed Stainless Steel, Dark Grey (RAL 7016), and even RAL.

Lever-Lever Traffic Door Handles
If your chosen style has a traffic door then your doors can have a Lever-lever handle (Seen left). These handles are functional and easy to use and allow for quick and easy inside and outside access. Operates high security multi-point locking. (Includes Snap-Secure Locking Cylinder)

Available Colours:
White, Black, Chrome, and can even be RAL coloured upon request.

High specification bogey wheel assemblies or runners

Bogey Wheel Assemblies
Four wheel bogey assemblies, travel on twin stainless steel tracks, resulting in easy graceful operation. The bogey wheel assemblies take the full weight of the doors so that easy-side action, is unaffected by the weight of the doors. They also have a dedicated guide which runs inside the outerframe, providing increased stability and security.

Available Colours:
White, Black, and can even be RAL coloured upon request.

Slim-line Hinges
Our Smarts 1000 folds on attractive slim-line hinges (Seen left). These hinges are solid high specification butt hinges that can take the whole weight of doors as they fold.

Available Colours:
White, Black, and can even be RAL coloured upon request.

Sprung Loaded Traffic Door Buffer Magnets
A Bi-folding Door with traffic doors may need to be fitted with high strength buffer magnets. These are used to secure the traffic door to the adjacent panel, holding it in an open position. This also acts as a buffer preventing the traffic door from knocking against the other panels.

Available Colours:
Chrome finish only.

What Is A Traffic Door? - How Do I Get Inside And Outside Access?

A traffic door allows quick and easy access from the inside and outside of your bi-folding doors, without having to slide and fold any panels. Just as you would have with a conventional back door. In most cases, if your chosen style does not allow for a traffic door, you would be left with no outside access. However our New Pendulum range of handles allows for inside and outside access without the need for a traffic door.

Bi-folding doors slide in two's, so an uneven number of panels folding in any direction will always result in an odd panel that can operate independently of the sliding panels. This odd (spare) panel is known as a traffic door, and offers quick and easy access from both inside and outside, using a standard lever-lever door handle. Subsequently an even number of panels will result in no traffic door and no outside access.

High Security Avocet Locking Cylinder

The ABS Snap Secure Cylinder is a breakthrough - pick resistant and bump resistant with Avocet's Snap Secure technology. It passes PAS024 testing without the need for security handles or cylinder guards. The new ABS locking cylinder from Avocet Hardware provides the highest levels of security demanded by the BSI & Secured by Design.

Avocet's Snap Secure technology

It's more secure than any other cylinder because of its unique design. It cannot be forced open because the cam locks in position. An opportunistic burglar may snap and remove the external half of the cylinder but the internal half remains locked and secure. The cylinder can still be operated inside even after attack!

Key Features:

Pick Resistant - double crater cuts on the key and telescopic pin arrangements
Bump Resistant - magnetic pin and key wafer
Drill Resistant
Snap Secure Technology - Cam locks against the internal locked side of the cylinder making the cylinder impervious to manual attack after snapping
Fully PAS024 compliant - more than passes the requirements
No security handle or cylinder guard required
No additional prep - easy retrofit
British Standard Kitemark logo stamped (conforms to BSEN1303:2005, KM553511)
Police preferred Secured by Design accreditation
Certified by the MLA
Available in keyed alike, thumb turn, singles** & double profile formats

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Avocet Locking Cylinder available in Chrome and Brass