I am having a debate with my partner....he wants to put in a cheaper slider and I want french doors. My question is how much more resale value when we sell the house will french doors give us compared to sliding glass doors. Thanks
I personally hate sliders. They require maintenance, they are hard on the shoulders and hard to open with anything in your hand. Window treatments are limited with sliders and they are generally not pretty.
I replaced mine with a solid non-opening door with an opening portion of door and love it. I didn't want the opening in the middle, but wanted it at an end, so chose a different arrangement. Monica
I would agree with monsteraz if you are talking about a really cheap metal slider. I have a vinyl clad anderson slider, and it has no maintainence and glides like a dream. Any door that opens requires swing space that is about the only disadvantage to a swing verses slide (and you really can't call it a disadvantage). Which ever you decide, get a good quality one. Hard to say which one would get the nod as far as resale goes. Just don't cheap-out and you will be fine.
You won't know if you can do something if you don't try.
Go with the French door for less maintance and higher end look. At least once a month someones calling me to install one to replace a slider and no ones ever called me to install a slider.
joecaption
Posts: 10881 | Location: Halieford VA | Registered: Jan 31, 2004
For me, a great advantage to French doors is the 6' opening. It really comes in handy when moving large furniture or appliances in and out of the house.
Rick Marinelli, P.E.
Don't start vast projects with half-vast knowledge.
Security locks, weather proofing and privacy is usually better with the quality french doors also. I would also agree with above and consider them a higher end choice for resale.
we have a dinky little dining room, so we're not going to be able to use French doors, we'll have to put another slider in.
but it will be a quality unit, not a $550 warp-o-matic.
I've found cleaning the tracks once a year and maybe an adjustment of the roller tension once or twice a year is all that needs to be done with sliders.
I'd like to not do it at all, but then, there's that pesky issue of the doors have to open inwards....
sig: if this is a new economy, how come they still want my old-fashioned money?
French doors can be ordered that open out. Comercial coade calls for all doors for exits must open out for faster exit in case of fire so there not that uncommon. I've done two this year because we did not want to have waisted wall space in some additions I built.
joecaption
Posts: 10881 | Location: Halieford VA | Registered: Jan 31, 2004
