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Sliding or Hinged Door Wardrobes? (3)
What about the reliability of different types of fitted wardrobe doors?
Sliding door wardrobes do tend to have performance issues attached to them both about the mechanisms breaking down and the perception that they are inclined to come off their tracks. This perception is largely due to the widespread marketing of cheap steel framed sliding doors in the 1980s and '90s as an affordable but fashionable new type of fitted wardrobe. These wardrobes usually had mirror panels in metal frames that clipped together in the corners and the earlier models were generally ‘top-hung' in that the rollers were fitted to the top corners and ran un a track suspended from the ceiling. The problems largely arose from the frames coming apart at the corners under the weight of the glass panels, the lightweight roller mechanisms breaking down or the tracks pulling away from the ceiling with the effect that the doors jammed in the bottom tracks. The harassed user, trying to dress for work would tend to force the jammed door along its track and the whole installation started to disintegrate.
The manufacturers quickly redesigned the sliding door systems to have the rollers at the bottom of the doors and to run in the bottom tracks. This achieved some improvements in the durability of the doors, which now being in compression rather than suspension were less inclined to come apart but introduced a new problem of the doors jumping out of the tracks if they so much as ran over a sock. Also the ball bearing rollers at the bottom of the doors tended to clog with fluff (common enough at the bottom of a wardrobe), with the eventual result that they ceased to revolve and again the door tended to jump or jam.
These steel framed systems are still available as prefabricated doors in the DIY sheds and can be used to make an inexpensive sliding door wardrobe but the reliability issues persist.
Subsequent advances in the design of sliding wardrobe doors using aluminium, rather than steel, frames bolted rather than clipped together at the corners and with a new generation of sealed rollers with built-in anti-jump devices have largely eliminated the reliability issues and modern bespoke fitted furniture with sliding doors are no more likely to suffer from jamming or jumping than a hinged door is likely to come off a wardrobe carcass.
However sliders do have more complex mechanical systems than hinges and the opportunities for failure are therefore greater. Having said that, I recently revisited a development of apartments in Shad Thames, London and was delighted to see that some aluminium framed sliding doors we installed when the block was built almost 20 years ago were still performing well.
Today we have looked at the comparative reliability of sliding or hinged doors. Next week we consider different design options.
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About the Author
Madeline Lancaster, a successful business owner of decor sites discusses Sliding door wardrobes and bespoke fitted furniture . Finish your furniture in style. Click today - http://www.optionsfit.com/
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