Hello,
we are currently planning our house. We have planned a lift-and-slide door downstairs (partly covered) and would now like to add another one upstairs.
Our builder doesn’t strongly advise against it but said he wouldn’t necessarily do it because lift-and-slide doors can sometimes let in some water during severe storms. Both doors would face south; the downstairs one, as mentioned, is partially covered, while the upstairs one is not.
We get severe storms one or two times a year here, and sometimes also when we are on vacation. Since we plan to use wood flooring throughout, water damage would of course be very unpleasant!
I haven’t been able to find much information either in this forum or online about lift-and-slide doors leaking, which is why I’m still in favor of having the upstairs door.
What do you think? Are they really that problematic?
Best regards
we are currently planning our house. We have planned a lift-and-slide door downstairs (partly covered) and would now like to add another one upstairs.
Our builder doesn’t strongly advise against it but said he wouldn’t necessarily do it because lift-and-slide doors can sometimes let in some water during severe storms. Both doors would face south; the downstairs one, as mentioned, is partially covered, while the upstairs one is not.
We get severe storms one or two times a year here, and sometimes also when we are on vacation. Since we plan to use wood flooring throughout, water damage would of course be very unpleasant!
I haven’t been able to find much information either in this forum or online about lift-and-slide doors leaking, which is why I’m still in favor of having the upstairs door.
What do you think? Are they really that problematic?
Best regards
Nixwill schrieb:
Our builder doesn’t strongly advise against it but said he wouldn’t necessarily do it because sliding lift-and-slide doors can sometimes allow some water inside during severe storms. That’s nonsense: it primarily depends not on the type of door but on the threshold height.
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Aloha_Lars schrieb:I will make sure to pay attention to that! Thanks!
Installing a gutter is therefore sufficient, for example. In practice, this is often neglected.
lastdrop schrieb:A regular casement window plus fixed glazing... But somehow we are leaning more towards the lift-and-slide door 🙂
What does he want to install instead?
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Thank you for your contributions!It’s always a bit unfortunate when people come here with many individual questions without providing any information about the house itself. Many questions seem to have only one dimension or can be answered in a general way.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Nixwill schrieb:
Thanks for your posts! They give me confidence to stand my ground 😎.
I will keep that in mind! Thanks!
A standard sash window plus fixed glazing... But somehow, we are leaning more towards the lift-and-slide door 🙂 I don’t have experience yet, but we are getting three lift-and-slide doors in the living-dining area (2 x 2.50 meters (8.2 feet) wide and 1 x 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide) and neither our general contractor nor our building inspector has advised against it in any way.
Yaso2.0 schrieb:
I don’t have experience yet, but we are getting three lift-and-slide doors in the living-dining area (2 x 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in) wide and 1 x 3 m (9 ft 10 in) wide), and neither our general contractor nor our building expert advised against it in any way.No, it’s just the former window specialist saying that the width of 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in) is actually at the lower limit of what makes sense for a lift-and-slide door.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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