ᐅ Glass sliding door recessed into the wall

Hello everyone,

We are about to start building soon and want to install a sliding glass door between the kitchen and living area that slides into the wall. Are there good systems and manufacturers you can recommend, and is there anything I should be aware of?

Who has experience with sliding doors that slide into the wall and can recommend them? I would rather pay a bit more for a stable system than install something cheap that breaks after a few years. Then I would have to tear down the wall.

Thank you very much for your responses.

Regards

Jayden

Hello Jayden, we are also installing a glass door that slides into the wall in our house, but I can’t tell you which manufacturer it’s from. However, you should keep in mind that the wall where the door slides in will be thicker than a standard wall. This means you will lose a bit of usable space and there might also be a step or recess in the wall if the wall reinforcement doesn’t extend all the way to the next corner. Regards, Dirk

In our new build, we will also have a sliding door integrated into the wall between the kitchen and dining room, although we are still undecided whether to choose a full glass door or a wood/glass combination.

The system we are getting is, I believe, from Herholz. It will be installed directly into the wall. The structural builder will create a larger opening in the wall, into which the system will be fitted. The section where the door slides into will be covered with drywall. If I remember correctly, a wall thickness of 17cm (7 inches) is required.

By the way, the wood/glass combination should cost around €1,500 in total.

Hello,

we decided against using a pocket door installed inside the wall.

It may be that some of this is influenced by preconceptions, but we made our decision for the following reasons:

1. If, for whatever reason, the door comes off its track or any other damage occurs to the mechanism, repair or replacement could be difficult or costly since everything is concealed within the wall.
2. Even in a fairly closed system, dirt will eventually accumulate—whether from dust bunnies, which can harden into clumps over time, or from tiny metal shavings or possibly “stone dust” from the wall. In our opinion, cleaning or removing this dirt would be challenging (how would you vacuum behind the door panel?). This could lead to the track becoming dirty or, in the worst case, blocked over time.

It might be that these reasons are just preconceptions and that our layperson’s view does not reflect reality. For us, minimizing the risk of failure or damage was important, so we preferred to opt for an externally mounted sliding door instead.

Hello Masipulami,

could you please tell me which system from Herzolz it is? There are also masonry boxes from Knauf, Krona, or Eclisse, right?

Regards

Jayen