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Create the perfect Visofold door

styled to complement your home

Visofold Slide folding doors transform your home

and the way you live your life; relax in stylish open

plan living areas or enjoy a stunning panoramic

view from your bedroom.

You will feel like you’re living the outside inside by opening entire

façades in your home and make the most out of a beautiful garden.

Any aspiration is possible with a Visofold slide folding door. These

beautifully designed, versatile doors are suitable wherever you want

to transform your home; living room, bedroom, kitchen, conservatory.

The choice is yours.

The modern aesthetics of a Visofold slide folding door will add a

touch of finesse to any external aspect of your home. When closed,

Visofold complements your home with a striking glass façade with

attractive curved characteristics that are pleasing to the eye.

Fold the sashes back to give a stunning opening that draws

the exterior ambience into the comfort of your home.

Visofold slide folding doors come with all the assurances you would

expect from a quality designed product. The aluminium profiles are

designed to give strength and durability to ensure a structurally

sound product that requires minimal maintenance and delivers

reliable performance over a lifetime of use.

Bringing the great outdoors into your home

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Slide folding doorsvisofold

Relax and enjoy the ambience created

by a Visofold slide folding door.

Visofold doors fold open effortlessly, gliding on

stainless steel rollers allowing unrestricted

thoroughfares and the maximum use of space and

light. The signature smooth contours and curved

clean lines create an attractive aesthetic that will

complement any home, whatever your taste or style.


Visofold’s attractive handles are available in a range of standard

colours, and have the option of being colour matched to the

colour of your doors, even in dual colour.

High security multi-point locks are fitted to master sashes as

standard, with shoot bolt locking on all sliding mullions.

Sashes slide on four stainless steel rollers giving effortless

motion, however large the door.

visofoldVisofold’s aluminium sections utilise the latest polyamide thermal

barrier technology. This advanced profile technology creates a thermal

transmittance barrier between the cold outside and the warm inside,

keeping your home warm and comfortable even in the coldest weather,

helping to reduce energy bills. The sashes can be glazed with a range

of double or even triple glazed sealed units up to 38mm, and

threshold options are available to give improved weather performance.

Sliding sashes have the option of folding back internally or externally,

with a wide choice of sash configurations. For ease of access you

do not have to open the doors 100%; open in the centre like French

doors, or from the side like an entrance door. Aluminium profiles are

finished in polyester powder coated paint and are available in a huge

range of colours and finishes that includes dual colour, realistic wood

structure and metallic paint options. The polyester powder coated

paint finish is produced to the highest standards and quality assured

by Smart’s 25 year paint finish guarantee*.

Your home will be protected from unwelcome visitors with the

assurance given by high security multi-point locking mechanisms

fitted on opening sashes, shoot bolt locks on floating mullions and

internally glazed sealed units.

Slide folding doors

*Conditions apply; speak to your installer for details.

A recessed low threshold option offers

unrestricted floor level access.

Visofold doors fold to give large opening aperture.

Outside

Choose to fold Visofold doors internally or externally.

Inside

Outside

Inside

External wall

External wall


Bringing the great outdoors

into your home

Relax and enjoy your home, as the UK’s leading aluminium systems company we have the expertise and range to fulfill your dreams, from traditional homes to contemporary builds.

Quality Standards:

Design expertise

Smart Architectural Aluminium is renowned in the fenestration

industry for their ethos of quality in design and development. Our

expertise and reputation has been built from over 30 years experience

in designing and supplying quality assured aluminium profile systems

to the window and door industry. It is this experience and reputation

for excellence that has made Smart Architectural Aluminium the

UK’s leading supplier of aluminium windows & door systems.

Located in Yatton, North Somerset, at purpose built 120,000 sq/ft

offices and manufacturing plant the company has an annual turnover

in excess of £30 million and employs over 100 people. Smart’s has a

nationwide delivery service with their own dedicated transport fleet

that make daily deliveries to its network of reputable fabricators

throughout the UK.

Installation

Smart’s products are available via a network of reputable window

and door fabricators throughout the UK who carry out installation

in accordance with best practices. You can obtain a list of the

nearest Smart Installers in your area from our website:

www.smartsystems.co.uk/consumers/

Assurance of quality

Smart Architectural Aluminium operates an extensive testing regime

to ensure that our products continue to perform to the highest

standards. In our view, quality implies consistency, reliability and

durability in terms of materials, product performance and service.

It is for these reasons that we fully support independent certification

and assessment schemes such as those offered by the British

Standards Institute.

Environment

Smart Architectural Aluminium is committed to working towards

a sustainable working environment, and to ensuring that every

aspect of our activities is conducted in accordance with sound

environmental practices.

We reserve the right to make changes to the product specification as technical developments dictate, and without prior notice.

Pictures shown in this brochure are for illustrative purposes and are not binding in detail, colour or specification. ©Smart Systems Ltd 2008


VisofoldThe Visofold series of slide-folding doors offer impressive

opening apertures that can unite internal and external

areas creating unique living and social areas. Suitable for

both residential and commercial applications.

Features door systems tested to (depending on system):

• UValuesupto1.5W/m2K

• SecuritytestedtoPAS24:2012

• WeathertestedtoBS6375Part1:2009

• ColourmatchedaccessoriesnowavailableSpeakwithyoursupplierfordetails

MANAGEMENTSYSTEMS

HEALTH AND SAFETY003

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VISOFOLD: SLIDE FOLDING DOORSVisofold can be used in domestic applications as either

an alternative to sliding doors, or to open up an entire wall

as part of a conservatory; the system will make the most

of a beautiful view or bring a garden into the home.

ConfigurationsPlus many more designs please speak to your supplier for further information

Used commercially in a bar, café or restaurant, Visofold can create a glazed

screen that allows in the maximum ingress of light in inclement weather, and

will also easily glide to open up an entire wall in warmer weather. Visofold doors

offer a choice of opening configurations to suit any application. Choose to fold the

sashes internally or externally, place the opening at the side so the sashes all fold

one way, at one end, to create a single entrance door for easy access, or in the

middle to give the option of a double door.

All Visofold profiles feature a polyamide thermal break that enhances the thermal

performance of the profile and improves the overall U-Value. Profiles feature

EPDM high quality gaskets and weather brushes to aid weather resistance.

Visofold complies with the requirements of Building Regulations Document

L 2010. Security is assured by multi-point lock mechanisms on main opening

sashes, and shoot-bolt locking on floating mullions.

All Visofold doors have the option of either low thresholds for unimpeded, easy

access, or rebated thresholds that offer improved weather resistance. Visofold

doors are available in a choice of standard or non-standard colours, including

metallic, wood-structure, dual colour and Smart’s unique Sensations range of

textured finishes.

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Visofold 1000Application Residential/retail/commercial

Features • Attractive, slim-line profiles offer reduced sightlines

• Profiles available in either square or rounded edge

options

• Fabricated using mitred corners

• Lock mechanism available with domestic style ‘lift-

up’ handle and an adjustable, one-piece keep

• Manufactured using Smarts punch tooling

Technical PerformanceFinish Single or dual colour, marine

quality polyester powder coat as

standard **

U Value 1.5 W/m²K using a 1.0 centre pane

Air Class 4, 600Pa

Water Class E, 750Pa

Wind Class 4, 1800Pa

Document L Compliant

Security PAS 24: 2012

DimensionsFrame Width 102.5mm

Frame Depth 70mm

Typical Sight Line* 132mm

Glass 24, 28, 32, 34 or 36mm

double or triple

gazed units

Max o/a Height: 2500mm (per sash)

Max o/a Width 1000mm (per sash)

Max Sash Weight: 100kg

Visofold 2000Application Residential/retail/commercial

Features • Visofold 2000 is styled for use on retail or commercial

applications such as bars, cafes or shops that require the benefit of opening up an entire facade in good weather, and also providing a glazed screen that allows the maximum ingress of light when closed

• Manufactured by method of a square cut, non-mitred design with square edged profiles which mimic a timber profile appearance

• Optional commercial high security multi-point lock

• Option of using a deep bottom rail on sashes

• Manufactured using Smarts punch tooling

Technical PerformanceFinish Single or dual colour,

marine quality polyester powder coat as standard **

U Value 1.6 W/m²K using a 1.0 centre pane

Air Class 3, 600Pa

Water Class 7a, 300Pa

Wind Class 4, 1800Pa

Document L Compliant

DimensionsFrame Width 102.5mm

Frame Depth 70mm

Typical Sight Line* 143mm

Glass 24, 28, 32, 34 or 36mm double or triple gazed units

Max o/a Height: 2500mm (per sash)

Max o/a Width 1000mm (per sash)

Max Sash Weight: 100kg

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U Value132mm

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U Value143mm

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