Bifold Patio Doors Designer

How the designer works

Design your bifold doors exactly as they will be made: set the width and number of panels, choose how they fold and where the traffic door sits, then pick frame colours, glazing and hardware. The designer shows the configuration as you build it, so you can compare a three-panel and four-panel layout before deciding.

Submit the finished design and our surveyors will confirm measurements at your property and turn it into a free, no obligation quotation. If you want to feel the mechanism first, both our Basingstoke and Reading showrooms have working bifold displays. Like every Brackenwood installation, your doors are fitted by our own craftsmen and covered by a 10-year insurance-backed guarantee.

Bifolds are available in aluminium or uPVC, with low-threshold options that keep the step between kitchen and garden to a minimum, and modern multi-point locking as standard. Recent installations are in our project gallery, and if you are weighing bifolds against sliding doors, our patio door pages cover the differences.

Planning your bifold opening

The best bifold projects start with the opening itself. Our surveyors check the lintel and structural opening as part of every free survey, so you can design with confidence even if the doors are part of a wider house extension or knock-through. As a rule of thumb, individual panels work best between 700mm and 1000mm wide — the designer will guide you towards workable configurations as you build.

Not sure bifolds are the right choice for your space? Sliding doors give larger uninterrupted panes of glass and need no clearance to fold into — our patio and sliding door range covers both so you can compare, and both showrooms have working displays of each.