Bi fold/sliding doors advice please

[GotAnyGrapes17]

Hi,

We are considering splitting a medium size living room into a snug/sitting room, and then the other half becoming part of the kitchen/open living space.

I'm looking at bifold and sliding doors, and they all seem to be fitted in places where the wall has been knocked through, or there has previously been a door way.

Has anyone had them fitted to separate one room and can give me an idea of what work is involved please? Do you need someone to build around the frame for them to meet your wall and ceiling or do you just have them wall to wall and floor to ceiling?

Sorry, we are really not very good at this kind of thing- just trying to gauge how do able it is.

Thanks

I'm having bifolds fitted to make a laundry nook and a builder is framing it up as the door company need the frame to fit the hinges/runners to. They'll still be almost floor to ceiling as they're being made to fit but we do need the frame. Hope that helps!

Hi @GenericUsername101 yes that helps a lot thank you!

Would you mind me asking, you can PM if you like, what sort of money it is costing to buy the frame in please? And is the building adding and breeze blocks/brick work to the wall.

Basically our room is kind of split into two sections and decorated already and I'm wondering how much "disruption" there will be. In an ideal world I'd like to put them in but not be committed to redecorating and doing remodel work straight away until we can recoup some funds. If I could get the doors in without doing to much damage I'd have to reasonable decorated rooms and then could redo them slowly- thanks

You need a builder to build a stud wall (made of wood supports and plasterboard on top) with a big hole in it, the hole being the right size for the doors, across the room in the place where you want it divided. Then the builders will fit the doors in the hole. It isn’t hugely expensive to build the stud wall. The tricky bits are 1) if you have coving and skirting, you may want to redo it, as you now have two rooms rather than one, tho this is not such a big deal if you can easily match the existing stuff and 2) new electrics, as you will presumably want a separate light switch and separately controlled lights for each new room, rather than just one set of lights on one switch.

Thanks @minipie.

Luckily the room is already lit by 2 lights at each end of the room, and two switches so electrics should be fine.

Coving and skirting yes- will need to re do

I'm not in the U.K. so difficult to compare costs I think, ours was a day's labour plus materials. Mine is just gib and the door frame as it's being made into a cupboard, would be more I expect to do a double faced version.

I'm fantasising about Japanese style sliding doors now! Not sure how practical that is but hey!