One of the unique features to be found in the Alumina by Liniar bifolding door is the choice of foiled finishes. Coating technology on both aluminium and PVCu windows has developed significantly in recent years.
For PVCu windows mainly, the use of top quality foils provides greater protection to the window profiles. What foil has also brought to PVCu doors and windows is a vastly improved appearance. Foils used in PVCu frames are now very authentic, highly durable and weather resistant. The quality of the foils used in PVCu windows is one reason why wood effect or ‘timber look’ PVCu windows have become so popular in recent years. They look the part.
Aluminium bifolds with a permanently bonded foil.
The choice of quality foils brings an authentic wood or plain colour to Alumina bifolding doors
The Alumina bifolding door is one of the only doors on the market to feature quality woodgrain, coloured grains and smooth foiled colours.
The foiling of aluminium profiles is not a new one. Monarch Aluminium with their highly successful Monaframe system also provided a foiled aluminium window in the late 1990’s up to 2007. Foiling brings a textured, smooth or wood effect finish to a door or window frame.
Foils have been available for over thirty years. The latest generation of quality foils and films vastly improve the appearance of a PVCu profile. Aside from the decorative benefits foils provide functional features as well.
A foiled frame protects the PVCu profile from the elements; it resists all types of weathers and it is easy to maintain. Only mild cleaning is ever required. Foils are permanently bonded to the PVCu profile ensuring the longevity and durability of the whole product.
The final advantage of a foiled product is a ‘warm to the touch’ feel that often aluminium cannot provide with a bare metal painted finish.
Colour and foil options with Alumina bifolding doors.
Aluminium benefits from extensive colour choices thanks to the advantages of polyester powder coating. Alumina offers the same substantial colour selection in any of the industry colour shades such as the RAL palette.
Alumina bifolding doors are available in over 200 RAL colours including a different RAL colour inside and out. Further choice in colour exists with individual colours being available in a satin, matt or gloss finish.
As stock colours, Grey RAL 7016, Black or white powder coated finishes are available.
Alumina brings a consistent colour to residential properties.
The range of foils available with Alumina bifolding doors is not only designed to offer a unique tone and texture choice but also an integrated one. The one huge advantage these foiled options have over other RAL colours is colour consistency throughout.
It is of course, entirely possible to match RAL colours together across different products from a variety of systems. However, with the diversity of aluminium suppliers in windows, doors, conservatories, roofing products, soffits and cladding, pressings, trims and other building materials this can be complicated and costly.
When colour matching aluminium often the same RAL colour is not all that is needed. Speak to any professional powder coater and they will tell you that to ensure an exact colour match, the powder manufacturer has to be identified as well.
The one advantage of the foils is colour consistency throughout a complete suite of home improvement and building products. This consistency is achieved with only a simple colour check with foiled products from other suppliers.
The other advantage to a foiled finish is a single source for warranties on the colour of the product.
Foil colours and options with Alumina Bifolding Doors.
The choice of woodgrain and flat foiled finishes from aluminium caters for most residential and commercial requirements.
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