Explore the Solarlux blog for expert insights, technical guidance and inspiration on architectural glazing. From bifold doors and sliding doors to glass extensions, balcony glazing and building regulations, discover practical advice to support your next project.
Whether a project involves a new build or a renovation, energy efficiency is a key consideration when specifying sliding doors. The thermal performance of the building envelope – including insulation, airtightness and the control of thermal bridging...
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Coastal homes typically feature extensive glazing, giving them a striking, contemporary appearance while offering occupants sweeping views and rooms filled with natural daylight. Aluminium sliding and bifold doors are often used in these designs.
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From maximising living space and filling interiors with natural light to creating a better connection with the outdoors, a modern extension can bring many benefits to a home. If you’re looking for a way to ensure your home exudes space, light and style, floor-to-ceiling
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When it comes to blending indoor and outdoor living, there’s nothing quite like bifold doors. On bright, sunny days, they allow you to open your home to the garden, providing plenty of fresh air and natural light. When it's cold and rainy, they provide weather protectio
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With contemporary architecture prioritising expansive spans of glazing and minimal framing, bifold doors must be designed and engineered to ensure structural integrity and thermal performance, as well as luxury aesthetics and smooth, reliable operation.
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In the current architectural landscape, large areas of glazing are a defining feature of contemporary design. Sliding doors, bifold doors and expansive glazed openings maximise natural light. They create a sense of space, and they strengthen the connection between indoo
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When specifying bifold doors for modern residential and light commercial projects, careful product specification is essential. While appearance and precision engineering are key considerations, it’s also important to remember that a bifold door is a functional part of t
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Sliding doors and bifold doors add a sense of light, space and style, making them popular features of contemporary homes. But which one is right for your property? The answer depends on your aesthetic preferences, as well as practical considerations such as available sp
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Glass doors have many qualities that make them attractive for specification in both domestic and commercial environments. External glass doors bring welcome extra daylight into buildings and provide continuity with the glazing elements of domestic conservatories and gla
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Orangeries are elegant, light-filled spaces designed to blur the line between indoor and outdoor living. In modern homes, they are often used to extend kitchens, dining rooms and living areas, creating large, light-filled spaces perfect for everyday life and...
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Natural light, panoramic outdoor views and impressive building aesthetics – large glass spans are a defining feature of contemporary architecture. Often measuring up to 15 square metres in surface area, large glass panels create uninterrupted connections between interio
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Thanks to its ability to create light-filled and attractive buildings, curtain walling has become a popular choice for building facades and high-rise balconies. However, specifying curtain wall systems in the UK requires careful attention to the Building...
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In modern residential projects, glazing is used to create striking, light-filled spaces with unobstructed views and a sleek, contemporary exterior. But the use of glazing also raises questions about security: does it make a home more vulnerable to intrusion and how...
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From sliding doors and bifold panels to glazed extensions, balcony glazing, facades and garden canopies, glass can be used to create beautiful features that elevate a home’s aesthetics and the lifestyle of occupants. When designing and specifying glazed elements...
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When it comes to communicating the energy efficiency of a building, U-values are, it seems, the stars of the show. Minimum requirements are quoted in Part L of the Building Regulations, they’re referenced in architectural specifications and they’re listed in product...
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A glass veranda or canopy can transform a home and its garden, creating an elegant transition between the indoors and outdoors, while providing an inviting outdoor space that can be enjoyed throughout the year...
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Cities in the UK are becoming taller and noisier. Between 2011 and 2021, the number of households living in a flat, maisonette or apartment increased by 21% to 5.4 million*. In London, over half of the homes built since 2002 are in high-rise buildings...
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From glass canopies and verandas to wintergardens, bifolding doors and curtain walling, glazed extensions are widely used in UK architecture. Glazed extensions bring many functional and aesthetic advantages to a property.
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Thanks to their ability to create inviting, light-filled interiors, glass partitions are widely used in a variety of settings – from offices to retail environments, public buildings such as schools and hospitals and leisure settings like hotels and spas...
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