SYLLABUS

1. Trusses: Roof light, north light, monitor, tubular, built in trusses

2. Wooden Doors and Windows: Timber sliding door, sliding folding door,
Revolving door.

3. Shutter and Grills: M. S. rolling shutter and collapsible grills.

4. Aluminium Doors and Windows Aluminum Doors, windows, grills, partition,

casement window, sliding window.

5. Specification of constituent materials, processes, techniques of preserving and

finishing, quality tests of aluminum sections, plastic, fiber glass.
 TIMBER SLIDING
DOOR, SLIDING
FOLDING DOOR,
REVOLVING DOOR.
 SLIDING DOORS

Sliding doors are designed mainly for

occasional use to provide either a clear
opening or act as a barrier between
adjacent room or spaces to
accommodate change of use or function
and where it is necessary to avoid the
obstruction caused by a hinged leaf.

Sliding doors can only be used where

there is room for the door or doors to
slide to one or both sides of the opening.
Single pocket Double Bi-parking Double pocket Triple pocket
sliding door sliding door sliding door with sliding door with
follower follower
mechanism mechanism
For small glass or timber sliding doors, used for
cupboards and other minor fittings, no special
provisions are required and it is merely necessary to
provide grooves of hardwood, flat-lined metal or
plastic track in which the door can slide.

Provision for insertion of the panel is made by having

the top track sufficiently deep so the panel can be
lifted up into it and then lowered into the bottom
track.

Sliding doors can be arranged in very many different

ways, there are however two basic types:
(1) plain sliding doors, and
(2) sliding-folding doors;

both can be suspended from above by hangers using

top rollers and usually bottom guides, this
arrangement is known as a top running set;

alternatively,

the doors can operate by means of top guides with the

weight taken on bottom rollers, this is known as a
bottom running set
Top running set and Bottom running set

Different manufacturers of the special equipment needed to

move the door have their own preferences as to whether a
top running or bottom running set gives the best results for a
particular situation.

Where the choice is open and there are no limiting site factors
it is generally thought that the bottom-running method gives a
better trouble-free service, this is particularly so for large
heavy doors.

Where the floor does not give a solid foundation, bottom

rollers would not run smoothly and a top running set is
preferable.

If the weight cannot be carried from above or the supporting

lintel is insufficiently strong to prevent the deflection that may
be caused by the extra weight of the door, then bottom rollers
must be used in either case the door must be properly framed
together using stile not less than 100 mm wide for domestic-
sized doors and larger for bigger doors.

The rails of the door have to be sufficiently wide to

accommodate the rollers, and for 1 top hung door it is
important to remember that the normal minimum width of
100 mm will not suffice, the tenons of the top rail in such a
door carry most of the weight and the rail should therefore be
from 150 to 225 mm wide.
All leaves move to right,