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VBH has worked with Garnalex to develop the hardware for the new Sheerline bifold door.

The new bifold allows up to a seven-pane configuration, the choice of fitting as an outward or inward opening door, and offers four different threshold combinations.

With doors measuring up to 6.5m wide x 2.6m high and possibly triple glazed, Garnalex’s choice of hardware had to be sufficiently strong and hard wearing to cope with large, heavy sashes.

VBH’s greenteQ design team worked closely with their counterparts at Garnalex to develop greenteQ Clearspan hardware system for Sheerline with a weight capacity of 120kg per sash.

Clearspan is available in a standard version and in a PAS24:2016 tested security spec that features the greenteQ Orion TS007 3-Star profile cylinder. Being a 3-Star cylinder, this enables the fabricator to fit either the greenteQ Alpha Slim lever handle set, or the standard Alpha lever handle which is available in 10 colours of the greenteQ suite of matching window door and patio furniture.

As the suite covers patio doors. it enables installers to tie together a full house installation.

Companies offering Sheerline doors built to VBH’s PAS24 hardware spec can join the Q-secure approved partner network. The Q-secure consumer security guarantee will pay the end user up to £8,000 in compensation in the unlikely event that a break in is achieved due to hardware failure.