Counterframe for sliding
retractable doors
counterframe for sliding retractable doors
Eurocassonetto®
What is a counterframe for sliding retractable doors?
A counterframe is a metal structure that is designed to accept and support a sliding door.
This solution permits the door to slide inside the wall, which frees up the space and enhances the aesthetic appeal of the environments.
Otherwise known as a false frame, false doorpost or false case, the counterframe is essential for the installation of retractable doors. Its strength and durability render it an essential component for anyone who wishes to unite both convenience and good design.
The counterframe is not only optimizing the use of space, but also helps to create more orderly and harmonious environments with no visible mechanic components.
The counterframe for retractable doors is specifically designed to allow the door to slide into the wall, whether of plaster or drywall.
In practical terms, it substitutes a portion of the wall, as long as the wall is not load bearing, permitting the door to completely disappear into sight during the process of opening and closing. This system integrates perfectly with the masonry, concealing all the sliding mechanics and making an elegantly minimalistic effect.
In addition, the counterframe for retractable doors is studied to provide a perfect shielding of the door inside the wall, providing protection from damage and keeping a modern, tidy aspect.
FUNCTIONALITY AND AESTHETICS IN HARMONY
What is it used for?
The counterframe serves to maximize the space, enabling every centimeter of the space to be utilized.
It also facilitates the management of internal spaces, making space more functional and cozy.
With the opportunity to modulate, separate and unite spaces, the counterframe provides incomparable versatility in the design of living spaces.
It also allows you to create an elegant and minimalist effect by hiding the sliding mechanisms from view. This makes it ideal for modern and refined environments, where space continuity and brightness take center stage. The counterframe, therefore, is more than just a functional element, but also a design component that adds importance to the overall surroundings.
TWO SOLUTIONS COMPARED
Frame and Counterframe, what is the difference?
Frame
Counterframe
SPACE AND DESIGN ADVANTAGES
Swing door and Retractable door
Swing doors need space for opening, invading the surround space when they are opened. This can limit furniture arrangements and utilization of space.
Retractable doors, on the opposite, sliding inside the wall, thus removing any obstruction and permitting a greater liberty in the furniture arrangement. Retractable doors are perfect for very small spaces or rooms where it is important to maximize every single square centimeter.
They also offer a more contemporary and minimalistic appearance, integrating perfectly with the decor and improving the visual continuity of spaces.
The choice between a hinged door and a pocket door depends on space requirements and aesthetic taste, but pocket doors are often the most versatile and elegant solution.
THE UTILITY OF THE COUNTERFRAME IN THE MODERN HOMES
Why choose the Counterframe?
Counterframe is particularly useful in small rooms where space is limited. It allows rooms to expand visually, creating more spacious and cozy environments. It is ideal for those who want a modern, clean design where functionality meets aesthetics.
In additional, it is ideal for spaces that need flexibility in space configuration, like open areas or office spaces, where it is possible to easily modularize and convert space.
The counterframe is also helpful in situation where you wish to keep a visual seamlessness between various areas, but without affecting the privacy or the functionality. Its application is also recommended in all those situation where you want to maximize the space available to you without giving up design.
INNOVATION AND QUALITY MADE IN ITALY
How does the counterframe come to be created?
The production of the counterframe, such as in the case of Eurocassonetto, is the results of a continuous research and innovation.
We use high quality materials such as galvanized sheet steel, which ensures resistance and long durability. The manufacture process starts with the selection of raw material, which is followed by accurate and monitored production. Eurocassonetto counterframes are provided with an advance sliding system, composed of an aluminium track and kit wheels with a capacity of up to 120 kg, assuring a fluid and silent operation.
All counterframes are designed to be easy to service, with a removable siding that enables fast and easy installation inspection and cleaning.
In addition, the modular designed counterframes can be adapted to both plaster and drywall walls, keeping up with the most recent modern design and architecture trends.
The production is completely Made in Italy, ensuring high quality standards and particular attention to the aesthetical and functional details.
COUNTERFRAME FOR RETRACTABLE DOORS AND SLIDING SYSTEMS
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COMFORTABLE AND INVITING SURROUNDINGS
Interior Line
To convert rooms into more spacious and welcoming spaces. Our interior sliding door frames are specifically designed to offer the maximum versatility in the organization of the living spaces. To modulate, to separate and connect locations and areas by making or canceling out thresholds and limits.
ESTHETICS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY
Exterior Line
Space needs combined with new and alternative aesthetic requirements find their solution in exterior counterframes. Our exterior sliding door counterframes are designed to withstand the most challenging weather while providing a refined and a modern appearance.
DESIGN, MINIMALISM AND ESSENTIALITY
Minimal Line
Minimalism, essentiality, and purity of lines all become the main principles that transform an architectonic feature into a complementary furnishing element. Our line of sliding door counterframes embody these principles, providing the solutions that perfectly complement any interior design trend.
Eurocassonetto accessories include a wide range of components to improve the functionality of counterframes. These include sliders with ball bearing to ensure optimal smoothness, aluminum tracks for strength and durability, and gaskets for acoustic and thermal insulation. These accessories are designed to optimize the performance of the sliding system, providing fluent and silent operations, as well as enhancing the environment’s isolation.
In addition, we also offer tailor-made solutions to adapt to any type of architectural context, always offering the maximum in terms of quality and durability of our products.
Eurocassonetto offers dedicated and comprehensive customer service, designed to accompany the customer at all steps, from selection of the product to after-sale assistance. Our specialists are ready to provide personalized advice on the selection of the most appropriate counterframe for the unique needs of every single project.
We offer a detailed technical support and installation assistance to guarantee that each and every product is installed properly and functions to the best of its abilities.
In addition, our loyalty service provides exclusive benefits for repeat customers, rewarding their trust and incentivizing a lasting and successful relationship with Eurocassonetto.
Eurocassonetto’s R&D department is dedicated to ongoing innovation in counterframes, and develops solutions that blend superior acoustic and thermal insulation with high resistance to weather conditions.
Our counterframes are also designed to be durable, due to the use of high-quality materials such as stainless steel and thermal insulating panels. Each of the products is the product of meticulous designs and severe testing to ensure the best performance in terms of both energy efficiency and strength of structure.
Composition & details
The panels do not have the common vertical folds, but horizontal,more suitable to make the entire structure more solid and robust without annoying swelling of the internal chamber of the counterframe. That is, a sort of “tinned” effect is created.
The electrowelded mesh is not welded, nor crimped to the panel, but staplet with a small tolerance for movement. This tolerance (in case of natural settling of the masonry wall) keeps the central structure from suffering any damage. In fact, the only element in direct contact with the cement mortar is the electrowelded mesh. The electrowelded mesh (present only in the plaster version) is created with longitudinal and transverse wires 2 mm in diameter. The mesh sheet has no edge closing wires: the ends are formed by “free points” that can move and better align with key points and contact areas on the wall.
Laying is greatly facilitated by the lateral clamps that are sunk in the cement mortar. Installation of the door is easier because the carpenter con utilise his normal screws.
These are placed under the counterframe and are excellent for anchorage and alignment with the pavement. They can be sunk into the cement or screwed into the pavement.
There is a cavity and lateral tabs which allow easier insertion of the hollow block and the mortar cement and consequently greater anchorage of the counterframe to the masonry wall for its entire height.
The upper headboard has a smoth edge which is useful to more easily smooth the plaster.
These are positioned on the wooden risers and the rear plug of the counterframe and sunk in cement mortar for more secure anchoring.
Spacers are used during laying and serve to maintain the same height for the entire counterframe.
The profile is an integral part of the counterframe and extends for the entire height, thereby avoinding any separation of the brush seal with respect to the door. In pratical terms, this translates into a significant reduction of dust formation inside the counterframe.
Made from aluminium extrudate, this component is completely removable from the counterframe. Any post-masonry intervetion is therefore possible from inside without ruining the walls.
4 sliding bearings (one inside each wheel), steel shaft and nylon wheels. The door slides silenty without any friction. This is due to the balls (not needles) present in the bearings and to the very nature of accessory materials in the sliding kit. It is rated at 120kg, excellent for the vast majority of doors.
Included in the assembly kit. It makes it possible to mount and centre the sliding door just a few steps. The installer thus has only to focus on fitting the slot in the base of the sliding door into the door guide, which was previously fixed flush with the floor. With no extra additional measurements, the same door guide determines the centre of the lodging for the counterframe. There is a single mould for all thicknesses (125/105/100/90 mm): the preformed borders must simply be removed depending on the required size.
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We would like to be for you that company able to offer not only counterframes for retractable door but a reality that is able to assist you in every need and to always provide you the correct solution about sliding systems for internal and external fixtures, so as to offer your high quality and reliable products.
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