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tag:We have been an established double glazing business for over 20 years. The aluminium shop fronts that we manufacture and supply are easy to assemble and durable once they’re set up. With a drainage tray, these doors are built for strong rain in any season.
At Direct Trade, we offer a comprehensive range of profile sections to make sure that you’re getting the swing, rebated or auto swing/auto sliding doors that you’re looking for. When you contact our Slough team we can talk to you about the automation that we use.
One of the reasons that we love Smart for aluminium shop fronts is that these systems can be quickly assembled with easy to clip mullions while offering sightlines of only 50mm. The square cut profiles are joined with self tapping screws for rapid onsite assembly, which is perfect whether for our own installation, or in our supply to trade.
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The Shopline system from Smart is a modular screening solution that combines the benefits of off-site manufacture with on-site assembly. Designed for the UK climate, all fixings are manufactured from corrosion resistant material to provide protection against atmospheric degradation. The system also offers drainage trays, ensuring the screens perform in all weather types.
Smart Wall is a thermal shop front screen and door system suitable for all types of buildings where enhanced thermal performance is required, and is ideal for use in schools, colleges, and other educational buildings that need plenty of natural light.
The system has been successfully tested to PAS24:2012 for enhanced security performance, making it one of the best performing fully thermally broken screens and entrance doors in the UK.
Our Gold Standard
We use Ultion locks as standard, ensuring our customers can offer the highest security on the market.
Guaranteed
Ultion supplies a powerful lock, with an equally powerful anti-snap guarantee. Should your customer’s lock break by snapping, Ultion will refund them £2000.
State of the Art
Ultion locks have 11 pins, creating just under 300k lock combinations, making it virtually impervious to picking.
Accredited
Ultion locks are Kitemark approved, and Secured by Design, tested to rigorous police standards.
One of the key benefits to choosing an aluminium shop front is that it offers great insulation and thermal efficiency. All of the doors that we fabricate have been tested to BRFC standards, ensuring that they meet and exceed government standards. Which is why we fabricate them with thermally broken low thresholds, and polyamide thermal breaks.
But more importantly our doors have been tested for air tightness (Class 2, 300Pa), water tightness (Class 7a, 150Pa), and wind resistance (Class A5, 2000Pa). When looking for aluminium shop fronts, you’ll want to make sure that your door is meeting both building codes, and works well for customers.
We think these doors are perfect, in part because aluminium is such a lightweight material. Aluminium frames offer incredible strength, which allows us to provide large glass panels and triple glazing. However, our doors weigh only 80-100kg. So end users with low mobility can easily open these doors without a problem.
We also offer aluminium entrance doors, and steel look bifold doors. If you’re looking for shop front supply, get in touch today.
Modernise your Slough or Watford premises with our industrial style aluminium shop front. Get a free quote using our online engine.
If you have any further questions, please complete our online contact form. Or give us a call today on 01923 777 722.
Smart Wall
Brand Smart-Wall
Material Aluminium Polyamide
Dual Colour Yes
Thermally Broken Yes
NBS Available Yes
U Value 1.8W/m²K (Doors) 1.4W/m²K (Screen)
Document L Compliant Yes
Kitemark Yes
BS 6375-1:2009 Yes
Single Door Max Width (mm) 1150mm (sash)
Single Door Max Height (mm) 2500mm (sash)
Single Door Max Weight (kg) 80kg
Glazing (mm) 24mm - 32mm double or triple glazed units
Colours
Pure White RAL-9010
Matt White
Matt Brown
Jet Black RAL-9005
Grey
Gloss White
Gloss Off White
Dark Red
Dark Grey
Dark Green
Dark Brown
Dark Blue
Cream
Black
Anthracite Grey RAL-7016
Airforce Grey
Downloads
Glass Options
Standard Self Clean
Standard Tough
Solar Control
Unglazed
Self Cleaning
Self Clean Solar Control
Satin Obscure
Laminated Security
Gallery
Benefits
Anodised Powder Coatings — Whatever colour you choose for these aluminium shop fronts, our anodised powder coatings ensure that they stay colorfast for a long time to come. In fact, we can offer a 25 year guarantee on some of our colour coatings.
DDA & Document M Compliant — Direct Trade makes aluminium shop fronts to meet council and building codes, no matter where you’re located. We ensure that our doors are fabricated for increasingly accessibility standards with minimum rebates and anti finger traps.
Thermal Efficiency — Aluminium offers great thermal efficiency, and we can provide extended polyamide thermal breaks for even greater energy efficiency. Depending on the design that you choose you can get aluminium shop front doors with U-values between 1.8 or 1.4 W/m2K.
Lowered Thresholds — Make sure that your installations is meeting government standards for accessibility. To improve accessibility 15mm is the highest frame profile allowed. We offer lowered thresholds to make sure that we’re anticipating new standards.
Glazing — If you are concerned about building codes and rising government standards we can always offer improved glazing options. We fabricate our aluminium shop front doors with glass thicknesses from 24mm to 32mm, with double or triple glazing to reduce condensation and draughts.
Heavy Duty Application — We use Smart Shopline profiles which can have varied usage, including those for schools and hospitals. The mechanically welded corners create durable and long lasting doors, that’s not possible for other doors with welded construction.
Design Options — At Direct Trade, we can construct the aluminium shop front that you’re looking for. Our max sash dimensions are 25000mm -1150mm (Hx W). We can fabricate bolstered mullions for taller entrances, and midrail options for your next aluminium shop front installation.
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