Fold&Slide - Keep all your options open

Keep all your options open

Side-Hung, Inline-Sliding, Top-Hung, Tilt-Only, Vertical-Pivot or Slide&Fold windows. Single or multi-sashed in different shapes. Made of PVC and timber. The GU group provides all options to window fabricators all over the world and also makes their job equally straightforward: by supplying high-quality hardware systems that not only satisfy exacting technical and aesthetic demands, but also increase fabrication, installation and storage efficiency.

 

What does this mean in practise?

The work of the group is based on the central locking principle. The parts of the central locking system originate from the successful UNI-JET Tilt&Turn hardware range, which can be used to implement Side-Hung and Vertical-Pivot windows using only a few additional components.

As the central locking system can be used universally, different hardware systems are no longer required during manufacturing: this reduces the expenditure for storage and reordering and simplifies installation. As the system requires comparatively few hardware components, which can be flexibly used in different opening types, this not only guarantees easy installation but also reduces the number of individual components to a minimum. This enables fabricators of timber and PVC window elements to extend the range of products and significantly reduce warehouse overheads by using standard components.

 

The Fold&Slide as lucrative addition to the product range

The Gretsch-Unitas Fold&Slide generation offers comfort, security and elegance for more space and light in your house, apartment or commercial building. By applying the central locking principle, the window fabricator can quickly and easily add this product in the higher price segment of his product range.

Given that the margins in the Tilt&Turn sector tend to be lower, this provides the window fabricator with the opportunity to achieve higher margins and achieve additional profits.

 

Easy operation and large opening widths

Large opening widths are assuming an increasingly important role.

Fold&Slide systems are ideal for use in rooms that require maximum opening widths where the sashes must be incorporated in a space saving manner and a light-filled, exclusive atmosphere is required. Irrespective of whether the project in question is a premium apartment building requiring opening widths that pushes even a Lift&Slide unit to its limits,  or contains smaller living areas for large opening widths are desirable to increase the sense of space.

The Gretsch-Unitas Fold&Slide hardware is available with a permissible sash weight of 130 kg and opening widths with a total frame width of max. 6,700 mm. Window elements with large sash widths of up to 1,000 mm, and therefore larger glass surfaces, are now possible.

Six plastic-coated rollers mounted on ball bearings in the bottom bogie guide the sash precisely and silently in the three grooves of the roller track. The upper guide rollers on the sash also feature two ball bearing supported plastic-coated rolls. Thanks to this unique combination, even large and heavy Fold&Slide elements can be moved safely, quietly and effortlessly. A brush seal at the floor seals the guide track which prevents dirt entering the roller track.

 

Accessibility as standard solution

Each Fold&Slide system can have a barrier-free design (depending on the profile) without requiring additional components such as a special threshold. The flat GU system threshold can provide a ­maximum passage width without obstructions. Frame parts that anchor the sash to the floor do not represent a tripping hazard by projecting out of the floor when the sashes are parked at the side and instead recessed in the threshold in the floor. Even heavy large sashes can be effortlessly opened and moved safely and to the side thanks to ball-bearing supported, plastic-coated rolls in the bottom bogie and the top guide roll. Not only older persons or ­persons with restricted mobility appreciate this, but also service employees in the gastronomy industry for example, who value fast, short and obstruction-free routes in the outdoor area of the restaurant.