VLX 100 Double Swing / French Door

VLX 100 Double Swing / French Door in Columbus, OH | TruePane Windows & Doors

The VLX 100 Double Swing / French Door is a paired aluminum door system built for wide openings where you want both light and access. It’s the door Columbus homeowners choose when a patio, porch, or interior room opening calls for symmetrical sightlines, a flush threshold that doesn’t trip guests, and a multi-point lock that actually feels secure when you pull it shut. TruePane Windows & Doors installs this ViewLux-manufactured system as an authorized partner, which means your warranty stays intact and the installation is done to the manufacturer’s engineering specifications. Call (888) 635-0804 to talk through your opening.

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Product Overview - VLX 100 Double Swing / French Door

The VLX 100 is a double-swing French door system, meaning both panels operate and swing open from the center. The engineering behind it centers on symmetry. The paired aluminum doors are designed so the vertical sightlines match panel to panel, the hardware reads as one line, and the threshold sits nearly flush with the finished floor. That flush threshold is the detail most people notice first when they walk through, no raised track to step over, no rubber bumper catching a wheelchair or a stroller.

Aluminum is the frame material for good reason. It doesn’t warp in Columbus humidity, doesn’t swell after a wet spring, and doesn’t need the same seasonal adjustment wood doors demand. The VLX 100 carries that material advantage with profile widths and wall thicknesses that let it span wide without bowing. In the field, that means a 96-inch-wide opening across a back patio or garden room still gets two operating panels that close square and seal tight. The multi-point lock hardware ties the door into the frame at the top, bottom, and center, which shortens the unsupported span and makes forced entry a serious effort.

We see this door specified in three places most often around Columbus: rear openings in German Village renovations where the original masonry opening is oddly sized, new builds in Dublin and Powell where the owner wants a clean contemporary line, and sunroom-to-deck transitions in Westerville and Gahanna. It works in all three because the frame profile stays trim enough to avoid looking industrial while still carrying the structural load.

Technical Specifications

Here’s how the VLX 100 measures up, spec by spec. These are the numbers our design team works from on every Columbus estimate.

• Wall thickness: 0.098 inches of aluminum extrusion, which gives the frame stiffness without adding visual bulk.
• Profile width: 2.56 inches, narrow enough to preserve glass area and sightlines.
• Maximum span: up to 96 inches wide per opening, enough to replace most double door rough openings without resizing the structural header.
• Glass options: Clear, Frosted, Obscure, Low-E, Tempered, Laminated.
• Finish options: Premium Black, Pure White, Anodized Silver, Bronze, Champagne, Teak Wood.
• Screen options: Retractable Screen or no screen.

The combination of a 96-inch maximum span and a 0.098-inch wall thickness is what makes this door work in Columbus renovations. In older neighborhoods like Clintonville and Bexley, we often find rough openings that are either slightly undersized or a full 8 feet wide with no room to reframe. The VLX 100 covers both situations without forcing the homeowner into a custom-milled door that adds six weeks and fifteen hundred dollars to the job.

Performance Features

Thermal Efficiency
The VLX 100 uses thermal break technology built into the aluminum extrusion. A structural polymer separates the interior and exterior frame faces, which stops cold air from conducting through the metal into your Columbus living space. NFRC-rated energy performance means the numbers are tested, not claimed. For homeowners comparing replacement doors for a drafty sunroom in Upper Arlington, this thermal break is the difference between a door that holds heat and one that quietly leaks it all January.

Acoustic Performance
Aluminum doors with laminated glass reduce exterior noise measurably. If your home in Grandview Heights sits on a street with bus traffic or a nearby fire station, spec laminated glass in the VLX 100. Sound control ratings for this series are tested under standard conditions, and the multi-point lock compresses the panels into the frame, eliminating the gap rattles that cheaper door systems allow.

Airtightness & Weather Seal
Every perimeter joint on a TruePane installation gets AAMA 812 low-expansion foam sealant. That’s not a bead of caulk smeared over framing. Low-expansion foam fills the gap between the door frame and the rough opening without pushing the jamb out of square, then cures to a continuous air barrier. Airtightness ratings for the VLX 100 assume the door is installed this way, and we’ve seen the difference in Columbus homes where January winds find every gap in an old patio door.

Waterproofing
Columbus storms come hard and horizontal sometimes. The VLX 100’s sill design and our perimeter sealing combine to keep water on the outside where it belongs. The flush threshold includes a drainage path engineered into the extrusion, and the AAMA 812 sealant work prevents water from migrating behind the frame into the wall cavity. Mist prevention on the interior glass is handled by the thermal break, which keeps the inside frame face warm enough to avoid condensation buildup inside the room.

Wind Resistance
The VLX 100 is wind-load rated for local climate requirements. In practice for Columbus, that means the door holds its seal and its square during the storm fronts that roll through from the west. A door that flexes in wind loses its airtight seal and shortens its own life. The wall thickness and profile design here are the engineering answer to that problem, and our level/plumb/square installation is the field answer.

Security & Hardware
Multi-point lock hardware engages the frame at three points, top, center, and bottom, when you lift the handle. That’s a meaningful upgrade over a single latch bolt at the handle. The VLX 100 also accepts laminated glass, which is impact resistant. If you’d like the glass to hold together if hit by debris or a thrown object, tell us during your estimate and we’ll spec it. The hardware finish is matched to the frame finish, so the look stays clean.

Color & Glass Options

Six finishes are available for the VLX 100, and they cover both ends of the design spectrum. Premium Black and Pure White are the two most specified finishes in Columbus right now, black for contemporary builds and white for the colonial-revival homes that fill Bexley and Upper Arlington. Anodized Silver reads as a clean architectural aluminum and matches existing silver window frames well. Bronze is a warmer dark tone that works nicely on brick homes in German Village and Olde Towne East. Champagne sits between silver and bronze, subtle and slightly warm. Teak Wood gives the aluminum frame the look of stained wood without the maintenance, and we see it chosen most often for patio rooms where the homeowner wants the warmth of wood with the weather performance of aluminum.

Glass choice depends mostly on where the door leads and what’s behind it. Clear maximizes light and view. Frosted and Obscure give privacy while still passing light, a common pick for ground-floor doors on Columbus streets with sidewalk foot traffic. Low-E glass reflects heat back outside in summer and keeps interior heat in during winter, which pays off in Columbus’s swing-season utility bills. Tempered glass is safety glass and typically required by code in a door. Laminated glass adds impact resistance and sound damping, and gets specified often in homes near High Street corridors or railroad lines.

Installation by TruePane Windows & Doors in Columbus

The single best manufacturing decision in the world won’t save a door that’s installed out of square. This is where TruePane Windows & Doors earns our reputation. Every VLX 100 installation starts with a pre-install inspection of the rough opening. We check the header, the king and jack studs, the subfloor, and the condition of the existing weather barrier before anything gets ordered. If the opening has rot or is out of level, we tell you before the door arrives, not after.

On install day, our crew sets the frame level, plumb, and square. That’s not a preference, it’s the foundation of every performance rating this door carries. A door set even 1/8 inch out of square will sag on the hinges, the panels won’t close flush, and the multi-point lock will bind. Then we seal the entire perimeter with AAMA 812 low-expansion foam, per the AAMA 2400/2410 installation standard. The foam fills every air gap between rough opening and frame without bowing the jamb, and it eliminates the air infiltration that shows up in Columbus as cold drafts every winter.

After the sealant cures, we run a water test on the threshold and lower panel. Then we clean the glass, haul off the old door and packaging, and walk you through the operation and lock hardware. One more thing worth saying plainly: improper installation voids the manufacturer warranty on this door. When a Columbus homeowner hires a handyman to set a VLX 100 and the panels bind a year later, that’s not covered. When we install it, it is. That’s why the authorized-partner relationship matters to your wallet, not just to the manufacturer.

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Get a Quote - VLX 100 Double Swing / French Door in Columbus

Ready to see the VLX 100 Double Swing / French Door in your own Columbus opening? Call TruePane Windows & Doors at (888) 635-0804 and we’ll schedule a free on-site measurement. You’ll get a written line-item quote with no pressure, no surprises, and a clear install timeline. If you’re still comparing, that’s fine. The estimate gives you real numbers to plan around.

Written by the team at TruePane Windows & Doors, authorized ViewLux installation partner serving Columbus, OH.