British Expatriate Network

So...

My friends and I were doing coffee (as you do when you used to have a playgroup but all the kids are now in school..... ;)) and one (Irish expat) mentioned she was having all her windows replaced, including the doorwall. So I said something along the lines of "that's interesting, when they did ours they didn't do doorwalls and recommended another company....." The other three (American bred -one Canadian born) thought this hysterical because doorwall is apparently an incredibly local term for patio doors -so local that even the woman who is a born and bred Michigander thinks it's weird. So we asked what the average American would call them. They said "sliding glass doors". Is this really true? Is there no special word for these things? What do you call it? What about your American partners/friends? have you ever heard of a doorwall?

French doors?

/refer to them as "sliding glass doors" myself

Patio Doors.
Sliding glass doors.

If in a bedroom entrance then French doors.
But French doors don't slide, they both open outward I think.

french doors open outward and are double you are correct .
A single door is a casement door i think

They call them sliders here, but I still say patio doors.

Never heard of a doorwall....a wonderwall but not a doorwall!

Debs x smile

I love that word, doorwall! Here they also say "sliding glass doors" although a few call them "sliders". I think "sliding glass doors" sounds very clumsy, although I sometimes say it too. However, until now, I had never heard of doorwall, but I think it may yet enter my vocabulary but I no longer have one, unfortunately.

(a doorwall, not a vocabulary)

Door walls sounds stupid
I go with casement door out here in CA
Fresh from remodeling regards..

Never heard of a doorwall. We have French doors here but they dont open outwards, they open inwards.

But I agree with most, patio or sliding door depending if it is external or internal