News from W.W. Wood Products in Dudley: Bifold Doors (BFD) are now production-ready and orderable today on most stock Shiloh and Eclipse wall cabinets, 21″–48″ wide. Soft-close hinges standard. List price is $672 per set.
The catch — and the reason you need to know about this from Pinnacle Sales and not from your CAD software — is that the new SKUs are not yet reflected in 20/20 Design, ProKitchens, or the Interactive catalogs. Those updates are in process at WW Wood but lag the production-ready date. If you want to spec a bifold on a project before the catalog refresh lands, you'll need to add it manually as a modification on the order. Pinnacle Sales can help you walk through that on a specific elevation — just send the project through Submit a Request.
What bifold doors actually are
A bifold door is hinged in the middle so that, when opened, it folds back against itself instead of swinging out into the room. On a wide wall cabinet, that's the difference between a door that smacks into the adjacent cabinet, the rangehood, or your head — and one that tucks neatly out of the way against the side wall of the cabinet itself.
The sweet spots:
- Wide wall cabinets with limited swing clearance — bar fronts, sink walls under a window, cabinets next to a fridge column or rangehood, anywhere a 30″+ single door would otherwise hit something on the way open.
- Coffee bars, microwave nooks, and small-appliance garages — fold both sets all the way back and the contents are fully exposed for use, then close to hide everything from the room.
- Accessibility — easier for someone who can't fully extend an arm to push a wide door past 90°. A bifold's fold-back motion means less reach for the same access.
- Tight floor plans — galley kitchens and butler's pantries where standard cabinet doors block the walkway when open.
How to spec — door codes
The configuration is set by the door code you put on the order. Three options:
- BFDL — one set of bifold doors, hinged on the left.
- BFDR — one set of bifold doors, hinged on the right.
- BFDL/R — two sets of bifold doors, automatically hinged left and right (no need to specify; the order builds with one set folding to each side).
If you're ordering a single set (BFDL or BFDR), you must specify the hinge side. The factory won't guess.
Construction details to know before you put it on the elevation
- Cabinet size range: most stock Shiloh and Eclipse wall cabinets between 21″ and 48″ wide. Outside that range, talk to your rep before quoting.
- Top rail is slightly different from a standard overlay door. Shiloh overlay wall cabinets with bifolds get a 2½″ top rail; Eclipse cabinets get a 1⅞″ top rail. Reveals remain standard in both cases. Worth flagging if you're mixing bifolds with adjacent standard-door cabinets — the top-rail line on the bifold cabinets will read a touch heavier than the rest of the run.
- Hinges: soft-close standard. No upgrade required.
- Door styles, species, finishes: per the announcement, bifolds are available "on most stock" Shiloh and Eclipse wall cabinets — assume your standard door style and finish program applies, but confirm with Pinnacle Sales on anything unusual (inset, specialty materials, modified depth).
Pricing
$672 list per set. So a 36″ wall cabinet built with two sets of bifolds (BFDL/R) carries a +$1,344 list upcharge over a standard-door equivalent. Adjust to your dealer multiplier for client-facing pricing.
Manufacturer spec sheet
The official W.W. Wood Products spec page is reproduced below — keep it on hand when adding BFD as a modification line to an order, since the catalogs don't have the option auto-built yet.
Status: ready to order, not yet launched
Per the WW Wood announcement: bifolds are production-ready and orderable immediately, but the product will be formally launched at a later date. Translation — you can spec one today and W.W. Wood will build it, but you may not see formal marketing collateral, brochure inclusion, or catalog auto-modification for a few weeks. Pinnacle Sales will push updated info out as the launch rolls forward.
Questions
For spec questions, confirming a specific cabinet width, or sanity-checking a bifold modification before it goes to factory:
- Pinnacle Sales — send the project through Submit a Request with the elevation, and we'll route it through Gillian's design-review desk. We can also walk you through the right way to add a non-catalog mod line.
- W.W. Wood Products direct — Billy Rea, 573-624-3526 ext. 2202, for product-level questions about the new bifold program.