Sliding door completely disappears into the wall - how is this possible?

I just noticed in the Viebrockhaus 425 (virtual tour on the website) that the sliding door between the living room and hallway completely disappears into the wall. How is this possible and how do you get the door back out of the wall?

I mean, normally at least the handle should still be visible, so the door is slid about 90% to the side. But here it is completely "recessed."

We would also like to do it this way; is there a special trick or system involved?

A small handle that can be flipped up, plus a "counter pull" for double doors. The whole thing is then, I believe, done with drywall.

The sliding door disappears behind a pre-wall or between drywall partitions - depending on whether the wall still has a load-bearing function.

On our narrow side of the door, there is a small hole into which you can insert your finger to pull the door closed.

Hello,

we also have a sliding door that completely disappears into the wall.

Ours, however, is made of glass and has a handle that can also be grabbed from the "narrow" side. The handle is built into a cutout at the edge of the pane.

This way, you don’t run the risk of scratching the wallpaper or the door frame if you forget to fold the handle back before closing.

It looks like this:



Regards,

Dirk

Keep in mind with the inward sliding doors that you can no longer access the mechanism if something goes wrong...

For this reason, we decided against it and planned an outward one, but it was not implemented due to cost. It will probably stay that way for the next 20 years, because after more than a month I can now say that the door would always be open anyway...

Keep in mind with the internal sliding doors that you can no longer access the mechanism if something goes wrong...

That is not entirely true for all systems.

Our door mechanism is accessible in the area of the door opening at the top edge of the door and at the wall section behind the door down to the floor through a service hatch (similar to a roller shutter box).

Well, we had this service hatch wallpapered over (purely for aesthetic reasons) but in case of an emergency, you could easily get to the mechanism this way.

After the repair, a little wallpaper, paste, and paint, and the problem would be solved again.

In my parents' house, there are two sliding doors that have been running trouble-free for over thirty years now.

So, I don't worry too much about it.

Regards,

Dirk