I am in the process of planning a kitchen for a client . The client has requested pocket cabinet doors, (retractable, like a TV cabinet). I have used hafele brand hardware for this setup in the past with poor results. (Doors are hard to close and the track seems flimsey).Does anyone know of a manufacturer of poker door hardware that's functions really smoothly? Price is not a issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

look at the kv 8092s

Another vote for the KV 8092.

Good think they have the money. Making a cabinet inside a cabinet so you can have pull-outs and shelves is going to add up quickly!

That's the one I use as well. I don't think it's great, but it's one of the better options available.

I do my best to talk people out of pocket doors whenever possible. I've never seen one I was impressed with, and customer proof

I do the same as everyone else. especially Karl with trying to talk them out of it.
However, if you are doing full size pocket doors (tall) the Salice ones are really slick. Expensive as all get out and a pain to order, but slick.

We can send rovers to Mars, but any type of pocket door hardware is flimsey and does not last long because cost IS the object, whereas Mars, cost is NOT the object.

The only pocket door hardware I have seen that really works, decades after it was built is the two pins in a groove type with wear strips of the right wood, in the right places.

The fact that so many 'cabinetmakers' are seduced by hardware makers away from real solutions harkens to the low level of craft and ignorance of history in our trade. It is a shame that we just give in to these advertisers and buy thier stamped out 'solutions'.

Another vote for the kv with the solid connecting rod.

They are gear driven and don’t sag.

I have been pretty happy with them.

Dam i hate that word.. i can send a job out and install and when we go back to adjust painter has removed parts and they were not put back correctly or has lost parts.. i do ever thing possible to get out of it, Had a customer a few months back that had some large bifold panty cabinet door's i refused to use regular hardware like the kv 4x4, richlue have some that are very expensive gave her the price per door that ended that.

Sorry that we've soiled your reputation by using the same moniker David. We crafthacks hold you in esteem.
If I'm interpreting that type of pin connected pocket door of which you speak, I disagree. In an inset application, the doors will sag and those perfect 3/32 reveals do not hold up more than a year. I don't care if you use lignum vitae as wear strips. Then, when they sag, you have no adjustments because your dealing with pins, grooved wood and butt hinges. Keep shimming those hinges with card stock every year, buddy.

I think the KV 8092's are the best out there until you step up to the crazy expensive ones that are engineered for your specific opening.

Anybody else have customers that think you learned your trade at Hogwarts?
As in you have a 18" wide pocket door, going into a 12" deep cabinet, and 10" to 12" of the door is going to be hanging out, and they want you to bend space and time to get it to retract all the way into the cabinet?