The replacement door market is huge as developers and homeowner’s alike constantly look to refurbish their properties. More and more people are choosing to have wooden replacement doors as wood doors offer great quality and value for money, not to forget the aesthetic properties of natural wood doors. Furthermore the replacement door range available today has increased tenfold as compared to what was available several years ago.
The advent of new materials and technology has resulted in a wider variety of home building materials than ever before. Many materials can be made to look like other materials. Polyurethane can be made to look like wood. This is a common material in wood doors and replacement doors.
Oak is fast becoming a popular timber for replacement doors and manufacturers are constantly launching new designs of Oak replacement doors. Although a strong, dense timber, Oak is still versatile timber in that it tends to react when exposed to changes in temperature and humidity. This is why protection of an open porch or canopy is highly recommended, furthermore extra coats of protection are definitely worthwhile. In contrast, red hardwood replacement doors don't react as much and need less maintenance to keep them looking as good as the day you purchased them (assuming you have treated the door after having purchased it). Depending on exposure (to the elements) one annual coat is usually enough to keep your door looking good. Regular maintenance will more than repay the effort involved and will keep your door looking good for many years. The aim is to keep any water from penetrating your door. Many people have had their replacement door openers for 10 years or more.
Another benefit of buying a replacement door is that you do not have to replace your old door frame (thus saving a lot of money). Old Wooden doors can almost always be replaced with a new wooden door and because wood is such an easy material to work with, all locks and cut outs (for hinges etc) can be made in the same place which hides the fact that an older door was there before. Any extra cut outs in the frame can always be filled in and painted. This is one drawback of uPVC replacements doors.
Go green! It is also ‘greener’ to buy a timber door. This is because all the timber used in our replacement doors comes from well managed forests where more trees are planted than are cut down. The environment is fully considered during the manufacturing process, and that waste is kept to a minimum. By purchasing a timber door from us you can be completely confident that you are not exhausting irreplaceable supplies of raw materials, such as oil for UPVC doors or bauxite for aluminium doors.
Replacements doors can revolutionise a property. Regrettably, the bad news is that all too often when internal décor is updated, choices of wall finishes, flooring and furniture usually take priority and routinely, replacement doors are just an afterthought, whereas they should be at the very heart of the overall interior design scheme. After all, they’re the beginning and end of a journey through a room and are an extremely effective and affordable way to enhance the aesthetics and ambience.
Indisputably, choosing the right replacement door not only creates a warm, welcoming entrance and attractive exit, but really can provide the perfect finishing touch to a newly designed room or refurbished room. Accordingly our current range has been shrewdly and expertly assembled to make a stylish first – and last – impression, no matter which range or model you choose.
With a huge choice of sizes and a stunning array of classical, traditional, contemporary and totally cutting edges designs of replacements doors, the options are almost limitless.
As a nation we have an ever increasing flair and passion for interior design in our homes, as it means affordable, fashionable, quality doors are within everyone’s financial reach, no matter how big or small the budget.
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