Composite Front Door -help please!

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I need to replace my front door.

getting a composite door seems like the best option. They seems safer & better where a door gets a bit if water splashed on it (no porch, nothing can be added)

I do not want a white PVC door.

I do want something that feels 'heavy' & solid.

I also want one that doesn't have a handle to engage the locking, just a simple key lock.

Any advice, suggestions or warnings?

Find a local double glazing company with a showroom so you can see and feel one in real life

I've been to a couple (there aren't many around here) and I wasn't very impressed.

I was hoping to get some suggestions to fit my criteria & then look to see where I can find a show room.

I’m very happy with my Solidor one.

I have just been to check who made our door. We have had it years. It is heavy and rock solid. It has a solid wood core and composite coating. No problems, secure and looks fantastic. It was made by Solidor. They did have a keyless entry option too.

We had a solidor fitted 2 years ago and not had any issues with it. It's very solid and looks just as good now as it did when fitted

@QuebecBagnet thank you

@Cattytabby thank you, great to know it's been good over a few years!!

I'm not sure I'd want keyless entry, but I'll look into it.

@stormelf Solidor seems to be getting a lot of votes!

Hallmark doors have a website where you can design your door and then there will put you in touch with a local supplier.
www.hallmarkpanels.com

I desperately need a new front door, I dont like any composite design Ive seen so I'll be interested in ideas

We had a Solid Door fitted in March. We did some research and decided they were the best. Been excellent so far.

Solidor!

I’ve got one on the front and the back. Sourced my own knocked from elsewhere though.

@Undergroundovergroundwomblingfree

thanks for your post. Many of them do & its 'fun' to play around with designs, but I was asking/hoping for opinions on brands of doors that people actually have that match my criteria.

@DespiteAllMyRage
thanks for that! Yours looks lovely.

Solidor seems be be getting all the love! I might need to go to a different showroom, the one near me, the doors looked cheap (but we're actually very expensive) & the sales bloke was grim.

the company I had almost gone with, were
nice to deal with & fitted them
themselves, I just feel I need to look around a bit, see what I should be looking for & see what the other prices are like. A year ago I was quoted £1900 fitted. (Single door, no additional side panels etc)

Be careful with who you get it from, because some of them will be solidor suppliers but fit you a shitty cheap composite door from another company and pocket the difference.

I’d go to a few local ones who stock solidor and see who gives you good vibes. If you’re near Nottingham/East Midlands I can highly recommend D&M Windows in Ruddington. He’s done both my doors, and is due back imminently to quote for sash style windows for the whole downstairs.

Another one with a solidor we got ours through The Window Repair Centre www.solidor.co.uk/installers/window-repair-centre-ltd/

Ours is Ludlow with a doctor door knocker.

Keyless entry was the best decision i made. Kids have the code, no locking themselves out or losing their keys

We had keyless entry but don’t use it anymore. Got locked out too many times as the widget which spins round seems to get out of synch with itself and after x hundred times will spin round and think it’s unlocked but hasn’t spun far enough.

Dh could reset it but it kept happening with increasing frequency. Not sure if we had a dodgy one but it was expensive and the company were very unhelpful and I wasn’t prepared to buy another.

We recently replaced our front door and used these guys

www.timberwindows.com

The door is heavy, solid feeling, fabulous quality and the service/installation was brilliant. However, it came at quite a price … saying that, we also had a local independent guy out to quote and he wasn’t much different so maybe new front doors are just bloody expensive!

I’ve got a Yale keyless entry part and we’ve never had an issue with it since the day it was fitted