Since ages wooden doors are commonly used as home doors. They have their own advantages and disadvantages while comparing their features with composite doors. No doubt wooden doors are easily available, cheap, easy for custom size, shape design and color. But they have some drawbacks in comparison with composite doors.

Wooden doors requires regular maintenance. They need protection from being corrode, wrap, deform and damp. Also they need protection against termite. Rain, water and sunlight have much effect on wooden doors. They require regular re-painting and polishing. So overall some maintenance cost is necessary at regular time interval to keep the wooden doors last long. Also they are made up of timber wood so more trees need to be cut of for timber wood.

Composite doors are made up of composite material so there is no cut of of trees. Composite doors are available in custom size, shape and design. They are easy to install and comes in variety of design style with wide range of colors. Composite doors are damp proof, termite proof, corrode free and there is no warping. Highly insulated panel keep the door edges and corners damage free. Double coating on the door panel maintains the design look and avoids color fading of the door. So there is no need to repaint or re-polish the door. So overall shine and gloss of the door remains same for long.They are scratch proof and dent resistance. Composite doors are weather proof and can stand still in unfavorable weather conditions. So they can be easily used as exterior doors.

Virtually composite doors does not require regular maintenance. They just require regular clean up with simple cloth or sponge. Now-a-days they comes in affordable range. Even composite doors can be so design to look same as traditional wooden door. Concluding composite doors triumph over normal timber wood doors is quality aspects and that too saving your money.

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In order to make your home doors more energy efficient and save energy there are some beneficial points to be consider. For example composite upvc doors maintains the room temperature and thus save energy. So composite upvc doors are also known as energy saving doors. Upvc doors are made with high quality thermally insulated door panel which helps in maintaining the room temperature and save energy loss.

Another important point to consider is the indoor light. For example glass interior doors can be used to take the best advantage of uniform indoor light. Glass composite doors or glass upvc doors are the best options to maintain indoor light. The outdoor light also helps to save more energy by increasing the indoor light. Also one can easy get the outdoor view as well as internal view of different rooms through the glass.

Now the glass used can be of different color, design, faint, tint or plain as per the requirement. This way it also give additional beauty and touch to the door look and interior design. So as per your taste you can fulfill your need through different varieties of choice available.

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Objects can be classified on the basis of material used for manufacturing. Engineered materials that are made up of more than one material of desired chemical and physical property are called composite material.


Composite mainly comprises of materials that can be classified as matrix, reinforce and double glazing units. The matrix material supports reinforce whereas reinforce material forms the structure an impart strength. Composite materials generally have high strength to weight ratio, this quality helps for applications where high strength is required at less weight.

The most common examples of composite material are fibreglass, carbon fiber, plywood etc. Fibreglass is made from fine glass fiber which acts as reinforcement material to polymers which act as matrix. Similarly GRP (Glass reinforced plastic) material is also used for manufacturing of doors.

According to the properties of GRP they render high strength, glossy effect due to glass though light in weight due to plastic. GRP doors also known as composite doors have high strength to weight ratio this makes it for the best choice for patio doors which needs looks and security equally. GRP has all the desired property for an entrance door such as:
  • Resistant to heat and water
  • No color fading in sunlight
  • No expansion or warping due to moisture
  • No need to paint
  • As non conductor of heat so by structure it is energy efficient
  • Stronger in strength than wood though lighter than it
There is also composite material doors offer uPVC, PVC, PVCu.

These clear advantages make it a perfect choice for entrance door with style.

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