Traditional Upvc Doors
Brand new doors aren’t limited to modern styles. In fact, UPVC doors come in a wide range of traditional (and modern) designs. While you may be unsure about replacing an old wooden door with something as new as a UPVC one, after reading this guide you’ll be convinced to choose UPVC as a suitable replacement.
In this blog, we’ll go into detail about what makes a door “traditional”, what exactly a UPVC door is, the advantages you’ll get by choosing one to replace a wooden door, and even show you a few of our own styles.
What is a traditional UPVC Door?
- Typically, a traditional UPVC door has a colonial or symmetrical design - Colonial designs consist of four to six panels, with twin vertical rectangles as a standard feature.
- It can be solid or glazed - From glass in the top panels, to a half-glazed design with mouldings in the bottom.
- Traditional UPVC doors look similar to traditional wooden doors – Various styles are available to match and replace old wooden entrance doors.
What exactly is a UPVC door?
- UPVC is short for unplasticised polyvinyl chloride – PVC is a flexible material due to being “plasticised” (having a softening agent added to it); without this, it becomes rigid, or “unplasticised”.
- You may also know it as PVCu – This is a name used early in UPVC’s introduction to the UK market, and is still in use throughout continental Europe. However, “PVCu” and “UPVC” are the same thing.
- UPVC doors are moulded – Rather than being carved or built, the design of a UPVC door is formed within a heated mould.
- It is made like a sandwich – Each door is made of different layers. These layers include the outer skin, dense inner layer, and glass if applicable, all of which are compressed together to create the door panel. This panel is fitted within a sash, which in turn is fitted within the frame.
Advantages of a traditional UPVC door
- UPVC doors come in a wide range of designs, just like wooden doors.
- It’s more energy efficient – UPVC doors are multi-layered, and so reduce heat loss better than single-layered wooden doors.
- It’s weather resistant – With a weatherproof surface, a UPVC door won’t absorb water as an unprotected wooden door can, which can warp and deteriorate over time, causing issues with security and insulation.
- It’s much easier to keep clean – UPVC doors are low maintenance, so not only are they much easier to keep clean than wooden doors, but you also won’t need to paint them. Painted wooden doors on the other hand, can chip or peel in the face of time and changing weather.
- UPVC doors are available in woodgrain finishes – Another benefit to replacing a wooden door, should you favour a natural wooden appearance, with finishes such as the dark Rosewood and lighter Golden Oak matching existing wooden surrounds.
- They match UPVC windows too – With the same finishes available for UPVC windows, you can easily have a door and windows that match, and offer the same low-maintenance benefits.
What traditional UPVC door styles do you offer?
The Leeds UPVC Door
The Leeds UPVC front door is one of our most popular UPVC doors overall. It sports the timeless design of twin vertical glass panels, and below them smaller twin vertical solid mouldings.
White is the most common finish for the Leeds door style, while anthracite grey is used to convey a dignified, and even contemporary, feel.
A Leeds Solid UPVC door is also available, along with the option for a spyhole should you desire greater privacy.
The Leicester UPVC Door
The Leicester UPVC door is an example of our traditional style half-glazed UPVC doors, with twin vertical indented mouldings in the bottom section.
Popular for back entrances, our half-glazed UPVC back doors allow a great deal of light and visibility between a garden and kitchen area.
Our other traditional half-glazed UPVC doors include:
The Brent UPVC Door – with double raised squares
The Nottingham UPVC Door – with twin raised vertical panels
The Newham UPVC Door
A six-panel door style, the Newham UPVC Door consists of raised mouldings of two small squares at the top, followed by two pairs of larger vertical rectangles.
The Newham Solid UPVC front door is shown here is rosewood, while two-glass and four-glass panel versions also exist.
A similar design to the Newham door is:
The Harrow UPVC door – with concave mouldings
The Bromley UPVC Door
Like our half-glazed doors, but with a smaller scale of glass, this is the Bromley UPVC door.
The design shown here consists of Georgian Bar glass, a perfect compliment to a traditional home. Georgian Bar is available in White, Rosewood and Golden Oak (as shown).
We offer a similar style of door with different mouldings:
The Ealing Classic UPVC Door – with twin raised mouldings
The Enfield UPVC Door
The five-panel Enfield UPVC Door consists of raised panels, with a semi-circle indented at the bottom, and beneath that two pairs of twin vertical rectangles.
The Enfield is available with 1-glass (top panel), 3-glass (top and middle) and Solid configurations.
A similar design to the Enfield is:
The Coventry UPVC Door – with concave panels and full-shaped semi-circle
The Croydon UPVC Door
Like the Leeds, the Croydon UPVC Door features twin vertical glass panels (with swept tops in this case) and smaller solid twin vertical panels.
The angled-top glass panels add a degree of refinement compared to the Leeds, and have raised mouldings rather than concave.
Shown here is the door in a chartwell green finish. While the frame is matched to the door colour by default, it can also be made to white should you wish to match your home’s surrounds.
Ready to upgrade your traditional door?
It couldn’t be simpler. Get started with one of these options:
- Call us free – You can reach us on 0800 910 1122, where our door experts will be happy to assist you.
- Message us – Either by the blue tab in the right, or via our Contact Us page.
- Order online – View a wide range of UPVC doors, customise as you see fit, and order Fully Fitted or Supply Only.
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