Are Composite Doors Draught Proof?
Your Composite Door Questions Answered:
Are Composite Doors Draught Proof?
Draughts are a pain at any time of the year – in the winter when they come roaring in under, over or around your door cooling the inside of your home as you watch your money burn while you try to eradicate them by notching up the heating. At least come the summer and the occasional balmy summers day, the draught can feel like a cooling breeze, which could for the more optimistic of us be considered a benefit.
Either way none of us want them but many of us have them – so will purchasing and correctly installing a new composite door actually remove the offending draught. Answer – yes and we underlined “correctly installed” for a reason firstly your door as any new door should be and must be square both in its installation and in the manner, it is set in the frame – the door should be properly adjusted and square in the frame. In the rare instances when Composite doors have a draught it is more likely to be poor installation and adjustment rather than a fault with the product, the hinges on a composite door give ample adjustment to ensure that the door is aligned so that it engages with the draught proof strip.
The numerous different manufacturers use a variety of types of draughtproofing but all composite doors have one thing in common, the draughtproofing is installed as a part of the factory construction process where the door and frame are pre-assembled as a “door set” prior to leaving the factory. The benefits of this are two-fold –
- As the draughtproofing is preinstalled it can not go missing in transit.
- The messy time consuming (and frequently irritating) job of trying to install the draughtproofing at site is eliminated.
With draughtproofing installed at manufacture (and it is all done under stringent Quality Control procedures) and your door correctly installed you should instantly start to feel the benefit in your pocket – no draughts means no cranking up the heating. One of the often forgotten benefits of Composite Doors which is frequently overlooked is their thermal insulation qualities, because they are a little thicker than timber of UPVC front doors and because the cores of the doors have excellent thermal characteristics it is likely that less heat will be lost through the door itself.
