Choosing the Right Door For Your Home
It's the first thing that people see when they're entering your home. It can be the perfect finishing touch to your homes decor, or a real eyesore. That's why we've come up with this blog to help you pick the perfect front door for you!
More than that, doors can also be a significant source of heat loss, and an upgrade (or choosing the right one the first time!) can help you to save money on your power bill! Flexible foam weatherstripping around the door perimeter, combined with a sweep watershed on the bottom of the panel, helps resist wind and water.
Choosing a Shape
Rectangular
This classic shaped door can be customized in many ways to show off your unique style, such as adding sidelights which can complement entranceway or completely transform the look of the entire home.
Arched
The arched doorway can transform the appearance of any home, adding elegance to your entryway.
Divided Light
You can choose to have a solid panelled door, or you can let the light in. Andersen can provide just the right grilles to enhance any shape or style of entranceway.
Materials
Wood: Wood Doors offer a timeless elegance to the home. Andersen uses only the finest of woods including: Pine, Maple, Cherry, Alder, Oak, Vertical Grain Douglas Fir and Mahogany. Its overall thermal performance is hard to beat. Each wood product is clad to resist the elements and provide a low-maintenance exterior that never needs painting.
Fibrex - Made from reclaimed wood fiber and PVC polymer, this material is 2x as strong as vinyl, performs better when exposed to extreme temperatures and delivers exteriors that won't fade, flake blister or peel. Blocks thermal transfer nearly 700 times better than aluminum to help reduce heating and cooling bills with long lasting weather-tight seals.
Aluminum - Perfect for your patio door, aluminum provides a virtually maintenance-free exterior that resists the elements. Its high-definition details and versatility means the ability to choose from over fifty exterior colours from Balsa White to Stormy Blue. Don't know where to start? This fun quiz from HGTV can help you choose a colour to match your home's character!
Fibre Glass - Fiberglass is a tough, weather-resistant material. Its exterior is virtually maintenance-free with beautiful wood interiors creating rigid, yet light weight doors!
Coastal Doors
Andersen® windows and doors with Stormwatch® protection offer many of the same options and accessories as our standard products with the added upgrades needed to withstand the harsh Newfoundland Climate.
