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Exterior Doors
Just like windows, doors are an important feature of your home. Doors provide a focal point, energy efficiency and security.
There are many things to consider when selecting doors:
- Do you want a unique design?
- How important is energy efficiency?
- How important is security?
- Do you want a door that is maintenance free?
- What is your budget?
There are primarily four types of exterior doors commonly used:
- Wood
- Wood Clad
- Composite of Fibre Glass
- Steel
Let's look at each type of door in conjunction with the above considerations:
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Design |
Energy Efficiency |
Security |
Maintenance |
Budget |
Wood Doors |
-highly customizable
-unlimited design |
-poorest performance
-Poor to Good Seal |
-good |
-maintenance
-refinishing |
-modest to high price points |
Wood Clad Doors |
-limited in design |
-fair performance
-good seal |
-good |
-exterior maintenance free |
-modest price |
Composite High Quality Doors |
-fair selection
- limited customization |
-good
-good seal |
-good |
-maintenance free
-touch up as needed |
-high price |
Fibre Glass Mid Quality Doors |
-fair selection
-no customization |
-good
-good seal |
-fair |
-maintenance free, paint as needed |
-Low to moderate price |
Steel Doors |
-fair selection
-no customization |
-good
-good seal |
-poor |
-relatively maintenance free
-paint more frequently than fibreglass |
-low to moderate |
 Jeld Wen IWP Doors
Jeld Wen IWP is one of the largest luxury exterior and interior wood and composite door manufacturers.
At IWP, the craftsmen are artisans with wood. Extraordinary beautiful doors are designed and built to keep out the unwanted elements while bringing forth the rich natural characteristics of wood itself. The result is a color that is unrivaled not only on its strength, but also in its magnificence. IWP offers many standard designs of wood exterior doors and they can custom design a door to suit the customer's needs.
After carefully selecting the finest woods and meticulously crafting a masterpiece entry door, IWP protects these creations by applying the famous IWP Permalane finishing systems which offers the industry's most advanced catalyzed finish.
Unique to IWP are the Custom Fibreglass IWP Exterior Doors. There is no other fibreglass door in the industry that compares to this. IWP Aurora Custom Fibreglass doors are engineered to withstand the rigors of nearly any environment, while being crafted to emulate the rich appealing look and feel of solid wood doors. Each door is made with a mold cast from IWP Custom wood doors for an exquisite appearance. Base colors and pigments are also employed to give the doors surface and natural color texture. These doors are a durable and energy efficient alternative. No matter which IWP Aurora door you choose, you can rely on it to be remarkably strong, attractive and worry free. IWP also offers a full line of custom wood interior doors, beauty is just not for the exterior.
Other Door Lines
At Mar-Pag we will work with other manufacturers and suppliers of doors to help clients find the door for their needs.
Emtek Locks
Emtek is dedicated to bringing interesting well made hardware back into the homes of customers. Emtek provides a full and distinctive line of entry set, knobs, deadbolts, multipoint lock sets and accessories. Products include forged brass, hammered brass, modern, wrought steel, sandcast bronze, tuscany bronze, crystal and porcelain styles.
Emtek allows the customer versatility in choosing combinations of products, the ability to mix and match rosettes, handles, even the ability to mix the interior side set with a different exterior door side set.
To Learn more about Emtek and Emtek products, please visit www.emtek.com
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