Incorporating Fiberglass Doors For Your House

Incorporating Fiberglass Doors For Your House

The entrance to a house is notable as it's one of the principal features that sets the tone and style of architecture for the house. One can choose from a wide range of materials for the door. The canonical choice has been wood, for its aesthetics and ease of craft. More popular than wood is steel for its durability and low prices. Perhaps somewhere between the two lies fiberglass. For fiberglass can be made to mimic wood, even in the light of a skilled eye, but at the same time possesses a resilience and robustness to damage that is matched by steel.

The class of materials known as composites encompasses fiberglass. What is a composite? It's a material made up of two or more component substances. In fiberglass, these two component substances are glass and another resin-like polymer plastic. These different properties help give fiberglass its rich qualities. For example, fiberglass is molded into objects as diverse as helmets, surfboards, skis and doors. But it's durable, resistance to salt and water damage and retains its shape even under repeated flexing.

Contemporary entry doors are made with fiberglass as the principal component. Fiberglass entrance doors are available in a dizzying number of styles. They can be made with textures that resemble popular woods such as oak or cherry. A fiberglass exterior door can also be made to fit variable raw opening heights due to high flooring or thick rugs. The high damage resistance of fiberglass doors has seen them supplied with long warranties of two or more decades.

Speaking of entry ways, one should also mention that fiberglass has been turned into garage doors. Like their entry door counterparts, fiberglass garage doors are light and strong with long lifetimes. The frame will usually be made of steel for extra reinforcement, like some wood doors. The core of the garage door is airy and foamy which makes them excellent insulators. The R-factor of fiberglass garage doors exceeds wood.

If one is interested in upgrading or installing new entry doors leading to the back of the house, a fiberglass patio door is a possible choice that balances aesthetics and long life. For more elaborate doors such as ones containing large panels of glass, a fiberglass french door is a possible addition that will allow more light from the backyard into the house.

Famous large nationwide DIY home improvement retailers will often carry a spectrum of fiberglass doors. The cheapest costing only a few hundred dollars but without a guarantee against damage in even the short run. The most expensive cost a few thousand, and can be as elaborate to contain multiple side lites, threshholds, transoms and frames. Some specialty stores that deal only with doors will also act as agents of big high-end companies to customers on the regional and local level.

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