The first thing someone will see when they come to your home is your front door, it provides that one, essential first impression to your guest. Whether they know it or not most guests will learn something about you from that first door, the colour, the material and how well maintained it is. This is why many people now look at composite doors as a possible front door option, as opposed to some of the less costly alternatives.

While uPVC front doors provide certain cost efficiency in their insulating and modern properties it is not for everyone. Composite doors are just a better option for some people; they offer energy efficiency, attractiveness and the ability to be customised as well as coming in a wide range of different styles, but uPVC doors do all that too. Composite doors are in most cases a little grander and attractive, more durable and more secure than uPVC doors.

Although composite doors are fairly new to the market they are already very popular, no doubt because of the range of different benefits that come with them and the range of options available for them, but it does seem worth the little extra cost in order to purchase them. Composite doors consist of a combination of different materials, rather than a single material like most doors, this means that it has all of the strengths and weaknesses of those materials; the combination of these aspects allows the door to provide unquestionable quality.

A few elements of a good composite door include;
- A uPVC outer frame with galvanized steel reinforcement.
- Composite PVC subframe for improved strength
- Hardwood inner frame for further reinforcement
- Polyurethane foam core
- 2mm GRP grained surface to ensure the door skin does warp, twist or ever need repainting.

These elements mean that the composite door uses all of the strongest and most beneficial attributes of a uPVC door and then combines it with other materials to provide more protection and rigidity. These can also be made to be almost unique as they are very easily customizable and often made to a custom order which allows the buyer to basically decide completely on what their new front door will look like, from the finish, of which wood grain is most popular, to the number of windows, their size and even shape.

The protective GRP skin applied to composite doors stops them from becoming discoloured when in contact with direct sunlight, which has been an issue with uPVC doors, and it helps to lengthen the lifespan of the door by up to thirty five years.