Noisy composite front door - anyone had this problem?

Furts

NoisyDoor wrote: »

Thanks for your reply - the door was supplied by Anglian; it's the Exeter design in golden oak colour. I don't know whether it's better or worse than other makes but I'm happy with the appearance; it also seems nice and solid and there are no draughts. It's interesting what the previous poster (JamesN) said about the frame being too tight on the door as I did ask the local Anglian supervisor to check this and he said he couldn't find anything wrong; not that I have a lot of faith in that opinion as fobbing people off seems par for the course with this company, in my experience anyway. I'll see if I can get them to come out again to have yet another look.

Anglian aim at the retail market. Hence they will not be one of the companies in conflict with the local authority I mentioned. However that is not to say your door is any good. The crux is who manufactured the door that was supplied by Anglian? If Anglian sourced via wholesalers selling the cheapest available door then it is reasonable to expect poor quality.

Back to OP on this one - who manufactured the door?

NoisyDoor

I've checked my door again and all I can see is Anglian's symbol on the edge of the door, so that doesn't really help.

But I did look at the Solidor website and their Nottingham design looks practically identical to my Anglian Exeter door. However, the rest of their door range isn't a very close match to Anglian's range so I looked at some other websites. Neither Astraseal nor Rockdoor were a close match at all.

I eventually found a company called GRP Composite Doors UK and their range is a very close match for the doors that Anglian supply, including mine. They are based near Swadlincote in Derbyshire and claim to make all their doors on site. They also supply a very similar set of glazing options to Anglian's so I think it's a pretty safe bet that they are the manufacturers that Anglian use.

Furts

NoisyDoor wrote: »

I've checked my door again and all I can see is Anglian's symbol on the edge of the door, so that doesn't really help.

But I did look at the Solidor website and their Nottingham design looks practically identical to my Anglian Exeter door. However, the rest of their door range isn't a very close match to Anglian's range so I looked at some other websites. Neither Astraseal nor Rockdoor were a close match at all.

I eventually found a company called GRP Composite Doors UK and their range is a very close match for the doors that Anglian supply, including mine. They are based near Swadlincote in Derbyshire and claim to make all their doors on site. They also supply a very similar set of glazing options to Anglian's so I think it's a pretty safe bet that they are the manufacturers that Anglian use.

It is simply a phone call and email follow up to Anglian asking about door manufacturer. If an outside manufacturer was used there will hopefully be a technical support number and contact mechanism. Fingers crossed here because some have zero interest in this.

onomatopoeia99

Furts wrote: »

Give fashion a number of years and there will be a new "must have" door and people will be desperate to get rid of them.

I'm ahead of the game then, having gone straight from a wood / glass ("Type 10") to a steel front door, which doesn't crack, creak, expand, stick, or otherwise cause me problems.

Hopefully steel will be the next "must have" door so I'll be in fashion in a decade!

Furts

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

I'm ahead of the game then, having gone straight from a wood / glass ("Type 10") to a steel front door, which doesn't crack, creak, expand, stick, or otherwise cause me problems.

Hopefully steel will be the next "must have" door so I'll be in fashion in a decade!

They say fashion goes full circle, and to support this idea steel doors were in fashion around 30 years ago. These were composite doors, just like todays but the skin was steel instead of fibreglass. In some ways a better product than that of today. Fashion, or whatever, dictated these were made redundant and had to be replaced by white pvcu. In recent years composite doors have come back on the scene.

The crazy waste from an eco and sustainable view was the timber external doors being made when the composite doors came out were an excellent product - strong, secure and ever lasting. But they were were made obsolete by fashion and marketing.

I suspect your theory is spot on!

Chloe_G

I wish I'd read this before we bought our front door. First UPVC door never made any noise and was fine until just under 5 years when the glass got condensation in it and then we noticed that part of the door was cracked. Company replaced it free of charge. New door makes a cracking noise a lot and sometimes it's impossible to shut - other times it's fine. Wish I had a my nice wooden draughty door back!