Kloeber timber front doors

Swasterix

Morning All. 

I made a post recently about aluminium front doors, which unfortunately didn’t get any replies. I’ve had a couple of quotes back since, both of which are prohibitively expensive. £6k and £8k respectively which I don’t think represents good value for money. 

I’ve stumbled upon the Kloeber website and have been looking at their Funky Front timber doors. They look real nice, very modern, but was wondering whether anybody has any experience with them as a company?

I was originally put off a timber front door due to the ongoing maintenance, but according to their blurb they’re relatively maintenance free due to the type of pain/stains they use and the fact that they’re engineered timber. Sounds good… but I’m not entirely convinced. 

Any views good or bad? Or comments about timber doors/frames in general would also be appreciated. 

Thanks!

Doozergirl

I have a Kloeber Funky Front door. 

I love it, it's a real quality door.  We have aluminium windows over the house but we had an engineered timber door in the house before as well, and I appreciate that I will be able to paint it if I ever get bored of the colour.  
 

It was a bit of a no-brainer to go for engineered timber again as it's the best of both worlds.  

Kloeber were very easy to deal with. 

Happy customer 🙂

Swasterix

Doozergirl said:

I have a Kloeber Funky Front door. 

I love it, it's a real quality door.  We have aluminium windows over the house but we had an engineered timber door in the house before as well, and I appreciate that I will be able to paint it if I ever get bored of the colour.  
 

It was a bit of a no-brainer to go for engineered timber again as it's the best of both worlds.  

Kloeber were very easy to deal with. 

Happy customer 🙂

Excellent, thanks for that, just what I was hoping to hear!

The idea with the aluminium door was to pay a bit of a premium for the sake of longevity, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so much of a premium!

I haven’t had a quote back yet, but I’m assuming it would be somewhat cheaper than my previous 2 aluminium quotes? 

Doozergirl

Swasterix said:

Doozergirl said:

I have a Kloeber Funky Front door. 

I love it, it's a real quality door.  We have aluminium windows over the house but we had an engineered timber door in the house before as well, and I appreciate that I will be able to paint it if I ever get bored of the colour.  
 

It was a bit of a no-brainer to go for engineered timber again as it's the best of both worlds.  

Kloeber were very easy to deal with. 

Happy customer 🙂

Excellent, thanks for that, just what I was hoping to hear!

The idea with the aluminium door was to pay a bit of a premium for the sake of longevity, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so much of a premium!

I haven’t had a quote back yet, but I’m assuming it would be somewhat cheaper than my previous 2 aluminium quotes? 

Pre-inflation ours was about £2k?  They do one that's slightly cheaper if if sits within certain parameters. 

Swasterix

Doozergirl said:

Swasterix said:

Doozergirl said:

I have a Kloeber Funky Front door. 

I love it, it's a real quality door.  We have aluminium windows over the house but we had an engineered timber door in the house before as well, and I appreciate that I will be able to paint it if I ever get bored of the colour.  
 

It was a bit of a no-brainer to go for engineered timber again as it's the best of both worlds.  

Kloeber were very easy to deal with. 

Happy customer 🙂

Excellent, thanks for that, just what I was hoping to hear!

The idea with the aluminium door was to pay a bit of a premium for the sake of longevity, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so much of a premium!

I haven’t had a quote back yet, but I’m assuming it would be somewhat cheaper than my previous 2 aluminium quotes? 

Pre-inflation ours was about £2k?  They do one that's slightly cheaper if if sits within certain parameters. 

That sounds much more palatable :-) I was assuming somewhere in the £2k-£3k region. Really appreciate your input, will give them a shout the other side of the weekend, thanks!

benson1980

We have a Kloeber funkyfront door with sidelights either side. Cost wise it was 4.5k. We had a local timber window/door company quote as well for a similar product and it was around 6k, but...the latter quote was fully finished. I had to do my own cut backs, and finishing with the funky front door, and dispose of the old door. Even so, a big saving.

As for the product, it is good overall. The paint chips quite easily but I guess that is to be expected. One slightly annoying feature is it requires a second push to close it properly unless you are really quite firm with it. Bit hard to describe but put simply, any visitors to our house who close the front door behind them will never close it properly which is irritating. The installers told us about this on the day so Kloeber know about this 'feature.

I also found Kloeber a little bit tricky to deal with. They will charge extra for surveys and delivery- I queried it and they then took off the delivery charge (think it was around £250) and did a half price survey (full price was £300). They then added both back onto the final invoice until challenged about it.

Overall, decent enough. Not amazing.

Swasterix

benson1980 said:

We have a Kloeber funkyfront door with sidelights either side. Cost wise it was 4.5k. We had a local timber window/door company quote as well for a similar product and it was around 6k, but...the latter quote was fully finished. I had to do my own cut backs, and finishing with the funky front door, and dispose of the old door. Even so, a big saving.

As for the product, it is good overall. The paint chips quite easily but I guess that is to be expected. One slightly annoying feature is it requires a second push to close it properly unless you are really quite firm with it. Bit hard to describe but put simply, any visitors to our house who close the front door behind them will never close it properly which is irritating. The installers told us about this on the day so Kloeber know about this 'feature.

I also found Kloeber a little bit tricky to deal with. They will charge extra for surveys and delivery- I queried it and they then took off the delivery charge (think it was around £250) and did a half price survey (full price was £300). They then added both back onto the final invoice until challenged about it.

Overall, decent enough. Not amazing.

Hi there, thanks for the input! I’m not too worried about the fitting as my builder will do that for me. That delivery charge sounds a bit steep though!! Sounds promising that you managed to haggle a bit. 

This “feature” you mentioned… is this because the door has a bar handle outside, to stop you from locking yourself out? Or do we think it’s a design floor?

I was a bit concerned about the paint finish chipping, but I guess that’s pretty unlikely once it’s in situ?

”decent enough, not amazing” - do you think you got value for money?

thanks again. 

benson1980

Overall yes we’re happy. It does look really good. We had to get their installers as we couldn’t find anyone locally who would install a door they didn’t supply so that’s why they agreed to take the extras off, or that was the reason they told us at least. worth asking I’d say even if you are getting your builders to install it.

The second push- no, we don’t have a bar and it’s not to prevent you locking yourself out. You think it’s closed but it’s just a tiny bit ajar by a few mm. It’s odd.

Just to add- if you have builders in renovating, I would do the door last as it will likely get dinged bringing materials etc in.