Hey everyone, this might seem like a really silly question but where is a good/reliable shop to buy a ncie composite door with frame and fittings and what not?
I got a really nice pair of front doors from a one man band outfit called NUDOOR -
http://nudoor.co.uk/product-offer/
Polish chap, took the order, asked a few questions about hinge sides and fan light design, I sent him a drawing of what I wanted (right down to a request not to fit the door handles for me) and paid the money..
I heard nothing for 6 weeks and was just starting to wonder whether I'd been done, when a transit van turned up absolutely stuffed full of doors. He dropped two off said if I needed anything to call him and that was it. The instructions were in polish but pictures were easy enough to understand, took 3 hours to fit the first and 1.5 to fit the second. I dare say he's just one guy wih a relationship with a door manufacturer in Poland, he collects a load of orders here and then then one a fortnight, drives to Poland, loads his van up and drives back around the UK dropping them off.. Works for me, though next time I order I'll ask him to have the polish factory make the invoice out to me directly so I can claim the VAT back on it..
It's made of kingspan and metal on a wooden frame - not composite but as per your experience, I struggled to find a door I wanted from composite suppliers in the UK. My windows supplier uses Endurance doors for their door quotes and not liking anything in the endurance catalogue, the boss called them up for me, argued the toss over the designs and got agreement that they could supply him with the door bits (a composite panel, some pre made blocks of glass and edging cassettes etc) and his company would cut the door designs..t his meant that rather than sticking to the limited number of designs in the Endurance catalogue, I could design my own door, so long as it only used components I could see on other door designs.. I just couldn't see what I wanted (a curved glass section) from them
As to how I found door suppliers, I did a Google images search for stuff like "modern front door" "contemporary door" etc and browsed the images. Finding one I liked, I looked up what site it was from.. Sometimes it helps to browse stuff visually, then look up the supplier rather than go to the supplier and browse their stuff