ᐅ Choosing the Right Front Door

Kaspatoo schrieb:
What do your front doors, which you mentioned, cost?

I have an anthracite-colored wooden front door with a satin glass side panel for 3500€. The door matches perfectly with the uPVC windows since both are from the same manufacturer.

Katha28 schrieb:
Aluminum is said to sweat and conduct cold very well in winter,

That is outdated nonsense. Around 1970, aluminum profiles were indeed used where the sash and frame were continuous. The material was durable and can still be found in many stairwells of apartment buildings today. However, that construction standard is long gone. Modern aluminum profiles are multi-part with thermal breaks separating the interior and exterior components. Yet many people still associate aluminum windows and doors with those old models, and often picture them as brushed metal in a tin-can color.

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What does it mean when it is flush on both sides, and what are the advantages and disadvantages?

By the way, the correct term is "flush door leaf covering," which means that the door panel surface is smooth, i.e., the infill does not sit recessed behind the door leaf frame profile. The lighter the material, the more noticeable the shadow of such an edge becomes, which is often avoided especially in cubic-style houses with a Bauhaus design to maintain the planar clarity without unintended structural detailing. Since this mainly applies to the exterior side, the overlapping covering is often omitted on the interior side, usually due to the disadvantage of a significantly higher cost. Profile manufacturers often rely on specialized infill suppliers. Because the profile manufacturers have model-specific total thicknesses, double-sided flush covering is particularly complex. Single-sided covering can rely more on standard "stock sizes" for the infill construction, but double-sided covering practically requires custom manufacturing, including thickness adjustments. Nobody does this “on the cheap.”

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Hi, thanks for the explanation, but I still don’t fully understand.
The point about the smooth front is clear, but what does it actually look like physically?

I’ve also tried looking at pictures, but I just can’t figure it out. Maybe next time I’ll have a supplier explain it to me in person.

A local builder gave me two links to online configurators from the companies OBST and OBUK.
At least visually, they partly match our ideas. Let’s see what the price inquiry brings. At least it’s no longer a custom-made option.

Due to what I’d call the price and our visual preferences limiting the available options, we have put aside our material preference (aluminum, plastic, plastic door with aluminum cladding on the panel, wood).

Kaspatoo schrieb:
Hi, thanks for the explanation, but I still don’t fully understand.
The point about the smooth front is clear, but what does it look like physically?

Well, the front is smooth. With a door that does not have an overlaid sash, you get a stepped appearance. The interior panel is clearly visible and sits within a frame. Take a look at adeco. You can clearly see the differences there. The Decenta class has an overlaid sash, the Accenta does not.