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St Blazey and Par Beach: One Door Spec, Two Very Different Settings

By Cornwall Composite Doors · 17 August 1969 · 4 min read

PL24's close-packed terraces sit just up the road from Par's sandy, salt-exposed seafront — the right composite door works for both.

An industrial village with a beach on its doorstep

St Blazey grew up alongside the china-clay works and the railway, and its terraces are tightly packed, mostly Victorian and Edwardian in age, running close together along streets like Middleway and Station Road. A short walk away, Par Beach gives the whole area a genuine coastal exposure that catches a lot of people out — it isn't a cliff-top village, but salt still reaches these streets on a westerly.

What we see going wrong on the terraces

The most common failure on St Blazey's older terraced doors is swelling and cracking around the bottom rail, usually from years of rain running off a short overhang straight onto the doorstep. A composite door's drained sill detail and non-porous GRP skin solves the specific problem we see here time and again, rather than just being a general upgrade.

Colour choices for this stretch of coast

Chartwell Green and Duck Egg Blue are consistently the most popular colours we fit in St Blazey and neighbouring Par — both sit well against the render and pale stone common to the terraces here, and both are pale enough to hide the salt film that settles on doors close to the beach without needing constant wiping down.

Fitting on a working street

A lot of St Blazey's terraces have on-street parking right up to the front door and narrow pavements, so our fitters work carefully to keep the street passable and clear away all old door material and packaging on the same day, leaving nothing for you to deal with afterwards.

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