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St Dennis Composite Doors — Colours, Styles & Local Advice

By Cornwall Composite Doors · 10 September 1969 · 4 min read

Everything St Dennis homeowners need to know about composite doors — weather, colour choices, security ratings and what a local install actually looks like.

Why a composite door is warmer than what you have now

Almost every St Dennis door we replace fails on one of three things: air leaking around a warped timber frame, cold-bridging through single-glazed side panels, or a compressed seal that no longer touches the frame. A modern composite doorset is engineered to solve all three — insulated foam core, thermally-broken threshold, and multi-chamber frame with fresh compression seals top to bottom.

U-values and running costs

The composite doorsets we fit in St Dennis achieve U-values from 1.0 W/m²K including glazing — better than most walls fitted before 1990. In practice the hallway holds its heat, condensation stops forming on the inside face, and the heating comes on less. Homeowners routinely tell us the door has "made the whole house quieter" — that's the same air-tight seal doing double duty on noise.

Draught, noise and comfort

Every install in St Dennis includes fresh compression seals, an adjustable thermally-broken cill, and a multipoint locking mechanism that pulls the door into the frame at multiple points. The result is a door that clicks closed like a car door — no rattle, no whistle, no gap you can slide paper through.

Booking a St Dennis survey

Free surveys are available across St Dennis every week. We measure, discuss glass and colour, confirm the security spec, and email a fixed written quote inside 24 hours. Nothing to pay until the door is fitted and you have signed it off.

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Full county coverage

We cover the whole of Cornwall.

From Bude to Land's End, Padstow to the Lizard — our Cornwall-based surveyors and installers fit composite doors across every town, village and coastal parish in the county. Same standard, same 10-year guarantee, wherever you are.

  • Truro
  • Falmouth
  • Newquay
  • St Austell
  • Penzance
  • Bodmin
  • Bude
  • Launceston
  • Saltash
  • Redruth
  • Camborne
  • Helston
  • Liskeard
  • Wadebridge
Illustrated map of Cornwall showing towns we cover for composite door installation — Bude, Bodmin, Padstow, Tintagel, Newquay, St Austell, Truro, Falmouth, St Ives, Land's End and Lizard Point.