The origin of French doors can be traced as far back as the 16th and 17th centuries. At that time, the French took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance style for recreating proportion, symmetry and light through windows and doors in a house.

The glass pane extended to the floor would transmit a sense of regularity and allow the light to easily enter and spread across the room where the French doors are installed. The perfect solution for who wants a luminous space.

UPVC is an acronym for Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride, a material that for the absence of plastic becomes more rigid and adaptable to construction works and manufacture of windows and doors frames.

In the last 30 years, uPVC has been increasingly used in the UK for building frames of double glazed doors, thanks to the ease of adaptation of the material and the convenience of it.

In recent years, the uPVC market has been growing, representing one of the most chosen material when it is time to replace windows and doors. This due to some unique, remarkable and irreplaceable characteristics. uPVC french doors will satisfy your need for style, flexibility, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, sound and acoustic insulation.

Besides, uPVC French doors can be produced in various colours, as a result of different advanced techniques and processes.

The Benefits of Installing uPVC French Doors

UPVC provides resistance to water and sunlight, making uPVC French doors a low-maintenance product, durable and also recyclable. The advantages of uPVC are not limited to the ones already listed. uPVC can give you much more. Here are the major benefits of installing uPVC French doors:

Energy Efficiency

uPVC French doors are a proven protection from heat and cold, insulating your home from heat loss up to 30%.

Sound Insulation

uPVC French doors are a great way to reduce noise once installed.

No Condensation

uPVC French doors have multiple panes of glass that avoid cold and hot air to enter in contact, therefore avoiding annoying condensation issues.

Style and Value

uPVC French doors offer the buyers the chance to enhance their house, not only functionally, but above all aesthetically. Thanks to the window panels, more light than usual is allowed to enter the room and the resulting effect is surprising, giving the illusion of extra space.

Adaptability and Variety

uPVC French doors are present in the market in a wide range of shapes and colours. Besides, uPVC can be cut really easily, replicating moulded panels and matching the desired styles of each home.

Privacy

uPVC doors can satisfy everybody’s need for privacy, just choosing a different kind of glass transparency and decorations. These kind of uPVC doors are the perfect solution if you want to interconnect two spaces or, on the contrary, create some private area.

Are uPVC French Doors Expensive?

UPVC French doors are effectively cheaper than French doors made from other materials, due not only to the lower prices of raw materials but also to less complex manufacturing processes. French doors that are made of uPVC have, additionally, long-duration over time and require a low-level maintenance. These characteristics make uPVC French doors a convenient choice for whoever wants to change the doors of its house.

Costs to consider when deciding to install new uPVC French doors are related to the size, the shape, the glass and the colours used. However, an important role is played by the installation of the door itself. This will have different costs if you go for DIY or a professional fitting. One key factor when installing uPVC French doors regards the amount of money you will be saving, because uPVC material remarkably reduces the loss of heat up to 30%, saving on your bills.

As for windows, the British Fenestration Rating Council (BFRC) – the UK authority for the independent rating of windows efficiency has created a system in 2011 for evaluating the efficiency of doors. This is called the Doorset Energy Rating scheme (DSER) and it provides a performance assessment scale going from A++ to G, along with a rainbow bar, as the one used for white goods.

Finally, remember to check the U-value, important parameter for understanding the heat loss of a material. The lower the U-value, the better the thermal insulation of the chosen uPVC French doors.