UPVC Stable Door?

[henrycrun]

Looking to replace a back door

Wife want more ventilation in the summer while keeping animals out

Are there any downsides in using a UPVC stable door design ?

[mdw]

Apart from even more plastic framing and they don't look very nice no. Normal door and a baby gate? We had a timber stable back door, quite draughty.

[cliffords]

Just to ballance , we have had both timber and uPVC stable doors .
Both pretty good neither draught.
Our uPVC one looked great and was fab when we had small kids and dogs, off a kitchen.
When closed the uPVC one was hard to identify as stable from the exterior.

[J6542]

Composite stable door is nicer than a upvc one.

[LooneyTunes]

The inlaws have a composite stable door to keep the dog in: both sections are lockable, and it seems pretty solid.

To counterbalance, the guy I usually use to install doors and windows says that they are all crap and won't fit them.

[scot_aln]

LooneyTunes said:

The inlaws have a composite stable door to keep the dog in: both sections are lockable, and it seems pretty solid.

To counterbalance, the guy I usually use to install doors and windows says that they are all crap and won't fit them.

Does that same guy by chance also hate or refuse to install bifolds? Parents in law have had a composite one for years and it's been fine. I guess from a fitters/installers perspective it's just a bit more effort as you've almost got 2 doors to align correctly.

[skeeterm5]

At our last place we had a composite back door and the top half was an opening and/tilting window. This meant it was all a single door for fitting but that you could open or tilt almost the entire top panel.

[henrycrun]

Thanks folks

[Sporky]

We've got a Solidor stable door at the front, works well. You can open just the top for parcels and not worry about the dogs escaping. Each bit locks separately, there's a bolt to link them.

There only downside is that it takes a few seconds longer to open or close the whole thing than a normal door. Maybe three seconds more.