The Origin Residential front door launched in 2016 giving Origin another quality product to offer homeowners alongside their successful range of bifolding doors, aluminium single or French doors and flush casement aluminium windows.
The aluminium residential front door market is one of the growth sectors with many established trade manufacturers and systems companies seeing the value of adding aluminium front doors alongside their composite or timber door products.
Is the Origin front door a good door for the home?
Origin residential front doors provide a quality-made front door with all the advantages of aluminium.
Origin has taken many elements that have made their bifolding door so successful in the UK and applied them to their new domestic front door. Having viewed the door, it is indeed a handsome product with a choice of traditional and contemporary designs.
The Origin front door is the logical product to use for anyone also considering Origin aluminium windows or an Origin bifolding door.
For homeowners researching new double glazing, bifolding doors and windows, many will not be aware that their entire house full of windows and doors can be from several different systems and even different manufacturers. Origin is a business providing reassurance to their customers that a house fitted with Origin windows and doors has products manufactured by one company, in one factory. Better still, the source of the aluminium extrusions is the same, as is the colour consistency and quality.
The customer service that Origin is renowned for as well as the long 20-year warranty are another two great reasons why homeowners may wish to consider windows, bifolding doors and now entrance doors from Origin.
Is an aluminium door better than a composite door?
The characteristics of aluminium as a material are now widely marketed. Aluminium offers huge colour choice, inherent strength and much stronger, slimmer slight lines.
When it come to new front doors, the composite door is one of the most popular products. Composite doors have a very impressive quality to price point. Composite doors are robust, secure, weather resistant and come in a great many contemporary and traditional designs. The solid timber core composite door especially is an excellent front door option.
In aluminium, front doors offer something different. The first thing is the aluminium frame and the different aesthetic and appearance of colour. Look at an aluminium front door next to a composite door, and the visual differences are evident. Composite doors are much cheaper than aluminium doors because the materials cost less as a raw material and composite doors are less complex to manufacture. All of this is reflected in the price. Therefore, any aluminium front door is likely to be more expensive than a composite door.
With many properties having windows close to the front doors, an aluminium door can offer the same consistency in frame profiles and colour that composite doors cannot. It seems logical that a homeowner has decided to invest in aluminium bifolding doors, sliding doors and windows. Why not also have an aluminium front door as well?
Before and After. A timber door to a residential property replaced with a new Origin front door by G&N Windows of Hertforshire. .
How much does an Origin front door cost?
The size, colour, design and hardware options of an Origin front door all affect the price of the product. Typically you can expect to pay between £1200-£1600 for a quality composite front door from a reputable installer depending again on how it is configured.
Our research indicates that an Origin front door is between £1500 and £2000 supplied and fitted. We think that for the benefits of aluminium, a 20-year warranty and an exclusively made product, this price increase over a composite door is reasonable and justifiable.
The market for aluminium front doors is one of the next growth markets in aluminium with many specialist suppliers set up providing premium, bespoke and very high-end front doors. Some aluminium doors on the market are pitched at retail prices that some homeowners will struggle to justify. Prices for these perceived high-end front doors can range from £3500 and £5000 or more for a single aluminium door.
The Origin front door while never a budget or a low-quality front door fills an enormous gap in the market for those homeowners that want a good aluminium front door that is realistic and within their budget.
The Origin front door suits traditional and modern properties.
Origin has provided over 35 different panel designs with their doors meeting the requirements of those homeowners that desire either a traditional or more contemporary front door. An Origin door is even available as a double matching hinged garage door with a low or zero threshold.
With a choice of colours, glass and panel design and handle options, an Origin door provides the same breadth of choice offered by composite doors with all the benefits of aluminium.
In considering the quality aspect of an Origin product, the success of the Origin bifold in the UK market should be reassurance enough that for new front doors, Origin is worth considering.
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