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Composite door vs. uPVC door: Which should you choose?
The front door sets the tone for your home, creating a first impression while also playing an important role in keeping your property secure, warm and protected…
The benefits of composite doors for period & cottage homes
Whether you own a country cottage, a Victorian terrace or a character property tucked away in a quiet Essex village, choosing a new front door that fits your…
Choosing secure and stylish composite door handles, locks and knockers
One of the best parts of choosing a new composite door is making it your own. From the door style and colour right through to the finer details, every choice helps…
Why composite doors are the most secure choice for your home
When it comes to protecting your home and family, your front door plays a bigger role than most people realise. A weak or outdated door can become an easy target…
How to pick a front door colour in 2026
How to pick a front door colour Your front door sets the tone for your entire home. It’s often the first thing people notice from the street, quietly shaping that…
Festive composite door décor ideas
Create that festive look Give your composite front door that festive feel for Christmas with our top tips for creating a merry welcome to your home. Create a…
Think Essex Composite Door Shop this Energy Saving Week
Now more than ever, we want to keep our homes warm. With energy prices on the up, we can lose around 35% of heat through our front doors, so whilst you’ll need to…
Essex homes – grey front doors
Grey is a neutral colour that can work with almost any property style and most colours of stone and brick, making it a versatile choice. Grey has become one of the…
Our ultimate guide to composite door colours to suit your Essex home
Choosing composite door colours for your home can be a difficult decision to make. Do you go bright and bold or subtly sleek? It can be difficult to visualise what…
Handles and accessories for composite doors Essex
Handles and accessories can often be an afterthought, but thinking about them first can open the door to endless design possibilities. We offer a suite of door…
Safe and secure composite doors
Composite doors need to not only look beautiful, but also gives you peace of mind they are secure and fit for purpose. We understand that door security is…
A guide to fire doors
Fire doors can play an essential role in providing you with thorough fire safety. When replacing your fire door, we have put together some useful information for…
Why energy saving doors are so important
A home renovation project presents you with the perfect opportunity to replace parts of your home that you might normally overlook – your front door for instance.
What are fire doors?
Fire doors play a vital role in ensuring the safety of a building. They’re used to carry out a process called fire compartmentation, where physical barriers are…
Using our online door designer to buy doors online
At Essex Composite Door Shop, you can design your own custom composite door on our website, making it super simple to buy doors online. We have an easy-to-use…
Composite front doors we’ve recently installed
When it comes to composite doors in Essex, we’re the experts. We’ve supplied and fitted hundreds of composite doors in and around the area and we know the trends…
What is a composite door?
Composite doors have become an increasingly popular choice for homeowners with their durable and weatherproof properties. But what exactly are they made of? Before…
Composite Door Colours
Do you have a particular style and colour in mind for your new composite door? Take full control and customise your own unique composite door with our door designer…
Supply and fit front doors Essex
If you’re looking for a company to supply and fit a front door in Essex, then you are in the right place. At Essex Composite Door Shop we offer a complete service…
How much are composite doors?
We don’t believe in keeping prices hidden because we know that when it comes to home improvements, having a ball park figure for cost gives customers a head start.
Our top 5 composite door designs
Your front door is usually the first thing that people notice when they see your home. In a row of terraced or semi-detached houses, the design of your front door…
New Year, new door
Now that we’re coming towards the end of 2021, you might have already started to think about making some changes to your home ready to start the year with a fresh…
Meet our dream door winner!
To kickstart the summer we ran a competition where you could be in with the chance of winning your dream door, fully fitted, in one of our 13 colour options. We…
Our customers top 10 favourites
Over the past few months we’ve been tracking the designs our customers choose and here are the top 10. You might be surprised to see only 8 designs, but there are 2…
Meet your dream door!
To kickstart summer we’re running a competition where you could be in with the chance of winning one of our stunning composite doors, fully fitted! Greet your…
The benefits of a composite door for your home
A composite door is made up of a combination of materials. This means it can improve on the performance of standard uPVC and timber doors. With a rigid polymer…
Energy efficient doors and what they’ll do for your home and bills
You waste more energy than you think through your home’s door. When your house uses doors that are properly insulated with plenty of thermal reflection ability, the…
Steal Sunshine With A Replacement Composite Door
You may already have your own idea of what the perfect entranceway would look like, but with our door designer you will be able to create the perfect fresh look for…
Give the doors of your home that extra bit of TLC
Invest in the details that make a difference with our beautiful front door accessories. One of the first things people see when visiting your home is the front of…
Add a pop of colour to your composite door for 2020
Purchasing a new door isn’t an everyday occurrence, but when it is you need to make sure you’ve purchased the perfect door for your home. Your front door is the…
New year, fresh look with our January sale
Happy New Year from all of us here at the Essex Composite Door Shop! We’re sure you’re all refreshed and ready to attack the new year and new decade after your…
Merry Christmas from Essex Composite Door Shop
The special day is finally here and we hope Father Christmas has well and truly spoiled you and your loved ones. With New Year’s Eve and 2020 also around the…
Decorate Your Door Perfectly For Christmas
The countdown is on! Christmas Day is now just a matter of weeks away, meaning the Christmas decs are out and the last minute scramble to the shops for those…
Only An Essex Composite Door Will Do!
Across the UK composite door companies have been popping up all over, yet even with all that competition Essex Composite Doors Shop is still coming out on top. For…
New Door, Cheaper Bills With An Essex Composite Door
Are you finding your energy bills shooting up this time of year? That will soon be a thing of the past with an energy efficient Essex Composite Door. One of our…
Top quality doors mean happy customers
Customer service is at the heart of what we do, so it’s come as no surprise to us that we have so many happy customers out there. Having recently become a Which?
Stay safe and secure with our National Home Security Month tips
This year marks the seventh year that October has been National Home Security Month throughout the UK. National Home Security Month was developed as an initiative…
Improve your kerb appeal with these A/W door trends
With winter well and truly here, being wrapped up at home with the candles lit seems to be the best idea going. Making your home cosy may mean updating your…
The Secure Benefits & Features Of Composite Doors
Your door is so much more than just the entranceway to your home, it’s a focal point and also serves as a visual representation for the rest of your home. If your…
You Need Great Accessories To Create The Perfect Front Door
Your front door should be regarded as the face of your home as it will be one of the first things to catch the eye of people either passing by or coming to visit.
Be The Envy Of Your Neighbours With A Coloured Composite Door
It’s not every day that you go out and buy a new front door. In fact, it’s something that you may only do once in your entire lifetime. When you are front door…
3 Tips To Keep Your Composite Door Looking As Good As New
Household chores can be a real bore and along with cleaning, ironing etc. the last thing you want to have to do is regularly repaint or repair your front door, but…
Make Your Summer Even Better With A Superb Discounted Door
With Wimbledon and the Cricket World Cup about to reach their climax, and engines revving in readiness for the British Grand Prix, it can only mean one thing…
Modern Or A Traditional Door – Which Will Suit Your Home?
As it’s one of the first things that people see, we don’t think homeowners can be reminded enough of the importance of having a front door that creates an…
Discover The Benefits Of Our Composite Doors
When replacing your old front door at the present time, you have never had as much choice as you have nowadays. Tall, small, partially glazed, completely solid…
The Spring/Summer Door Trends You Need To Be Aware Of
For your home to look fashionable, it needs a stylish front door with an on-trend colour. You don’t want any colour clashes, but what you do want is an interesting…
Give Your Door Added Kerb Appeal With Our Hardware And Glazed Options
Fitting a new composite front door at your home is a big moment and its installation shouldn’t go unnoticed by returning visitors. You want them to pass comment on…
Design Your Dream Door With Our Door Designer
We don’t make our customers buy off-the-shelf door solutions. They may have their own ideas of what their perfect entranceway would look like and it would be…
Introducing Our Contemporary Door Range
The start of a sunny spring season seems a very fitting time to make modifications to your property and there’s no better place to focus on than your front…
Door Donation Raises £400 For Great Ormand Street Hospital
Essex Composite Doors attended a local ‘Oompah’ themed charity event last Saturday (9 th March) where one of our stunning composite doors went under the hammer in…
3 Ways To Keep Your Composite Door Looking Brand New
Customers are often attracted to our composite doors because they love the idea of owning a front or rear door that they don’t have to maintain. Very few of us have…
Get A Traditional Period-Inspired Composite Door From Essex Composite Doors
Replacing an old front door at a traditional or period residence needs to be done with an element of sensitivity as any new replacement door must preserve the style…
Why Choose The Essex Composite Door Shop?
There has been a notable rise in companies throughout Essex, and all over the country, selling composite doors, but we would strongly argue than very few of them…
Energy Efficient Doors – The Benefits
It’s always best to treat long-term weather forecasts with a little scepticism, but if they’re right, we could be on course for a snowy and very cold few weeks. We…
Get A Fantastic Deal In Our January Sale
We want to begin this first blog post of 2019 by wishing you all a very Happy New Year from everybody at the Essex Composite Door Shop! We are suitably refreshed…
…it’s Christmassssss
The big day has arrived and we hope you’re enjoying today, joyful in the comfort of your home, surrounded by loved ones and sipping mulled wine. It has been a great…
3 Ways To Decorate Your Door For Christmas
Tis the season to be jolly and on that note we hope that you’re in a Christmassy mood and have decked out your house for the forthcoming festivities. The Christmas…
Keep The Weather Out This Christmas With Our Draught Proof Doors
As we inch closer to the Christmas period temperatures have started to plummet with some forecasters even warning us of severe snow. Are you really feeling the cold…
Invest In Our Energy Efficient Composite Doors To Stay Warm This Winter
When you close your front door behind you the last thing you want is to be able to feel cold draughts coming through as you expect it to shut the weather out. But…
Give your entrance the wow factor with our new door designs
Your front door is the first thing people see when visiting your home, so we understand how important it is to have the right style to match the look and feel of…
Save Money In Time For Christmas With Our Energy Efficient Composite Doors
We promise that we haven’t gone mad when we suggest that you buy a brand new composite door to help build up the amount of cash you have at your disposal for…
National Home Security Month – How To Stay Safe
For the sixth consecutive year, October is National Home Security Month in the UK, an initiative designed to emphasise to householders throughout the country the…
Don’t Neglect Your Door, Stay Secure!
You’re putting so much at risk by neglecting to pay enough attention to your front and rear doors. Over time, traditional doors have a tendency to weaken and become…
Fall/Winter door trends
As nights get darker and the weather takes a turn for the worse, you want to be wrapped up warm in your home. To make it more homely, you tend to go for richer…
Transform your home with coloured doors
Colour brightens your mood, it’s a proven fact. So why not transform your door with a splash of colour for the summer. All of our composite doors, within our broad…
The secure benefits & features of composite doors
Most homeowners won’t know what a composite door is, or how it differs from other doors. Composite doors are becoming increasingly popular and boast numerous…
Modern vs Traditional – Which will suit your home?
Making sure your door complements your home is always a difficult task. Here at Essex Composite Door Shop, we have a plethora of modern and traditionally styled…
Our customers are the happiest around! Find out what they had to say about us
Here at Essex Composite Door Shop, we value all of our customers’ opinions. We ask them to rate us out of ten for Quality, Time, Courtesy and Value. Through this…
New Website Launch – Welcome
We have launched our new Composite Door Website. Due to high demand, Hainault Home Improvements has introduced the design online Essex Composite Door Shop…
Fire Doors – An Essential Investment For Private Landlords
There are several responsibilities that come with being a private landlord. One of them is ensuring that the property they rent out offers tenants sufficient safety…
Discover the Benefits of our Composite Doors
Interest for composite doors has risen quite rapidly. Even to the point where they have surpassed rival UPVC doors in the popularity stakes. But why, do you ask?
Why Installing A Composite Door Will Make For A Safer Home
Just the thought of coming home to find that someone has broken into your property is enough to make you feel sick, but it is unfortunately a growing occurrence…
3 top tips to keep your composite door looking as good as new
A composite door is the best choice for longevity and easy upkeep, due to its low-maintenance nature. To keep your door lasting and in a tip top condition, a few…
The secure benefits & features of composite doors
Composite doors are becoming increasingly popular. However, many people don’t know the difference and the added benefits which come with composite doors. You could…
Show your home some love this Valentine’s Day – invest in a police approved composite door
Take time out of your day to show your home some love, not just your partner! Our composite doors need all of your attention to keep you and your home secure. If…
Invest in our Energy Efficient composite doors to save you money in the New Year
At Essex Composite Door Shop, we supply traditional and modern composite doors with a diverse range of benefits. Our traditional composite doors retain the…
New Year, New Door? Keep your home safe and secure in 2018
If you’re going into the New Year wanting to refresh your home, or just want to update its security, then why not invest in one of our composite doors. We offer…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Essex Doors
Seasons greetings to one and all! It is the time to be festive and merry within the safety of your home surrounded by friends and family. Here at Essex Composite…
Keep the draught out this Christmas with our weather and draught proof doors
Keeping warm during the winter can become a very expensive task in some households. However, here at Essex Doors, we ensure that our doors are energy efficient…
Make sure your door is weatherproof and secure in time for Winter
The colder weather is definitely here and your front line of defence against the chilling wind is your front door, so make sure it is up to scratch this winter to…
Add some colour to your home this winter with one of our Composite Doors
The mornings are dark, the afternoons are grey and the evenings are pitch black. And when the snow comes, it’ll be the final piece in our monochromatic wonderland.
It’s Home Security Month – Here’s our advice on how to stay safe
October is National Home Security Month so here is our tips and advice on how to stay safe and know what to look for in a new door to protect your home. When buying…
Can’t find your perfect door? Design it instead!
If finding the perfect door to suit your home is proving to be difficult, then look no further than Essex Composite Doors. You can design your own custom composite…
Which Style Will Suit Your Home?
If you are stuck on which style of door to choose, to suit your home, then look no further than Essex Composite Doors. How your door looks is really important to…
Don’t be Afraid of a Coloured Door
We are the leading door suppliers in Hainault and the wider Essex region, with an unrivalled commitment to quality, innovation and customer satisfaction. Our…
Design your Dream Door With our Door Designer
If you can’t find your dream door, why not design it instead? At Essex Composite Door Shop, you can design your own custom composite door online, with our…
2018 Spring & Summer Door Trends
2017 saw an array of weird and wonderful trends from mermaids to pineapples and cactuses to metallics. So what does the year ahead hold in terms of trends?
Don’t be Afraid of Colour!
Investing in a coloured door isn’t something to be afraid of! In fact, adding a splash of colour to your house front will dazzle guests and leave them in awe of…
The Perfect Hardware for Your Composite Door
Once you have chosen the perfect door for your home, hardware is inevitably going to be the next decision you take part in. Having the correct hardware can make a…
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