A poll by Sliders UK earlier this year found that composite door call backs are among the key challenges facing installers with 78% of respondents stating that they had been called back on multiple composite door installations.
These generated estimated average costs of around £400 per call back in travel and diversion of resource from income generating work
Sliders UK’s Ultimate Composite Door, launched at the beginning of last year, has been designed to address this problem – with a guaranteed maximum bowing tolerance of just 3mm.
“3mm is roughly half the accepted bowing tolerance of almost any other manufacturer. At that level it won’t impact on the core operation of the locking mechanism or sealing and if it happens, the homeowner isn’t going to notice it – you aren’t going to get call backs”, Mines explained.
Available in 23 classic and contemporary styles, including cottage doors, the Ultimate Composite Door does this using‘intelligent composite inserts’, which meet requirements under PAS24 cut-through testing without impacting on the core structural stability of the slab.