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and thus very weak from an insulation point of view. Also we had a cat-flap in the door for our cat Sidney, but as he's no longer with us, that leaky portal is no longer needed. (We passed on the old cat-flaps via FreeCycle.) We had mitigated these factors with a door curtain across the entire frame, a nylon-brush draught excluder on the letter-box, and keeping the corridor/hall behind the door mostly unheated using using a TRV (Thermostatic Radiator Valve) usually turned right down. (We'll be keeping the door curtain and the reduced hall temperature, and whatever new door we put in will have an integral letterbox draught excluder.) As part of my 2009 plans to cut heating requirements (improve insulation) to the tune of 2MWh per year including a cold winter and given our SAP energy survey workings and the nominal £2k/MWh/y in energy savings/capture that a solar thermal (hot water) system costs, the implication is that it would be worth ~£250 to halve heat loss
through our front door and surround (ie £500 to eliminate it entirely). It is just about possible to buy a replacement uPVC double-glazed door for that, but the single-glazing-and-plywood side panel would still need to be seen to, and if we don't have it professionally installed by a 'Part P competant person' then we'd need to pay for building inspection (as well as running some security and safety risks if I bodge a DIY job). To quote The Independent's House & Home section: .uk), they will get the necessary certificate of compliance. Building regulations also stipulate that all windows, except those in conservation areas and listed buildings, must have a certain thermal efficiency value (a "U value") to reduce heat loss. The lower the U value, the better. Single glazing is 5.5, while standard double-glazing is around 1.8. To really bring down the U value, it's worth getting double-glazing filled with argon gas. "It won't detract from the look of your windows," says Steve Hill.
"But it can bring an 80 per cent increase in energy savings compared to single glazing, and a 45 per cent saving against ordinary double glazing." We obtained estimates from three local firms (one part of a national chain), which ranged from about £1200 to £2000 and proved not to be terribly sensitive to, for example, the window insulation (U-value) performance. (A wrinkle is that as of 2009 doors and panels don't yet seem to have official energy ratings A--G or U-values, else I'd have selected the best there, plus these numbers would be complicated by potential useful solar gains not really applicable to us in an east-facing largely-sheltered porch.) Nominally then, the first £250 of the install cost would be from and the remainder (the bulk of the money) from our 'redecoration' pot. In any case, my aim is to maximise the insulation (and minimise the U-value) since it makes relatively little difference to the final price,
and so part of our specification is for foam-filled panels and warm-edge gas-filled double-glazed units. There is some argument about the thermal and environmental pros and cons of the various available construction materials for a new front door, and an impact on price and life and maintenance requirements. For example, uPVC requires significant fossil-fuel and energy inputs and and be difficult to dispose of properly (for example, low-temperature combustion produces dioxins). Sustainably-sourced (eg FSC) wood could be good environmentally and for disposal at end-of-life, but may require more maintenance and may deliver poor insulation performance. GRP (Glass-fibre Reinforced Plastic) can be prettier, but doesn't seem vastly different to uPVC except in price. In the end we selected uPVC as the most economical solution (by ~30%) and in the absence of very clear environmental reasons not to. We selected WarmLite's quote
(£1235 inc VAT) for supply and installation of the new frame/door/panel (and removal of old) with Argon fill warm spacer bar glass elements to maximise thermal performance. The door was replaced in a few hours on the morning of 2009/07/20, All gaps around the new door seem well sealed, but note that for the (double) door seal to be fully effective the multipoint locking needs to be enabled which holds the door flat to the frame in several places. WarmLite took a £300 (cheque) deposit when we signed for the door, and the balance on completion (by cheque). Interior Door Fitted Too At around the same time (and indeed completing by chance on the same day) we had the door from the living room refitted (it was not present when we moved in, and last winter we used a door curtain) to help heat retention in winter. Along with the anticipated reduced draughts from the front door, I hope that comfort in the living room will be noticeably improved
on cold and windy days, thus reducing heating demand too. (Indeed, over the 2009/2010 winter, the coldest for 30 years, gas/heating demand dropped, and indeed 2009 gas use was about 30% lower than 2008. I attribute much of this saving to the internal door, dealing with air leaks, and the new front door.) The new door is just a simple cheap primed/unpainted wooden door (and handle) from a local DIY chain, purchased and fitted for £145 total. When we redecorate the rest of the room shortly, the door will get its lipstick! (As of September 2009 our younger child is moving on from gentle crawling to "vigorous" exploration and that door is going to get a lot of attention and may also help avoid him "escaping" from sight too often. We're using a push-on rubber anti-slam device to save his fingers, along with a plastic door-wedge to avert slams when we want it to stay open.) With the superinsulation of our living-room to a wall U-value of just over 0.2W/Km^2,
I've been looking for some time to replace its leaky and creaky double glazing which the SAP calculations assume to have a U-value of about 2.7/Km^2. I've being trying to get sensible quotes from local and national suppliers for some time, struggling in part to explain that I don't care much about centre-pane U values, only overall performance. one fixed window 1450mm x 2050mm one set of 1450mm x 2050mm french doors In both cases I wish to minimise whole-unit U-value, below 1W/Km^2 for the window and as good as we can get for the doors. We're currently white uPVC. As of 2010/08/28 the first quote to explicitly meet my spec has been with the Uw values totalling under 1 across french doors and fixed window for an all-in price (eg including fitting and VAT) of a bit under £500/m^2. So congratulations to them for being the first to actually meet (and exceed) From Rawington I note a 20% performance penalty for the door compared to the