Sarah Beeny: How to add value to your home<\/a><\/p>\n Property expert Sarah Beeny reveals the five home improvements that could add up to \u00a344k to your home\u2019s value<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Throughout all of Sarah\u2019s articles there is one recurring theme \u2013<\/p>\n \u201cFirst impressions count\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n As she correctly states in one of the above articles \u2013 \u201cMost buyers form their first impressions of a house within seconds of walking through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n And her top tips to ensure that you give the correct impression \u2013 \u201cSpend time tidying up the outside of the house \u2013 plant flowers, trim bushes, weed, repaint the front door and make sure your door furniture is looking really great<\/u>. If you have a path make sure it is swept clean and looks tidy.\u201d<\/p>\n We here at Timber Composite Door underlined that bit about repainting the front door and making sure your door furniture looks good because we actually think there is a better way to improve the entry of your home.<\/p>\n Repainting your front door may sound like a good idea but the quality of the repaint will be determined by the quality of the door you are repainting and if your door is already showing signs of age a coat of paint is unlikely to hide the problems.<\/p>\n As for the door furniture \u2013 if its old pitted and tarnished no amount of polishing is likely to improve the appearance.<\/p>\n We know we have a vested interest because we sell very good quality Composite Doors but surely if you want to really make a statement about the entry to your home it has to be a new front door \u2013 clean and bright with a new style, fresh new colours and bright shiny door furniture all of which are standard if you buy a new Composite Door from Timber Composite Door.<\/p>\n The dictionary defines a door as \u2013 a noun \u2013 \u201ca hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard\u201d \u2013 which of course is correct but there is no mention of the real purpose of a FRONT door \u2013 to create that first impression but also to keep our family and possessions safe\u2013 nothing about security and strength and durability \u2013 nothing about safety from the elements of wind, rain and snow and definitely nothing that conjures up the image of warmth and comfort on a dark and snowy winters night, all of which are key in that first impression. After all, first impressions are not only created on nice sunny days \u2013 a first impression can be required every hour on the hour 365 days a year.<\/p>\n At Timber Composite Doors<\/a> we sell a multitude of doors in various styles and colours approximately sixty basic styles before we add in the hybrids of stable doors, French doors etc and all available in a range of twenty colours and every one of them meets the criteria of creating a first impression that will give your home that \u201cWOW\u201d factor.<\/p>\n However, without Security strength and durability \u2013 first impressions would count for very little which is why all of our Solidor Composite Door range are thy are all constructed with a unique solid timber core construction thickness of 48mm, that extra thickness not only guarantees both strength and excellent thermal insulation qualities<\/p>\n In order to ensure the Security strength and durability required to create that first impression every door we sell is strenuously tested by third parties to ensure that they comply with both PAS 23 & 24 accreditation (the one to protect against criminal attack) and \u201cSecured by Design\u201d (the standard approved by the Police and Insurance Companies)<\/p>\n The strength of the door does not end with its construction, a secure solid door would be of very little use if it had a flimsy lock ours do not \u2013 as standard we fit one of these \u2013<\/p>\n The Ultion lock \u2013 recognised as the most secure lock available for the domestic market, a lock that has passed all of the tests designed by the Master Locksmiths Association to be awarded the \u201cSold Secure\u201d accreditation find out the facts on our Ultion Security page<\/a>, when combined with our \u201cfive point multi locking systems\u201d and any one of our four hardware options<\/a> contemporary, traditional, modern or digital, which, sorry Sarah, all look better than a re polished tarnished an pitted option.<\/p>\n Once installed our doors always look good because the as doors and frames are factory manufactured as door sets (where the door is pre-hung in the frame) there is no messing about on site to level the doors in the frames \u2013 everything is pre-engineered which means we can securely draughtproof in the factory. This may not seem significant but a well-engineered, correctly installed door and frame is a key part of that first impression.<\/p>\n Five paragraphs back we skirted over our door designs \u2013 sixty of them (before we add the hybrids) colours twenty of them (unless you really want a one off RAL colour \u2013 we can do that too) and accessories \u2013 why \u2013 because we did not want to spoil your fun in designing your own front door<\/a> but before you do that maybe a viewing of our Gallery page to whet the appetite<\/a> – the Gallery page is where you will find photographs of some of our thousands of actual installations<\/p>\n Here\u2019s one we selected from the Gallery that we are sure Sarah would approve of, a Ludlow pattern in tasteful duck egg blue, shiny bright chrome hardware, all tastefully backlit with a warm amber light from within, a clean tiled door step with plant pots on the wall and a well-trimmed flowering shrub surrounding the arch, in short, a front door that will always create an excellent first impression.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Solidor-Timber-Composite-Core.jpg\")
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