The Best Doors with Thermal Break for Your Home

The front door. That sturdy and steady guardian of the home. Standing strong in the face of the elements. Never buckling beneath frost, snow, and icy air. Sealing warmth inside. At least, that's the theory. Unfortunately, a lot of front doors struggle to cope with cold weather. They don’t do the best job of keeping out extreme cold, leading to heat loss and poor levels of sustainability.

Thermally broken doors are different. Designed to maximize energy efficiency, these exterior doors are cleverly crafted to keep out the effects of harsh weather. They're fitted with special design features to minimize heat loss and condensation. If you're looking for the finest thermally broken iron doors, PINKYS is the place to be. We offer a broad selection in various sizes and styles to suit any home.

What Are Thermally Broken Doors?

First, the basics. A thermally broken door has been fitted with a thermal break. A thermal break is essentially a barrier within a window or door frame. It's a form of insulation, fitted in the gap between the inner and outer parts of a door's metal framing. In simpler terms, it's a design feature found in many modern doors to prevent the transfer of hot or cold temperatures through the frame.

How Does a Thermal Break Work?

To understand how thermal breaks work in action, it's best to use an example. Imagine a solid iron door, with nothing but solid iron making up the frame. Iron, and most other metals, have a high level of heat conduction. In other words, heat passes through it very easily. So, on a cold day, warm air inside the home is rapidly lost, as that heat flows through the metal and into the outside air.

Now, picture the same situation with a thermally broken iron door. It has a thermal barrier fitted within the metal frame, stuffed full of a material with low thermal conductivity, like polyurethane foam. Since polyurethane is a poor conductor, its presence effectively reduces the heat conduction of the door. So, even when it's very cold and icy outside of the door, warmth is kept inside.

What Materials Are Used for a Thermally Broken Door?

The material that makes up a thermal break needs to conduct heat poorly. They need to maintain a steady temperature, never getting too hot or cold, even when exposed to extreme weather conditions. For this, options like polyurethane and polyamide (nylon) tend to be the most common options. They can cope with heat and cold without actually reaching any extreme temperatures themselves.

All of PINKYS thermally broken iron doors are fitted with polyurethane foam thermal breaks, like the Air 4 Single Flat. This foam is widely used throughout the world of construction and other industries for its low thermal conductivity. It's one of the top choices for a thermal break door, sure to safeguard any property from cold weather conditions.

The Purpose of a Thermal Break

The purpose of thermal breaks is clear. They exist to restrict the flow of extreme heat and cold across the door frame. So, when winter comes and temperatures fall, thermally broken iron doors help maintain heat inside the property. Similarly, during the warmer and sunnier spells of the year, exterior doors with thermal breaks help to restrict heat transfer. This keeps it from getting too warm indoors.

Thermal Break vs. Thermal Bridge

The terms "thermal bridges" and "thermal breaks" are often used side-by-side, but it's important to understand the difference between them. A thermal bridge, or thermal bridging, is essentially the process of heat flowing through objects with good heat conductivity. In other words, a thermal bridge is like a pathway that heat can flow through, both in and out of a home.

The average home has multiple bridges. While walls and roofs are typically thickly insulated, making it hard for heat to transfer through them, it's a different story for doors and windows. They often serve as thermal bridges. This is especially true when they're made of materials with high heat and energy transfer capacities, like metal.

Too many thermal bridges in a home can make it less efficient. They provide multiple ways for heat to flow out in winter or during the hot weather of summer. A thermal break helps to stop energy transfer, blocking the main thermal bridge locations, thereby making the home more energy efficient.

The Benefits of a Thermally Broken Door Frame

Many factors make a thermally broken door the right fit for a home. Here are just some of the multitude of benefits they bring.

Minimizing Heat Loss

Front doors often feel like the guardians of a home. They stand strong and tall, barring the entryway against intruders, yielding only to the rightful owners and their guests. They withstand the elements and resist the storms and winds that blow down onto the property throughout the year. However, many of them struggle to control the invisible force of extreme temperatures.

Indeed, heat easily passes even the strongest iron doors if they've not been fitted with thermal breaks. However, a thermally broken iron door is a different prospect altogether. Thanks to their powerful insulation, these doors are hugely effective at mitigating heat loss from the home. Even during sustained periods of cold weather, thermally broken doors keep frost away, securing warmth indoors.

Maximizing Energy Efficiency

Every home uses energy, but the amounts of energy used from property to property can vary wildly. It's all down to how efficiently they've been designed and finished. The most energy-efficient properties are remarkably sustainable, heating up and cooling down faster while providing their owners with cost and energy savings.

Given that the front door is one of the primary parts of any building, it's one of the first places to look when seeking to maximize efficiency. A thermally broken front door is an energy-efficient door. By maintaining heat in the home during winter, it reduces the strain on the property's heating system. Similarly, in summer, a thermally broken door can help to cut down energy bills and AC usage.

A More Sustainable Property

The planet is heating. The world is changing. Ecosystems wiped out. Natural disasters occur with increasing regularity. All due, at least in part, to mankind's actions, industries, and enormous reliance on fossil fuels to heat and power our homes and devices. Fortunately, there are steps that everyone can take to minimize their own ecological impact.

As such, sustainability is at the forefront of many homeowners' minds nowadays. As explained in the previous point, thermally broken doors are infinitely more efficient than those without thermal breaks. With one or more of these doors fitted around your home, you'll not only reduce energy loss from your property but also minimize its carbon footprint.

Reducing Condensation

Another problem solved with the help of thermally broken iron doors is condensation. Without thermal breaks, exterior doors can suffer from condensation-related problems. This is because the internal face of the frame stays cold, even as heat passes over it and leaves the property. Condensation forms on that cool surface. That moisture may then transform into frost, damaging the door from the inside.

Worse still, when the frost thaws and flows down, it can leak out across the floor and door threshold, causing yet more damage. However, exterior doors with features like thermal breaks and weather stripping won't suffer from this problem. Thanks to the thermal break, there's no risk of condensation forming within the frame.

Longer-Lasting Doors

Front doors have to cope with a lot. They're exposed to all sorts of conditions – Heat. Cold. Rain. Snow. Frost. Wind. Yet, despite all those risks and threats, the best front doors are capable of lasting for years of use. They pass from generation to generation, homeowner to homeowner. Standing proud and strong at the front of a property, no matter what the world throws their way.

Of course, they're not all that strong. Some buckle and falter early on in their lives, requiring repairs or replacement. However, thermally broken doors are much longer-lasting than the rest. Their clever designs allow them to withstand all weather without the wear and tear that changing temperatures often bring. In short, if you want a door that can go the distance, choose a thermally broken door.

Who Needs a Thermally Broken Door?

It's easy to assume that thermally broken doors are only for an exclusive array of homeowners. Or that they're best used in places where temperatures routinely drop below freezing point or homes that are at heavy risk of frost and snow. But, in reality, a thermally broken door can be a beneficial addition to almost any property. That even applies in locations that don't experience too much cold weather at all.

It doesn't have to be freezing cold for a home to feel the benefits of thermally broken doors. They're useful all year long, whatever the weather, helping to cut energy bill costs, improve efficiency, and protect the home. So, when it comes to who can benefit from thermally broken doors, the answer is simple: everyone.

The PINKYS Difference

If you're in the market for one or more thermally broken doors, PINKYS is the place to be. We have decades of history in artisan door manufacture, coupled with one of the largest inventories of thermally broken steel and iron doors. Here are just some of the reasons to place your thermal break special order through PINKYS.

Highest Quality Materials

Material selection is something we've always taken seriously. To build doors that can cope not just with everyday wear and tear, but more extreme situations too, you have to use the very best materials. That's why all of PINKYS doors are crafted with high-end metal frames, resulting in the very best iron and steel door collection available today.

Complete Customization

When choosing new doors for your home, it's important to ensure that every aspect is just right. That's why you may want to eschew premade or rigid designs in favor of a more flexible, customizable solution. Not only are our doors of the highest quality, but we also offer you complete customization. Choose from multiple sizes, swing styles, glass panels, colors, and door jamb sizes, too.

The Most Beautiful Designs

A front door isn't just a functional piece of property. It also plays a huge part in curb appeal, serving as the focal point of the facade. The right door can bring out the beauty of a home, providing that flawless finishing touch to the frontage. The PINKYS collection is replete with the most breathtakingly beautiful options, like the decorative Beverly or imposing Knox.

Crafted with Passion and Precision

At PINKYS, we're passionate about the power of exterior and interior doors. That's why we pour our heart and soul into every single door we create. Each product is crafted with care, precision, passion, and love to be the best it can be. This results in supreme standards of aesthetics, durability, and strength for your PINKYS thermally broken door.

Special Order Your Thermally Broken Door from PINKYS

If you're seeking a way to keep the cold weather out when winter comes, PINKYS thermally broken iron doors are the perfect solution. Custom-made to suit the specific needs of your property. Fitted with the most efficient and effective thermal break materials. These doors are guaranteed to improve a home's energy efficiency, making it well and truly warmer and more welcoming on those cold and icy nights.

Modern. Minimalist. Traditional. Decorative. Arched. Sleek. We offer an extensive spectrum of thermally broken door designs to suit all tastes and architectural styles. All our iron doors are made to the same high standards that have elevated PINKYS to the pinnacle of door design. All are imbued with thick and effective insulation, helping your home to reach new heights of thermal performance.

So, if you're looking for a way to minimize your carbon footprint and protect your property against extreme temperatures, look no further. A PINKYS new door is all you need. Take a look through our full collection of custom doors today, and place your special order for speedy delivery. Alternatively, reach out to the PINKYS team to learn more about our thermal break technology.