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Expert Ioannis Marsellos, 02. February 2024
With their soft appearance and quality craftmanship, wooden front door roof canopies add a warm and traditional style to entrance areas. Featuring brackets and a porch structure made from different timbers, the door canopy can also commonly be customised with varnishes and paints to match building design or the front door. Whether covered in glazing or tiles, effective practical porch weather protection is provided for the door and entrance areas. Just read on to find out more and to learn why we prefer to offer glass and aluminium canopy products.
Door canopies are both highly practical and stylish additions to buildings. Installed above French doors, back, or front doors alike, they keep entrances well-protected from a variety of different weather conditions and can also feature door side panels. With a porch canopy installed, locks are then less likely to freeze over in the winter, for example, and homeowners and guests are kept dry when unlocking the door and entering the building. Snow is also kept away from the entrance area while packages left in front of the door are better sheltered and more hidden from view. Many door canopies also feature glazed canopy surfaces that prevent doors and their colour finishes from overexposure to UV radiation as well as the fading or deforming that this can cause.
In terms of style, a canopy is a space-saving modern porch alternative. It can be installed much more quicky than building a traditional porch and can be altered more simply too. With a range of different door canopy shapes and designs, from wood to sleek metal, traditional tiling, and elegant glazing, character is then also added to the entrance area, accentuating building features and ensuring a customised and tasteful design.
Often purchased during porch renovations and to go with more traditional architecture, wooden roof front door canopies typically come in a variety of designs. Different timbers like spruce, oak, or meranti form canopy brackets of varied textures, patterns, and colour, for example. The wood can then often be varnished a certain tone or can be treated so that it is extra moisture resistant. Such choices are commonly associated with different costs and can be important for the durability and final finish of the porch roof canopy.
Alongside their water resistance, tone, and texture, wood roof canopies for doors can also feature canopy brackets that are built into different porch shapes. A common wood canopy is the gable design, for example. This mirrors the shape of a roof with two slanted canopy sides. The gable door canopy can be particularly effective at aiding water drainage during rainy or snowy weather conditions while also being an ideal surface for porch roof tiling and to create a particularly traditional style. For those after a more contemporary or subtle porch look, a flatter, simpler front door canopy made from timber may be preferred though.
To cover the timber canopy brackets and provide the entrance and door with necessary shelter, a wooden front door canopy can feature tiling. To ensure a secure fit, front door canopy roof felt is used before the tiles are laid. Tiles or shingles can commonly be chosen from a range of colours and shapes to suit the building façade and assist with effective water drainage.
For those after a more modern or elegant look and purpose-designed features, combining wood with a curved or flat glazed panel can be a good alternative. The panel is often made from a technical polymer, such as acrylic, composite, or polycarbonate. These new materials are more impact-resistant than conventional door glass and help to protect the front door from UV radiation.
At windows24.com we recommend and sell front door canopies made from glass and aluminium rather than from wood or tile. Rather than large wooden brackets, our designs feature sleek metal frames and supports as well as built-in metal drainage gutters. The metal is much more durable than wood and creates lighter yet strong porch structures that can be easily and quickly self-installed above the door. The gutters are also highly robust and make for a more watertight fit.
Aluminium combined with an acrylic, composite, or polycarbonate panel also makes for simpler door canopy maintenance. The panel can be easily wiped clean with a damp cloth, for example, and the metal supports are either anodised or powder-coated so that they won't rust. In terms of design, this is also kept versatile and can be tailored to customer preferences and the front door.
There are different durable and UV-resistant powder-coat finishes to choose from, for example, including white, anthracite and silver, which has the porch door canopy blend in or contrast well with different buildings. Depending on the model, the glazed front door canopy panel can then feature a clear, opaque, or satin frosted finish and differently shaped aluminium supports are available, from ornate to straight and curved.
To have the door canopy become most like a conventional front door porch, canopy side panels can be added to one or both sides.
At windows24.com these are framed with aluminium and feature metal brackets as well as an acrylic or cellular-polycarbonate surface.
Excellent at protecting the front door from crosswinds, rain, and flying debris, a side door canopy is an optional but highly recommended addition for any new porch.
At windows24.com customers make canopy selections on the product page, view a live product price quotation, and submit their order. Our expert team then calculates the best shipping costs and gets in touch with a final quotation including delivery as well as a payment link should customers wish to proceed. Once everything has been agreed, production and delivery are carried out. At the import stage we can then also supply a logistics broker, if needed. It is also worth noting that due to the CETA agreement between Canada and the EU, our Canadian customers do not need to pay import duties.
Once the front door canopy has arrived it then needs to be installed above or next to the door to create the porch. Thanks to the product's light weight and our step-by-step instructions this can be done quickly and effectively by customers themselves, saving on costs and effort.
