Recent studies show that the more attractive the entryway, the higher the perception of the home’s value.
Opal Enterprises was honored to be invited to tour ThermaTru’s entry door factory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago. What a wonderful way to get up close and personal with a valuable product we offer our customers! One of Opal’s goals is to make sure our homeowners feel confident that the products we offer are superior.
Thermatru was the door industry’s first to the market with a fiberglass entry door! Fiberglass entry doors chosen to improve your home’s curb appeal also offer upgraded energy savings that can earn you $500 back in tax credits for the 2011 year! Fiberglass entry, service and patio doors offer 20 times the security strength than their outdated steel counterparts! And ThermaTru doors come standard with Low-E.
Opal Enterprises is proud to offer ThermaTru doors to our clients as they are a rare “complete service” door manufacture. They produce each and every component that your entry door is comprised of. This micro-manufacturing ensures quality control and supreme value. Even that gorgeous glass you choose to highlight your home is made by Thermatru!
ThermaTru doors are offered in a smooth or textured-wood finish. The textured wood skins are offered in two different appearances. The compressed-molded door “skins” in the FIBERCLASSIC lines were created by use of an artist’s rendition. Hand-designed doors made to replicate that real-wood-look demand. CLASSICCRAFT entry doors are molded straight from a real wood door and are as valid as can be! There is no loss of wood-species from ThermaTru’s line up either!
The heart of your new fiberglass entry door is centered with dense, injectable polyurethane vs. the less expensive filling other door companies may use: polystyrene (Polystyrene is a thermoplastic substance, which is in solid (glassy) state at room temperature, but flows if heated above its glass transition temperature for molding or extrusion, and becomes solid again when cooled.) which leaves room for error (dead air)
Now that your entry door has the skin of real tree and the inner core warm enough to protect your utility bills, what hue will you choose to welcome guests to your home?
Once a stain or paint color is chosen….off your specific door goes to the specific tinting departments. No machines to be found! The staining of your custom ThermaTru door is done by hand. Meticulously! What other door company offers this? If you chose paining as your color avenue, the workers at Thermatru door do this by hand in a controlled environment! Choose from ThermaTru’s color palate, or have your new door finished with your own custom color! (Custom Colors add approximately $250 to the door cost and ads an additional 205 weeks in finishing time.)
Fiberglass doors made by ThermaTru are not 100% maintenance free, contrary to homeowner’s hopeful beliefs. Although much more manageable than real wood doors, ThermaTru recommends adding a coat of polyurethane to all of you exposed door parts every 3-5 years!
Does your home call for a double-entry door? Make sure you have an overhang of at least 8 feet!
In effort to mimic real wood beauty but not the warping and rotting features wood carries, your new ThermaTru door has a composite header and bottom as standard. This is to ensure no rot attacks your door! Alaskan Cypress us used on each and every brick mold leg and jamb leg that makes up your door. Alaskan Cypress is naturally non-rotting.
Once your door has been put together, based on your custom directions given to Opal Enterprises, your entry door is wrapped in wax-covered cardboard. This may sound like a minor detail, but this more expensive cardboard protects your door’s finish. Handles are established on your door to ensure proper transportation. Each ThermaTru door comes complete with all of the appropriate touch up paint you might need.
Opal was proud to tour ThermaTru’s, SealRite factory and offer our homeowners a first-hand reporting of an entry door that we are proud to install for you!
