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Keeping up with the ever-changing and evolving tastes of British homeowners means maintaining a diverse product portfolio. Without it, you could unknowingly be paving the way for competitors to storm ahead, letting them eat your lunch in areas where you would otherwise be able to gain a strong foothold. You’d think, that in these terms, there’s only such much innovation possible with home entrances, but GRP doors take this up a notch. Let’s look at why:

What is GRP?

An abbreviation for ‘Glass Reinforced Plastic’ or ‘Glass Reinforced Polyester’, GRP is a coating material that is popular for use in marine applications. It’s designed to protect machinery in the most challenging weather conditions, thus making it ideal for integration on property entrance doors. Capable of being adapted and moulded to many complex shapes and sizes, GRP in its purest fibreglass form also is used to add protection to aircraft vehicles.

GRP is a composite material, generally made up of two layers consisting of plastic resin along and glass fibre. It can be created using a wide range of different chemical combinations, being the reason why it’s used within a variety of applications from roofing, ponds, and of course, GRP doors.

How does this help entrance doors?

Now knowing what Glass Reinforced Plastic is and how it works, it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise why it’s an increasingly popular addition to doors. Instantly providing doors with corrosion, rust-resistant, and other defensive properties, doors coated in GRP are well-equipped to keep their design’s vibrancy and performance.

GRP doors remain a popular choice for homeowners, simply because it allows them to get more bang for their buck, protecting their initial investment well into the future than a door otherwise would without it. GRP is light, unnoticeable, but wholly effective, needing very little maintenance once applied onto the slab in question.

GRP + Composite doors = A winning combination

While applicable to most door styles in theory, GRP is a common inclusion with composite doors, which are renowned for their ability to offer end users balanced style and performance. As mentioned earlier, GRP itself is a composite material made up of plastic resin and glass fibre, so it makes sense that it would go hand-in-hand with a multi-layered door design like composites.

A growing market too good to pass up on

GRP doors are quickly becoming the norm amongst most UK installers as opposed to the exception, being a great way to offer end users the maximum return on investment with their entrance door installation.

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