Signs It’s Time To Replace Your Front Entry Door

How do you know that it is time to replace your front door?  It seems now a days that people don’t use their front door as much as they use to.  With garage entries and side doors, most of us don’t even think about our front doors.  The problem is most of us now a days understand that we need to replace our old single-pane, non-energy efficient windows, but most of us don’t consider our doors.  If your home has a foyer or staircase leading directly to your front door, your heating and cooling are being wasted more than the average home without a foyer.
  1. Does your daily workout consist of simply trying to open and close the front door?
If your door is difficult to open and close, it may be time to replace it.  When you feel your door sticking in the winter and easy to open and close in the summer, that’s a sure sign of energy rushing out your door.  If the hinges are sinking, that’s another issue.  But if its sticking into the door jam, your door probably has exposed areas either down the sides or top or bottom where you can see light.  Seeing light from the inside or outside without the door being open is a problem.  If you take a lighter a couple inches around those edges, pay attention to what the flame does.  It will try to move right outside the door.  This indicates leaking air.