Weatherproof, Waterproof, and Insulation: Basement Doors
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Advantages of a New Basement Door
Weather Tight
When properly installed and sealed by a professional, snow, wind, rain, sleet, hail and flooding should not be able to enter your basement through a new basement door.
Easy to Operate
The complex set of hinges and bars that are installed with your basement door make the door simple to open. Even for older homeowners, the door will open with a minimum of effort and will not slam shut.
Maintenance
Basement doors, when installed properly, will not require a significant amount of maintenance. Steel doors will require some painting, though never more than once year. Polyethylene doors will require no maintenance short of cleaning for aesthetic value.
Colors
Basement doors can be customized, whether through paint or polyethylene finish to match the decor of your home and to create an attractive color scheme.
Inserts
Polyethylene basement doors can purchased with panel inserts on the sides. This allows for a portion to be easily removed and replaced with small windows for lighting or screens for better ventilation.
Emergency Egress
Basements that have bedrooms (defined as sleeping quarters) are required by most building codes to have a way of escaping the basement in the case of an emergency. A new basement trap door could bring your home up to the proper code.
Old Materials
If your old basement door, bulkhead or cellar hatch door is more than a few years old, it is probably not in very good condition. Wood, a common material in older basement doors rots easily and can lead to fungal growth. Metal not properly treated or painted is surely severely rusted after a few years. Polyethylene and oil-base painted steel will not degrade the way your current basement door may have.
It is important to understand the best ways to deal with basement flooding.
