How to buy an entry door in Australia
Measure the opening, decide the swing, then choose a leaf that can survive salt, humidity and your BAL rating. The hardware is not an afterthought.
Elena Vukovic · 18 March 2025
When to repair or replace a front door
Rot, delamination, failed seals and heritage value — the cost crossover where an Australian front door stops being a repair and starts being a doorset.
Door Sales editorial · 6 November 2025
Fire doors for Australian homes and units
A fire door is a tested doorset under AS 1905.1, not a heavier internal leaf. The tag, the closer and the seals are the product.
Marcus Chen · 30 September 2025
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How to specify an entry, internal, garage or screen door that fits the opening, the climate and the budget.
Materials
Timber, aluminium, steel, glass and composite — and which of them survive salt, sun and a wet Queensland summer.
Compliance
NCC access, BAL bushfire ratings, energy and condensation, fire doors and wet-area detailing.
Hardware
Locks that satisfy insurers, finishes that do not chalk in sea air, and hinges that stay quiet.
Style and heritage
Federation, Victorian and Queenslander openings, and the quieter contemporary entries replacing them.
Care and repair
Paint systems, humidity, warped leaves, and the moment a front door is cheaper to replace than to rescue.
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Replacing a front door in weatherboard and brick
Reveals, flashings, brick ties and weatherboard scribers — how to swap an Australian entry without leaving a week of weather in the hallway, or a gap the overlay will notice.
Elena Vukovic · 18 September 2025
Acoustic doors for apartments and home offices
Rw ratings, seals and solid cores — how to specify an Australian apartment entry or a studio door that keeps piano, podcast and hallway noise in their proper rooms.
Elena Vukovic · 17 September 2025
Security screen doors that actually work
A security screen is mesh, frame, hinges and a lock that an insurer will recognise. 316 stainless and a diamond grille are not the same product as a flywire door with a key.
Tom Ashford · 19 August 2025
Warped, sticking doors and humidity
Seasonal movement, planing, hinge packing and coastal humidity — why an Australian timber door binds in March and rattles in September, and what to do before you reach for a plane.
Elena Vukovic · 14 August 2025
Wet-area doors, laundries and waterproofing
Bathrooms, laundries and AS 3740 interfaces — moisture-resistant cores, thresholds and ventilation, so the door leaf is not the thing that quietly rots first.
Door Sales editorial · 12 August 2025
French and bifold doors for Australian living
French pairs and bifolds both open a room to the garden. They ask different things of the weather, the flyscreen and a heritage streetscape.
Priya Nair · 22 July 2025
The desk
A journal, not a showroom
Door Sales is written for people who have to live with the opening: homeowners, builders, heritage officers and anyone who has ever ordered the wrong leaf for a 2040 millimetre weatherboard frame. We do not sell doors. We explain how they fail, how they are specified, and how Australian houses ask more of them than a catalogue photograph admits.