Best Energy-Efficient & Stylish Exterior Doors

Considering the many ins and outs that come with selecting the best energy-efficient exterior door for your home, it’s safe to say that it’s not just about choosing a model that opens and closes when you want it to.

In fact, your entranceway is about far more than just access – the right kind of door should provide you with many additional features designed to increase efficiency, reduce your carbon footprint, and even add a sophisticated flair to your space.

But before we explore the various types of doors that will enhance your home, let’s take a quick look at how these exterior doors can make such a difference.

Why Energy-Efficient Exterior Doors Matter

Your next door can benefit you on several fronts, so it certainly pays to understand why the door you choose matters – especially when it comes to your pocketbook and environmental impact.

1. An Efficient Door Can Reduce Your Heating and Cooling Bills

Here in Canada, we’re often living through extreme weather seasons, so performance really counts. And as many of us well know, frigid winters and scorching summers can require a lot of energy use for heating your home up or cooling it down.

Take the example of large patio doors in Canada – in the hot summer months, these doors should be engineered to keep the heat out just as much as they maintain your home’s desired internal temperature. Likewise in the winter – you want to keep the heat safely inside.

For these reasons, an energy-efficient exterior door can help reduce your heating and cooling bills by striving towards Passive House standards and providing superior thermal performance – one that’s air- and water-tight and features low-emissivity coatings for added protection.

And when you factor in the fact that leaky or inefficient doors can result in upwards of 25 percent of your home’s heat loss, as one example, it certainly pays to invest in a door that prioritizes efficiency.  

2. An Efficient Door Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

The benefits of having a reliable door extend beyond economic ones – by using an efficient door, you can also help to reduce the carbon footprint your home produces.

Simply, the more efficient your exterior door is, the less energy is required to heat and cool your space – and the less greenhouse gas emissions are then produced to accomplish this.

By choosing an energy-efficient exterior door, you can help conserve resources, and reduce CO2 and heating or air conditioning costs.

Additionally, our door models (which follow REACH regulation compliance to minimize or eliminate harmful vapours, gases, or particles) can further reduce CO2 emissions from transportation because of their reduced profile depth, which actually reduces load volume and lessens the associated transportation burden.

3. An Efficient Door Can Increase Your Home’s Comfort Factor

There’s definitely something to be said for the comfort factor that also comes with an energy-efficient door. After all, as much as your door must perform, it should also enhance your home’s liveability.

Our meticulously crafted doors ensure a lifetime of performance as they are engineered to maintain smooth operation due to the German engineered hardware and reinforcement for large sizes that provide added peace of mind.

The glass used in Euroline doors prioritizes performance as deep insulated glass units incorporating state of the art Cardinal coatings offer the best thermal performance on the market. Coupled with laminated security glass options,  high-impact strength profiles, multi-point locking hardware, and enhanced opacity options to keep prying eyes out.

Energy efficiency matters too when it comes to selecting an exterior door for your home, but how well they perform doesn’t mean you have to compromise when it comes to style! Here at Euroline, we’re passionate about creating the perfect balance between performance and sophistication – our doors are as beautiful as they are efficient.

Next, let’s explore some of the stylish offerings available for your home.

The Top 6 Exterior Doors that Are Both Stylish and Energy Efficient

There’s no doubt about it: your exterior door is about making a statement as much as it’s about performing. For that reason, we believe in creating the perfect balance between these two factors – Euroline offers several different door models that excel when it comes to marrying style with genuine, high-performance quality.  

Smart Slide Doors

EuroLine’s Smart Slide Doors provide your space with elegance and sophistication – along with unrivaled craftsmanship and unparalleled thermal performance.

These sliding doors, which are a perennial favourite thanks to their unique compression seal design, are ideal for creating large and inspiring openings that can both maximize your view and minimize heat loss.

Style remains front and centre too – our Smart Slide doors are available in more than 125 finishes and colours, so you can be as creative as you want, while finding the perfect tone to match the design and feel of your space.

Ease of operation is also at the heart of the Smart Slide design; these doors provide you with an easy-to-use locking mechanism and compression seal that keeps out unwanted sound, water, and air.

Smart Slide doors are perfect for:

  • High-rise residential or commercial buildings
  • Large openings
  • Oceanfront properties
  • Extreme climates
  • Aggressive air, water, and energy requirements
  • Single-family homes

Tilt & Glide Doors

Uncompromising design and technology come together with EuroLine’s Tilt & Glide doors – the ideal external door system to create a sense of openness in smaller spaces.

These doors provide genuine quality, performance, and beauty for your home; they are engineered to meet the most rigorous Passive House energy standards (while helping to reduce CO2 and heating costs).

Superior strength is also a key feature – the frame’s hybrid uPVC and fiberglass material ensure second-to-none durability, along with multi-point locking hardware and outstanding water and air resistance.

Find the perfect door to accent your space with a wide select of custom configurations for the Tilt & Glide doors, which are available in virtually any finish.

Tilt & Glide doors are perfect for:

  • Passive House
  • PHIUS certification
  • Large openings
  • Extreme climates
  • Oceanfront properties
  • Aggressive air, water, and energy requirements
  • Passive House and PHIUS builds
  • Single-family homes
  • High-rises and commercial buildings

Lift & Slide Doors

If your space provides the opportunity to enhance a large opening with our high-quality doors, the Lift & Slide system is engineered specifically to accommodate size in an inspiring and aesthetically pleasing way.

EuroLine’s Lift & Slide doors are made to perform – their impressive thermal insulation properties are Passive House-ready, and will readily meet certification levels.

Additionally, they offer exceptional wind and water resistance, enhanced acoustic insulation, and security – even at extremely large sizes.

The refined architectural profile, which Lift & Slide doors offer, will enhance your space by adding sophistication without compromising on their inherent ease of use. This is reinforced with hardware engineered so you can effortlessly slide the door open or closed – also compatible with barrier-free construction.

Lift & Slide doors are perfect for:

  • Extra Large openings
  • Extreme climates
  • Oceanfront properties
  • Aggressive air, water, and energy requirements
  • Passive House and PHIUS builds
  • Single-family homes
  • High-rise and commercial buildings

Bi-Fold Doors

Your exterior door can be as efficient as it is stylish, but it can also work wonders in terms of bringing the outdoors in. EuroLine’s Bi-Fold doors are engineered to not only offer you excellent thermal protection; they’re designed to create a wide and inspiring aperture (of up to an absolutely breath-taking nine feet in height), temporarily removing the barrier between your space and Canada’s natural beauty.

This feat is accomplished thanks to the Bi-Fold doors’ bespoke bottom-running hardware, which provides you with maximum carrying capacity for years to come. The high-quality construction is also enhanced with heavy-duty commercial grade aluminum hardware which can accommodate up to seven consecutive panels.

Style is also on full display, thanks to the slim and unobtrusive sightlines – excellent for taking in outdoor views from one season to the next.

Bi-Fold Doors are perfect for:

  • Extra-large openings
  • Single family homes
  • Commercial buildings

MultiSlide Doors

There’s no reason why performance and beauty have to be compromised if you’re considering a cost-effective approach to stylish and energy-efficient doors.

EuroLine’s MultiSlide doors offer the best of both worlds – they’re engineered to provide you with a very generous viewing aperture supported by an affordable and noticeably sleek sliding door system that still prioritizes performance and reliability.

MultiSlide doors are popular because of the versatility they can offer you – their flexible configurations allow you to customize the aperture with an easy-to-use hardware system that can slide all slim-profiled panels into a single one (depending, of course, on just how much of the outside you want to open your space up to).

These doors are also capable of offering a high level of thermal performance thanks to available double and triple glazing.

MultiSlide doors are perfect for:

  • Large openings
  • High air, water, and energy requirements
  • Single-family homes

Swing Doors

Functionality, innovative technology, and a truly unique design all come together in EuroLine’s Exterior Swing Doors – as eye-catching as they are engineered to perform.

Depending on your space and needs, these doors are available in both inswing and outswing options, while still providing excellent air and water tightness. These Swing Doors also meet the most rigorous Passive House standards, which will help ensure thermal performance –even in extreme temperatures.

There’s no shortage of style with Swing Doors either – customizable in both size and configuration (including single, double, or French style), they can be combined with virtually any finish.

Swing Doors are perfect for:

  • Passive House
  • PHIUS certification
  • Large openings
  • Extreme climates
  • Oceanfront properties
  • Aggressive air, water, and energy requirements
  • Passive House and PHIUS builds
  • Single-family homes
  • High-rises and commercial buildings

Summary

When selecting the best energy-efficient exterior door, performance will play an important role in your decision (and in your lower heating or cooling bills). But that doesn’t mean that you can’t add plenty of style and sustainability to your home as well.

Of course, your home is unique and so too will be your door requirements. Which is why EuroLine offers a wide and diverse range of door options to accommodate – and enhance – just about any living space.

Whether you’re interested in the sophisticated design and innovative performance of our Smart Slide doors, elevating a smaller space with the strength and quality of our Tilt & Glide doors, or even creating an inspiring aperture with our easy-to-operate Lift & Slide doors, there’s no shortage of available options made to provide you with outstanding quality, value, and style. The fun part is choosing the perfect exterior door for your lifestyle!

Ready to enhance your home with a new door? Get a quote from EuroLine today.