Glazed back door in VEKA Softline 70 AD

Softline 70 AD is VEKA's entry-level profile: 70 mm frame depth, five chambers and a Uf of 1.3 W/m²K. AD stands for Anschlagdichtung, a rebate seal. The profile works with two sealing levels, one inside and one outside; it has no third seal in the middle. That makes it slimmer and simpler than the MD versions. The rebate takes glass up to 42 mm. The design is classic, with slightly rounded edges, and the sash comes in a stepped and a semi-stepped version. The outer walls are 3 mm thick, which puts the profile in class A of DIN EN 12608. VEKA supplies it in more than fifty colours and woodgrain finishes, with grey seals. The window opens inwards: tilt and turn, side-hung, tilt-only or a door.

VEKA's entry-level uPVC window with a rebate seal: 70 mm, 5 chambers and Uf 1.3 W/m²K.

New build. Possible, but at Uf 1.3 the profile insulates less well than most of the uPVC profiles we offer. For a new build, the Softline 76 MD and 82 MD are the more obvious choice.

Renovation. Suitable, especially where depth is short: at 70 mm the frame sits less far into the wall.

VEKA Softline 76 MD. Same make, 6 mm deeper and with a centre seal: three seals instead of two. The Uf drops from 1.3 to 1.1 and it takes glass up to 48 mm instead of 42 mm. You do see more profile: 112 mm of frame and sash against 99 mm.

VEKA Softline 82 MD. The deepest Softline: 82 mm, 7 chambers in the outer frame and Uf 1.0 against 1.3. It takes glass up to 54 mm. Choose it if insulation matters more to you than a slim profile.

One door that opens outwards rather than inwards, glazed from top to bottom: a back door that works as a window onto the garden as well.

Where a front door opens inwards, this door opens outwards: the leaf swings over the patio rather than into the room, so it stays out of the way of the kitchen or living room behind it. The door itself is glass, more so than a front door, because the view of the garden is usually the point. If you are looking for a solid or half-glazed back door, note that this layout is a glazed door.

The standard size is 1,000 × 2,100 mm, the same as a single front door but with the opening direction reversed. If you want a wider opening onto the patio, French doors — two of these doors side by side — or a sliding patio door are the layouts made for that.

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