How To: Build A Door

You are four easy steps away from a new entranceway for your home.

1.

Select a HOME GUARD® door style from the 24 unique families of glass and doors styles.

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Choose from our seventeen decorator colors or seven hand applied stain finishes for the inside and outside of your new entry door.

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Select a knob, lever or handleset (even keyless!) from the many styles and finishes offered to compliment your door.

4.

Add functionality with a peepsite, knocker, kickplate or magazine slot. Add strength and beauty with our exclusive HGI Burglar Guard or Timberframe door frame options.

Home Guard manufactures an Entry Door system that is second to none. Our partners who provide our door slabs have engineered features not found on any other door. Our Entry doors offer adjustable hinges, heavy skins for security and durability, composite frames that stain or paint like wood and automotive type finishes. Our Amish community provides a great labor pool for quality products. HGI doors offer great security, a 15.1 energy R factor, beautiful paint and stain finishes, upscale locks, and unique decorative glass patterns found only at our company. Entry doors are the center piece of your homes architecture and create first impressions for friends and visitors. And if you need another great reason for a new front door, research shows that it has the highest resale return of any home improvement. 

  • Automotive quality paint, artisan hand-stained finishes
  • 22 Gauge all steel doors - no wood anywhere to rot, twist, or distort
  • Master-Grain fiberglass: deepest grain in Fir, Mahogany, Cherry, or Oak
  • 31 door families to choose from
  • Six families of Proprietary Glass - Only available from HGI
  • Composite frames and trim
  • Pre-finished interior trim
  • Pet doors in four sizes
  • HGI Exclusive Burglar Guard - Best Protection/Best adjustability
  • Two-way adjustable hinge system
  • Slide on fin and bulb bottom sweep
  • Baldwin and Schlage lock options
  • 12 color matching storm doors including stains
  • Replacement and new construction doors
  • Round Top Doors in composite frames

FiberStar & Steel Door Features

Fiberglass Door Features

Home Guard FiberStarTM Fiberglass Doors are beautifully designed with patented HydroshieldTM technology. This revolutionary system ensures that water is repelled from the perimeter of the door to eliminate twisting or warping.

Deep detailed embossments create a real wood door look without the maintenance and headaches of real wood.
Fiberglass doors feature a woodgrain texture. These doors can be painted in any of our 17 decorator colors or hand-stained in your choice of our seven Ironwood stains.
Special exterior rails are used on the perimeter to shut out moisture from all fiberglass doors. Patented Hydroshield technology ensures against warping, twisting, rotting or splitting...clearly setting our fiberglass doors apart from all the others.
HOME GUARD’s Exclusive Timberframe® all-composite frame offers all the beauty of wood with none of the headaches. Completely maintenance and worry free, the Timberframe® will not warp, rot, mold or wick water and can be stained to match all HGI door stains. Timberframe® is an option on most HOME GUARD doors.
The door bottom weather-strip slides off and on for easy replacement and forms a weather-tight seal to the threshold. The result is a superior seal that keeps the inside in and the outside out.
Hardware finish matched Ball-Bearing Hinges are standard on all doors and offer the ultimate in smooth operation. Individual ball bearings ensure years of quiet, trouble-free use.
Duraframe Jambs are the standard wood frame on all HGI doors and are constructed using an Alaskan Cypress base which repels water preventing the wood from wicking and rotting.

Environmentally Sound Polyurethane Foam Core

While some other fiberglass door manufacturers still use HCFC-free foam, we are proud to offer a truly “green” door which is completely CFC-free in compliance with the U.S. environmental standards to prevent destruction to the Earth’s ozone layer. The advanced polyurethane core used in our doors also enhances the door’s soundproofing capabilities and provides insulation properties six times greater than wood.

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Optional Low-Profile, Handicapped Sill Available

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Composite

Fiberglass Reinforced Skins

Deep Grain & Authentic Detail

Architecturally Correct

Polyurethane Core

Engineered Composite Bottom Rail

Optional Dark Bronze Sill

Steel Door Features

HOME GUARD® IronWood Paintable Smooth Steel and Stainable Steel Doors are the ultimate in home security, beauty, longterm value and longevity. Increased energy savings, safety, home value, curb appeal, a rock-solid warranty - there are a multitude of reasons to upgrade today to a Home Guard door.

Magnetic Weatherstripping utilizes refrigerator technology to provide a durable, tight seal to provide year round comfort and energy efficiency.
All doors feature steel edge construction and are fully insulated with an inner core of environmentally friendly polyurethane foam and offer a superior R-factor of 15.1 for the ultimate in energy conservation. Our steel doors are wood-free and will not swell, split, twist, warp or rot like other steel doors with wood rails and lock block
The door bottom weather-strip slides off and on for easy replacement and forms a weather-tight seal to the threshold. The result is a superior seal that keeps the inside in and the outside out.
The unequaled security of steel - A wood edge steel door (left) cracked under the force of one hit of a 100 lb. test weight. Steel edge doors (right) did not force open after seven hits of a 100 lb. test weight.
HOME GUARD’s exclusive, patented Adjustable Hinge Plate System adjusts up or down and in or out for a tighter weatherseal against the elements and gives you increased energy savings. Also a standard feature on all Signature Series Fiberglass Doors.
Hardware finish matched Ball-Bearing Hinges are standard on all doors and offer the ultimate in smooth operation. Individual ball bearings ensure years of quiet, trouble-free use.
HGI’s full 4” X 10” Composite Lock Block has more screw holding power than wood. Injection molded for uniform size, there is no distortion of the door skin typically found with wood lock blocks.
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Door Jambs

HOME GUARD’s Exclusive Timberframe® all-composite frame offers all the beauty of wood with none of the headaches. Completely maintenance and worry free, the Timberframe® will not warp, rot, mold or wick water and can be stained to match all HGI door stains. Timberframe® is an option on most HOME GUARD doors.

Duraframe Jambs are the standard wood frame on all HGI doors and are constructed using an Alaskan Cypress base which repels water preventing the wood from wicking and rotting.

Our exclusive steel “L” frame provides the next measure of security adding strength to your entrance. This crucial element is available on all HGI replacement doors and our adjustable strike plate makes installation easy on every door upgrade.

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Home Guard entry doors* are Energy Star approved and meet strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and US Department of Energy.

* Certain door styles do not qualify due to glass options