Front Door Gets Hot From Sun

The best doors for a south facing entry.

Front door gets hot from sun.

Starting mid day our front door gets extremely hot to the point you can t even touch the door handle. Now the glass in my storm door is acting like a magnifying glass and making the surface of the regular door too hot to touch. New front doors change everything in 4 entryway before and afters with any investment you make in your home there are up front as well as ongoing costs. We get full afternoon sun on our house and it makes the storm door and front door knob so hot you literally burn your hand while turning them in the summer months.

How to paint a front door that gets a lot of sun. Hi all i lived in arizona with a metal front door that faced the hot afternoon heat and let me tell you even the door handle got too hot to touch. Recently put a storm door on my front door which faces directly south. After 2 years of burning our hands i finally found this and put it on our storm door and also bought the one for our front door.

Homes with entries that face the south can expect the front door to be in the sun all day unless the yard is bountifully landscaped or the home faces an. I sanded the door with 150 grit wiped off the dust with a damp rag let dry applied a thin coat of kilz2 let dry then painted with water based paint. My house faces the sun like all day and my front door is currently painted black and has a glass storm door. The sun wind rain and snow can dish out a beating to a front door so a good paint job is essential to protecting the door from the elements.

You could probably get venetian blinds for inside the storm door would let in light when you wanted it in the morning shade the door in the afternoon or as others pointed out look for reflective glass. My cousin s front door was like this and the door handle was uncomfortably hot to the touch.