We supply and fit replacement doors across Ely and the Cambridgeshire villages around it, from composite front doors to aluminium bi-folds. Part of our wider replacement windows and doors work across Ely and Littleport. A composite door fitted costs between £1,500 and £2,500 + VAT, and you deal with Dan from the first quote through the survey to installation.
Replacement doors in Ely covering composite, aluminium, uPVC, bi-fold, patio and French doors, supplied and fitted.
Composite doors £1,500 to £2,500 fitted, bi-folds from £3,000. Repairs and adjustments from around £100. All prices plus VAT.
Free quotes across Cambridgeshire. Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will give you a ballpark before anyone visits.
Assure Certified installer, so the work is self-certified against the Building Regulations and comes with an insurance-backed guarantee.
Based at Unit 17, Oak Lane Business Park, Littleport, half an hour from Ely, covering Soham, Witchford, Little Downham, Wilburton and Sutton.
Most people ring up knowing the door needs doing and not much else. You don’t need it worked out before we come out. Picking a replacement door in Ely comes down to three things.
The opening comes first. Its size, and whether the frame is still sound, sets what will physically go in. Then what the door has to do, whether that’s a front entrance, a back door, or a wide opening onto the garden. Then the property itself. Older terraces, post-war streets and newer estates all sit side by side round Ely and Littleport, and opening sizes and frame depths vary a lot between them.
We fit composite, aluminium and uPVC. Composite is where most front doors end up. Aluminium suits the bigger glazed openings and it’s the premium end of what we do. uPVC keeps the cost down and still does a proper job.
Dan has been in the glazing trade over 15 years, on the manufacturing side as well as installing, and he’s the one who quotes, surveys and fits every job. Send a photo on WhatsApp and you’ll get a ballpark before anyone visits. The sections below go through each door type in turn.
Every door installation in Ely runs the same way, whichever type you go for.
Dan surveys first. He measures the opening, checks the frame and the brickwork round it, and works out whether the existing frame can stay or comes out with the door. Every door is made to the opening it’s going into.
The fit covers the frame, the hardware and the seals, and making good round the edges once it’s in. Old door out, new one in square and sealed all the way round. Dan does the fitting himself, and on bigger jobs he has a trusted team of installers with him.
Replacing an external door is notifiable under the Building Regulations. Dan is Assure Certified, so he self-certifies the work through a competent person scheme instead of putting it through the council. The certificate comes to you and the job carries an insurance-backed guarantee. Nothing for you to apply for.
Composite, aluminium, uPVC, bi-fold, patio and French doors all follow that process. What changes is the product, the lead time from the supplier and the price. Each one has its own section below.
Terms are 50% on order, balance when the job’s done.
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Front door installation covers the main entrance. Back doors, side doors and the side door on the garage come under exterior door replacement further down.
It’s the door everyone sees, and the faults show early. A lock that sticks, a draught along the bottom, paintwork gone past saving. Once a multipoint lock starts catching it’s usually the mechanism rather than the door, and that’s a repair.
Composite is where most front doors in Ely end up. Insulated core, solid outer skin, holds heat and won’t warp. Aluminium suits a modern frontage and takes more glass in a slimmer frame. Both come with multipoint locking, and an anti-snap cylinder where you want the extra security.
Glass runs from a plain panel to frosted, and side panels work where the opening’s wide enough.
If your house is in the Ely conservation area, check before you order. Being in a conservation area doesn’t by itself mean you need permission to change a door. An Article 4 Direction does, and East Cambridgeshire District Council has one covering Ely, alongside others in Burwell and Soham. Where one applies it covers the design and the materials, and only on elevations facing a road or open space. Dan checks which applies to your address on the survey.
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A composite door is built in layers. Insulated core, solid outer skin, and a frame in uPVC or aluminium. It holds heat, it won’t warp and there’s no repainting. It’s the entrance door we fit more than any other round Ely.
Anthracite grey, French navy, Chartwell green, deep olive and black are the colours people go for here, usually with brushed chrome, brushed brass or matt black handles. Multipoint locking comes as part of the door.
Worth knowing. We buy from the same premium suppliers the bigger local firms use, so the door itself is the same product you’d get from them. What differs is who turns up, how long they spend on the fit, and who you ring afterwards.
The survey settles whether your existing frame stays put. Either way the door is made to your opening, and the fit covers the frame, the hardware and the seals.
Aluminium is strong enough to hold a lot of glass in a slim frame. That’s what it’s for. More glass, narrower sightlines, and a door that stays square on a wide span where other materials start to flex.
It suits the back of a kitchen extension, a garden-facing wall, or anywhere you’d rather look at the view. Aluminium entrance doors work on a modern frontage too, and that’s a growing part of what we do.
Wide openings need thinking about. Dan checks the structural support above the opening, works out what the frame has to carry, and specs it for wind loading, which matters on an exposed plot out in the Fens. The lintel and the span decide the door as much as the look does.
The frames are thermally broken, so there’s an insulating barrier through the frame keeping the cold from tracking straight through the metal. Powder-coated finish, anthracite grey being the usual choice, and it doesn’t need painting. Aluminium is the premium end of what we do, and it’s priced after the survey because the span drives the cost.
Bi-folds and sliding patio doors are aluminium as well, and both have their own sections below.
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Give Dan a call and he will take a proper look before anything is quoted.
A bi-fold folds back and stacks to one side, so the opening ends up clear. Nothing fixed sitting in the middle of the view. Three-part is the common one round here, and wider openings take more panels.
One leaf can be set up as a traffic door, so you get out to the garden without folding the whole lot back. Worth having on a door you’re using every day.
The frames are aluminium and the panels are made to your opening width. The track and the rollers carry the weight of all those panels, so Dan specs both to the span.
That track sits in the threshold and wants sweeping out now and again. Grit is what wears rollers. If you want it sitting near flush with the floor inside, ask about a low threshold at the survey, because that affects how the opening is prepared.
Bi-folds usually come up as part of an extension. Plenty of the newer estates round Littleport and Ely have the room depth and the garden aspect for a full opening, and with the doors pushed back in summer you’re basically sitting outside. It’s the job people are most often really pleased with once it’s in.
Sliding patio doors are the other way to glaze a wide opening, with one panel fixed and less track to look after. There’s a section on those below. A standard white three-part bi-fold starts at £3,000 plus VAT. Colours cost more, so anthracite grey or a dual finish comes in above that, and wider openings with more panels add to it again.
A sliding patio door gives you a wide run of glass with one panel that slides and one fixed. Wider openings take more panels, with the sliding panel running behind the fixed ones.
Nothing swings, so there’s no clearance needed either side. That’s what makes them work in tight spots. A narrow patio, a step close to the threshold, or a room where the furniture sits near the opening.
Fewer panels means fewer frames, so across the same width you often get more glass than a bi-fold and one clean sightline down the middle. One moving panel also means less hardware and less track to keep clear.
The panels are big and heavy, so the track and rollers do proper work. Dan specs both to the size of the glass and sets the door up so it runs easily. Frames are aluminium, made to your opening.
Patio doors against French doors:
There’s a section on French doors below. Patio door installation is priced after the survey, same as the rest of the aluminium, because the span and the glass size drive it.
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A French door is a hinged pair that opens from the middle, usually onto a patio or garden. Both leaves swing, so you get the full opening clear with no track underfoot.
The proportions suit older houses. Narrower than a slider or a bi-fold, with a frame down each side and a meeting point in the middle, which sits right on a period frontage. The villages round Ely and Littleport have plenty of them. Little Downham, Wilburton and Sutton in particular, where the openings are already the shape French doors want.
We fit them in uPVC and aluminium. uPVC keeps the cost down on a straightforward pair. Aluminium gives you a slimmer frame and more glass. Composite suits it where the door is doing a job at the front of the house as well as the back.
Check your clearance before you settle on it. Both leaves need room to swing, so a tight patio, a step close to the threshold, or a path running past the opening all matter. Most French doors open outwards, though they can be hung to open in where the outside space is short. Dan measures the swing on the survey.
One leaf takes the handle and the lock, the other bolts top and bottom into the frame. Multipoint locking as part of the door, same as the rest of ours. Priced after the survey.
Where there’s the space and the character for it, French doors are a lovely job.
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Exterior door replacement covers everything on the outside of the house apart from the main entrance. Back door, side door, utility door, the side door on the garage. Front doors have their own section above.
Back doors get the hardest use. Wet boots, shopping, bins, the dog, and often they face into a passage or away from the sun, so the bottom of the frame stays damp and goes first. That’s usually what brings people to us.
uPVC is the common choice on a back door and keeps the cost sensible where the door is out of sight. Composite where you want the same door front and back. A half-glazed panel puts light into a utility or a galley kitchen, with frosted glass where the door is overlooked.
The ground round here is peat and clay, and it moves. In older properties round Littleport and Ely that works a frame out of true over the years. A back door that won’t lock, or a draught down one edge, often comes back to the frame. Dan checks the frame and the brickwork before quoting a new door. Sometimes it’s a re-hang or an adjustment and the door stays where it is.
The side door on the garage counts, the hinged one people walk through. Up-and-over garage doors are a different trade.
If more than one door needs doing, get them all looked at on the same visit. Dan will tell you which wants sorting now and which will go another year or two.
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A fire-rated door holds fire and smoke back for a set time. FD30 is the usual one on a home, meaning thirty minutes.
We supply and fit fire-rated doors in composite and aluminium. External doorsets and flat entrance doors are the two that come up. Internal doors aren’t something we get involved in, so if building control has asked for FD30 doors off a landing you’ll want a joiner for that part.
Where it usually comes up is a flat entrance door that has to meet FD30 on the lease or the licence, or building control asking on a conversion. For Ely that’s East Cambridgeshire District Council unless you’ve gone to a private inspector.
The rating covers the whole doorset. Frame, hinges, intumescent strips that swell and close the gap as they heat, smoke seals, and a closer where the spec asks for one. Gaps get measured in millimetres, so a fire door hung with too much clearance won’t hold for the time on the label. We fit fire-rated glass where the door has a glazed panel.
Ring Dan with the spec you’ve been given and he’ll tell you what it needs.
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Plenty of door faults come down to one part. A dropped hinge, a lock that’s seized, perished seals, a misted pane in the glass panel. Door repair sorts that part and leaves the door and frame where they are. Around £100 plus VAT for an adjustment or a straightforward repair.
Common ones:
A door that’s stiff or won’t lock is often the frame rather than the door. Peat and clay ground moves over the years and works a frame out of true, so the door and the keeps stop lining up. That’s usually an adjustment or a re-hang.
Parts decide a lot of it. On older doors the hinges, handles and lock mechanisms are often discontinued, and once a part can’t be sourced the repair stops being an option. Dan will tell you at the survey which side of that line your door sits on.
A sound door in a solid frame will go on for years with the right fix. If it’s past fixing Dan will say so, and he’ll tell you whether it’s the door or just the frame that needs doing.
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Sometimes it’s not that the door looks worn out. It’s that you don’t trust it any more. Some doors stop feeling safe before they look worn. The lock turns too freely, the frame has gone soft or loose where it meets the brickwork, or the door flexes when you push it.
Lock snapping is the common way in on a uPVC or composite door. Someone grips the cylinder where it sits proud of the handle and snaps it, then turns the mechanism. An anti-snap cylinder is built to break at a sacrificial point and leave the working part behind, still locked.
A security door installation is a composite or aluminium door with multipoint locking, hung on hinges specified to the weight of the door, in a frame fixed properly back into the brickwork. The locking points engage down the length of the frame so the load spreads rather than sitting on one keep. The frame does as much of the work as the door, which is why Dan checks the fixings and the brickwork on the survey.
Back doors come up most. Down a side passage, out of sight of the road, often the oldest door on the house. Glazed panels want laminated glass where the door isn’t overlooked. Most people asking for security glass mean laminated, and laminated holds together when it’s hit.
Dan will also tell you when a new door isn’t needed. A sound door with a tired cylinder or worn keeps is an upgrade rather than a replacement, and that’s a much smaller job.
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A cold hallway in January usually comes back to the front door. You feel it round the edges, through the letterbox, and in a hall that never quite warms up whatever the heating is doing.
Where the heat goes matters as much as the door itself. An old door loses it three ways: straight through the panel, round the perimeter where the seals have gone, and through the glass if the sealed unit has failed. Which one it is decides the job.
A composite door has an insulated core through the middle of the panel. Aluminium uses a thermal break, an insulating barrier set into the frame so the cold stops tracking through the metal from outside to in. Glazed panels take double-glazed sealed units, and a misted one has failed and stopped insulating.
Fitting decides whether any of that works. The frame goes in square, the door is set so the compression seals meet evenly all the way round, and the gap between frame and brickwork gets sealed and made good. A door hung slightly out of true will draught along one edge whatever it measures on paper.
Doors carry an energy rating in bands like windows do, so ask for the figure on the door you’re quoted and you can compare like with like.
Sometimes the door is sound and the seals have perished, which is a repair from around £100 plus VAT. Dan checks the door, the frame and the seals at the survey and tells you which of the three is losing you the heat.
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Door frame replacement takes the old frame out, makes good the opening and fits a new uPVC or aluminium frame back in square, so the door shuts, locks and seals again. The door you’ve got stays.
What usually brings the call:
Old timber frames are the common one on the older houses round Littleport and Ely. Water gets into the cill, the bottom of the jamb goes, and it takes the fixings with it. We replace those in uPVC or aluminium, which won’t rot and don’t need painting.
Getting the old frame out is most of the job. The plaster reveal inside and the render or brick outside both take a knock, so making good matters as much as the frame. New frame packed and fixed back into sound brickwork, sealed inside and out, and the reveal left tidy.
Your existing door has to suit the new frame, so Dan checks the leaf, the hinge positions and the lock before quoting. Where the door has taken damage as well, a matched door and frame together usually works out better, and that’s exterior door replacement above.
A new frame will get a good few years more out of a door that’s still sound.
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A composite front door in Ely costs £1,500 to £2,500 supplied and fitted. A standard white three-part bi-fold starts at £3,000. Door repairs and adjustments start at around £100. Aluminium doors and sliding patio doors get priced after the survey, because the span decides most of the cost. All prices are plus VAT.
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Composite front door, supplied and fitted | £1,500 to £2,500 |
| Bi-fold, standard white three-part | From around £3,000 |
| Door adjustment or repair | From around £100 |
| Aluminium doors, bi-folds, sliding patio doors | Priced at survey |
Four things move the number:
The figure covers the door made to your opening, the frame where it’s needed, hardware and seals, the fitting, making good round the edges, taking the old door away, and the Assure certificate with the insurance-backed guarantee. The quote is the whole job, so the number you’re given is the number you pay.
Send a photo on WhatsApp for a ballpark. Quotes and the survey are free across Cambridgeshire and there’s no obligation. Terms are 50% on order and the balance when the job’s done.
If it grows into windows as well, a three-bed house runs £4,000 to £7,000.
All figures plus VAT. Colours other than white add to the bi-fold price, so anthracite grey or a dual finish comes in above £3,000. Prices correct as at August 2026.
Questions People Ask
Yes, Dan covers Ely, Littleport and the surrounding villages for replacement doors. Because he runs the business from Littleport, he’s often able to fit surveys in quickly across the whole area. If you’re not sure whether your address falls within reach, just get in touch and he’ll confirm before booking anything in.
The right door depends on your property’s age, opening size and frame condition, not just what you like the look of. Littleport has a real mix of Victorian terraces, post-war streets and newer estates, so what works next door might not work for you. Dan surveys the actual opening first and tells you which door type genuinely fits, rather than guessing from a brochure.
Composite doors give a solid, traditional entrance and hold heat well, while aluminium suits larger glazed openings where you want more glass and slimmer frames. If you’ve got a period terrace, composite usually looks right. If you’re opening up a kitchen extension or garden wall, aluminium tends to be the better call.
Usually not. Changing a door in a conservation area does not normally need planning permission on its own. What changes that is an Article 4 Direction, and East Cambridgeshire District Council has those on four of its 26 conservation areas. Where one applies it covers the design and materials, and only on the elevations facing a road or open space. Dan checks which applies to your address on the survey.
That depends on which doors are causing problems. Front door installation covers just the entrance, while exterior door replacement deals with back, side and utility doors elsewhere on the property. Dan can survey the whole house and tell you whether one door needs sorting now or whether it makes sense to plan for more.
Give Dan a call on 01353 223200, or send a photo on WhatsApp if you want a ballpark first. He will arrange a survey at the property, measure the opening, check the frame and talk through which door type suits the house before any quote goes together. No obligation, and you deal with him from that first visit through to installation.
A composite front door supplied and fitted runs between £1,500 and £2,500 plus VAT. A standard white three-part bi-fold starts at £3,000 plus VAT, and colours add to that. Repairs and adjustments start at around £100 plus VAT. Aluminium doors and sliding patio doors vary with the size of the opening, so those get priced after the survey. Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will give you a ballpark before anyone visits.
Free quotes across Cambridgeshire, and you deal with Dan from the first visit to the last screw.
