Alu Wood is Kobbe's answer to the recurring brief for the warmth of timber without its maintenance overhead. The panel is a genuine timber board over an aluminium substructure.
The visual of timber, engineered for the weather
The aluminium carcass carries the load and takes the weathering, while the timber face gives the door the character homeowners generally cannot achieve with a printed or foiled finish.
Where it lands stylistically
Alu Wood is well matched to barn-style contemporary houses and to rural conversions of the kind increasingly common around Letchworth Garden City.
Ask to see it in person
Timber finishes photograph unreliably. It is worth asking a supplier for a full-scale sample panel before signing off the finish.
For readers researching options locally, 5EC's front doors and 5EC's heritage aluminium range are both worth reviewing — both are handled by 5EC, a Stevenage-based authorised supplier working across Hertfordshire.
Detailed technical documentation is available on the Alu Wood range.