💙 Making Everyday Life Easier, Safer & More Accessible
Peace of mind for you, your family, friends and carers.
Your front door should never be a barrier to your independence.
Whether you’re elderly, a wheelchair user, someone living with a disability, or simply finding everyday tasks a little more difficult, choosing the right door can make a real difference.
At Hallmark, we believe everyone deserves a front door that’s easy to use, secure, accessible, comfortable and built to last.
That’s why we offer a huge range of customisable features designed to make entering, leaving and securing your home easier.
Here’s our ultimate guide to what’s available and how each option could help.
♿ 1. Accessibility & Wheelchair-Friendly Features
Helping to remove everyday barriers and make entering and leaving your home easier.
🚪 1. Low Thresholds – As Low As 15mm
Our low thresholds can be specified at just 15mm high.
✅ Benefits: Easier access for people using wheelchairs, walking frames, mobility aids or those who struggle to lift their feet. They can also help reduce trip hazards.
♿ 2. Wheelchair-Friendly Clear Opening Widths
Doors can be designed to achieve suitable clear opening widths, taking into account the door leaf, frame and hinges.
✅ Benefits: Provides more room for wheelchair users, walking aids and carers assisting someone through the doorway.
📐 3. Building Regulations Part M Accessibility Options
Doors can be specified with features intended to help meet relevant Part M accessibility requirements.
✅ Benefits: Helps create an entrance that is easier to navigate for people with reduced mobility, particularly when planning home adaptations.
🛞 4. Threshold Ramps
Additional ramps can be incorporated where suitable to provide a smoother transition across the threshold.
✅ Benefits: Makes crossing the doorway easier for wheelchair users, mobility scooters and people using walking aids.
🚪 5. Specialist Hinges for Increased Clearance
Hinge configurations and additional options can be specified to maximise the usable clear opening. (SFS 2D-C)
✅ Benefits: Helps wheelchair users and people with wider mobility equipment pass through the doorway more comfortably.
📏 6. Space Beside the Door Handle
Where the layout allows, doors can be planned with the required unobstructed space beside the leading edge, including the 300mm provision relevant to certain Part M requirements.
✅ Benefits: Gives wheelchair users additional room to approach, reach and operate the door handle without being obstructed by an adjacent wall.
✉️ 7. Bespoke Letterplate Heights
Letterplates can be positioned at a height to suit individual requirements, subject to the door design.
✅ Benefits: Allows for more convenient access and can help reduce uncomfortable bending or stretching.
👀 8. Bespoke Spyhole Positions
Spyholes can be installed at customised heights rather than a fixed standard position.
✅ Benefits: Particularly useful for wheelchair users or shorter individuals who may struggle to use conventional spyholes.
🪟 9. Low-Level Glazing
Doors can be designed with lower-positioned glazed sections.
✅ Benefits: Can help wheelchair users or seated individuals see outside without standing up or stretching to reach a spyhole.
🤲 2. Easier Door Operation & Reduced Physical Effort
Small changes to a door can make a huge difference to someone’s daily independence.
🤲 10. DDA-Style Accessible Door Handles
We offer accessible handle designs intended to be easier to grip and operate. (Sweet DDA)
✅ Benefits: Helpful for people with arthritis, reduced hand strength, limited dexterity or difficulty gripping traditional handles.
🚪 11. Smooth, Lightweight Door Operation
Our premium composite doors are designed to offer robust construction without unnecessarily heavy or awkward operation.
✅ Benefits: Reduces the effort required to open and close the door, which can be particularly important for older people and those with limited strength.
🔒 12. Slam-Shut Locking Systems
Selected locking systems can secure the door when it closes without needing to lift the handle.
✅ Benefits: Particularly useful for people with arthritis, painful shoulders or limited arm movement who may struggle with traditional lift-to-lock handles.
🔐 13. Winkhaus AV4 Locking Systems
The Winkhaus AV4 offers automatic multipoint locking technology.
✅ Benefits: Removes the need for the traditional handle-lifting action to engage the multipoint locking system, making securing the door more convenient. 40% lower than the industry leading AV2, making the AV4 the easiest autoLock to operate.
👍 14. Thumbturn Cylinders
Thumbturn cylinders allow the door to be unlocked from the inside without inserting or turning a key.
✅ Benefits: Easier for people who struggle with keys and can provide a quicker key-free exit in an emergency, subject to the door’s locking configuration.
🚪 15. Door Closers
Doors can be ordered with suitable door-closing mechanisms.
✅ Benefits: Helps ensure a door closes after use, which can be reassuring for people who may forget to close it or find reaching back difficult.
⏳ 16. Delayed-Action Door Closers
Selected closers can incorporate a delayed-action function.
✅ Benefits: Gives people who move more slowly, use wheelchairs or rely on walking aids additional time to pass through before the door closes.
🤝 17. Additional Pull Bars & Ergonomic Door Furniture
Decorative knobs, ergonomic pull bars and additional gripping points can be specified.
✅ Benefits: Provides alternative ways to pull or manoeuvre the door, making it easier for people with different grip strengths or mobility needs.
📱 3. Smart Locks & Keyless Access
Technology that can support greater independence and offer reassurance to loved ones.
📲 18. Bluetooth Smart Locks with Motorised Operation
Selected smart locking systems can operate the lock electronically, removing the need to physically turn a key.
✅ Benefits: Ideal for people with arthritis, hand tremors, reduced dexterity or anyone who struggles to turn traditional keys.
🏠 19. Remote Door Status Monitoring
Compatible smart locking systems can allow authorised family members or carers to check whether the door is locked, unlocked or open, or when the door has been open, depending on the system and connectivity.
✅ Benefits: Offers reassurance to family members who want to know that a loved one’s home is secure without having to phone or visit.
🔌 20. Electric Locks Compatible with Entry Systems
Selected electric locking systems can be integrated with compatible access-control or door-entry equipment.
✅ Benefits: Can make access more convenient for people who have difficulty reaching the door or operating conventional locks, particularly when combined with a suitable entry system. Or for communal entrances.
🎫 21. Key Fob Entry Options
Compatible door-locking systems can be supplied with fobs as an alternative to conventional keys.
✅ Benefits: Convenient for people who struggle to grip, insert or turn small keys.
🔑 22. Smart Trackable Keys
Compatible smart-key accessories can help locate misplaced keys using an iPhone.
✅ Benefits: Useful for anyone who frequently misplaces keys, reducing the stress of searching for them. Available with compatible iOS devices.
🗝️ 23. Five-Key Options
Selected cylinders can be supplied with five keys.
✅ Benefits: Allows trusted family members or carers to hold spare keys, making it easier to arrange assistance when needed.
🏡 24. Keyed-Alike Front & Back Doors
Front and rear doors can be specified to operate using the same key.
✅ Benefits: Fewer keys to manage, which is particularly convenient for people with reduced dexterity or anyone who finds large bunches of keys difficult to handle.
🔄 25. Day-Latch Functionality
Selected locking configurations offer a switchable day-latch function.
✅ Benefits: Can make frequent access easier during the day by reducing the need to operate the full locking system each time. This feature should only be used when appropriate, as it changes how the door is secured.
🛡️ 4. Security & Peace of Mind
Because feeling safe at home is just as important as being able to access it comfortably.
👮 26. PAS 24:2022 & Secured by Design Options
Selected doors can be specified to meet PAS 24:2022 enhanced security requirements and relevant police-backed Secured by Design standards.
✅ Benefits: Provides added reassurance that the door has been designed and tested to resist common methods of forced entry.
🔐 27. Three-Star Security Cylinders
High-security 3-star cylinders provide protection against common lock attacks, including snapping, bumping, picking and drilling, according to the cylinder’s tested specification.
✅ Benefits: Adds an extra layer of protection without making everyday door operation unnecessarily complicated.
⛓️ 28. Security Chains & Door Restrictors
Additional security chains or restrictors can be installed where compatible.
✅ Benefits: Allows occupants to partially open the door while maintaining an additional barrier, which can help them feel more confident when answering unexpected visitors.
🪟 29. Laminated Security Glass
Laminated glazing options are available for additional security.
✅ Benefits: Laminated glass is designed to hold together when broken, making it more difficult to create an opening through the glass.
🚪 30. Split-Spindle Locking Options
Split-spindle configurations can prevent the outside handle from retracting the latch without the appropriate key or access method.
✅ Benefits: Helps prevent unwanted entry if the door has been closed but the main locking points have not yet been engaged. It is not a substitute for fully locking the door.
💪 31. Steel-Reinforced Outerframes
Selected frames incorporate steel reinforcement for additional structural strength.
✅ Benefits: Provides reassurance through robust construction and helps maintain long-term stability.
🔩 32. Four-Hinge Door Configurations
Doors can incorporate four hinges to support the weight of the door leaf and maintain alignment.
✅ Benefits: Helps reduce the risk of the door dropping or becoming difficult to close over time, potentially avoiding frustrating repairs.
🔥 33. Standard & FD30 Fire Door Options
Depending on the application, doors may be available in standard configurations or as appropriately certified FD30 fire door assemblies.
✅ Benefits: Where a fire-rated door is required, an FD30 assembly can provide tested fire resistance for a specified period, helping protect escape routes when correctly installed and maintained.
🌡️ 5. Comfort, Warmth & Reduced Noise
A comfortable home makes everyday living easier.
❄️ 34. Thermally Efficient Construction
Our composite doors can be specified to meet applicable thermal performance requirements, with tested U-values and weather resistance.
✅ Benefits: Helps reduce unwanted heat loss and draughts, contributing to a warmer and more comfortable home and potentially save on energy bill.
🔇 35. Enhanced Sound Reduction
Selected door specifications offer weighted sound reduction performance of up to 31 decibels, subject to the tested assembly.
✅ Benefits: Helps reduce unwanted external noise, creating a quieter indoor environment.
🌧️ 36. Weather-Tested Performance
Our doors are designed and tested for resistance to wind and rain under applicable test conditions.
✅ Benefits: Helps protect against draughts and water ingress, reducing discomfort and the need for ongoing attention.
🪟 37. Clear or Obscure Glazing
Choose from clear or privacy glazing options.
✅ Benefits: Clear glass can provide visibility of visitors and the outside environment, while obscure glazing offers additional privacy without completely sacrificing natural light.
🎨 38. Thousands of Colour Options
A huge choice of colours allows doors and frames to be customised, including high-contrast colour schemes.
✅ Benefits: Strong visual contrast can make entrances, handles and door edges easier to identify for people with certain visual impairments.
🛠️ 6. Low Maintenance & Long-Term Reliability
Less maintenance means fewer worries for homeowners and their families.
🧽 39. Minimal Maintenance Requirements
Composite doors require relatively little routine maintenance compared with some traditional door materials.
✅ Benefits: Reduces the amount of painting, treating and upkeep needed, which is especially valuable for people who find household maintenance physically difficult.
🏡 40. Resistance to Warping, Twisting & Cracking
Our composite doors are engineered to resist common problems such as bowing, warping, twisting and cracking under normal service conditions.
✅ Benefits: Helps keep doors operating smoothly and reduces the likelihood of them becoming difficult to open, close or lock over time.
💥 41. Impact-Resistant GRP Skins
Durable GRP outer skins are designed to withstand everyday knocks and impacts.
✅ Benefits: Particularly useful where wheelchairs, walking frames or mobility aids may occasionally come into contact with the door.
🔩 42. Hardware with a 20-Year Anti-Corrosion Guarantee
Selected hardware comes with a 20-year anti-corrosion guarantee, subject to the manufacturer’s terms. (Sweet)
✅ Benefits: Helps reduce concerns about premature deterioration and the inconvenience of replacing door furniture.
🛡️ 43. 10-Year Warranty
Our doors come with a 10-year warranty, subject to the applicable terms and conditions.
✅ Benefits: Provides long-term reassurance to homeowners, relatives and carers.
🏆 7. Quality, Experience & Trusted Standards
Choosing a door is an important decision, especially when accessibility, safety and independence are priorities.
🇬🇧 44. UK-Wide Coverage
We supply doors across the whole of the UK. Delivered to you or to site.
✅ Benefits: Makes our range of accessible and customisable door options available to customers throughout the country.
🏭 45. Over 30 Years of Manufacturing Experience
With more than 30 years of manufacturing experience, our business has developed extensive expertise in composite doors.
✅ Benefits: Provides reassurance that customers are choosing an experienced manufacturer.
⭐ 46. Excellent Trustpilot Rating
We’re proud of our Excellent rating on Trustpilot.
✅ Benefits: Independent customer reviews can help customers and their families feel more confident when choosing a supplier.
🥇 47. Voted the UK’s No. 1 Composite Door Manufacturer Five Years Running
We’re proud to have received this recognition for five consecutive years.
✅ Benefits: Gives customers an additional reason to feel confident in the manufacturer behind their new door.
📋 48. ISO 9001 Accreditation
Our quality management system is ISO 9001 accredited.
✅ Benefits: Demonstrates a commitment to consistent quality management processes.
✔️ 49. UKCA Marking
Applicable products carry UKCA marking where required.
✅ Benefits: Provides reassurance regarding conformity with relevant regulatory requirements covered by the marking.
🏠 50. Building Regulations & Competent Person Schemes
Where applicable, installations can be carried out and certified through relevant competent person schemes such as FENSA, CERTASS or Assure.
✅ Benefits: Helps homeowners understand that their installation is being handled in accordance with applicable building regulations and certification requirements.
💷 8. Affordable, Personalised & Designed Around You
Accessibility shouldn’t mean compromising on appearance or paying for features you don’t need.
💰 51. Budget-Friendly Door Options
We offer a range of door specifications and price points to suit different budgets.
✅ Benefits: Allows homeowners and families to prioritise the accessibility, security and convenience features that matter most to them.
🎨 52. Online Door Designer & Visualiser
Our online door designer allows you to customise your door and preview how it could look on your property.
✅ Benefits: Helps homeowners and their families explore colours, glazing, styles and hardware options before making a decision, all from the comfort of home.
💙 More Than Just a Front Door — Independence, Confidence & Peace of Mind
For many people, opening and closing a front door is something they rarely think about.
But for someone living with arthritis, reduced strength, limited dexterity, a disability or mobility difficulties, even simple daily tasks can become challenging.
The right combination of door features can help:
- ♿ Make entering and leaving the home easier.
- 🤲 Reduce physical effort when opening, closing and locking doors.
- 🔐 Improve home security and personal confidence.
- 📱 Give trusted family members and carers additional reassurance.
- 🏡 Support independent living.
- 💙 Reduce everyday frustrations and help people feel safer and more comfortable at home.
And for friends, family members and carers, knowing that a loved one has a secure, accessible and easy-to-operate front door can provide invaluable peace of mind.
🚪 Let’s Find the Right Door for Your Needs
Every person’s circumstances are different. That’s why we offer a wide choice of features, allowing customers to choose a door that suits their property, lifestyle and individual accessibility requirements.
Whether you’re looking for a wheelchair-friendly entrance, easier locking options, smart technology or simply a door that requires less physical effort, we’re here to help.
Please note: Features and compatibility vary by door model, specification and installation. Accessibility, fire safety, security and Building Regulations compliance must be assessed for the complete door assembly and individual property. Not every feature can be combined with every door.
