A local Andersen sales rep shared an installation video (it’s actually a recorded webinar), but you can’t talk to any Andersen person with technical knowledge. Our point person in NL was nice enough, but he had no experience with these doors (very few do as we have discovered), and the technical support we needed from Andersen was never there. From deciding specs to handling installation issues, you can only deal with Andersen indirectly through the dealer, which in our case is National Lumber. This gets to the most frustrating part of the Andersen experience: it is almost impossible to communicate directly with Andersen. We have asked Andersen to fix it under their “best in business” warranty (supposedly including 20 years on the finish), but our request has been ignored despite repeated tries. Our doors came with a poly finish (which we paid extra for), but after two months it is already beginning to peel around the glass (we think from condensation water).
That’s not quite as upsetting as the water, but it is also not exactly what you expect from a door at this price point. We live in Boston, and we can feel the draft of cold air coming through the bottom of the doors whenever there’s a wind is against the doors. Needless to say, if water can run to the inside, the door is also not airtight. The rail is also a serious trip hazard because it sits right across the opening where you walk. The lip of the nose protrudes about an inch above the bottom of the doors, so if water ever reached that level, the wood frame would get soaked and ruined. What do you do if water rises above the edge of the inside channel? Andersen’s solution is a threshold with a 1.5” high edge or “lip” that literally functions as a dam. The water supposedly runs off through weep holes, although on ours it stays for days at a time. Andersen uses an aluminum threshold, called a “nose”, to essentially cover up the water. They sit on rollers that are raised from the floor, and water can flow to the inside. The doors are actually designed this way. When it rains the water runs across the sill and underneath the doors to an inside channel, where we use a sponge to keep the water from reaching our new hardwood floors.
The most serious issue is that they leak. If you want a modern, minimalist look it’s hard beat these doors! Alas, they are not good doors. They come with very narrow stiles, and we ordered ours with brushed-nickel hardware and maple wood finish. They are now installed and span most of the wall of our living room. The doors finally arrived at the end of November. We bought two Andersen “Big Doors” at a price of $24,000 in June 2021.
SUNBLAZE ENERGY WINDOWS
Review of Andersen Windows and Doors’ “Big Door Architectural Collection” ().
It also never needs headheading because the sprent flower ends just dry up and dissapear.
SUNBLAZE ENERGY FULL
My Cherry Sunblaze NEVER stopped blooming last year, the shrub is thick and full while Lemon Drop Mini bloomed in the spring and quit for the year and is no where near as nice a shrub.
SUNBLAZE ENERGY SERIES
However, the Sunblaze series seems to have unusally large flowers for a mini and really nice bushy plants. Mostly the flowers are not big enough for me. I have to say that while I seem to have very varying taste in rose colors and shapes, likeing singles, old garden rose form, Austin types, typical HT flowers and florabunda flowers, I am not a fan of Minis. I bought an Autumn Sunblaze and a Mandarin Sunblaze since I already had the Cherry.They are not in bloom but just covered in buds. The ones I can remember are White which they call Bridal Sunblaze, Lavender, Raspberry and Cherry Sunblaze, Raspberry having more pink in the flower tone with cherry being redder, Autumn Sunblaze, which they said is an improved Orange Sunblaze and Mandarin Sunblaze which is orange. Well, I went back to that nursery that has the Sunblaze Minis.
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