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Careful using solar reflective films, they produce a mirror effect and you have to be careful where that sunlight is reflected to...

We always recommend fitting the bars that Crank has linked to when a threshold is cracked, one of our suppliers years ago used to supply them with the doors as we ordered them. Guessing costs stopped that! To me the cover plate os the only coat effective way

It will be cooler as the planitherm surface is damaged/degraded due to it being on the outside. I will be very very surprised if that is residue from a ' film '.

An incredibly long shot and highly unlikely, don't know of any manufacturer that would waste time and money putting a film on , most use ' transport pads ' to stop scratching

It confirms my suspicion due to the amount of time passed for it to be showing like it is with just being exposed to the air .... if someone had touched the planitherm surface without gloves the fingerprints would turn up in days but just air takes longer, and a broken down sealed unit is...

Hopefully Nov 23 ... unless you've mastered time travel lol ... just me being me , no malice meant ... And knowing that was the date pretty much confirms to me it's Planitherm on the wrong way round and therefore a manufacturing defect

@Kitser, if the pin for the slam lock isn't fully engaging none of the locking points will engage into the keeps. Slam locks on comp doors , if working correctly , will engage all locking points , except the deadbolt, when the pin is fully depresssed. Turning the key would engage the deadbolt...

Softcoat planitherm doesn't tend to rust , just goes incredibly cloudy and horrible to look at ( ee left a bit outside for six months to test lol ) As goes the guarantee, it will depend on the manufacturers guarantee...but if you have prove of where it was purchased and when then I'd like to...

If i am right , The marking on the glass will get worse and it will have very little thermal properties but it will still be doing the essential thing....keeping the weather out

Very possible ... if the manufacturer had put the label indicating which face goes inside the property on the wrong side the installer would have no reason to question it, however the planitherm beingon the outer face is an avoidable mistake by the manufacturer . Of course that's if that is the...

Possible but OP does say right hand side doesn't seem to be suffering. Usually the units come with a label on to say which side goes inside

I would say the door has dropped slightly and isn't engaging the slam lock or nightlatch correctly and thus not engaging

Looks to me like the Low e coating , in this case soft coat planitherm , is the wrong way round. I will say the pictures and video don't really show it clear enough but I'm pretty sure that is what it is. The coating should actually be facing into the sealed unit , and even then the unit is...

Best to start a new post..the originally poster posted this over a year ago...and to be honest if under guarantee , get the people who fitted it back to take a look

Ideally yes the door should be sat equally in the framework. If you get that 'square and level ' before fitting the hinges it should be OK ( not guaranteed as the door frame could be out of square... and it's an older door) . You will need to ' toe and heel ' once the door and glass is...