VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door

VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door in San Antonio, TX | Hale Windows San Antonio

An arched entry door changes how a home meets the street. The VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door from ViewLux is a CNC-bent aluminum arched entryway, a curved architectural statement with structural precision that most door manufacturers simply won’t attempt. We’re Hale Windows San Antonio, an authorized ViewLux installation partner serving San Antonio, TX and surrounding communities. If you’re building custom, replacing a dated front entry, or trying to match an existing arch with something that won’t warp in Texas heat, this door deserves a hard look. Call (361) 348-8929 to talk through your project and get a free on-site measurement.

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Product Overview – VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door

The VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door exists because generic rectangular doors don’t fit every home, and forcing one in always looks like a compromise. ViewLux fabricates this series to order using CNC bending equipment, which means the arc is cut and formed from a single engineered profile rather than pieced together from segments. What you see is a continuous, clean curve. No visible seams at the top of the arch. No filler panels. Just an uninterrupted aluminum line from the sill on one side, up and over, and down to the sill on the other.

Why aluminum? In San Antonio’s climate, wood doors absorb humidity and move. Steel rusts at coastal edges and scratches show fast. Aluminum holds its shape through 100-degree summers and rare freezes alike. The VLX 100 profile measures 2.56 inches across the frame face and carries a wall thickness of 0.098 inches, which is a substantial build for a residential entry. That wall stock gives the door structural rigidity without making the panel so heavy that hinges sag over time.

Buyers choose the VLX 100 series for three reasons. First, they have an arched opening and want a real solution, not a rectangular door inside an arched frame with a filled transom. Second, they’re building a Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, or modern custom home in neighborhoods like Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Olmos Park, or King William, where architectural character matters. Third, they want a door that feels substantial when it closes, the kind of entry that makes a sound like a bank vault, not a hollow bedroom door. This series delivers on all three.

Hale Windows San Antonio installs the VLX 100 throughout the San Antonio metro area, from Stone Oak to Helotes to Schertz and beyond. We’ve seen every arch radius you can imagine, from gentle eyebrows to near-semicircular entries on custom builds. If you can draw it, ViewLux can fabricate it, and we can install it. Call (361) 348-8929 with your dimensions, even rough ones, and we’ll tell you straight whether the project makes sense.

Technical Specifications

Here’s what the VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door puts in your opening, in plain terms:

• Frame wall thickness: 0.098 inches of extruded aluminum. Not a thin cladding over wood. Solid structural stock.
• Profile width: 2.56 inches across the face of the frame and door leaf, giving the entry a bold, contemporary sightline.
• Maximum span: Custom fabricated to order. There’s no standard-size limitation here. If your architect designed a 6-foot-wide arch, we can quote it.
• Glass options: Clear, Frosted, Obscure, Low-E, Tempered, and Laminated. Mix and match is possible on some designs, subject to fabrication minimums.
• Finish options: Premium Black, Pure White, Anodized Silver, Bronze, Champagne, and Teak Wood. All six are available on the VLX 100 series.
• Performance compliance: Thermal break technology with NFRC-rated energy performance, installed per AAMA 2400/2410 guidelines.
• Perimeter sealing: AAMA 812 low-expansion foam sealant on all perimeter joints at installation, applied by our crews on every San Antonio job.

This is an affordable-luxury entry door. That’s a good thing. You get custom fabrication and a genuine architectural feature without paying exotic-import pricing.

Performance Features

Thermal Efficiency – The VLX 100’s frame incorporates a thermal break, a non-conductive barrier inside the aluminum profile that interrupts heat transfer from the outside face to the inside face. In San Antonio, where July sun loads the west side of a house for hours, that break matters. NFRC-rated energy performance numbers are available for the glass packages you select.

Acoustic Performance – Aluminum plus laminated glass equals surprising quiet. Laminated glass, with its bonded interlayer, cuts mid and high frequency noise measurably better than standard annealed glass. If you live near Loop 1604, I-10, or the railroad corridors through the East Side, request laminated glass in your quote. It’s the single biggest acoustic upgrade you can make on an entry door.

Airtightness & Weather Seal – Poorly sealed arched doors leak air at the top of the curve, the hardest place to detail. Hale Windows San Antonio applies AAMA 812 low-expansion foam sealant around the entire perimeter, paying special attention to the arch crown. The result is a door that doesn’t whistle in a north wind and doesn’t let conditioned air escape in August.

Waterproofing – Driving rain against a south-facing entry is a real test in San Antonio’s spring and fall storm seasons. We install every VLX 100 with a sloped sill, a continuous weatherstrip system, and perimeter foam that sheds water away from the rough opening. Our final step on every installation is a water test before the interior trim goes back on.

Wind Resistance – San Antonio sits inland, but it’s not immune. Severe thunderstorms and the occasional tropical system remnant push gusts well past what a flimsy door handles. The VLX 100’s extruded aluminum construction and wind-load rating mean it’s engineered for our local climate requirements. Your opening stays intact when the weather gets serious.

Security & Hardware – A 0.098-inch aluminum wall isn’t something a boot goes through. Pair that with multi-point locking hardware and this entry does more than look good. It creates a real barrier. We recommend multi-point locks on all VLX 100 installations, especially for arched doors, because the top point engages deep into the curved frame for a firm, even seal.

Color & Glass Options

The finish you choose sets the tone for the whole entry. Premium Black works beautifully on modern farmhouse and contemporary builds, and it frames the arched shape with a sharp, defined edge. Pure White suits traditional San Antonio homes with brick or limestone exteriors. Anodized Silver is clean, honest aluminum, and it reads as understated on mid-century modern designs. Bronze carries a warm metallic finish that pairs well with dark wood garage doors and wrought-iron details common in South Texas architecture. Champagne is lighter than bronze, warmer than silver, and it’s a favorite on stucco-clad custom homes in the Dominion and Anaqua Springs areas. Teak Wood, a wood-grain powder coat, gives you the look of a stained wood door with none of the maintenance, a smart choice if you love the aesthetic of wood but don’t love the reality of refinishing it every few years.

Glass selection is about privacy and sun control. Clear glass lets in maximum light and suits entries with a covered porch or north-facing exposure. Frosted and Obscure options give privacy while still glowing with daylight, and they turn the entry into a light feature at night. Low-E glass reflects solar heat, a meaningful benefit on west-facing San Antonio entries. Tempered glass is safety-rated, which most local building codes require for door glass. Laminated glass adds security and sound control, and it can be combined with Low-E for the best all-around performance package.

Installation by Hale Windows San Antonio in San Antonio

We’re going to be direct about this: an arched door is the hardest type of entry to install correctly. The opening has a curved header. The door has a curved frame. Everything must be level, plumb, and square in the same plane, or the door binds at the top of the arc. A door that binds is a door that leaks air, wears out weatherstrip, and eventually fails.

Improper installation voids the manufacturer’s warranty. That’s true for ViewLux and for every serious door brand. The warranty protects against manufacturing defects, not against an installer who sets the frame out of square and walks away. This is why we train our crews on arched openings specifically, and why we follow AAMA 2400/2410 installation standards on every job, as well as AAMA 812 foam sealant specifications on every perimeter joint.

Our process on a San Antonio VLX 100 installation starts with a pre-install inspection of the rough opening. We check the arch radius for consistency against the fabricated door, verify the substrate is sound, and identify any water damage or rot before we set anything. Then the frame goes in, shimmed and checked for level, plumb, and square at four points, including the top of the arch. We foam every perimeter joint with AAMA 812 low-expansion foam. We set the door leaf, adjust hinges or pivot hardware, and confirm the panel sits flush against the weatherstrip with no light gaps. Then we water test, clean up, and walk you through operation and care. The whole process on a standard arched opening typically takes one day.

San Antonio-specific considerations include our expansive clay soils, which shift and move. A properly installed arched door with a properly anchored frame shrugs off minor slab movement. A poorly installed one racks and sticks. We’ve fixed doors that other installers gave up on, and the root cause is almost always a frame that was never square from day one. Do not let a general handyman set a custom arched door. Call (361) 348-8929 and get it done by installers who work on these every month.

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Get a Quote – VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door in San Antonio

If you want a front door that looks like it belongs to the house instead of a door that was picked from a catalog, the VLX 100 Arched / Custom Door is worth your time. Hale Windows San Antonio provides free on-site measurements and a written, line-item quote anywhere in the San Antonio metro area. Call (361) 348-8929 today to start your project, or to schedule a measurement at your home.