Repair in the apartment will look unfinished if you do not replace old doors. At the stage of installation, doors can be saved by setting them on their own.
There are rare cases when the apartment has ancient rare doors from wood of valuable breeds and the owners do not want to part with them. Such doors do not change - they are restored, and the simple painting here can not do. Most often, with good repair, old doors are changed along with the box, loops and platbands, setting the same type for all rooms with accessories (handles, locks, latches, drowsy, stops for doors.
How to make the necessary measurements
The width of the doorway is determined by the door sizes. When replacing doors in the apartment must be focused on standard sizes.How to choose the door opening side (for removable loop)
It will be annoying by installing a beautiful door, find out that mortise locks and loops were purchased incorrectly that the canvas should open not in the other side for which the purchased fittings are intended.
The decision on where the door will be opened will be consistent with the floor plan of the apartment, which is approved by services responsible for fire and sanitation.
How to determine the door "left" or "right"?
We agree that the canvas opens inside, that is, in your direction. If the right hand is used when opening, and the handle is located on the left, then the door "right". In the case when pulling the design to yourself is comfortable with your left hand, and the arrangement of the handle is right-handed, - the door "left".
"Right" opens with his right hand. "Left" opens with his left hand
How to replace the door: Step by step instructions
- Remove the decorative platbands. If the loops are connected, then immediately remove the old door with the loops. Otherwise, you need to unscrew the old screws on one side of the loop (from the door or box).
- The door block can be installed in the already existing walls of the wall. To carefully remove the old box, you can cut it into parts.
- Before starting installing the interior door, follow it in the doorway to check its size and direction of opening. Let's analyze the state of the face in the wall. All unnecessary filling must be removed. Before the emergence of construction foam, builders for sealing slots were often used by a path moistened in a gypsum solution.
- If the opening is wider than a 2-4 cm box, then install goodness from bars or boards. If wider, you will have to install a false brutener from a bar or boards.
- We will install the door block assembly in the prepared loan and replenish it with the help of wooden wedges.
- We check the horizontal of the upper jumper and the verticalness of the shoals, the gaps and the straight corners of the door block (Fig. 2).
- Fix the door block using the mounting foam. When it is selected, be sure to read its characteristics. It is necessary to know the recycled foam expansion ratio: what it is less, the better. After hardening the surplus foam remove.
- Burn the box. If there is a false-shaped out of wood in the work, then it is enough to use screws. If we open in the wall of concrete, brick or gypsum blocks, we take a dowel-nail.
- We establish or manufacture a valid box that will close the space between the ceiling and the top bar of the door frame.
Measuring diagonal, make sure that A = B, that is, the corners of the straight line
When removing the doors and boxes, do not use excessive strength so as not to damage the wall around the perimeter of the day. It may take more effort to restore the openness than on the installation of a new door.
Finishing finish
- If finishing works continue in the room, then the door canvases are better removed, and the boxes are closed with a film. Do not fix the film with scotch: traces remain from it. You can use a painting tape.
- After completing the finishing works, the gap between the box and the wall closed by the platbands.
- Shutters of screws close by plastic furniture plugs in the color of the box.
- Install the handles, locks, latches, deposits.
- Do not forget to install the stops for the doors. They allow you to limit door rotation range, protect furniture and doors themselves from damage.
For the design of primitive space can be treated creatively
Choose door loops: basic views, sizes, materials
Independent (universal) loop
Suitable for "right" and "left" doors. To remove the door, the loops must be unscrewed.Rubber loop
You can remove the door with it, without unscrewing the loop itself.
Door welts for doors with "Europian"
To improve sound and thermal insulation, you can buy doors with europus, or "quarter". The door end in this case is not even, but with a protrusion. On the door frame for this protrusion is made. Therefore, when the door is closed, there is no crack between it and the box, and therefore there is no draft. Suitable for the left and right door.
Such a universal loop can be disconnected without unscrewing screws. To do this, remove the plug and pull out the steel heel-ax, connecting two halves
Barna
The door can open inside and out.Choosing a hinge size
- Light door (10-25 kg) - hinges height H = 75 mm.
- Standard door (25-40 kg) - Helping height H = 100 mm.
- Loops for heavy doors (more than 40 kg) are selected individually.
Door loop without a cut-in ("Butterfly") for light shells of doors
Looping
- For standard light doors with a height of up to 200 cm, two loops are sufficient.
- For greater height, there are three loops that are equidistant from each other.
- For heavy doors - two loops down and at the top.
Selection of material
- Brass. Resistant to abrasion and corrosion. Over time, darkening is possible.
- Brass zinc alloy. Resistant to corrosion. High strength material.
- Steel with decorative coating. High strength material. Low corrosion resistance.
More installation tips
- If you buy new doors with a "assembly" box and with tailored holes for latches and hinges, you can save time and make a job with quality from the first time. Such a ready-made set consists of a door leaf, boxes, platbands, sobers and fittings.
- Most modern doors are manufactured on industrial technologies. Names speak for themselves: hollow, frame, with cellular filling. Doors made by such technologies can not be trimmed by reducing dimensions.
If you can not unscrew the screw or pull the nail often old steel screws, oxidized with time, cannot be unscrewed out of wood. The problem is aggravated if the slot is disturbed at least on one screw. And if nails are used, it is even more difficult to cope with fasteners. You will need a hammer, sharp core and drill with a set of rolled.
Popper for the door canvas. Door Protection Limiter for Wall Installation
Popper for the door canvas. Door Limiter for Installation on the floor
In the center of the screws screw or nail with a hole. Drill 2.0-2.5 mm drills a hole in the center of the screw (nail) to the depth of the height of the Hats. Then we expand this hole with a larger diameter drill while a hat cannot be separated from the body of a screw.
Regularly control the verticality of the installation of doors in the opening with a plumb. To use for this purpose the usual construction level should only at intermediate stages of work
How to avoid deformation
The choice of gaps between the box and the door of the door is important for subsequent operation. The box for interior doors at the bottom there is usually no jumper (threshold), and the racks can shift when working. When fixing a block with wooden wedges, you can "take" the box, which will cause its deformation. The same can happen if it is inactively filling the cracks in the opening of foam. Some species of foam expand greatly during solidification. You should use professional foam with a gun feed and use spacers.
When removing the doors and boxes, do not use excessive strength so as not to damage the wall around the perimeter of the day. It may take more effort to restore the openness than on the installation of a new door.
So, we figured out how to install an interroom door with a box. If you had the experience of installing the door with your own hands, write about it in the comments.
The article was published in the magazine "House", №12 2018. You can subscribe to a printed or electronic version of the magazine.