How to install the door yourself
The contents
Repair finishes, interior doors are selected and brought to the apartment, even the Assembly of the door frame has been completed. It’s time to install doors. Of course, you can buy doors together with the installation, you can invite a wizard to perform this work, and you can set your own door. However, it is a difficult job that will require accuracy and precision. And no haste. Only in TV programs about repairing door set per minute, and the box lock is removed about twenty seconds. If you don’t want to throw money to the wind, forget about haste, all carefully prometeia, and then grab a saw or a chisel.
Types of interior doors and their equipment
Interior doors vary according to the method of opening are: ↑
- Hinged. The most popular and familiar to all types of doors. The only significant drawback is when you open they take up a lot of usable area in the room.
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Sliding. They are also called door-coupe. To install sliding doors require special door frame. Different sliding door with movement along the wall, or a wall, right and left, one or two valves. Undoubted advantage – saving space. Of the disadvantages can be quite a complicated installation and poor sound insulation.
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Foldable. This accordion doors, which can consist of two or more sections and perform the room function screens, and doors-books. The latter consist of two sections and are more durable than accordion doors.
The most popular materials for the manufacture of interior doors – wood, MDF, fiberboard. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. So, wooden interior doors are durable. Their value depends on the used wood. Pine doors are affordable, and products from valuable breeds can be very, very expensive.
In terms of price and quality MDF doors – the best option. They are fairly durable, have good sound insulation and moisture resistance, but are more expensive than doors made of fiberboard. The most affordable products of wood laminated plate, which is sheathed with wooden frame. For this reason, their weight is less than other doors. But low cost means low strength and water resistance.
The set hinged interior doors included door frame (the smew) and the door leaf. Also buy need a loop (there are one-piece and split), trim, knobs with push-lock and, if necessary, transoms.
Loop installation ↑
First, prepare the tool for the job:
- A drill with a crown drill. The crown will need to install lock.
- The screwdriver (you can do with a screwdriver).
- Long and short (respectively, 1800 and 500 mm) levels.
- A mitre box, it will kill the frames at an angle. Easier to work with a miter saw, but not all of it is.
- Hacksaw.
- Chisel (ideally choose a platform under the hinges using the router).
- Bit.
- Hammer and rubber mallet.
- Gon.
- A tape measure, ruler and pencil.
- Knife.
- Wedges of wood or plastic.
- Polyurethane foam with a gun. It is better to use foam with a minimum expansion.
- Fasteners (screws, finishing nails).
Installing loops usually do before you install the door frame. On the side of the rack Lucci, where it will be mounted on the hinges, measure from the top 200 mm. This is the top edge of the loop.
By checking the top of the loop, put it to the side of the rack and fix a couple of screws to the hinge «walked». Very carefully with a sharp knife on the top and bottom of the loop cut through the veneer. Great depth, we do not have enough 2 mm. Unscrew the screws and remove the upper hinge.
Do not forget that the loop should be installed so that between the door leaf and the frame left a gap of 3 mm, when the hinge is folded. This work you can simplify if you use something thin for putting in the gap. Chisel make a selection on the side of the rack lucky the size of the loop to the desired depth. We have to work carefully so as not much to go deep and not to damage the veneer.
Bottom given clearance weigh 210-215 mm. This distance depends on the thickness of floor finish and the presence of sill under the door. We noted the bottom edge of the bottom hinge. Repeat the operation on the sample pad under the bottom loop on the side of the rack. Then najavljen both loops on the side stand lucki disclosed hinges, put the door leaf and placed it on the layout.
Under the door panel, puts a rag or cardboard to in cutting the pad under the loop it does not hurt. Such an operation is required to install conventional hinges (for interior doors are usually two loops. Three loops are required for heavy doors). For loop-butterfly tie in the smew is not required.
Measure all distances several times, double-checking himself. Here as sappers – get it wrong, the painting will need to buy a new one. And it will cost you cheaper than repeated several times a day family members regarding the severity of your «skill», if on the box or the canvas will be big platform under the loop as tracks your exercise.
Installation of interior doors ↑
Before you install interior doors the walls should be plastered or spackled and well aligned. Must also be completed for device sub-floor. To completion of wet processes, the room door can not be set, otherwise they can lead from excessive moisture.
Door frame installation ↑
Assembled door frame (before assembling, check the geometry of the lintel and side posts) is installed in the opening, and for convenience is fixed by wedges. At first we fix a horizontal crosspiece (lintel). See to it that the lintel was installed horizontally. Fasten it to the dowel-screws, two on each side. In order for the dowels, the screws were not visible, reams drill a larger diameter hole to a depth of 2-3 mm, tighten the dowel-screws and after completion of the door installation will close them furniture plugs in the color of the door. To secure caps before installing them drip a little glue.
Many experts set the smew on the foam without mounting dowel-screws. However, the foam under certain conditions, becomes mobile, and can shrink or expand. The smew in this case can lead.
Go to the side racks lucky. They should be parallel to each other, otherwise the box is warped and the door will not hang correctly. Make sure that you’ve done everything right, only a few times opening and closing the hinged door leaf. The gaps shall be left between the frame and the door leaf shown in the diagram:
The canvas is first hung on one screw for each hinge. Then checked her closing/opening. If the blade is pressed against floor heating from the loops, under loops enclose the cardboard. If the joint rubs piping needed to deepen the grooves (or one of them). Only after that tighten the screws in the hinges.
After the sample of the canvas and checks conducted in the gaps between luckau and the doorway to reliability the wedges are installed, the remaining space is filled with foam. Work with a professional foam gun, so you will be able to dose it out. In this case very well (too much foam) – too bad. After curing, the foam wedges can be removed.
Installation of transoms ↑
Dobor is a two-meter bar, the width of which can reach 300 mm and a thickness of 30 mm. Transoms are installed in the case, if the width of the door opening is greater than the width lucky, and simulate a wide door frame. All of the stores offering door, you can buy them, but it happens that the available transoms don’t match the colour of the box, and in this case they will have to be made from frames.
To accurately determine the width of the slats is possible only after the installation of the door frame. Often that requires taking more with different widths at the top and bottom of the opening is the quality of construction. On most door frames have a groove for installing transoms. The measurement is carried out from the depth of the groove to the edge of the opening.Knowing the exact size of the purchased prepared kind it is possible to dissolve on the nearest furniture factory. They not only cut the selection to the desired size, but also glued the laminated film of the right color in place of the cut.
The transoms are installed in the groove lucky and shaped «P». Then it is recommended to spend a few thin lines of foam, securing the panels to the wall and the box with masking tape. No need to fill all the space, otherwise the foam will suck the transoms. If no groove, the transoms have to install a butt with box.
Installation of plat-bands ↑
Give installed interior doors aesthetically pleasing and finished appearance will help trim – decorative moldings that attach to the floor heating one side of the doorway and transoms on the other. Trim zapilivaetsya using the miter box at a 45° angle. Fasten the trim with nails without hats.
If you want the frames were no traces of the nails, even such thin nails first with a hammer hammered into the door frame or transoms half, then applied the trim and a rubber mallet using a piece of cloth gently egged before boarding the place.
Box lock ↑
Handles of interior doors are sold, typically along with a lock. If you put the lock on one door, make sure that the hardware is not much different from the hardware on other doors. The choice of the form of the castle – the rosette or spherical, a matter of taste.
To install the castle using a spherical crown on the tree (50 mm), pen drill (25 mm) pilot drill bit (6 mm). The lock cut after installation of the door. That a hole is drilled in the side edges of the latch and the side through hole for installation of the handles. The second point is defined as: from the bottom edge of the canvas measure 965 mm, from the end back down to the length of the latch lock. This point will be the center holes for mounting handles. In drill fix the drill guide and bit, and drill holes on both sides. It is necessary to stop drilling as soon as the pilot drill out from the opposite side.
With the help pen drill bit on the end is drilled a hole under the latch. Use a chisel to get the hole the right size. Into the hole the latch is set and marked area into the roof of the castle. The veneer is first cut with a sharp knife, then take a sample. Strap with snap lock are fixed with screws.
Install according to the instructions both parts of the handles of the lock. Then close the door and mark where it rests on the latch plate. Drill a hole, attach the return bracket to lutke, mark its contours, and make the selection. Strap is fixed with screws. Check out how to work the latch.
If you decide to install the lock on the socket, you will need to drill into the canvas openings for the handle and keyhole, and at the end select the size of the castle.
As a conclusion ↑
Self-installation of interior doors – is not easy. But if after repairs in the apartment you want to install a few doors and the transoms, we have carried out DIY work can yield very substantial savings. After the installation wizard single door with transoms will cost you about 3 thousand rubles. What to choose? Only you can decide. But after all, not gods pots fired! Strictly adhere to all the rules, take the time to carefully measure and double check yourself, be patient and you should have!