How to install metal door entrance

The entrance door is a key element of the security of the apartment, so it should be durable enough to protect against the penetration of detractors. Considered to be the most reliable metal products. But after buying such a door, you must properly install it. So as not to cause masters and not to spend extra money, enough to learn how to self-install.

The preparation and installation tools required ↑

Before you install a metal door, you should carefully measure the doorway. It is worth considering the width and height of the entire door frame. Usually the height of the opening never rises, changes only the width. But to change it you need only need.

For door installation will need the following tools:

• impact drill;
• level;
• wooden Board to create pegs;
• Bulgarian;
• sledgehammer;
• roulette.

For fixing doors need metal rods whose diameter should be at least 10 mm Space between the door frame and the opening is filled either with cement mortar or foam. The second option is more profitable and does not require time-consuming.

How is the installation ↑

To properly install a metal door to the apartment, be sure to follow basic rules and do all in order:

• preparation of the opening;
• installation of the door frame;
• hanging a door;
• checking its progress;
• facing opening.

Before installing the door, you should find helpers, as one physically can’t cope with metal because of its weight.

Preparation of the opening ↑

If the doorway has a wooden door, it is removed simply because the tree is easily manipulated. You must first remove the old door leaf from the box, and then remove the frame. Next comes the cleansing of the opening of excess building material hammer.

In the case where a metal door, on the frame cuts the grinder, and then the separation of the box from the wall. Then you need to thoroughly clean out the gap from the extra materials. These include masonry, or wooden beams. These materials are often used as a substrate for the front door.

The main stage of installation of the door ^ the

It is at this stage and will need help, because you need not to install the door frame into the opening, nor yet to do that exactly. After fixing, you should check the vertical and horizontal using a level. If the frame is installed correctly, it is fixation by means of pegs.

Fixing the door frame can occur in several ways, depending on the design of the door. But in any case on the sides should be three mounts and on the top and bottom 2. After insertion, each fastening element should be checked for proper installation using a level. At this stage you should carefully consider the design and determine it has changed its form during the installation process.

Ways of fastening of the box ↑

1. Anchor. Pinning occurs due to the insertion of the pins. Installation of metal doors with their hands full is by driving these elements in the wall. If you are using a simple pin, it is welded to the hole in the metal frame.
2. Mount «capture». It involves mounting on the wall using the fixtures that hold the door frame on the inside. The consolidation takes place using ocenki. This option is chosen by people living in houses with solid walls, because in this case it is not necessary to drill holes.

The final stage of installation ↑

After final fastening of the frame is hanging doors and check her progress. First it opens at 45 degrees and then 90. However, it does not have to independently open and close. This happens only if the frame is not vertically.

In the closed state, you should check the backlash, which may indicate deformation of the door frame. The remaining voids between the door frame and the wall sealed with concrete or foam. The first option is more expensive, but it is more reliable, as it provides the burglar doors.

Also in the final stage necessary to check the operation of locks. If the door frame is deformed during installation, the lock may not be closed. The last step is to create slopes, which are needed in order to hide the attachment design.

How to seal the soffits ↑

After the metal of the doors is a wall on which the visible foam. To hide it, you must select one of the ways to create the slope. It is necessary to give the wall an attractive appearance, and in some cases to strengthen the construction. There are several ways to finish:

• fixing Board;
• plastering of the surface;
• adhesion of the finishing material.

If you want to not only create a beautiful appearance, an even and fasten the door, should be concreted sections mounted around the door, and then choose the suitable material for finishing. If the slope is small, can be pasted Wallpaper.

If you want to make the doorway look more attractive, you should look at this option as additional Board. It is manufactured in various sizes so it can be matched to any door.

Forming slopes is done by sealing voids with cement mortar to create a flat surface. Only after that, use a finishing material. Proceed to the installation of facing elements should be only after the surface is completely dry. It may take about 24 hours.

Features a door installation in a wooden house ↑

If the iron door is set in a house of timber or logs, perform the following steps:

1. The extension of the opening. Before installing a metal door is necessary to produce an increase in the height and width to the final width around the perimeter of the door was more of the door frame.
2. Installation of duct. For this selected beam cross-section 50X100. Next comes securing it with screws to the walls. For more reliable fastening across a vertical surface of the opening is cut a groove, in which are mounted the side members.
3. Mount the door frame. Consolidation takes place with screws as the joining pins can cause a fire.

Installation of finishing materials ↑

Normally, when you install a metal door applies additional Board. It is chosen according to the width of the wall. Pinning it usually happens with nails without hats, which are virtually invisible once the installation design.

If the door is flat, then securing additional boards using the pre-installed wooden panels. Usually have vertical mounting grooves, in which inserted into the upper Board. After the installation of such a framework remains only to fill the gap between the doorway and a renowned expert foam.

If you use MDF panels for mounting you will need glue, which is applied on the plastered surface. After installing these items are ugly corners that are closed for more wooden items or plastic parts.

To choose the finishing material is easy, as there are many products of different colors. Usually metal doors have the wood trim, so pick something suitable will not be difficult.

Install the latch ↑

Before how to install door closer on a metal door, you should choose the right model. You need to know the weight of the door. Selection field the closer you are installing so that the mechanism was in the door frame, and the lever on the door. But there is a lot of door closers with different device, so you need to careful consider the instructions to the mechanism.

Typically, the setting is as follows:

1. First surface of the door and the box follow the templates that are included with closers
2. After that, the marked places are drilled for mounts
3. Next is the mounting with the included parts.

Some door jambs to install the door closer requires the welding of additional metal sheet whose size corresponds to the latch or lever.

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