How to repair a door yourself

If your door is not pleasing to you with its appearance: the door cracks, sagged and cracked, began to seize the castle. Were more likely to think about its replacement? Do not rush! Try to fix your own hands. Most of these problems can «cure» yourself saving a lot of money.

Contents:

• Overview of typical faults;
• How to strengthen door frame, if it came loose;
• Slipped and scratches the flooring, what to do;
• How to adjust the geometry;
• Large gaps, what to do;
• How you can strengthen panels;
• What to do with the cracks;
• How to replace a broken lock with your own hands;
• Broken handle, how to replace with a new one;
• How to replace a broken glass;
• Repair of sliding structures with their own hands.

An overview of the typical faults of interior doors ↑

Often, when the door is respectable, we forget about it «care». And yet, no matter how expensive and high-quality it may be, time takes its toll and requires cleaning, lubrication or adjustment in short – preventive measures. When they are not made on time,the door begins to create the household a lot of problems:

• to sink, scratching the flooring;
• appears nasty creaking;
• loose hinges;
• tight to enter the door frame;
• just crack and so on.

One of the main causes of all defects is considered improper operation or quality.

Strengthening our shaky door frame, the sequence of repair ↑

Step-by-step repair fixing is this:

• the door must be removed;
• box aligned, and secured in the desired position;
• drill drill 3 holes going into the wall at the front in the field of hinges and lock;
• in the finished hole to drive a nail out of wood (you can use metal studs, but first brush them with epoxy);
• you can hang the door back in place, then attach the trim.
  

Slipped and scratches the flooring, what to do, how to fix ↑

Simple solution – outweigh the hinges or replace them:

• the very first thing,check the upper hinge of the extent to which it firmly rests on the cloth and box, if necessary, to tighten;
• if the door has sagged not very strong, you can fix the problem putting a metal washer on the hinge pin;
  

Adjustment with worn hinge washer.

How to adjust the geometry of the interior of the door ^ the

Sometimes it happens that none of the Council in the repair does not resolve the problem of a sagging door. Most often this happens due to the fact that it is crack or the opposite of swell. Way – to adjust the edges on the perimeter.

What needs to be done, what repair work is required.

Close it carefully evaluate the dimension of the clearances, if they are not so significant, it is necessary to remove loops and prostragivat harness.

The link to the video:

Large gaps, how to repair wood doors ↑

When door products are made from wet wood, in use, the door will shrivel that while using it, creates a lot of inconvenience and problems: the tongue can’t reach the latch, large loop between the frame and the door, as a result, the door sags badly.

What to do in this situation?

• Hinges should move up a bit, they pulled up the door;
• If the gap is large, attach the size of the bar at the bottom and pristrelite it;
• The side gaps are removed too with the strap attached to the loop end;
• The challenge remains for the cracks to putty and paint together with straps.
  

How you can strengthen panels for interior wooden doors ↑

When crack interior doors, problems can arise not only in the form of emerging gaps, but also in panels. They lose density mounting. In such cases, you need to do?

The only solution will be to repair plywood.

• You want to remove it from its hinges;
• Disassemble completely;
• Thoroughly cleaned from old glue and dirt;
• Reassemble the bars and splice (glue together);
• The panels are put into place, then the door is fastened in the clamping device.

What to do with the cracks on interior doors of wood ↑

The repair process is time-consuming and laborious, but the result is worth it.The algorithm of actions for the restoration of the following:

• to remove from the hinges, put horizontally on a convenient table;
• to remove from the surface of the existing coating (with the solvent, emery sheet than is comfortable);
• sanded (grinding machine or emery sheet);
• clear to plug the gap with a special putty, matching;
• after drying putty sanded the door again;
• primed and varnished.
  

For naslednitskoye video:

How to replace a broken lock in the door with his hands if it cannot be fixed ↑

This device has the main load, so they are very often out of order. Signs that it is time to repair or change: it is very difficult to close the handles are scrolled. This suggests that the larva of the locking device and it’s time for a change.

• The first thing to do is to remove the larva on the bar end loosened the screws, after which she removed just enough;
• removed the decorative strap with handles;
• the remaining fasteners carefully Unscrew and remove the housing of the device;
• then bought a new locking device, suitable in size (so as not to drill new holes) or a similar model and is mounted in the locking aperture.

More details of the repair process shown in the video:

Broken handle in a wooden door how to replace a new one ↑

In order to change the handle on the door panel, you need to carefully read about their design

observe the instructions.

• screwdriver to Unscrew the fasteners on both sides;
• pull the handle of the fabric;
• using a wrench to Unscrew the handle pivot mechanism and extract it.

If the pen is equipped with mechanical locks (latches), then you must do the following:

• the process of loosening the fasteners similar to the above;
• then carefully inspect due to which it is held. Typically, these models are equipped with mechanisms of movement of the reed and stem, the inside of which is another shaft. When I retrieve it, the handle is easily removed.

How to replace broken glass in the interior doors ↑

Design with glass inserts in flats look, without a doubt, beautiful and stylish, but unlike wood, glass tends to break. If it happens this trouble, the master cause is not worth it, and even more to change the design of interior wooden doors. Begin to repair yourself.

Remove remnants of glass:

• this requires to loosen the glazing beads (wooden strips that hold the glass);
• gently remove all traces of broken;
• in some newer models there is a rubber gasket. It is necessary to pull out and carefully examined. If it is damaged – change, too.

Preparatory work before the repair:

• if broken glass has the correct rectangular shape, the fix is quite simple – remove the sizes and in the workshop ordered a new one. If the door with figured glass, then you can with a pencil and cardboard to copy the form;
• if a broken insert painted or used all sorts of putty, fillers, they must be carefully removed;
• before inserting a new door it is best to remove that the glass is not broken if accidentally fall, and the weight is very difficult to work;
• before laying on the bed to apply a layer of silicone;
• inserted rubber gasket and only if it is placed, fixed bead.

Repair of sliding structures with their own hands ↑

This type of interior paintings in residential homes are not uncommon, especially at the present time. If earlier they were used for attractiveness and beauty, now this is called saving space. Such structures are equipped with a sliding mechanism, which tends over time to fail.

Major faults:

• hard to open, or Vice versa;
• the top rollers can pop out of the guides;
• loosening the upper mounting strap.

The sequence of repair:

In the first case (severity when closing) – repair consists of cleaning off any accumulated dirt. In the second case, if you are sure that the rollers need to be replaced, then they just need to fix:

• remove it from the guides;
• to remove old and worn out, insert the new;
• the door panel is installed to its original place.

How to do is described step by step in the instructions or watch the video lesson:

I really hope that these tips and instructions will help you personally repair doors and delay the purchase of new indefinitely.

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