Doors: entrance, interior, swing, sliding, selection, installation
Without which our housing is inconceivable is - without doors. Entrance and interior, iron, wood, glass, plywood and MDF, plastic and metal-plastic. They are also solid and paneled, with or without glass inserts. By the way of opening, the doors are sliding, pivoting, swinging, even in this variety you can get confused. And they also need accessories: hinges, handles, locks, linings, closers and clamps. They are also produced from different materials, they also need to be chosen wisely. Only in this way will the doors be durable, reliable, beautiful and, at the same time, functional.
Choosing a door for each of these categories is not an easy task, but simply necessary. The quality of entrance doors is the reliability of your home and its safety. And these are far from trifles. Moreover, everything is important - from the door leaf to the material of the hinges and the method of their installation. In general, you can talk a lot about the choice of locks and their systems. And all this, in combination with a competent installation, will give the required degree of protection.
Having chosen, all this needs to be assembled and installed. And this is also not easy. Assembling and installing the door frame and hanging the door leaf is a demanded service. But why pay money for something that you can do with your own hands? How to install doors, and then how to make slopes - you will find materials in this section about all this.
Not so long ago, metal-plastic doors were installed only on balconies. With the development of technology, wider and more reliable profiles have appeared, allowing them to be used as entrance to private houses and cottages. They are devoid of the main disadvantages of wooden doors - they do not swell from moisture, ...
To ensure the safety of housing, the doors must be reliable, burglary-resistant. But they must also be comfortable and beautiful. All these requirements are met by metal doors. But choosing a metal door is not so easy - there are many nuances and features that you should know ...
The simplest and most popular way to make a door look attractive is to upholster it with some material. This can be done both indoors and outdoors, you only have to use different materials and different technologies. But in any case, the process is called "door padding". About ...
Entrance doors should not only be beautiful, but also durable, as well as warm and reliable. This combination of qualities is given by metal doors. But not all of those on the market can boast of reliability - many of the inexpensive ones can be literally opened ...
To prevent the doors from staying open, they used to use a banal spring, today they put a door closer. Its design is also based on a spring, but it is more powerful, hidden in a metal case and filled with oil - for "braking" when closing. Installing a door closer is a task ...
Doors play an important role in interior design. There are many different models in stores, but high-quality ones cost a lot of money, and you usually don't want to look at cheap ones. There is a good option - to update the old doors with your own hands. There are many techniques, and not ...
Even the best doors can begin to creak or sag over time: no one can cancel the force of gravity and friction. And if you have heavy steel ones, then even the metal will get tired of holding them. After the summer, plastic ones also "sag" - they almost ...
A correctly positioned front door not only ensures the safety of the property, but also reduces heat loss (due to the insulation of the frame) and reduces the audibility of what is happening outside the house or apartment. First of all, you should know that installing the front door with your own hands is possible. And everything can be done ...
Sometimes ordinary swing doors cannot be installed: there is very little space or they are banging against walls or furniture. In this case, folding doors can help. They are also called folding or folding. The essence of this does not change: they are going with one or two ...
In an effort to make the house more comfortable and cozy, the idea often comes to replace ordinary swing doors with sliding doors (they are also called sliding, sliding, suspended). The good news is that DIY sliding doors can be installed without any problems. Bad ...