Do-it-yourself door trim: what is done and how

The need to sheathe the front door most often arises when its warming is required. But this way you can decorate the old doorway, give it a new life, instead of changing it. How to do this, you will now find out.

There are some differences in how to wrap wooden and metal entrance door. But the materials and tools in both cases require the same with some exceptions.

Materials

So:

• When deciding how to sheathe the front door, you can choose between vinyl leather, artificial or genuine leather, PVC film, leatherette. All these materials are usually sold for a cut of 110-140 cm. It is just enough for the upholstery of a standard door (see Entrance door dimensions), since the width of the leaf should be only 10-15 cm greater than the width of the door leaf. But for the lining of the wooden door you will need additional material for the manufacture of rollers 12-14 cm wide and a length equal to the height of the door multiplied by three.
• Foam rubber of any desired thickness is traditionally used as a heater.. Another material with a high degree of thermal and sound insulation - izolon. If it is important for you to properly insulate the door, then do not spare money just for izolon (see Insulation for doors: types and parameters).
• For fixing insulation and upholstery to a wooden opening, you will need staples and furniture nailsand if you have a metal door - glue. Best of all suitable for these purposes glue "Moment universal."

Instruments

• Scissors
• Stationery knife
• Construction stapler
• Hammer
• For metal door - glue brush

Note! Before sheathing the entrance doorway, with it you need to dismantle the old trim, lock and all accessories.

Wooden door trim

The technology of wooden doorway plating depends on which way it opens and which of the two sides you want to trim. First, consider the option of trimming the inside of the door opening inward. In this case, the door trimming of the entrance door will begin with the manufacture and fastening of a roller around the perimeter of the door leaf covering the gaps between the leaf and the box.

So:

1. Cut two strips of upholstery to the height of the door and two to the width. Attach their face to the door so that they enter it by 3-4 cm, and secure with a stapler every 5-8 cm.

Attention! If there is a padlock, fasten the rollers on the locking side of the door and start from it up and down, cutting the strip of material into two parts.

1. Cut the insulation strips of 8-10 cm wide and also fasten it on the door on top of the dermatin stapler. Then tuck in the leatherette with insulation inside to form a roller and again use a stapler with braces to fix it. The roller should protrude beyond the edge of the door to the casing.
2. Measure the distance between the rollers in length and width and cut to these sizes, taking away on each side of 1 cm, a piece of insulation. Secure it on the doorway with staples.

1. Turn the edges of the upholstery a few centimeters in the upper left cornerAttach it to a similar corner of the doorway, lightly overlaid on the roller, and nail it with a decorative nail. Then, also twisting and pulling the fabric, nail it to the upper right corner of the door. After making sure that the material is laid flat, punch through the entire top edge, leaving an equal distance of about 10 cm between the nails.
2. Lightly tighten the fabric and tuck it in, fasten upholstery along its entire length. on the right and left side of the door, and last of all fasten the bottom.

All, trim the doors with their hands completed. Return the dismantled fittings to their places and admire your work. If you want to sheathe the other side, the sequence of works will be different.

Covering the outside of the wooden doorway

So:

1. Go beyond the euro door, close it and draw a projection of the door frame on it with a pencil - this is the outline of the future upholstery.
2. Stepping back from the drawn line on each side for 1 cm, fix a heater on the canvas.
3. Just as in the previous case, fasten the upholstery with decorative nails over the insulation, but leave the bottom edge free.
4. Make a heat roller on the bottom edge of the door, as you did on the inside of the door. But it should be thicker than internal rollers. In addition, the edge of the roller from the hinge side should not extend beyond the door leaf, from the side of the lock it should be extended by 5-6 mm, but the lower part should fit snugly to the threshold.
5. Having finished forming the roller, nail it over the bottom edge of the skin. You should have something like this:

Metal door upholstery

Since it is impossible to nail anything onto a metal doorway, the question arises: how to handle the front door in this case (see How to insulate the front metal door)? Very simple.

Apply glue to the door around the perimeter and in several places in the middle, attach a sheet of foam rubber or isolonone to it and glue it with light pressure. Then trim the excess insulation with a stationery knife exactly along the edge of the doorway.

Apply glue to the ends of the doorway. If this is required by the instructions for use of the glue, hold the desired time, and then glue the upholstery on top, not forgetting to evenly distribute it over the surface. The upholstery is glued to the metal door first with a hinge, and then from the locking side with a slight tension.

The hardest thing to stick to the bottom of the bottom edge of the upholstery. If you can not do it safely and carefully, remove the euro door from the hinges.

After the fabric is fully glued, it is necessary to carefully cut it off at the edges with a stationery knife, and then insert a lock, a handle and a door peephole into the euro door.