Door handles for interior doors and their varieties

Door handles are an additional obstacle between rooms. For doors, they play a rather large role during operation: without a handle, you can comfortably open the opening only in one direction.

This article discusses the issues of door handles for interior doors, their device, materials for manufacturing.

Types of pens

To understand the mechanism and its purpose, it is necessary to consider the design of the product.

Their main types are presented in the table:

Type of handle	Special features
	In such knob knobs, the latch control is performed by turning the handle, which may still be in the form of a ball, a disk. A variety of handles - products with push-button and rotary latch lock. The lack of structures: not very comfortable during operation.
	These are modern door handles for interior doors. When you press the handle, the latch opens or closes, holding the door in the closed position. Often they are made together with a lock or latch.
	Stationary products are not responsible for the operation of the latch or lock (see Installing a lock in the interior door: professional instruction). These are handles, from long-obsolete staples to modern analogs, having the appearance of very different balls, figures of various animals or colors. Often they are used to facilitate the use of doors.
	A separate subspecies - handles for interior sliding doors. Their feature is that they should not protrude beyond the door leaf. These are mortise products that may have a latch control, a lock for it, an overlay with a slot for the key. Its difference from the rest in the form and type of installation.
	Magnetic pens or locking mechanisms are becoming increasingly popular. The handle in the product only controls the device, pushing and pushing a high power magnet, resembling a lock. Such a mechanism may have a rotary or push handle.

Product design

The photo shows the main elements of the push handle.

The basic design consists of such parts:

• Latches. This is an internal mechanism that is designed to block the web in the opening. The main element of the node is the bolt - latch, falove tongue.
• Cylinder mechanism. Output to the outside, connected to the handle, and serves to move the inside of the structure.
• Handles. An element that is exposed to force.
• Decorative overlays or sockets. It masks the lock and gives the door a beautiful appearance.
• Mate. Placed on the box. It is a plate that covers the hole in the frame, in which the falsy tongue enters.

Materials for production

Door handle for interior doors does not require the use of such durable materials as for entrance doors. The load on it is not so big.

She may be:

• Metal, from various alloys of brass, silumin. Such products are considered the most durable for interior doors. The disadvantage can be considered, for example, the fragility of silumin, which, with intensive use of doors, can lead to breakage of the handle.

• Plastic. Disadvantages of the product: short life, not too spectacular appearance. But then - low price.

• Wooden. Possesses the natural beauty of materials. Such handles are pleasant to the touch, their cost is relatively small, but they do not differ in a large variety of forms.
• Usually, the interior door handle of wood is made round, can be disc-shaped and sometimes in the form of a bracket, but in this case it is combined with metal elements.
• The limitation of the diversity of their types is associated with the possibilities of wood processing on a lathe.

• Glass. This is a beautiful and spectacular product, but the glass is very fragile - it breaks with careless handling, which limits their range. Most often, these are round knobs or combined variants with other types of materials as a variety of decorative inserts.

The most popular scheme for assembling a handle for an interior door is a combination of various materials. For example: metal with glass, or metal with wood.

The main drawback of the design is the fragility, due to the peculiarities of the combination of different materials into the whole product.

Criterias of choice

Tip: Everyone chooses the shape and design of the door handle himself, but you need to remember that the product must be combined with both the door itself and the overall interior of the house.

The main criterion for the choice of designs for interior doors - design.

In addition, the estimated factors can be:

• Workmanship. The product should not have loose connections, loose or loose parts.
• Ergonomic. Рукоятка должна быть удобной для руки, приятной на ощупь и простой для пользования.
• The combination of style with the interior space. The handle should have one style and color with door canopies and other fittings.
• On all nearby doors, the handles are chosen completely identical.
• Originality is not expressed in alyapistosti.

Tip: Buying handles for doors, it should be understood that this is only an addition to the doors, and not their main element.

Archie Door Handles

Door handles for interior doors archa is:

• Great design.
• Very good quality.
• Durability.
• Ergonomic.
• Practicality.
• Competitive value.
• Huge product range.

For the manufacture of products, used an alloy of zinc, aluminum, copper, magnesium (TSAM), there are options of steel or brass.

Such products have seven main layers of coatings:

• The first two layers are a copper coating applied to the substrate, which significantly increases the strength of all subsequent layers applied to the substrate.
• The third layer serves to level the surface, the material is nickel. Before its application, final polishing is performed, which allows to remove even very small irregularities.
• The fourth layer - tinting, the product acquires the final shade under: gold, nickel, chrome, antique bronze or matte surfaces.
• The fifth layer is a protective coating. It is used to protect the color and prevent it from burning out from the effects of time or external factors.
• The last two layers are the latest developments, representing an electrophoretic coating that significantly enhances the protective properties of the product. The coating prevents the appearance of corrosion on the material, prevents the negative effects of the environment.

All products of the brand pass, before entering the distribution network, a series of tests, which allows to test their quality and eliminate the marriage.

The interroom door handles produced by the French trademark Leroy Merlin are no less popular. Their difference is high quality at competitive prices.

Door handle installation

Installation on the interior door of any do-it-yourself handle starts with determining the height of the product above the floor level.

According to the standard, it is 80 - 90 centimeters, but with a deviation from the average height of a person, this size may vary in a smaller or larger direction.

The product installation manual suggests the following procedure:

• Markup. The selected height is marked on the side and at the end of the door leaf. In the center of the end face is indicated the place of drilling the hole for the entrance of the phal latch. The side of the door leaf marks the location of the hole to install the handle.
• Drilling holes.
• Marked and made sweat, for fixing the decorative latch strips.
• The product is assembled inside the door leaf: the latch is inserted into the end hole, and is fastened with two screws.

Tip: Before final installation, the hole should be well purged with air, which will prevent the latch from sticking to wood dust from entering the device.

• Set the square.
• At first, one handle is put on the square and fastened with screws to the door leaf.

• Installs the second handle.
• The performance of the structure is checked.
• Decorative caps are fastened to conceal the attachment points of the product.
• The counterpart of the latch cuts into the door frame.

The process of mounting the handle on the interior door with all the details shows the video in this article.

Without a door handle - it is not only inconvenience during operation, but also the incomplete appearance of it as a whole. Door handles on interior doors are produced by many companies, which allows each person to purchase any product to his own taste and material capabilities.