How to install the interior door: video - lesson

Door installation is a very labor-intensive process. The slightest inaccuracy of measurements or deviation during installation, and the doors will look askance, or even will not close.

The topic of this article is door installation. You can also see in it a series of clips on the theme “how to install the interior door with your own hands: video tutorials on craftsmanship”.

The following materials should be available:

• door leaf
• box
• Hinges (see hinges for interior doors: types and methods of installation)
• polyurethane foam
• dwelling
• wooden wedges
• anchor
• self-tapping screws

Required tools:

• pencil and tape measure
• protractor
• stameska
• hacksaw
• level
• drill and drill set

• 1 Stages of work

• 1.1 Measurements
• 1.2 Inset loops
• 1.3 Box installation

Stages of work

Work description, for convenience, divided into stages.

Measurements

Dismantling old doors must be careful not to damage the door opening (see. Removing interior doors). Before sending for the acquisition of the door you need to measure it.

If the door opening has standard dimensions (700-800 mm.) - this is good news. In this case, you can buy a finished door in almost every store building materials. If the doorway has non-standard characteristics, then the door will have to be made to order, which naturally will cost more.

You do not need to start measurements (see Dimensions of interior doors), if you have not yet laid the floor covering. Professional installation is carried out exclusively on the finished floor. It is also not necessary to hurry to make the doorway more narrow, even if it reasonably seems to you to be wide.

Consider how you will carry such bulky items as furniture through it. Also, look at the distances from the wall to the box: the casing should fit entirely, since it looks at least ugly in a cropped form.

When making measurements, please note that there must be gaps of two millimeters between the door and the box on the sides, and four millimeters in the bottom. In the case when the gap is too large, the door loses its attractiveness, and at very small - the door simply does not close.

You can, of course, call a professional gager, who for some money will save you from concerns about measurements.

Tip! It is best to give preference to the doors that come with the pre-assembled box, especially when you want to install the door yourself. The installation process, in this case, will be much simpler: you need to fit the box in the doorway and fix it.

Inset loops

So, independently or having called the master, we measure an aperture of a door, we buy a door. Now on line inset loops.

To begin with, we decide: which side we will have the handle, and also which way we plan to open the door. Both of these parameters will determine the location of the loops. The conventional wisdom says that for security reasons it is better to open the doors to the outside.

Video lesson number 1. Inset loops in the canvas.

Determine the number of loops to be installed. As a rule, it is enough to fix two loops - from below and from above. For greater reliability, add loops to the middle.

Video lesson number 2. Inset loops in the box.

When marking use protractor. Put a loop on the end side, draw around a pencil. Next, choose a chisel contour obtained at a depth similar to the thickness of the loop.

In an ideal situation, the hinges should be installed at a distance of two to two hundred fifty millimeters from the lower door edge and one hundred fifty to two hundred millimeters from the upper edge.

In the case when the door is purchased with a box (see Interior doors with a box - how to choose), which does not have a lower crossbar, you need, marking the hinges, take into account the thickness of the coating in that place. After marking the hinges, fasten them with screws to the door.

Installing the door to the bathroom, do not forget about the special threshold, which will protect the rest of the apartment from water in a flood situation. The door to the bathroom, in the presence of such a ledge, you need to set centimeters ten higher than other doors in the apartment.

This item must be considered when buying a door. For example, you can take a shortened type with a length of one hundred and ninety centimeters, instead of a two-meter (standard) construction.

Box installation

Planting box двери на ее место является следующим важным этапом:

• Put the canvas with loops in the box. To make the marking more accurate, use plastic or wooden wedges.
• Insert them between the box and the door at a distance of two millimeters above and four millimeters below.
• We attach the loop to the box, draw a pencil around, prepare a place for the hinges, just like they did it with the door.
• Next, install the box in the doorway, we remove the cloth from the hinges in advance to facilitate the installation process.

Video lesson number 3. Installation of the box in the opening.

If possible, we choose internal fasteners that, due to the special design, are invisible after installation, which is good for the appearance of the door. Exterior fasteners will be noticeable.

• The next step is to align the box vertically and horizontally using the level.
• Using a drill, we drill the necessary holes for anchors in the opening and box. For reliable fixation, we make three holes on the right and left, but you can also drill one more hole at the bottom and top.
• Now you need to secure the box in the opening.
• Дверная box может быть посажена на монтажную пену: по периметру проема двери делаем зазоры, коробку ставим на подготовленное место и запениваем. Практика подсказывает, polyurethane foam выдерживает, сам по себе, значительную нагрузку, не требуя дополнительных крепежей.

Tip! When installing the door box on the mounting foam, keep in mind that the hardening foam can increase in volume five times! So too much foam can cause the box to deviate from the vertical position and even deform.

How to install the interior door: lesson number 4. Lock inset.

Platbands

The last step is enclosing the platbands (see How to install the platbands on the door). We fix the strips with decorative nails or screws.

Video lesson on the installation of platbands.

The door is installed and ready to use.