How to insulate a balcony door quickly and inexpensively

This information is for those who have not yet acquired modern windows, and lives in an apartment with old wooden windows. Every year, on the eve of winter, they have to decide the question of the weatherization of a balcony door, but leave for themselves the possibility of going out to the balcony.

Most people, answering the question of how to insulate the old balcony door, will answer - install a new, plastic one. Yes, this is the most reasonable and effective solution, provided that it has money.

And even if they are, but the person lives in a rented apartment, he has no need to spend money on improving someone else's housing. In such cases, and help the old, well-tried time methods. Perhaps they will not add elegance and style to a room with an old balcony door, but will allow them to survive the cold with maximum comfort.

Ways of door insulation

So, what can be done if the wooden balcony door lets cold air into the apartment:

• Upholster the door with insulation (see Insulation for doors: types and parameters).
• To warm the space between the two doors.
• Add another glass to the top of the door.
• Cover and glue all the cracks, etc.

The choice of the method of insulation depends on whether you need a balcony exit during the cold season.

Ведь если вы законопатите щели между дверью и рамой, а затем заклеите их, как это обычно делают со старыми окнами, то после выхода наружу такое balcony door insulation своими руками придется каждый раз восстанавливать. Поэтому поговорим о других способах, не ограничивающих вашу свободу.

Balcony door upholstery

This method allows you to solve two problems at once: to insulate the door itself and to close the gaps along its perimeter, which are the main cause of drafts. A detailed description of the door upholstery (see the front door upholstery) is literally on every “door” website, including ours, so we will describe the process very briefly.

So:

1. Remove the door from the hinges, unscrew the knobs, bolts and other accessories, put the outer side up on a flat surface.

   Council Warming the balcony door is best done from the outside, so that it is not visible from the room and does not violate its design.

2. Foam and rubber make three rollers - one long on the feigned side of the door and two short ones for the top and bottom. Nail them with construction nails so that the rollers overlap the gaps between the door and the box.
3. Secure the cut-to-size piece of foam rubber to the blank bottom of the door with a stapler., on top of it with nails fasten leatherette.

It remains to replace the handle first, and then the door itself. But we only insulate the lower part and the perimeter of the door, but what if the standard double glazing doesn’t save us from the cold?

One of the options is to stick a heat-saving film on the glass, which reflects the heat back into the house and transmits light into it. It is attached to a double-sided tape, and after installation is almost not noticeable.

Additional glazing

The third glass is an excellent insulation for a balcony door (see How to insert glass into an interior door). It will not only improve the insulation, but also reduce the level of noise entering the apartment.

It is installed on the frame from the inside, where there are protruding edges of the bindings:

1. Cut the glass to the desired size.
2. Glue the sealant (a strip of foam rubber or felt) around the perimeter of the mount.
3. Press the glass to the seal and fix it with small studs hammered around its perimeter.
4. Treat the gap between the glass and the frame with putty.
5. Finally fix the glass with beadings or metal pressure plates, fastening them with self-tapping screws for easy dismantling.
6. Paint the beadings in the color of the frame.

We warm the interdoor space

Ещё одним способом, how to insulate a wooden balcony door, является устройство теплоизоляции между двумя дверями — внутренней и внешней. Вариантов здесь может быть множество.

The easiest thing is to buy a foam plastic of the desired thickness, equal to the distance between two balcony doors, and install it between them. If you have absolutely no desire to spend money, insulation can be made from old newspapers.

So:

1. Lay 3–4 unfolded newspapers on top of each other and roll them into a roll, the diameter of which should be slightly larger than the distance between the doors. Glue the edge so that the roll does not turn around.
2. In the same way, make the necessary number of rolls so that, set vertically in a row, they equal the width of the balcony opening.
3. Stuff each roll with crumpled newspapers.
4. Collect all rolls in one block, pasting them on all sides with expanded newsletters. Do not forget to seal the top and bottom holes of the rolls.
5. Install a self-made insulation between the balcony doors. It will keep warm well, and if necessary go out to the balcony it can be easily cleaned.

Again, in this case only the lower part of the door is insulated. To prevent cold air from entering the room through the glazed top, the joints between the frame and the glass can be glued with a cloth or paper strip moistened with soapy water.

The dried soap solution doesn’t let through drafts at all, but if you don’t want to mess with it, buy a special adhesive tape for warming windows.

Cabinet refrigerator for insulation of a balcony door

It is unlikely that this article will be read by people with high or even medium incomes. They are not faced with the question of how to insulate a balcony door, however, as well as the task of preserving winter blanks - they either do not make them or store them in specially designated rooms and refrigerators.

Those who have to think about both of them should like the idea below. It consists in not insulating the door to the balcony, but using it as a place to install a cabinet-fridge. He, in turn, will isolate the room from the cold penetrating through the balcony door, accumulating it in itself.

The cabinet is a drawer with shelves open on one side, made exactly according to the size of the opening for the balcony door. The open side he puts to her.

In the manufacture of such a box, you need to make sure that the ends of its walls overlap the gap between the balcony door and the box. It is also desirable to make it movable by setting it on wheels in order to have easy access to both its contents and the exit to the balcony. It is possible to make a cabinet-refrigerator from plywood, chipboard, boards, and then paste over with the same wallpaper as the whole room.

Insulation of plastic doors

To warm the balcony door: the video below will help with this.

Polyvinyl chloride, from which plastic doors and windows are made, is not warped and does not shatter from atmospheric exposure. Therefore, no cracks and cracks in these doors simply can not be.

Если же из них дует, и вы не знаете, how to insulate plastic balcony door, то причина сквозняков может крыться либо в неплотном прижимании двери, либо в её перекосе. И в том, и в другом случае балконную дверь нужно просто правильно отрегулировать (см. Регулировка балконной двери) и при необходимости заменить резиновый уплотнитель.

How to do this, you will learn from other materials of the site. If you want to find other interesting ways to insulate the balcony door - the video above will help you with this.