How to make a threshold to the entrance and interior doors

The door threshold is a functional design, it should be durable and reliable, but also beautiful. Therefore, if you are thinking about how to set the threshold, take care not only of its practical properties, but also of appearance and convenience.

Types of thresholds

Entrance and interroom

The canisters at the entrance to the house and between the rooms differ both in their functional purpose and in appearance.

Назначение входных порожков, в том числе и порогов для балконной двери — сохранять тепло в жилом помещении, препятствовать проникновению в дом сквозняков (см. Что делать, если дует из front door: устраняем сквозняки), пыли, посторонних звуков снаружи.

For interior doors, these functions are not so important, so now they are most often installed at all without the threshold. Although in some cases it is necessary, and first of all it concerns the entrances to the bathrooms.

The threshold of the interior door is usually part of the door frame. If the door is delivered without a threshold, but there is a need to arrange the joint of different floor coverings in the doorway or the floor level difference in adjacent rooms, for this purpose use special metal or plastic powders.

Manufacturing material

Today, you can buy and install ready sills, and you can make them yourself in place.

For this purpose, a variety of materials.

• Tree. Самый доступный и распространенный материал. В продаже есть порожки для front door, сделанные из дуба или сосны. Эти же породы древесины следует использовать и для самостоятельного изготовления порожков.Причем предпочтение все же следует отдать дубу, как более твердому и износостойкому материалу.
• Metal - aluminum, brass, stainless steel. Entrance metal doors are immediately equipped with metal thresholds.

And for the device of interior thresholds are used ready-made metal profiles of different sections. They can be attached externally through the through holes or in a hidden way using special inserts.

• Plastic. This material has a low resistance to wear, so it is used only for the manufacture of interior sills.
• Concrete. For the manufacture of such a threshold on the balcony or at the exit from the house, non-shrinkable concrete with special additives is used to ensure its strength and ductility.

Making the threshold

Wooden threshold

If you need to replace a worn wooden wooden bridge, you must first remove the old one using ordinary tools - a hammer and a nail puller (if it was nailed) or a screwdriver (if the nut is fixed with self-tapping screws).

It will serve as a template for the manufacture or purchase of a new threshold.

After that, do the following:

1. Thoroughly clean the installation site from dust and dirt. If during dismantling the concrete foundation was destroyed, remove all breakaway tie elements and level the base with the mortar, first priming the surface.
2. You can install the nut only after the solution is completely dry.
3. At the bottom of the side pillars of the door frame, make grooves to the height of the threshold, measure the desired length, and cut a wooden blank along it. Insert it into place, gently tapping with a hammer through a wooden lining.
4. If you do not know how to fix the threshold, then drill it with a thin drill in 2-3 places through, so that the marks on the base remain. Remove the threshold, make marks on the holes in the concrete and drive dowels into them.
5. Re-install the nut in place and screw it with screws, drowning the cap into the body of the tree. Spall the holes that have formed.

Council If you are making a wooden threshold in a bathroom or toilet, its height should be such that there is a gap of 5–8 mm between it and the door leaf. It is necessary for the flow of air into the bathroom and to ensure the normal operation of the supply and exhaust ventilation.

Concrete threshold

Often after the installation of new doors, no matter what - entrance, balcony (see. Options for balcony doors: how to make the right choice) or the doors to the bathrooms - you see such a picture.

Естественно, возникает вопрос: how to make thresholds with your own hands, чтобы они хорошо смотрелись с обеих сторон? Оптимальным решением будет устройство бетонного порога с последующей его отделкой.

In this case, you can repeat the configuration of the existing protrusion, and you can make the threshold wider and more comfortable, so that when you enter and exit, you step on it with your entire foot.

So:

1. Cut off the mounting foam and clean the place for filling, watering it and screw the iron bolts into the floor to the height of the future threshold. They will play the role of reinforcement.
2. Make formwork of boards or any durable sheet material according to the size and height of the threshold. Reinstall it and securely fasten with struts.
3. In the picture above the threshold, it was immediately decided to lay tiles, so before pouring concrete, it was cut and customized in size so that it could be laid on a damp base, and not glued later.
4. If you decide to use other finishing materials, then lay a polyethylene film on the wooden formwork so that concrete does not stick to it and the edges are even. And then pour the prepared solution into it, filling all the corners and controlling the level.

   Attention! During the preparation of the solution exactly follow the instructions! Do not add more water than technology requires to avoid cracking and breaking concrete in the future.

5. Let the solution dry for a day, then carefully remove the formwork. For the next few days, wet the concrete with water so that no cracks form on it.
6. When the threshold reaches good strength, trim it with any desired material - tile, laminate, linoleum, etc.

Interior sills

Metalические или пластиковые порожки с открытым креплением устанавливаются достаточно просто. Они обрезаются по ширине дверного проема с обеих сторон, чтобы монтажные отверстия располагались на одинаковом расстоянии от краев.

Then in the floor through the mounting holes are marked and drilled holes for dowels. After that, it remains only to install the dowel, put the threshold in place and fasten it with screws.

Somewhat different is the installation of thresholds with hidden mounting.

• Holes with a diameter of 5 mm are drilled in the floor at an equal distance from each other.
• Dowel-nails, included in the set, are inserted into the groove on its back side and are distributed evenly along the entire length. The number of fasteners must match the number of holes in the floor.
• Porozhek applied to the floorDowel-nails are installed directly in front of the holes and plant them. After that, through the rubber gasket the nut is nailed to the floor.