How to make interior doors - technology overview

Interior doors how to make yourself?

Most people are confident that only a specialist with extensive experience and a set of professional tools can answer the question of how to make a interior door. Let's try to refute this erroneous opinion.

Of course, to understand how to make them, we need certain theoretical knowledge and a minimal set of tools. But for this it is not necessary to be a guru of joinery.

Perhaps homemade will not be ideal in terms of carpentry art, but it is much cheaper than buying new ones. Another obvious advantage of these doors is that it will be a product that you made with your own hands.

• 1 Main steps

• 1.1 Preparatory stage
• 1.2 We proceed to the manufacture of door leaf

Main steps

So, in order to learn how to do it yourself, you need to follow our simple and understandable instructions.

Tip! The easiest way to make the most interior doors is the restoration of the old canvas. It can be easily processed and give it the appearance of a new product.

Preparatory stage

In order to learn how to make the door yourself, you need a specialized room. For this you can use both the prepared room and the usual living room in a simple apartment. Prepare the gentleman's set of joiner's tools. Nothing should distract you and hamper your movements.

First, determine the size of your canvas with the box:

• If you have a box with a threshold (see Thresholds for interior doors: for and against), then consider the internal dimensions of the box (minus 4 millimeters);
• If you have a box without a thresholdthen it is necessary to sustain gaps of 2 millimeters on three sides, and on the lower side of the box it is necessary to leave a gap of 8-10 millimeters.

We proceed to the manufacture of door leaf

Answering the question how to make the door yourself, you need to simply and clearly explain the whole scheme of making the simplest door.

• First, saw off two pieces from a sheet of fiberboard. They should be equal to the size of our future door. Be sure to observe the right angles! In that case, if the shape of your door frame has no right angles, then for the manufacture of the door leaf, you can repeat the shape of your door frame.

Tip! Buy only high quality fiberboard. Fiberboard should be as dense as possible, not have deformations and deep scratches!

• To make the frame of the door leaf, you need to take a non-planed, standard inch board. The board should be light, the wood from which it is made, can be of any kind. Saw two equal height doors from this board. Saw three pieces that will be equal to the width of your door. Sand the prepared segments around the edges.
• Lay out on the floor or other surface of the newspaper, which will significantly protrude beyond the limits of your workpiece. Put on the floor or another flat surface your first DVP-billet (smooth side down). Lay on the workpiece two racks of the door frame, and on top of them lay the prepared transverse bars. The transverse bars must be positioned at the end points of the vertical uprights of the frame below. Everything should be positioned so that you get a rectangle. Now align the outer edges of the bars with the main piece of fiberboard.

• Now we need to determine where the top will be, and where the bottom of the future interior door will be. We also need to decide whether the future door will have glazing, it is necessary to map out a place for the lock and the door handle.

We need to make an exact marking of all the boards for washing down the connecting spikes, at the points of their intersection. It is also necessary to mark the workpiece to avoid unforeseen trouble when assembling the door.

In fact, the hardboard also need to make a special markup that indicates the location of the boards. This is done by delineating the inside. This is done in order to mark the places that you will cover with glue.

And do not forget to mark 3-4 points on transverse boards (with the exception of the centerpiece). In the places of these marks, after you remove the boards, it is necessary to drill a hole of 3 millimeters in diameter.

• We proceed to the next stage of the topic, how to make the interior door yourself. You need to remove the boards and make special half-wood gash, which will play the role of compounds. The spike must be made simple. Direct lining with produced gash should be strictly to the floor thickness of the board.

Performing zapily, be extremely careful. No need to overdo it, it would be better if you do not finish and fit the connecting spike with a chisel or use a regular kitchen knife.

After you have made all the necessary parts, put all parts of your door leaf in their places and adjust them so that there are absolutely no projections in the places of their joints.

Tip! Perform all work on the assembly of your design on the most even surface. Remember that the deformation of the door frame or door leaf will not be possible to repair after you assemble it, and the construction glue will dry.

Final stage

We are in close proximity to the answer to the question of how to make the interior door itself? Smear the fiberboard with special wood glue at the marked places of the fiberboard joint with the door frames. You can use any suitable glue.

Spray the glue on the long boards below using a special flute brush. Lay them on the hardboard and align around the edges. Glue the contiguous sides of the spikes absolutely on all the blanks and put all the parts in their places. In the holes that we drilled in the upper blanks, you need to insert screws in 25 millimeters (special screws for inch boards).

Next, check the accuracy of the corners and tighten the screws. Do not tighten the screws too tight, but tighten them so that the caps of your screws do not protrude from the wood.

• Take the glue and properly blot the surface of the received door frame, as well as the top DVP-billet. Preparation from DVP is established from above. It is necessary to accurately and accurately combine all faces.
• We will have a so-called sandwich, which consists of a wooden door frame and two sheets of hardboard. This design must be pressed with a load. To do this correctly, you need to carefully, around the perimeter of our design, put a sheet of fiberboard or other material with a flat surface. Distribute the load evenly on top of this material. As a cargo, you can use anything from an iron to a small weight dumbbell.

Congratulations! Now you know how to make the most interior doors and have all the necessary theoretical knowledge for this. The resulting billet will dry for at least two days.

If during the answer to the question of how to make an interior door, you followed all the tips and instructions, you can be sure that you will make a reliable interior door. This design will not lead.

The door, made by hand and according to all the rules, will last a long time. The most remarkable thing is that the self-made interior door is easy to give a beautiful, memorable look with the help of various decorative panels (see Interior door decor). In this case, you can fully comply with the overall style of your dwelling.

Based on all the above written, we can conclude that with your own hands you can make any door. And for this it is not necessary to have a special education or a large baggage of accumulated skills. It is enough to show perseverance, attention and accuracy and you will get a beautiful interior door.

Having learned how to make interior doors on your own, you will never go buy an interior door to the store. Not only do you significantly save money, you also gain invaluable carpentry skills, which cost much more than a few hours spent on the independent production of an interior door.

Moreover, you yourself can decorate your interior door, to your liking and with the maximum harmony of the door with the existing interior of your dwelling. The main thing is not to be lazy and do everything carefully.