How to make wooden doors with your own hands - the best

It is believed that wooden interior doors are the most expensive of all presented on the modern market, and therefore only wealthy people can afford their installation. However, this is not quite true. In this article you will learn how to choose good doors made of natural wood, how to install them yourself, and even how to make them with your own hands.

The worse the ecological situation on our planet becomes, the more we want at least in our own homes to create a habitable atmosphere using natural materials.

Wooden doors: pros and cons

Virtues

The main and main advantage that has, is the ecological purity of the feedstock. Aesthetic appeal, durability, excellent heat and sound insulation properties are also important, but they may also have designs made from modern composite materials used in manufacturing (see Interior door design).

In appearance, modern veneered or laminated doors are almost indistinguishable from wooden ones, but by touch you will always understand the difference between them. From the doors of solid wood noticeably breathes coziness, comfort, good quality.

disadvantages

Unfortunately, they also have some drawbacks, which, however, are minimized with respect to the production technology and the application of some wood processing techniques.

Like almost any natural material, wood has absorbent properties, that is, it absorbs moisture from the air. When fluctuations in humidity can be deformed, and if they were made of undisturbed wood - then decrease in size.

Therefore, in the manufacture of high-quality products, wood is pre-dried, then impregnated with oil solutions and, finally, treated with hot steam under pressure. As a result, they become less susceptible to moisture. Especially if in finished form they are covered with waterproofing varnish.

Attention. Serious manufacturers, who value their reputation, supply their products with all the necessary certificates confirming compliance with the production technology. Therefore, if you need a high-quality wooden interior door, ask the seller for certificates and be sure to be interested in the warranty period of operation.

Low cost wooden doors

The highest quality and expensive doors are made of valuable species of deciduous trees. This wood has a high density, beautiful color and texture.

As raw materials are used:

• Oak
• Nut
• Ash
• Cherry
• Beck
• Mahogany of different breeds, etc.

If financial opportunities allow, it should be just that. But a limited budget does not always have to limit your desires. You can well afford doors made of pine or glued solid wood.

Doors made of pine, at their low cost, have excellent technical characteristics and can serve for several decades. Of course, with the same condition - proper observance of the technological process of wood preparation. If they are covered with veneer of valuable sorts of wood, the cost will increase only slightly, and in appearance this door will be indistinguishable from the most expensive one.

Glued massif is made from inexpensive dried wood sawn on the lamella. Lamellae are glued together in such a way that the direction of the wood fibers in each subsequent layer is perpendicular to the previous one.

Thanks to this technology, doors from glued solid wood are not deformed, do not crack and perfectly perform all the functions inherent in doors from natural solid wood.

How to make a wooden door

You can make a wooden door yourself. With a great desire and insufficient budget - why not? We describe the simplest and most affordable way, which assumes that the old door frame is in good condition and not dismantled from the opening.

So:

• Measure the length and width of the box to determine the dimensions of the future door (see. Parameters of interior doors).

Attention! Note that there should be gaps of 2-3 mm above and on the sides between the leaf and the box, and 10-15 mm between the door and the clean floor from the bottom.

• In order to make the door of wood, you need a few well-dried cut boards with a width of 150 and a thickness of 30 mm. Of these, you need to make a frame, cutting off two racks on the height of the door and three or four crossbars along its width.
• Grind blanks from all sides until smooth and lay on a flat horizontal surface: first stand, and on them the upper and lower transverse segments.
• Align all the corners, measure the diagonals and lay the middle cross-section of the board on the stands at the place where there will be a handle or door lock.
• Mark the points of intersection of the longitudinal and transverse parts with a pencil and make at each half the thickness of the board. Use a hammer and chisel to remove excess wood. You should have some simple spikes:
• The process of continuing the fastening of parts together, having missed all the internal surfaces of the spikes with joiner's glue, fastening the corners with self-tapping screws. After that, you can stick sheets of fiberboard, chipboard cut to size onto the frame or revet it with wooden slats.
• You can do it differently: select a quarter along the inner perimeters of the frame, insert glass, stained glass, hardboard or any other sheet material and fasten it with beads.

After decorating your doors may look something like this:

How to install a wooden door

If you cope with the manufacture of the door, the installation of their own hands will not be for you a difficult task. To do this, you need to very carefully mark on the box and the end of the door the place for insertion of the hinges and carefully select the grooves for them.

A little more difficult is the installation of sliding and folding type. To do this, you will need to purchase special mechanisms that ensure the movement of the door leaf.

These questions require more careful study, so how to install a wooden door, you will learn from other articles in this resource.