Installation of double doors - features and benefits

What is the difference between a double front door and a regular one? What are its benefits? What points should be considered when installing such a door? The answers to all these questions are in front of you.

The reasons why people decide to install double doors may vary. Someone specially plans a wide doorway for such doors in their own country house, but someone just does not want to lay the existing non-standard doorway.

And if in the first case, this decision is deliberate and well weighed (impressive doors - impressive doors), then in the second - just a necessity. Of course, you can lay a part of the opening and put a standard door, you can order a wide single door, but these options are associated with many inconveniences for homeowners. Therefore, installing double doors often becomes the best solution.

Double door design

From the standard entrance door, the double entrance door differs only in dimensions and some design features. And the materials for its production are used the same: iron (see Installation of iron entrance doors: instructions for use), wood, wood-like materials, less often - plastic. And also their combinations.

If the front door leaves are of equal width, it is called double, if different, one and a half folding. And in fact, and in another case, one canvas is working, and the second is fixed in the box using the lower and upper bolts or special bolts.

If it is necessary to carry a large-sized thing into the house, the second leaf easily opens from the inside. Although the one and a half doors have a narrow sash may be stationary, not opening.

Installation of double doors

How to install a metal double door

If the installation of interior doors is quite possible to cope on their own, the installation of input - work for people experienced and knowledgeable (see How is the installation of entrance doors). And if we are talking about double entrance doors, all the more.

Order them, too, need in a specialized firm on the individual dimensions of the doorway. This will make the entrance to your home more reliable than if you fit the doorway under the finished structure. But to know all the steps and rules of installation is necessary to monitor the quality of work.

So:

1. Door installation begins with dismantling the old door leaf and box, if they are. It is not difficult to make it if the box is wooden - only scrap, hacksaw and physical strength are needed. In the case of a metal box, it is necessary to use a grinder to cut off the welded fasteners and not damage the opening.
2. The second step - installation in the doorway metal door. It is attached to the wall through the holes in the box profile or through the holes in the mounting plates welded to the box from the inside. The second method is more reliable.

   Attention! Double entrance doors are particularly demanding on level installation. Misalignment of any blade can break the lock or seize the door.

3. After leveling the door frame in all planes it is attached to the walls. either with long anchor bolts with a diameter of at least 12–15 mm, or with iron pins. The latter are riveted or welded to the box from the inside.
4. Keep in mind that after installing the box between it and the walls of the opening there should remain a technological gap of 15–20 mm thick.
5. The first hinged on the hinge sash with lock and handle (see. Handles for entrance doors, we choose the most suitable), which will open.
6. The second - stationary - the leaf is hung last. The bolts are installed on it, under which holes are drilled in the upper and lower profile of the box (if they have not been made in production).

7. The box is sealed with masking tape., and the gaps between it and the opening are filled with foam.

Очень часто double doors оборудуются несколькими неподвижными ригелями со стороны петель, которые входят в ответные отверстия в коробке, что повышает их надежность от взлома.

How to install a wooden double door

Деревянная double front door устанавливается точно так же, как дверь с одним полотном, с небольшими отличиями.

So:

1. Calculate the length of the top of the boxby folding the width of the two canvases, the thickness of the struts and the technological gaps. Install it in the upper part of the opening, placing it horizontally.
2. Install on the fixed canvas door bolts, choosing a groove for them. Instead, you can install regular latches.
3. Fix in the doorway the rack box, which will hang a canvas with a lock and door handleby carefully aligning it vertically.
4. Hang the fabric on pre-set hinges (see Kinds of door hinges: let's look at the details), then fix the second rack of the box on the opposite side.
5. Hang the second canvas and carefully adjust both doors, using struts and wedges and adjusting the hinges.
6. Set the threshold (see How to make the entrance door threshold and why it is needed).
7. Install the locking plate under the upper and lower bolt. Before this, grease the ends of the crossbars with any dye and push them all the way to the stop with the top crossbar of the box and the threshold. Drill holes at the location of the marks to the required depth.

   Attention! Holes for bolts should be drilled at a slight angle to eliminate door play. Through the upper hole you need to install additional fasteners for the top of the box so that it does not sag under the weight of the door.

8. Kick the box.
9. Install the lock and secure the mock bar.

Wooden entrance double door installed. After the foam dries, you can do the installation of door frames, seals and decorative trim of the slopes (see How to make the slopes of the front door: we work ourselves).