Installation of swing interior doors. how to combine beauty

Choosing hinged interior doors, you need to take into account many factors: quality, appearance, size, design features. Without special knowledge, this can be difficult. We have tried to present in brief and accessible form the main points that you should pay attention to when purchasing and installing swing doors.

Installation between rooms is necessary first of all in order to provide everyone living in the house with a comfortable existence - the ability to retire, isolate from extraneous sounds and smells, and keep the heat in the room.

Better than others, swinging tasks, which at all times remained the most common, cope with these tasks. But today, in addition to functional, high aesthetic requirements are imposed on them: it should be not just a practical element of the interior, but also its decoration. Is it possible to combine these concepts?

• 1 Types and design features of swing doors
• 2 Door installation

Types and design features of swing doors

In appearance may vary:

• By form
• The number of wings
• Dimensions
• Design features of the door leaf (see Interior door construction: review from experts)

Among all types of hinged - the most diverse in form. They can be not only rectangular, but also arched, and even pointed. In some interiors, for example, made in the Oriental style (see. Style of interior doors), to maintain the overall style requires the installation of just such a form. Although you can go for a little trick and install swing doors of the usual rectangular shape with a false arch, or add them with an arched transom.

The number of valves depends on the width of the opening. In a standard aperture establish with one cloth, in wide - with two. But there are also so-called half-folding swing doors, in which the two canvases have different sizes in width.

When choosing in terms of dimensions, they are guided by its dimensions with a box: the height and width of the door frame should be somewhat less than the opening in which it will be mounted. These are the basic parameters of the door that will guide you in the store, choosing swing doors.

Attention! Keep in mind that the finished doors have standard sizes: 60, 70, 80 and 90 cm wide, and 2 meters high (European standard - 2.1 m). If you do not want to make doors to order, doorways must be aligned with these dimensions.

The actual size of the canvas should already be aperture on the double thickness of the box, plus the size of the installation gap between the box and the opening. The height of the canvas depends on the same parameters and the presence or absence of the threshold.

According to the design of the canvas can be:

• Deaf
• Glazed (see Interior doors with a stained glass: about beauty and individuality)
• Paneled
• Milled

Deaf swing can be whole-mass or frame. As a decorative finish for such doors, carving, veneer, glass or metal inlay, milling are used.

Paneled can also be made from solid wood and from wood of similar materials - decorative MDF panels. They consist of a wooden frame that provides the strength of the door, and the panels inserted in it. The panels can be wooden, glass, made of fiberboard and other materials.

The layout of the panels can be even and convex (profiled). If you don’t want a gap due to natural shrinkage between the trim bars and panels, choose interior hinged doors with a convex layout.

Milled могут быть массивные и мазонитовые, а также филенки. Чем глубже должна быть фреза, тем толще используемый фрезерованный материал. А увеличение толщины придает  большую прочность, увеличивает её звуко- и теплоизоляционные характеристики, а сама  распашная дверь выглядит более добротно и солидно.

Glazed look easier for the deaf, help to visually expand the space and make it lighter. The dimensions of the glazing are selected based on your taste preferences, the need to ensure the luminous flux and create a certain style in the room. Therefore, glass can occupy almost the entire area of ​​the canvas, only its upper part or be inserted as an ornament into the shaped holes.

Glazed doors differ not only in size and shape, but also in the appearance of the glass. They can be embossed and smooth, matte and transparent, colored and engraved, stained glass and mirror.

Choosing such, it should be remembered that the glazed hinged door has a low level of security and insufficient heat and sound insulation characteristics. To reduce the chance of injury when using doors with glass and increase their functionality, you must use thick tempered glass or choose cloths with a small glazing area.

Door installation

How long the doors in the apartment will serve you, how well they will look after a certain time - depends not only on their correct choice, but also on how well the installation of interior doors will be done. No matter how expensive and beautiful the interior door is, its operation and appearance will not bring you joy if it squeaks, closes badly, and scratches the floor.

Installation of interior hinged doors is a task for specialists who will take into account all the nuances that can lead to a deterioration in the operational properties of the door. This and the weight of the door leaf, and features of the doorway, and the observance of technological gaps and many other factors.

However, with detailed instructions and skills of working with your hands, you can cope with this task yourself. Skills are gainful, and you can find a description of the sequence of works right now.

So:

1. Determine the level of the clean floor, if you install the door in the room with unfinished trim.
2. Install the door frame in the opening, securing it with wedges (see Interior doors with a box). Carefully check the verticality of the uprights in two planes and the horizontal placement of the upper crossbar. On both sides of the box, the size of the technological gap between it and the walls of the opening should be approximately the same. In addition, the box should “hang”, and not stand on the floor, so put pieces of cardboard or hardboard under the bottom ends of the racks.
3. Measure the distance between the uprights and the bottom, make sure they are equal, and only then fix the box in the opening with anchor bolts that allow you to adjust the uprights in the vertical direction.
4. Insert the door leaf in the box, align it with the gaps, and mark out the hinges.
5. Make indentations at the end of the canvas and on the box to the depth of the hinge thickness. To do this, use a special mill or chisel.
6. Disassemble the hinges, lubricate them and fasten part of the hinge with a bushing to the box with screws, and the leg with the door leaf. Slide the door on the hinges and adjust them so that the door takes the desired position.
7. Close the door tightly and fill the space between the slopes and the box with foam. When the foam dries, cut it off with a sharp knife.
8. Using the block, cut the decorative frames at a 45-degree angle and fasten them to the box with finishing studs, closing the gap between it and the wall.

Especially carefully you need to make all the markings when installing double hinged doors, so that the cloths in the closed position are ideally suited to each other.

You can check how correctly the interroom hinged door is installed by setting the door leaf to the half-open position. It should not arbitrarily move in one direction or another (open or close) without any effort on your part.