Interior doors deaf: how to choose

In those rooms where you want to create the possibility of complete privacy, you need to install interior doors deaf. First of all, it is a bath and a toilet, as well as a bedroom, a study, a children's room.

Let's try to understand the types of deaf doors to choose from their huge variety of those that suit us in all respects.

Interior deaf doors can be divided into types according to the type of door leaf and options for external design.

Type of door leaf filling

Doors with a solid filling

Solid filling of the door leaf can be made of solid wood, chipboard or glued together wooden slats. The last two versions of the door leafs are subsequently finished with natural or artificial veneer or laminate.

Such deaf doors have many advantages, including:

• They are very reliable and durable., as they are highly resistant to mechanical damage.
• The solid door with continuous filling is distinguished by excellent sound - and heat-insulating properties.which is very important for a comfortable stay in the room.

However, they have disadvantages. It:

• Great weight and, therefore, high demands on the strength of the opening and the quality of the installation.
• High price.
• Restrictions on the scope of use, as the whole door leaf, especially if it is made of solid wood, is very susceptible to fluctuations in humidity and temperature.

Council It is not recommended to install deaf doors with continuous filling in rooms with high humidity or frequent changes in the microclimate.

Hollow doors

To date, the most popular are the doors in which the space between the strapping bars (frame) is filled with corrugated cardboard. Such a honeycomb-shaped filling greatly facilitates the design and makes the door leaf more resistant to the effects of moist air.

This is the main advantage of such doors, but no less weighty arguments in favor of interior doors with hollow filling can be:

• The optimal ratio of weight and structural strength.
• Affordable for most consumers.

These advantages are often the decisive factor in the choice of doors, despite the fact that they lose to solid canvases in terms of sound and heat insulating properties.

Finishing options for deaf interior doors

There are two main types of deaf doors: smooth and framed. And each of these types of finishes can be made of different materials (see. Interior door design).

Smooth doors

As finishing materials for this type of doors serve various sheet materials: LDSP, DVP, MDF, a laminate, is more rare - plastic. They are distinguished by a variety of textures and colors, so smooth doors may look different (see. Interior door decor).

Most often, the finish imitates natural wood of different species, but you can come across or order a door leaf with natural stone.

The smooth door leaf is ideal for modern interiors in a minimalist style. It can be in a monochrome glossy design, can combine several contrasting colors in the decoration, and also allows the application of an image on the surface - photo printing.

Panel doors

Paneled doors are a solid wooden frame, sheathed panels.

By type of performance, the panels can be:

• Smooth
• Floating
• Figarines (with figured corded ends)
• Threaded
• With layouts from bars
• With selected kalevkami

Material for the manufacture of panels (see Panel door: how to make and install) can be wood of soft or hard varieties, plywood, MDF or chipboard, and their combination in various combinations. The most expensive models are made entirely from solid wood, and from both those species that are common to our latitudes, and from quite exotic ones.

The panels are attached to the door frame either with decorative beadings, some of which fit the door leaf, or they are inserted into grooves specially made in the factory.

Panel doors are not only the most beautiful, but also the most difficult to manufacture, and therefore the most expensive. This is especially true of the doors of the wooden array of valuable varieties and with a complex pattern of panels. They fit perfectly in a classic interior, the popularity of which never goes down.

It would not be superfluous to mention that interior door deaf people may have an arched or rectangular shape, they can swing open, move apart, rotate or fold in accordion (see Classification and types of interior doors). In short, if you decide that you need a new door, you will choose from what.