Production of doors of different types

The success of a business, is primarily due to the popularity of the products among the general population. The most promising areas include the manufacture and installation of plastic doors and windows; production of all types of wooden and metal doors, as well as decorative plates on them; manufacture of gates, doors for the garage.

How to organize such a business, how is the selection of equipment and materials made, how many and what qualifications do you need to attract?

Based on the video in this article with the theme “Door Manufacturing Technique”, we will discuss many issues related to door production. In the article itself will be presented a lot of useful information, which is also useful to those who took up the manufacture of the door with their own hands.

Doors made of wood

For business organization, priority must be given to the range of products, which is very important for any production. Naturally, when determining it, consumer demand should be taken into account. Production of room doors from solid wood and MDF is a win-win option.

With all the abundance of proposals of manufacturers engaged in the production of glass and plastic doors, which are also installed in apartments, they can not compete with wooden doors. First of all, their higher cost is to blame. Moreover, if desired, a person can make a wood door with his own hands.

The range of modern carpentry

If we talk about the enterprise producing windows and doors, it is impossible not to note this fact. In addition to the main range, the dimensions of which are focused exclusively on state standards, the workshops also produce doors in the sizes and sketches submitted by the customer.

• Working with natural wood, the buyer can offer a lot of things additionally. This carving, and gilding, and coating of colored lacquer or wax, inlay, as well as the manufacture of 3D doors, one of the options that you can see on the title photo.
• Many manufacturers produce exclusive series of doors, performed in a particular style: antique, Italian, country, French. You can also make the door according to the design project to finish the house or apartment, designed by the designer.

Note! With insufficient output, the shop working with solid wood can be oriented towards the production of decorative casings, cornices and sandriks, shutters on the windows. An enterprise can expand its product range through the production of garden and home furniture - and even accept orders for interior design with wood.

• But the main direction, of course, should be the production of entrance doors and interior doors. Such products are always in demand, and here the main thing is to offer the consumer not only the optimal price, but also various options for facial finishing.
• It is necessary to focus not only on single doors, but also on one-and-a-half and double-hemmed doors. After all, making double-wing doors with your own hands is not easy, and a person who needs just such a door, in any case, refers to the manufacturer.
• Successful sales of products in the retail network provide not only, and not so much the appearance of the product, as its compliance with standards. What is the use of a beautiful door if it does not get in the doorway? So, the manufacture and installation of doors is a matter of responsibility, requiring not only creative imagination, but also geometric accuracy.

• Doors made of solid wood, are not cheap, and in the assortment of products must be an economy class. In the production of such doors is used MDF, as well as pine - as the most affordable, and inexpensive wood. In the manufacture of low-cost doors, these two materials are often combined.
• In the frame-panel doors door trim can be made of pine bars. To make the door easy, the frame is filled with a special cellular material, which is a pressed corrugated cardboard or hardboard.

To give such a canvas a proper look, they use cheaper than natural wood sheet material: fiberboard, chipboard, plywood, MDF. The sheet is sheathed, then laminated or refined with veneer (see Veneered doors: what it is and how it is done).

From MDF, by the way, you can make linings for doors, as well as panels. Moreover, cheap doors can be made of non-refined material, and can be used for painting.

How to equip a workshop for the production of room doors

We have made a general description of the manufacture of doors - in any case, it is quite clear what materials are needed for this. But what equipment is needed for this? Instructions on this topic will be presented below.

Milling machines

Opens the list of equipment of the milling machine, without which it is impossible neither to properly process profiles, nor to perform planar milling. Industrial mills are equipped with a vacuum cleaner, which immediately removes dust and chips. With the help of this machine, you can perform cutting of thorns, make a selection of grooves, and even make skirting.

• But there are special devices designed for installation on the router, which can turn it into a universal mechanism for woodworking. Take at least the manufacture of linings on the door, or the implementation of three-dimensional relief, which is now called a 3D profile.

• There are many varieties of milling machines, but mostly in the door industry using a version with a numerical software device, briefly denoted by the abbreviation of CNC. If you need to carry out wood carving, then a milling and engraving machine, also equipped with CNC, is required.
• Such equipment is equipped with a microprocessor, has a RAM, so there is the possibility of programming. It does an excellent job at once with several tasks, increases the productivity of the shop, saves time - and accordingly, money. Industrial equipment is expensive, so for a start, opening a small shop, you can do with a manual machine.

• It, by the way, can be simply irreplaceable when it is necessary to execute narrow grooves, or small elements of a decor. With a manual router, you can make the perfect door yourself. Enough to type in the search box: making doors with your own hands videos, and see a few tutorials.

For the manufacture of panel doors, you will also need a milling and copying machine, which allows you to make several absolutely identical or symmetrical blanks. It has a high quality of processing, and can work with both flat and volumetric details.

Thermal vacuum press

The second in the list of equipment is a thermal vacuum press, which is used to hot-tap the door leaf with a laminating film. There are models intended only for furniture facades, and there are options for pasting door panels and linings on them - or universal, which can be reconfigured if necessary.

The press can have one or two tables, the size of which is at least 2.1 * 1.0m. These dimensions are optimal, since the larger the table, the more decorative film is consumed. And this is unprofitable for the manufacturer, especially since chameleon-type films, or with photo printing, are very expensive.

Format cutting machine

The third type of equipment that must be in the manufacture of doors - this machine format-raskroyechny. It is designed for both piece and batch cutting blanks of a given size.

With the help of such a machine, sheet and lengthy materials are cut - not only wood, but also composite, as well as veneered, PVC film, laminate, and even plastic.

Professional machine cutting format, you need, regardless of what the scale of production - whether it be a furniture factory or a private carpentry workshop. Due to the possibility of batch cutting blanks, it makes it possible to significantly reduce the time of manufacture, and accordingly, to increase production rates.

Plastic doors

If we talk about the manufacture of plastic doors, then everyone knows that the manufacturers of these products are also focused on the windows - one can even say that it is mainly windows. They are placed everywhere, and they constitute the lion's share of the range of any enterprise of this type.

• Domestic and entrance doors are in demand, but they are increasingly being placed in institutions and offices. In the residential sector, the main type of plastic doors are balcony doors. As in any production, here too one must strive for the highest quality result. In order to sell PVC doors, the manufacturing and installation technology must strictly comply with existing standards.

• This also requires a certain set of equipment, and qualified personnel. Here we have in mind not only the workers who directly assemble the products, but also the measurers and the managers involved in the material and technical supply of the shop — after all, a quality product cannot be obtained from low-quality material.

With the right approach to the organization of business for the manufacture of plastic windows and doors, the company will definitely be profitable, since the profit always exceeds the expenditure side. Of course, for this you need to deeply examine the market, find a suitable room, and invest in advertising. All this costs, but due to the demand for this product, they quickly pay for themselves.

Equipment and materials

As for the equipment, then there is a list. First of all, these are saws for cutting a reinforcing profile, which is inserted into the plastic profile to stiffen. Attach them to each other with pneumatic screwdrivers. Naturally, for the supply of compressed air and need a compressor of appropriate capacity.

Note! So that in the internal cavity of the profile condensate is not formed and does not accumulate, drill holes in imposts, frames and sash. For this, a drainage machine is used - although this can be done with a drill.

So:

• In the production of plastic windows and doors can not do without a machinedesigned for welding profile corners. After-welding nodules are removed by means of a stripping machine, which can be either manual or included in the package of an automated line.
• Before installing the impost in the frame profile, its ends should be milled. For this purpose, an end milling machine is used, which can be benchtop, and have mechanical clamps, or stationary, with pneumatic clamps.
• Well, for convenience, auxiliary equipment is used.To which number carry containers for storage of preparations, carts, and assembly tables. For a small shop with a capacity of up to ten products per shift, you can purchase the necessary equipment in the kit. It includes manual machines and desktop tools.

In addition to those that have already been mentioned, the kit includes: an electric planer with which to clean the surface; Swallow tool, necessary for cleaning the outer corners; a template used for symmetrical drilling of holes - as well as tools for milling drainage channels at angles of 45 and 90 degrees. Only nine pieces of equipment, the total cost of which is approximately 130.000 rubles.

Technological procedure for assembling PVC doors

The process of assembling windows and doors from the PVC profile is in many respects identical, but the doors still have some special features.

In general, the assembly looks like this:

• First, cut to size metal and plastic length gauges. By the way, the door profile is different from the profile of the window section. With external opening, it has a T-shape, and with internal opening it is of the form Z. This nuance must be indicated in the order.
• At the second stage, drainage milling is performed.required to ensure condensate draining. This is done both in the window and in the door profile.
• Further, a metal profile is inserted into the plastic profile, immediately prepare the holes for the slats, handles and locks. At the entrance doors, the lock can have a push handle, in office cases - a bracket.
• The next operation is cutting to the size of an impost, and milling its ends. Upon its completion, proceed to the implementation of all connections, carried out mechanically. After that, frame and door profiles are welded and their surface is cleaned.

• If the door is with a threshold, in the next stage it is collected. The threshold is cut to size, install a gasket on it, then a connector. Now in the casement door, they install the impost, and put a seal on the threshold.
• Next comes the time of attachment to the canvas loop, which is carried out using a template. Loops regulate, establish the handle or the lock, fix a reciprocal level on a frame. It remains only to install the glass, and the door is ready for delivery to the customer.

Making sure that all the accessories function normally, the knobs, the pressure headset and the lock cylinder are removed. This is necessary to avoid damage in transit.

Well, after that, it’s up to the installers who need to carry out the installation of the door, re-hang the fittings, and make sure that the sash pretends tightly, but without undue effort.