Veneered doors: what it is and how it is done

05-05-2018

Doors

What are veneered doors, many have heard but do not even know what it is. And not everyone can answer the question which doors are better veneered or ecointerleaves. Therefore, today we will consider the question of what veneered doors mean.

Types of veneer

What is veneered door can not be understood without understanding what a veneer and what it is. Let's sort this out in order.

Which doors are better array or veneered. The video in this article will show all the features clearly.

Natural veneer	This material is made from solid wood by removing a thin layer. This preserves the structure of the tree completely. Its price is in the middle range, it is cheaper than wood, but also more expensive than chipboard. There will be a refined and not repeatable pattern. Moreover, the material is completely environmentally friendly.
Fine line veneer	The raw material is natural wood. It can give almost any structure. Used in the manufacture of fast-growing varieties of wood. This material has a developed structure and is not repeated. When shponirovanii need a large amount of glue, as the material is highly porous.
MultiShapon	This type is made of natural wood, but it is the most decorative. It is made with a different pattern and shade. There is an opportunity to choose to almost any interior.

What is the veneer door

In modern production of interior doors are increasingly used materials that mimic the tree, and the most popular among them - the veneer. Smooth veneered doors interior doors consist of a wooden frame, (mainly solid pine), covered with MDF, and veneered with veneer plates.

Veneer is a thin layer of wood, from two tenths to 5 millimeters. They can be met quite often.

Recently, veneered doors are becoming increasingly popular, as they always look expensive and luxurious. They not only fit into any interior, but also become a prominent part of the interior.

For the manufacture of veneer used tree species that are particularly durable, such as mahogany, ash, oak, walnut. The veneer is attached to the base, also consisting of wood, and then varnished.

Appearance of shponirovanny doors does not differ from those that are made of the real expensive wood.

The advantages of veneer

Before doing such work, or buying a finished door, you need to familiarize yourself with what you are getting and how much they will suit you:

The main advantage for the average consumer is to reduce the cost, the price of veneered doors is much cheaper than from an array.
The second advantage of veneer is its naturalness. Appearance of shponirovanny doors practically does not differ from products from the massif of wood.
Designers like veneer, allowing them to implement their original ideas into life, getting unusual door shapes. With the help of various types of wood veneer, you can make elegant doors of different colors and shades, both simple and with complex geometry and incrustation.
Shponirovanny doors are durable, and in case of need they can be easily restored (see. Restoration of wooden doors with their own hands). With proper care and maintenance, these doors will look great after 10 years.
Doors from an interline interval are not deformed and do not crack during operation. The existing technology of gluing in the manufacture of veneer sheet increases the strength of veneered doors many times.
Smooth veneered doors in combination with glazing and various fittings make veneered doors elegant and unique.

Veneer flaws

This material has its drawbacks. They should also be studied before making a purchase. It will be necessary to think about which doors are better veneered or an array, or which doors are better veneered or MDF, everything will depend on the state of your wallet and installation site.

All materials have their advantages and disadvantages:

The main disadvantage of veneered doors is the difficulty of applying veneer to doors with complex curved relief and they are more sensitive to moisture.

Attention: It is not recommended to buy cheap veneer doors. It is possible that in their manufacture a cheap adhesive was used, which usually contains a large amount of unhealthy resins and impurities. Quality veneered doors are made on a completely safe glue.

Shponirovanny doors are unstable to sharp drops of humidity, so consist generally of the cheap massif covered with an interline interval. So in a room with high humidity they should not be put. Also, they will not fit in rooms without constant heating. Here they will simply exfoliate from the damp.

Features self-installation veneered doors

You chose and bought the veneer doors you liked and decided to install them yourself.

It is recommended to follow some rules when installing them:

Ensure that the gap between the door frame and the canvas is at least four or five millimeters.
During installation (see Installation of interior doors - video from professionals) of such doors it is very important to use only sharp tools in order to avoid unnecessary chips.
When installing veneer doors in the bathroom must be sealed or varnished those places where the doors will crash. If this is not done, there may be a danger of peeling the veneer in these places. Pay special attention to the place where the door frame rests on the floor, this is the most vulnerable spot. Knowing these three distinctive features of installing veneered doors, you can easily do the installation of veneered doors yourself, without resorting to the services of specialists.

We manufacture veneered doors yourself

Some already have such a door and are interested in how to update veneered doors. Here you just need to re-stick the veneer itself.

This work is carried out according to certain rules which will be discussed below. Doors shponirovanny certificate of quality is worth looking at once, otherwise you can purchase and not high-quality products.

The Chinese make it pretty disgusting quality. So the price is important here, but we should not forget about the quality. Let's take a closer look, how to update veneered doors.

So:

First we remove the door and put it on a flat surface;
Now remove the previous coverage. To do this, heat with a simple hair dryer, then the material is more malleable. Remove it;
After that we dub the surface, for this we take the sandpaper and begin to level. Beginning we use sandpaper with a large grain and after that we make the processing more fine;

Caution: Do not try to shove just with your hand. Sandpaper should be placed on a flat bar, otherwise you will not have a flat surface. And we need to maintain an ideal plane. Watch this. To fix the veneer you need a perfectly flat surface.

We will have sinks, then we level the surface of the door leaf with a putty and trowel and allow to dry. Then produce a grout to perfect smoothness "velvety." This must be done, otherwise the surface of the door leaf after lining will be uneven.
For cladding, we buy sheets of veneer that you like., you can with glue or glueless base (glueless cheaper), who likes what. For facing a standard door (90x200 cm), two and a half meters of veneer are enough.
Carefully lay out the veneer on the door, at the same time wood drawing has to be looked through, and we start facing. If you purchased a veneer with a glue base, then you need to heat it.

Caution: Remember that after 5 minutes it will harden again, so you have to work quickly. We use an iron for work, we heat up the veneer, the best mode is from 50 ° to 60 ° C.

If you have a veneer with glueless base, we process the reverse side of the veneer with a good wood glue, then for the best moisture resistance we varnish it. We apply the lacquer with the horizontal position of the door leaf, so the lacquer will lie flat.
Lacquer applied in three layers: use furniture nitrolak, it dries quickly, for the second and third time, we apply nitrolac diluted with a solvent in a 1: 1 ratio. To make the veneer adhere well, apply a load - sandbag. Home shponirovaniye has the difficulties and consists in lack of a reliable press.

When gluing veneer, the following rules must be observed.

This is not such a difficult job, it only has its own details, with which you will get acquainted:

Sheets glued necessarily across the fibers of the door leaf.
The veneer must be well dried, otherwise shrinkage may form a gap, which will be impossible to eliminate.
In order to avoid defects at the joints, we first glue strips of veneer (30 cm), if after drying the gap is not visible, we continue to work.
We start to glue from door edges, it's easier to hide flaws. If you notice bloating under the veneer, then we cut this place with a sharp knife, pump glue into the cut with a syringe and smooth it down with an iron.

Note: When using expensive veneer, a cotton cloth is stuck to the surface of the door.

We start the facing from the middle of the canvas, adhering to the geometry of the pattern, along the edges of the planes we make an allowance of 10 cm, which after work is cut off with a sharp shoe knife.
For proper and uniform clamping is to use a roller, which is taken for pasting wallpaper. Then the plane will be large and there will be uniform pressure;
Next you need to grease the edges with glue and press with a hammer. It happens that the glue is smudged, in this case it can be painted to match the veneer. The release of glue to the surface is possible using a combination of liquid spruce and elevated pressure of the press.
So that the door does not cling to the door frame, cut the chamfer along the upper and lower ends.
After finishing the veneer surface should be covered. For this applied varnish. The truth should be said that there are materials that will no longer need to be processed. Pay attention to this at the time of purchase.

Instructions you now have. You can get to work. It is extremely important to properly prepare the surface. After all, this will depend entirely on durability and appearance.