Do-it-yourself balcony door adjustment

09-05-2018

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At the balcony door accounts for the greatest impact of adverse climatic phenomena, a significant temperature and humidity drop. Even with a glazed balcony, the door to the interior becomes a kind of “cold bridge” through which cold air and street noise can enter the room. Timely adjustment of the balcony door with your own hands will help to avoid technical and operational problems, keep the rooms warm in the winter and prevent the heat from entering them in the summer.

Today, as a rule, two types of doors are used to equip the entrance area to the balcony: wooden and metal-plastic. Diagnostics of their general condition, further repair and adjustment may differ significantly by the technological approach, materials and tools used.

Adjustment of a metalplastic door

The large weight of the metal-plastic door construction can be one of the main reasons for its sagging, poor opening / closing, loss of tightness and reliability. Before adjusting the balcony door with your own hands, you need to prepare an L-shaped Allen key 4 mm, plastic gaskets and a screwdriver. If you need to replace or adjust the lock, then it is advisable to purchase a joinery chisel. When replacing the lock, you may also need a carpentry chisel.

To identify a specific problem, it is necessary to carefully inspect the seal when the door is open. In the place of local displacement of the compactor, it will be possible to see a depressed track from the sash.

Violation of the door handle functionality, difficulty in opening / closing can testify to the poor tightness of the balcony door.

There are some more common problems of a balcony door that can be fixed on your own without the involvement of qualified specialists and the use of expensive tools.

Elimination of angle offsets

In order to eliminate the problems with the connection in the upper corner of the balcony door, it is necessary to remove the cap from the top hinge. Using the L-wrench, tighten the mounting screw. Next you need to rotate the door leaf to the right and left, adjusting the location of the bottom hinge. After the sash adopts the correct position in the upper loop, the screw is put in place and the decorative cap is fixed. Similarly, problems are regulated in the lower corner of the balcony door.

Repair deformation seal

Often at the balcony door due to improper operation or with significant temperature drops in the lower part of the seal leaves. To eliminate this defect, first remove the plug from the bottom loop and adjust the fixing screw using a hex key. When the sash is in place, lower the screw and install the decorative cap. Depending on the location of the mounting screw, they adjust the design clockwise or against it.

Door handle adjustment

During the operation of a balcony door, a lot of problems arise precisely with the door handle, which can start to jam or turn badly. As a rule, this problem is easily fixed with the help of special lubrication of the lock fittings.

Compounds recommended by the manufacturer of metal-plastic doors are used to lubricate the lock fittings. The main thing is that the lubricant does not contain acids and aggressive resins.

Sometimes the local lubrication of the door handle mechanisms is ineffective. This may be due to breakage or seizing of the internal elements of the door structure. In this case, experts recommend completely changing the lock on similar products, which can be purchased from the manufacturer of metal-plastic doors or at any specialized supermarket. A new lock is installed after the removal of screws and complete dismantling of the old mechanism. Skilled craftsmen advise to take an old lock with you to the store, so as not to be mistaken with the mechanism and opening sides.

General recommendations before work

Adjusting the balcony door is sometimes required in the first months of operation of the metal-plastic construction. As a rule, if the doors were purchased and installed in an official organization, then the guarantee for the work and materials performed should be valid for a certain period, so if even minor problems arise with the use of plastic balcony doors, you should definitely check the validity of the warranty and contact the experts. After all, with self-remediation of problems or even only when interfering with a new door design, the guarantee may lose its effect.

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