How to make a coupe door with your own hands

04-01-2018

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For the organization of personal space in the apartment and the house should be installed interior doors. So, each family member will feel more assured. In most cases, hinged doors are installed that open wide. However, technology is moving forward. The focus is on saving space. Given this and other nuances, coupe doors were developed. In this article, you can learn the subtleties of how to make a compartment door with your own hands.

Varieties

If you like this option of doors, then it is worth considering the pros and cons. There are several types of them. For example, you can install one or two canvases that will move along a wall or in a false wall. In this case, it will be possible to isolate individual rooms. Sometimes doors can consist of several movable canvases and fixed side flaps. Most often these doors are installed for the purpose of zoning the room.

Regardless of the type of door chosen, the principle of their installation is the same. The only difference will be in the guide profile on which the door will move. As for the doors, they can be made of different materials, for example:

Laminated chipboard.
MDF.
Strained glass.
Solid wood.
Combination of several materials.

Based on the selected door material, their weight will be different. So the sliding mechanism system will be selected individually under the weight of the whole structure. For example, if the door has a weight of about 30 kg, then it will be enough to install 2 carriages. If the weight of the door increases, then accordingly it is necessary to add the number of carriages.

Special features

The main advantage of the coupe doors can be called their ergonomics. However, this is not the only feature of such doors. Here you can highlight the following points:

To open or close the door is not required to put a lot of effort. Therefore, if there are small children, they will cope with this task on their own. You will not need to constantly get up for this procedure.
If there are drafts, then the door will never slam.
Coupe doors can simultaneously perform two functions: area zoning, and also divide rooms into separate rooms.
If there are persons with disabilities in the family, then such doors (suspended or on a hidden rail) do not have a threshold, and this is an additional advantage for safe movement.

But to be objective, these doors also have their negative sides:

If false walls are being constructed, then a clear lack of sound insulation will be immediately felt.
If the door moves along the partition, it is impossible to put large objects close to the wall.
Locks for the coupe door are much more expensive than usual. Therefore, not every such door and their equipment will be affordable.

Types of sliding door systems

Coupe doors are divided into 2 main types:

Rail.
Suspended.

Based on the name to understand the difference is easy. In suspended doors, the entire load falls on the guide, which is fixed at the top. In the rail system of opening / closing is the opposite, the load falls on the bottom. If the mechanism was purchased from a reliable manufacturer, then both systems are reliable.

However, when choosing it is important to consider some features. For example, there are rollers that are able to hold the weight of the door to 100 kg. Accordingly, to add to this the weight of the door and get a design that will be extremely difficult to move. For this reason, it is worth taking seriously the choice of each element of the door.

What is needed for manufacturing

In fact, make your own interior doors coupe is easy. Moreover, not much material is required. In detail, we consider the necessary structural elements, and then we can figure out how to assemble and install it yourself.

Laminated chipboard. It is possible to make a cloth of doors from a chipboard. For this it is better to choose a canvas with a thickness of at least 16 mm. If thinner, then during operation the door will sag, as a result, after a while the door will lose its presentable appearance. You also need an aluminum profile for edging chipboard around the perimeter. This will extend the service life of the coupe doors, as it will give the structure rigidity.
The system of rollers and guides. It's all simple. You should purchase a complete set of rollers and guides. To do this, give preference to a reliable manufacturer. You can also find a lot of DIY craftsmen who design the roller system on their own. Moreover, it is necessary to decide which system will be suspended or on the rail. Accordingly, a suitable system is selected.
Fittings. These include the dead lock and handles. They must also be reliable and of high quality. In the lock for sliding doors there is no customary tongue that protrudes from the canvas of an ordinary swing door. It has a special locking mechanism. The design of the lock has a special movable hook.

Fasteners. By this are meant self-tapping screws or dowels, with which it will be possible to fix the system of rollers and guides to the floor or ceiling.
Finish and trim. They will be required in order to disguise all fasteners, and make the framing of the doorway itself beautiful.

In fact, this is the whole set of material that is necessary for the manufacture of sliding doors. As for the tool, here the set consists of the following:

Electric jigsaw.
Screwdriver.
Drill.
Hand-held circular saw.

Manual mill, which is necessary for cutting grooves.
Set of screwdrivers.
Pliers.
Hammer and the like

With all this, you can proceed directly to the assembly.

Manufacturing sequence

The most important rule that applies to all types of compartment doors is a perfectly flat surface. Only in this case, the door will work flawlessly and for a long time. Therefore, before you install the door, make sure that the screed is flat and of good quality. If necessary, fill it strictly on the level. If this is not done, then the doors can arbitrarily open or close. The maximum difference is allowed, which is equal to 5 mm. If it is larger, it will not be possible to adjust the rollers.

Before installing the compartment door, carry out a series of works related to wall decoration. If all this is left for later, then the door can be accidentally ruined. Even closing them with cellophane will not save, because it can break through or you can accidentally catch it with a sharp object, for example, with a spatula.

You should also decide on how the doors will open / close either along the wall, or if you need to make a false wall.

So, now proceed directly to the manufacturing process. It is divided into several consecutive steps:

First mount the guides. Top and bottom rail must be trimmed accurately. Otherwise, the design will not have a presentable appearance. As for the upper and lower guides, they should have a clear horizontal with respect to each other. Therefore, when installing, use a plumb or a very accurate level corresponding to the length.
Next, you need to make a door leaf. Consider an example when the doorway is 1800 mm wide. Accordingly, if the flap is 2, then this length is divided in half, it turns out to be 900 mm each door leaf. If the flaps are installed along different guides, then 50 mm must be added to overlap one flap with another. If not, you do not need to add. In this case, a lock will be installed in the end of two canvases.
Cut the sheet to size, remove all the chips at the edges. Chipboard around the perimeter enveloped aluminum profile. This will make the door leaf tough and durable enough. As an option, the profile can be glued to the canvas or in the end tighten the screws.
The next step is to install the rollers. Without a manual milling machine to perform this work will be problematic. Although it will also depend on the selected system. So, apply the roller to the bottom of the particle board, from the edge up to 100 mm. Circle it with a pencil. On the resulting sketch, you need to cut the landing groove. After it, mount the rollers and fix with screws.

Be sure to adjust the rollers. To do this work is necessary only when the canvas is installed on the guide.
In conclusion, it remains to install handles and locks. They crash on the same principle as the commercials.

During the work, be sure to consider the difference of installation. If the door will hide in a false wall, then first of all the guides are mounted, and only then the partition. At the same time, the guides should be covered so that during the installation of the wall it will not be damaged or strongly littered with debris. If the doors will open along the partition, the guides are simply screwed to the floor and ceiling after all the finishing work.

As for the installation of doors, this is the easiest and the final stage. Carefully drive the rollers on the guides and check the operation of the door. Pay attention to whether a gap is formed between the two closed canvases. If so, then you need to adjust the rollers.

So, as you can see, it is quite possible to make such doors yourself. We learned that the installation does not include complex technological processes. And with basic carpentry tools, you will be able to complete the work in a short amount of time. If you already have experience in their manufacture, be sure to write comments at the end of this article. We and our readers will be interested to know what difficulties you encountered in the process of work.

Video

In the provided videos, you will clearly see the process for the manufacture and installation of compartment doors:

A photo

In the photo you can see the various options for the manufacture of compartment doors:

Scheme

The diagrams show important compartment door components: