A new apartment is always a joy and an upcoming bustle - after all, any apartment is equipped with entrance doors of a primitive construction. This option of a typical wooden door of a new apartment in most cases does not suit tenants. Moreover, the solid and solid construction of the entrance metal doors is always credible. Therefore, the correct choice of the entrance metal door always justifies the hopes for its installation.
Entrance metal doors in the new apartment, installed independently, is a laborious process that requires certain knowledge and skills in the work. What is attractive about metal doors?
Modern entrance Door of metal
Without exaggeration, we can say that the modern front door made of metal is:
• high-tech production
• reliable construction
• quality installation
• Manufacturer's warranty.
The production and consumption of metal doors is in demand today due to the excellent combination of "quality-price". It remains to be the choice of the front door.
How to choose an input metal door
Before choosing and installing an entrance door from metal, you must first think about the option of installing it.
Existing metal doors for manufacturing technology are divided into types:
• Profiled
• bent welded single
• Angled.
Profilemetal doors are characterized by increased durability. Increased strength contributes to the quality of assembly. This type of door is assembled by the manufacturer from a high-quality steel profile up to 110 mm thick. The profile is technologically strengthened by Z-shaped stiffeners. Depending on the type of doorway in the new apartment is selected a door frame: from a solid profile pipe or corner. Types and models of metal entrance doors profile is much more powerful and heavier than bent welded. But profile doors are more reliable, thanks to a single or double sheet design.
Whole-welded wholedoors are made of several sheets of metal by the manufacturer with the use of special equipment. The sheets are bent and form a common configuration, creating a multi-layered profile. The rigidity of the structure depends on the thickness of the metal sheets. The complex design of bent welded doors allows to reduce the weight of the structure, which is an important factor in the installation of their own hands.
Angular metal doors are distinguished by the fact that the door frame and the supporting profile are made of corner-type hot-rolled steel. Angle doors are preferably installed when the constriction of the light opening takes place.
Installation of most typical metal doors is not difficult because of the standard dimensions. In exceptional cases for non-standard doorways, the construction industry offers ubiquitous entrance metal doors to order.
Metal door fittings
When choosing a metal door, attention is always focused on the hardware. The appearance of the new door will depend on the exterior finish, the lock, the hinges, the eyelet and the anti-slip elements.
Metal doors, the fittings of which are quite diverse, are impossible without a reliable lock and sound door hinges.
The main elements of fastening the door leaf are door hinges.
The main function of the door hinges is the daily opening and closing of the doors, so the design and shape of the hinges depends directly on the weight of the door. Saving on hinges is undesirable, because over time, during operation, their deformation or jamming is not ruled out. Preference is given to the screw hinges and hinges on the bearings.
The new door assumes installation of the reliable and strong lock. Selection and subsequent installation door lock no less important than the installation of the door. The market of door locks does not cease to surprise with its diversity. These are inexpensive "economy" models from Chinese manufacturers and the most popular lock systems of the type of a lever.
A well-thought-out and complex combination of working pins of lock-type locks, borrowed once from the "secret" safes, pleased the owners of any type of doors. Therefore, purchase and install a new type of lock for your apartment. A reliable and well-coordinated mechanism of the lock will serve for a long time.
How to choose the front door from metal expert advice in the next video will help you.
Dismantling of the old door structure
Before starting the installation of a metal door in a new apartment, it is necessary to dismantle the old one. Dismantling the old door structure is to release the doorway. This means that the main elements of the door structure - the canvas and the box are removed. At the same time, initially, all fastening anchors and nails that prevent the separation of the box and linen are removed. Then the door leaf is removed: the canvas rises and is removed from the hinges. Prepared in this way, the doorway is completely ready for the installation of a new door.
Installation of a new door
Installation of a new door structure begins with the measurement of the door opening. It is necessary to make a careful and correct measurement several times.
The iron door, the installation of which is done once, is not an expensive and difficult task. You have to spend the whole day, in order to install and align the door. Small inaccuracies or inaccuracies can lead to trouble that should be avoided. The cumbersome and inconvenient door structure must be precisely placed in place, preferably the first time. At the initial stage of the installation, the correct position of the door frame is adjusted. The box in the opening is best secured with wooden wedges.
Wooden wedges are hammered into all parts of the side racks with a hammer or sledge hammer. Alignment is made starting with the rack with door hinges. Verification of the verticality of the rack is carried out using a building level on both sides of the door frame. Then the mounting lugs in the wall are drilled to a depth of 100 mm to drive the pins or fixing anchors. After driving the pins, the projecting parts are welded to the metal mounting plates by welding. The next step is to hang the door leaf. If necessary, the side bar is aligned on the side of the inserted lock. The aim of the alignment is to achieve a uniform gap between the door leaf and the 2-4 mm stand in the light. After the final alignment of the door leaf and the box, blowing of the gap between the wall by a mounting foam is performed. Capturing is performed with the use of special guns, which produce exact dosing of the foam supply from the cylinder.
More information on installing a new door structure is presented in the video.
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