How to make sliding doors with your own hands

Having set the goal of creating an unusual interior, using time -tested and well -known elements, you should pay attention to sliding interior doors. Applying them in the interior, you can more ergonomically use the space, dividing it into various zones and at the same time preserving the illusion of the integrity of the room. In addition, making sliding doors with your own hands is quite simple, you need to understand the process and the ability to handle the tool, as well as knowledge about sliding doors.

1. Advantages and disadvantages of sliding doors
2. Design and types of sliding doors
3. Furniture for sliding doors
4. Mechanism for sliding doors
5. Settleing doors installation options
6. How to make sliding doors

Advantages and disadvantages of sliding doors

Before using sliding interior doors in the interior, you need to know their strengths and weaknesses. What tasks are when planning the interior, and it will depend whether you stop your choice on sliding doors or not.

Advantages:

• save the space of the room;
• do not close under the influence of drafts, unlike swing doors on loops;
• simple and light opening of the wings. The only thing that should be taken into account is the observance of cleanliness and timely maintenance of the roller mechanism;
• if necessary, you can easily automate. This is one of the main advantages of sliding doors, which can be very easily realized using modern technologies;
• lack of thresholds. This advantage is somewhat controversial, since there are sliding doors systems that have the lower guides in their design, which can act as a threshold or be frozen on the floor.

Flaws:

• low indicators of heat and sound insulation. The systems in which a special seal is glued to the end of the door, and the doors themselves call into a special niche have somewhat increased characteristics of sound and thermal insulation;
• the impossibility of installing as the front door. It is worth noting that if it is a balcony, a loggia or a country house with a wall of sufficient length, then you can install sliding glass doors leading from the room to the street;
• the price of accessories and locks for sliding doors is an order of magnitude higher than prices for ordinary doors. In addition, the prices of sliding doors are also slightly higher, which imposes some restrictions on the choice according to the budget;
• when using a certain type of sliding doors, it will not be possible to put any furniture or large household appliances nearby.

Design and types of sliding doors

There are various systems of sliding doors that differ in appearance, but the design itself is basically and on the principle of action remains unchanged. The design of sliding doors is a system consisting of roller mechanism, guides and door leaf. The roller mechanism is attached to the door, and the rollers move along the guide mounted above the doorway. Various types of sliding interior doors can include from two to four or more roller mechanisms, as well as several guide and door leafs. In addition, the design of the sliding door includes decorative panels that close the mechanism itself, various special doorbells, platbands and dobages.

The figure below shows various types of sliding doors:

But among all the variety, the following main types of sliding doors are distinguished:

• sliding compartment doors;
• cascading sliding doors;
• sliding doors of the accordion;
• one, two, three and four -leaf sliding doors;
• radius sliding doors.

Furniture for sliding doors

Due to its unusual design for sliding doors, a certain type of fittings are required. Locks and handles for sliding doors are not the same as we used to see on ordinary doors. A characteristic feature of pens is that they are recessed in the door leaf. This is done so that the doors can freely drive aside and, if necessary, call into the niche allotted for her. The locks are also not quite ordinary. If you compare with the usual lock, you can see that the castle mechanism is created for vertical latching.

When buying a sliding door, accessories are usually complete with a door leaf. But if there is a need to install pens and locks yourself, then you must be extremely careful and choose them correctly. It is best to seek help from a specialist or search by a catalog number.

Mechanism for sliding doors

Sliding doors got their name due to the opening method, which is provided by the movement of rollers along the guides. The roller mechanism and guides for sliding doors must be selected based on the type of sliding door, the number of sash and material of the door leaf. The thing is that different systems have different weights and create a different load on the design as a whole. So, if you compare a single -leaf sliding door from the MDF and a double -leaf glass sliding door, then the weight of the first will be much smaller, and for it you can choose a simpler and easier roller mechanism.

Also, when installing some types of sliding doors (cascading, accordion, coupe), it is necessary to take into account the number of roller mechanisms and choose the right guides. For example, for a cascade door, it is necessary to install 2 roller mechanisms for each door leaf and guides with two gutters. It is especially important to pay attention to the fact that in order to create a compartment door and cascading doors, it is necessary to provide one gutter in the guides for each door leaf.

As noted earlier, the reliability of the sliding doors directly depends on the roller mechanism and the guide. But sometimes, as in the case of a glass sliding door, you have to install two guides one at the top of the doorway, the other below. This is the only way to get a stable and reliable door with a large mass of the door leaf.

Settleing doors installation options

The functionality and convenience of interior sliding doors make it possible to embody various design solutions both in rooms with a limited space and in rooms with a large area. Such doors allow you to convert the inner space, organically fit into the interior.

The most popular option is to install sliding doors between two residential zones. Using a double -barrel type of door, you can zone the room by maintaining its integrity. With closed doors, these will be two different rooms, and with open one, but with a large area. For example, by installing sliding doors, you can separate a small office, and with open doors it will be a common room for business negotiations.

Another option for using sliding doors is to install them between residential premises and loggia, balcony Or a terrace in a country house. In this case, it is advisable to use sliding glass doors. A large luminous flux will come through them, and in the warm season, opening them, you can expand the room to infinity.

Quite often sliding doors use for technical premises. So, having installed sliding doors-wrappers, you can separate the back room or pantry, while retaining the precious space.

One of the most difficult and expensive in the installation are radius doors. This largely depends on the complexity of the manufacture of the door leaf and curved guides. But such doors can be seen in showersor rooms with rounded shapes. It looks very impressive.

Unfortunately, due to its shortcomings, sliding doors do not make sense to install between rooms such as kitchen, living room, bathroom or toilet. Of course, with the development of technology, new materials and methods of their use appear. And perhaps the shortcomings of sliding doors using new technologies are leveled or completely disappear, which will open new horizons for their use.

How to make sliding doors

Having decided on the type of sliding door and having acquired everything you need, you can proceed to the installation. The installation process itself will be considered on the example of a single -leaf sliding door. This is the simplest and most common door that is easiest to install. But it should be noted that the description will also marked key points that are also characteristic of other types of sliding doors.

So, in order to install sliding doors with your own hands, you must do the following:

• The first to make markings for the guides. To do this, you can go in two ways. The first to just measure the door height of the door from the floor, adding 15 20 mm to it for a gap between the floor and the door. And to this height add the height of the assembled roller mechanism and guide. Then put 2 3 marks on the wall and draw a line between them. The second option is similar to the first difference that the door leaf is attached to the opening, and marks are placed along the upper edge, to which the height of the roller mechanism and the guide are then added.

Important! Before installing the guide, it is necessary to verify the strict horizontal of the marks. You can do this using a level. Otherwise, after installation, the doors will spontaneously open in one direction or another.

• Now we set the guide along the previously planned line so that the guide is installed under it. Depending on the guide itself, it can be fixed in different ways. Some are attached directly to the wall with dowels, some can be fixed on special brackets or wooden beams. The guide itself should be at some distance from the wall, so that when opening the door does not cling to the doorway or platbands. It is necessary to carefully select the guides and know about the method of installation. For doors-wrappers and other designs, sliding doors having a height from floor to ceiling, guides are attached to the ceiling and floor.

Important! So that the sliding door does not fly away at the first opening, the guide along the length should be 2 times larger than the doorway, and another 4 5 cm of the spare course should be added to this length. It is because of this feature that sliding doors require a lot of free space near the doorway, although they save the area when opening.

• Having fixed the guide, we insert the fastener bolt into the roller carriage and put the entire roller mechanism into the guide. For an ordinary single -leaf door, only two videos are required, but if we install the harmonica or cascading doors, you will have to purchase rollers in advance for each sash.

• On top of the door leaf, we install brackets for roller carriages. They are attached with an indent from the edge of the door of 3 5 mm.

Important! For glass doors, another mounting method is used. The fastener itself is two metal paws that clamp the glass among themselves and tighten with the help of screws. In addition, due to the large mass of the door of the door, it is recommended to install with two guides: one in the floor, the other above the doorway.

• Now that the rollers and fasteners are installed for them, put the door leaf in place, reaches it and screw the bolts into the brackets at the top of the door. This stage of work is best done with a partner who can raise and hold the door while the bolts are twisted. After that, check the horizontality of the door and, if necessary, smooth, twisting the bolts.

• The doorway and slopes can be hidden behind the platbands and inputs. But the roller mechanism itself is hiding behind a decorative bar, which is hung on top.

• In conclusion, we install the door accessories.

The installation of a sliding door with a special niche in the wall will be somewhat more laborious. To do this, you will have to create a partition from drywall sheets, into which the door will go in. But for doors with a guide to the floor, you will have to hide the groove, which will require the use of a perforator. In all other respects, the installation of sliding doors is a very simple and easy matter.