How to install a plastic door?

High -tech material requires compliance with all standards for the installation of a plastic front door, balcony or interior. These works are easiest to entrust to specialized companies, where the whole process will be phased. But this will cost almost half the cost of the door, so it is advisable to master this simple technology in order to engage in the installation of a plastic door with your own hands. It is enough to familiarize yourself with the features of the process and have the simplest skills of handling a working tool.

Table of contents:

1. What is important to know about the installation of a plastic door
2. Selection of the input plastic door with a box
3. Preparation of the doorway
4. Door installation technology

What is important to know about the installation of a plastic door

1. Plastic doors interior or input? Before buying, it is important to understand that in terms of design, strength and reliability, the inlet plastic doors differ from a lightweight interior door. If you are not satisfied with white polyvinyl chloride, order any other color or lamination under the surface of wood of various species. Any door design has its own:

• dimensions,
• configuration,
• complete.

2. The shape of the door. Thanks to the frame, the metal profile inside the design, it is possible to give the door frame and its canvas the original curvilinear shape. Therefore, if you have an arched entrance, then you should not refuse it today plastic doors of this configuration are very popular, especially in combination with similar window openings.

3. The reliability of the plastic door has long been in doubt, which explains the popularity of the material. It is quite strong with small specific gravity, and the cost of synthetic materials is an order of magnitude lower than natural. The material used for the manufacture and installation of plastic doors has:

• high mechanical strength;
• high resistance to mechanical influences;
• great durability and unpretentiousness in application;
• resistance to corrosion processes;
• It is almost insensitive to temperature extremes and water exposure.

4. Any doors have a classification:

• input, interior and balcony;
• single and double;
• plastic and wooden;
• with a door box and without it;
• with or without threshold.

It depends on how to put the plastic doors yourself.

5. When installing the door, it is important to observe the installation technology. Each door has its own instructions for installation, attached with all the documentation when buying, but there are many small recommendations without which this cannot be done efficiently. For example, you will need wooden wedges or trimming used to hold in the correct position or aligning during skew during installation. And so that after applying the mounting foam, the door jamb does not arise, the spacers will be needed. Therefore, it is worth stocking up in advance:

• installation tools,
• self -tapping screws,
• mounting foam, etc.

6. The competent installation of the plastic door is a responsible and meaningful process, since it will be practically impossible to eliminate errors later, except to do complete dismantling with the repair of adjacent planes. And from how technologically it is set, it will be so reliable in subsequent operation. Problems sometimes happen, but not during installation, but when adjusting plastic doors of the photo.

7. Before buying, it is important to make accurate measurements or even call a specialist from a supplier company who will do it more professionally. He knows all the design features of the door frame:

• slopes;
• submission;
• threshold;
• the mechanism of the sliding door, etc.

8. The installation of a swing door of the plastic interior almost does not differ from the assembly of wooden products or doors from other materials. It is very important to correctly prepare the doorway. When cleaning the doorway from the remains of jambs of the old door, it may turn out that the passage has become a little wider than expected. Think in advance whether the overhead parts are needed to mask the joint defects.

Tip: When buying, inspect the selected door leaf very carefully, pay attention to the box and platbands so that you do not have to return due to defects or scratches.

Selection of the input plastic door with a box

When buying an entrance plastic door, I want it to be not only beautiful and durable, but also responded to all consumer requests. Therefore, pay attention to:

• the frame with longitudinal and transverse stiffeners in the form of a large welded grid has increased reliability;
• a box or frame that must be on a metal frame, its walls are quite wide, connected by stiffener elements in the corners;
• choose locks for the front door with locking around the perimeter so that the bolts enter the frame in different directions;
• the number of air chambers between the profile, with 5 chambers, the door is warmer and more reliable;
• The hinges should be an anti -convertible, multilayer structure, a rather impressive species;
• a double -glazed window, if provided in the design, should be a triplex or armored type, and the area of \u200b\u200bglazing of the door should not exceed 1/3 of the area of \u200b\u200bthe wings;
• The insulation is not always provided, but if the entrance doors are in a cold climatic belt, it is important to insulate the door;
• the threshold is not required, but for tightness and insulation it is important;
• You can’t do without the tightness of the door, especially in places where floods or excess of seasonal precipitation are possible, check the presence of rubber seals along the external and inner perimeter of the door box.

Tip: balcony doors can also be chosen according to similar parameters, especially if it is the first floor and unfastened design. On the glazed loggia of the upper floors, the reliability requirements are not so high for all this have to be paid.

Preparation of the doorway

If you manage to independently and carefully perform all work on the dismantling of the old door with the box, then this is a decent savings.

From the interior space, you must first carry out all household items or furniture, which can be spoiled by construction garbage.

The door should not be mounted until the rough construction and final work is completed. It is important to finish the processing of walls with starting plaster, lay the laminate on the floor, etc. Although plastic does not respond to moisture, wet walls can affect the quality of installation.

The best option is dismantling the entire old door frame, that is, along with a wooden ray. But if this is a high -quality door jamb, with white painting under a white interior door made of plastic, then it is not necessary to change everything. In this case, the interior or balcony doors is easier only to replace by hanging a new door with loops. But it should accurately correspond to the size of the previous box.

But the plastic entrance doors, as a rule, change along with the box:

• the old canvas is carefully removed from the loops;
• dismantle the cladding, tinging a mount, crowbar or other suitable tools;
• the side racks of the opening in several places are sawn;
• remove parts of the old door jamb;
• carefully remove the middle crossbar between the stacks, if by that time she herself did not begin to fall off.

Attention: the dismantling of the door structure is important to carry out with an assistant so that there is someone to hold and submit a tool! Do not neglect compliance with safety rules! Use protective overalls and household respirator crumbles old building materials.

Further, the doorway is processed completely:

• pull old insulation materials from cracks;
• remove the crumbling plaster;
• clean the construction foam and small garbage;
• voids are sealed with a solution of cement.

After this, the doorway looks quite prepared, but be sure to check the slopes for verticality using the level. With a significant discrepancy, remove excess or aligned with a construction mixture. When the main preparation is completed, and the cement dries, you can proceed to the next stage, having previously viewed how to install the plastic door of the video at the end of the article.

Door installation technology

Those who are interested in how to put plastic doors are important to familiarize yourself with this simple technology, but be sure to observe all the subtleties and recommendations of specialists.

1. Proper markup is very important:

• the construction level at the floor is verified by a strictly horizontal line marked on both sides of the doorway;
• from the control points with a plumb line or a universal level, a vertical is planned to the required height, and this will allow you to adjust the racks of the box, which may differ by several millimeters;
• according to these results, excess racks are sawn or adjusted to the doorway.

2. Before installing the plastic door, experts recommend preparing everything that may be needed for work in advance. This is the necessary electrical equipment, consumables, wedges, self -tapping screws, etc. The assembly of the outer frame (door frame) is carried out on any horizontal surface, while the parts of the racks and the crossbar at an angle of 90 are combined by the letter P. The holes for connecting the joints are drilled with a drill, but a little already a little already than required by the diameter of the screws so that they do not walk.

3. The box before installation, especially white, is recommended to be sealed on the outer sides by painting tape. To clutch the mounting foam, the doorway must be moistened with water so that the clutch reaction goes. The foam can not be applied, it cannot be greatly increased in size and squeezes plastic, which can lead to deformation of the frame. It is enough to apply a little with a thin layer so that the foam is evenly distributed around the entire perimeter. It is better to add where it is not enough to remove the excess foam that goes outside the plastic door box.

Attention: 1 cylinder of mounting foam is usually enough for daring the interior door, and for a double -hovered front door, this may not be enough to take care so that there is also a spare cylinder at hand!

4. Do not rush to proceed to hanging the door until the foam dries and completely grabs. Depending on the temperature and varieties of the installation foam itself, this will need 6 24 hours, which should be indicated in the instructions of the cylinder. After 1-2 hours of excess, the foam should be cut off and the joints of the joint are closed with cashing. It is formed in accordance with the updated size of the box and at the junction is rejected exactly at an angle of 45 and joins with the box.

5. Most of the work on installing a plastic door with their own hands is done with a utility worker to maintain the structure and submit the tool. The finished plastic box can be crushed and installed in a prepared doorway. It is desirable that at least one worker has experience in adjusting the door to eliminate all defects and a possible slope of the box. All stages are verified by level and plumb. The hinged loops are mounted only after drying the mounting foam immediately before the very hanging doors.

6. On the ends of the door frame they drive nails that protrude a little to support it vertically. The box is best collected and mounted with a rhinestone with a threshold and shaking in the doorway. You need to work with wedges carefully and carefully, without violating the integrity of the plastic base and its geometry. Holes are planned and drilled in the frame so that self -tapping screws can enter the concrete. All defects and holes can be hidden by sealant. The wedges are removed after grasping, and the holes are also disconnected.

7. Before installing a plastic door on the door frame, you need to drive several nails into the frame so that the back of the door can rely on them. After a successful fit, the plastic door is put in place. If the threshold was not provided in the box, but there is a need for it, select the wood -suitable wood and make a bar of the required size. When installing a door without a threshold, the door should be installed with the smallest gap.

8. Use sealant on all connections, especially if it is a balcony or front door. Do not forget about the handles, every detail of accessories and locks, a closer. Each detail and its purpose should be indicated in the installation instructions.

9. The door after hanging on the hinges must be checked:

• how accurately it is pressed;
• how its sash coincides;
• whether the castle enters the latch;
• is it easy to open and move the wings;
• is the handles well fastened.

If any deviations of the door must be adjusted. In a closed form, the adjusted plastic door should stand for at least a day. It is difficult to open the door should not speak about the shortcomings of the installation, and do not think that it will pass over time.

Attention: be sure to adjust the door at the very beginning of operation! Adjustment is carried out in the lower part of the loops, a screw is displayed, which supports the sash at the required level. About adjusting the plastic door watch the video: