How to make glass doors with your own hands

Most designers of residential and office premises agree that replacing traditional wooden doors with glass gives lightness to the interior. This solution allows you to play unexpectedly and interestingly with the perception of space, creating a unique style.

1. Advantages and disadvantages of glass doors
2. What glass is suitable for creating doors
3. Features of different designs of glass doors
4. Independent installation
5. Installation of swing doors made of glass
6. How to replace glass in the door with your own hands: design options

Advantages and disadvantages of glass doors

Glass items in the interior can give the design of the premises of sophistication and originality. Such an element of a room as glass doors are successfully combined with different style directions. An unusual decorative effect can be achieved by decorating a transparent screen with a pattern or painting.

Glass doors are installed both in public institutions, offices, banks, and in residential buildings interior partitions in baths, saunas, dining rooms, etc. Such popularity is due to a number of glasses of glass doors:

1. Glass is not subjected to most chemical and physical effects, so the life of such doors is very long.
2. Glass doors pass and reflect sunlight. This fills the room with an atmosphere of comfort and comfort.
3. Plastic bacteria cannot develop on the glass door, which often appear on wooden structures in conditions of high humidity. This quality is especially relevant for systems installed in saunas, pools and bathrooms.
4. The door leaf is not deformed under the influence of temperature changes and humidity.
5. Simplicity of installation. For installation, you will not need complex accessories consisting of many small elements. Typically, doors are mounted using special fasteners.
6. Wide decorative opportunities. It is very easy to achieve an original design to show imagination and spend a little time. On the door yourself you can apply a pattern, sticker or apply decoupage technique.

However, such advanced designs are not devoid of minuses:

1. Incorrectly processed and selected material for creating doors can significantly worsen the structure. First of all, the resistance of glass to mechanical influences suffers. For the manufacture of doors, it is advisable to select glass with the applied layers of acrylic, triplex and special films that do not allow the canvas to fly into many fragments during decay.
2. Certain difficulties in care. On the glass there are fingerprints, steam strokes (bath/sauna), and the use of abrasive agents is fraught with the appearance of scratches.
3. You will have to pay a lot for high -quality glass structure. The price is determined by the complex manufacturing process and the thickness of the material used.

What glass is suitable for creating a door

The canvas for creating glass doors and swing partitions is made using the latest technologies. Based on the production methods, the following groups of glass suitable for making doors can be distinguished:

1. Orgepsche is created from a synthetic polymer. Plus the material is lightness, minus exposure to mechanical stress and ignorance. This type of glass is usually used for the manufacture of shower cabins.
2. Tempered glass is obtained as a result of heating to +700C and sharp cooling by blowing with air. Such hardening makes the material to be heat -resistant and increases its resistance to external influences.
3. Triplex multilayer laminated glass, produced by connecting two to three glasses of glass with layers of laminating films. The main advantage of high impact resistance. Even if the glass can be broken, there will be no sharp fragments. Depending on the type of polymer used and the number of glass layers, the triplex acquires different decorative, optical and protective properties.

By the method of processing, glass canvases for the manufacture of partitions/doors are:

1. Molistic with the help of stencils and templates creates a certain shape of the glass.
2. The feceted edges of the glass are processed thermal.
3. The matched surface of the glass is treated with different mineral salts, giving the material the required level of protection and quality.
4. The sandblasting microparticles of the abrasive are served under a powerful pressure. The necessary pattern is formed on the surface of the glass.
5. Stained -glass window stained -up elements of glass glue. It turns out a certain drawing or a whole plot. The processing technology is complex, but as a result of the work, an artistic masterpiece is obtained.

The listed types of glass are successfully used for the manufacture of different door systems.

Features of different designs of glass doors

Glass interior doors according to the opening method are more often swinging and sliding.

Swing models are the most common, as they are easy to install and affordable. Compared to the usual wooden doors, glass constructively no different. They also consist of a door frame, canvases and canopies. The main difference is the design of the loops. The box can be made from MDF, aluminum or wood. If the door box is absent in the design, then the glass canvas is attached to the floor and ceiling hinges.

Sliding doors of the compartment are produced without a frame. The system is installed on special videos in one way. The first version of the runner is fixed through the holes in the glass, the second option is installed on the end of the canvas.

Folding and rotating doors are more often used in the bathroom. The folding structure is optimally suitable for small bathrooms, the door is assembled as a fan and does not take up much space. Rotating doors are appropriate in spacious rooms.

Independent installation of sliding glass doors

Before starting work, tools should be prepared:

• screwdriver and screws;
• roulette;
• drill;
• building level;
• pencil for marking;
• liquid Nails;
• anchor bolts;
• installation foam.

The set for installing sliding doors, as a rule, includes:

• rails for moving the door leaf;
• rigel;
• door handles not protruding behind the door plane;
• factory kit for fastening glass doors;
• the limiter protects the double -glazed window from unnecessary movements.

Important! The choice of rails and rollers for moving the door depends on the mass of the glass canvas. Light doors (weight up to 40 kg) are installed on two videos, heavy structures (from 40 kg) are mounted on four rollers or more. The length of the rail should be 2 times longer than the width of the doorway

We describe the sequence of installation of sliding interior doors with glass with our own hands using an example of a single -leaf model:

1. Measure the doorway and check the evenness of the adjacent walls. The top should be strictly parallel to the bottom, and the right side is parallel to the left. An important condition for high -quality installation and uninterrupted operation is the evenness of the wall, to which glass will be pressed when opening.
2. Mount the floor rail so that one of it protrudes behind the doorway by 5 cm. Check the evenness of the installation by the construction level. If the tilt is not removed in time, then later the door will open/close depending on the slope.
3. Install the glass canvas on the lower guide and freeze the height to the upper bar.
4. Mount the upper guide and supplement it with a locking block.
5. The appearance of the guides can be improved and finished with decorative panels.
6. It is advisable to attract a canvas for this work to attract an assistant. The upper part of the glass is slightly tilt and start under the upper bar so that the rollers enter into the hook with the guide.
7. Coasten a canvas with a lower rail.
8. Check the smoothness of the course to pushing/push the door several times.

Similarly, glass doors for a shower are installed. But in this case, special attention is paid to sealing joints.

Installation of swing doors made of glass

The glass canvas can be ordered by individual sizes or buy a finished one. After delivery of the door, the installation is carried out in the following sequence:

1. The edges of the door leaf can be protected by pieces of fabric or soft carpet. Prepare wooden wedges to align the door.
2. Check the correspondence of the door box with the size of the glass canvas.
3. Attach the loops to the door jamb:
   • put a polyhlorvinyl gasket under the loop;
   • press the loop from the inside of the glass;
   • on the back of the door, attach a clamping bar and fasten it with feints to a hinged loop;
   • on the clamping strips and loops, install masking caps.
4. Attach the keyboard on the inside of the glass canvas.
5. Mount the handles and check the correspondence of the tongue of the lock size of the hole in the door frame.

How to replace glass in the door with your own hands

First of all, carefully remove the remaining glass from the door. To do this, on top, the fasteners are slightly weakened, without removing them completely. Large fragments must be removed first. After dismantling the broken glass, the glazing stacks can be removed.

If a rubberized gasket remains in the door, then it is also pulled and examined. The damaged tape will have to be replaced.

Subsequent actions to insert glass at the door with your own hands:

1. Measure the opening and order new glass. It is optimal if the canvas on each side is 1.5-2 mm less than its bed.
2. Prepare an opening for glass insertion:
   • remove the old putty and sealant;
   • stir the perimeter of the opening with sandpaper/abrasive mesh.
3. Remove the door from the loops and lay on a horizontal surface, for example, a long and wide table.
4. Apply a layer of silicone using a construction pistol along the entire contour of the bed.
5. Title the glass canvas into the rubberized gasket and insert it into a permanent place. If the glass comes tight, then the rubber tape must be cut.
6. Plant the fasteners on the sealant, tightly pressing to the glass and each other.
7. Society with decorative finish cloves.
8. Hang the door back on the hinges.

How to replace glass in the door with your own hands: video

DIY glass decor with your own hands: design options

Even the most original and beautiful interior items are annoying over time and cease to delight as before. You can change the glass doors and draw freshness notes into the room yourself using one of the technologies:

• decoupage;
• decorative stickers;
• drawing patterns with paints.

To perform decoupage you will need materials:

• bilateral paper with a pattern;
• paper towel;
• contour paints on glass;
• stationery knife;
• glue for glass;
• cutting rug;
• scissors and brushes.

We will analyze step by step how to arrange glass on the door with your own hands. Decoupage technique:

1. Gently cut the image from the decoupage card or napkin.
2. Cut the internal parts with a knife, putting a napkin on the rug.
3. Long and thin details of the picture are better to cut off. Then they can be drawn with a brush.
4. You should start glued with large fragments of the picture. Dip the drawing in slightly heated water.
5. Remove the image from the water, remove the drops with a paper towel and spread one side with glue.
6. Apply the pattern to the glass, and pressing, release air in the direction from the center to the edge.
7. After drying the pattern, smear the pattern with glue for glass.
8. Stop the remains of the glue with a wooden stick.
9. On the back of the glass canvas, glue the cut off thin details of the picture with tape. Cut the lines with paints and remove the fixed fragment of the image from the glass.

Glass decorating with stickers: photo

More painstaking work on glass with stained glass paints.