Choosing and installing vestibule doors

To date, many owners of housing in apartment buildings are thinking about how to protect their territory from unauthorized invasion. In this case, they are helped by particularly reliable doors, locks with a cunning design, as well as the creation of vestibule for 2-3 neighboring apartments. The vestibule doors are an additional barrier to criminals, but this is not the only function that they perform. The vestibules are also of practical significance, because it is convenient to leave a children's bicycle, a stroller, a shelf for shoes, thereby freeing free space in the corridor of the apartment.

1. Types of vestibule doors
2. Advantages and disadvantages of the presence of vestibule doors
3. How to make a choice of vestibule iron doors
4. Stages of installation of vestibule doors

Types of vestibule doors

Wooden vestibule doors are almost used almost anywhere, because Steel is much more reliable and durable. By type of design, they are divided into:

• The door with two opening wings, one of which, called the working one, has a castle, a tickle and a pen. The other is simply fixed using two valves from above and below. The workwear in width is usually 90 cm, the remaining distance to the wall is not occupied by the workwear. This design is most suitable for the openings of a small height, but at the same time wide.

• A door with one opening sash and one or two sidewalls. The sidewalls are welded to the door frame and, in fact, are motionless wings. The door leaf is 90 cm wide, and the rest of the free space between it and the wall is occupied by the sidewalls. Such doors are also used for wide and at the same time low openings.

• The door with a phrama, which is either welded to the frame or is removable. The height of such a door is 205 cm, and the remaining distance from it to the ceiling fills Framug. Such a door is installed in the opening of a small width, but at the same time high.

• A door with two mobile sash and a transom. As in the first case, a castle, a pen and a cheeklda are located on the working sash on the right. The left sash is fixed on the frame with valves above and below. Sometimes a non -working mobile sash can be replaced by one or a pair of motionless welded sidewalls. In height, the door does not exceed 205 cm, the spaces remaining to the ceiling are a transom. The working sash of the door is 90 cm in width, the space is occupied by non -working or sidewalls. Such a door model is used when the opening is both wide and high.

Steel vestibule doors are deaf and lattice:

• the lattice are good in that you can, having left the apartment, see the one who came and even talk to him without opening the door. But on the other hand, the leading intelligence activity is a criminal, it may well see how many locks are on your door and even figure out how they are arranged;

• a deaf door made of whole metal makes it possible to see only through the eye, although modern eyes have a rather large viewing angle. But outsiders will not be able to see either your locks or the contents of the vestibule.

Metal vestibule doors are also classified by the degree of resistance to attempts to hack or desecrate. They are divided into four classes:

• the first class designs are quite quickly opened with the help of the most ordinary tools for hacking and the use of physical strength. Most often these are cheap vestibule doors;
• the design of the second class cannot be broken, having simple tools at hand, here you need electric cutting tools;

• the doors of the third class can be opened with cutting power tools, but it will take a lot of time and effort;
• fourth -class designs are able to survive for any attempts to hack, including with the use of firearms.

For installation in ordinary apartment buildings, it is best to install doors related to the second and third classes, because The first class doors are not able to perform a protective function, and the doors of the fourth class are very expensive and it is simply inappropriate to install them as auxiliary.

Advantages and disadvantages of the presence of vestibule doors

The installation of vestibule doors has many advantages. Consider the most significant of them:

• in the vestibule usually change off, coming from the street so as not to pollute the corridor inside the apartment;
• in the vestibule, they boldly leave a stroller or a children's car, without cluttering the apartment and not worrying that it will leave without you if she spends the night in the entrance;

• the vestibule prevents heat loss in the apartment in the cold season and prevents the penetration of extraneous noise from the site;
• as we said above, the vestibule door makes it difficult to get to the apartment.

Although the presence of a vestibule before entering the apartment and adds the life of comfort and security, it also has some disadvantages:

• you may come across untidy neighbors who will not do cleaning and overlap all the vestibule with unnecessary things;
• if bulky things are stored in the vestibule, then they can interfere, if necessary, quickly leave the apartment, for example, during a fire;
• if there is a vestibule, you will not be able to get into the apartment very quickly, because You will have to linger in front of an additional door.

How to make a choice of vestibule iron doors

Determining with the model of the vestibule door, it is necessary to build on some criteria that will help make the right choice:

• decor. The main function of the vestibule door is the protection of housing from an unauthorized invasion, so the decorations go into the background. Most often, its inner surface is beautifully designed, and the external has powder spraying, or is glued with PVC film. In addition, a simple door finish does not attract the attention of crooks and allows you to facilitate cleaning and care as facilitating as much as possible;

• furniture. It is impossible to save on accessories, because In many ways, the reliability and protective properties of the door depend on it. The loops should be modern and high -quality, and the locking systems are equipped with a device that does not allow to remove the door in case of cutting loops;

• lock. It is better to choose locks that have the most complex design as possible so that they do not become easy prey for criminals, but at the same time open quickly, easily and quietly, were available to children and the elderly with the key.

In addition to everything, it is necessary to remember that the load on the vestibule door is many times higher than the load on the front doors, because it is used by residents of all apartments that it protects. This means that the vestibule must simultaneously be reliable and strong, and have little weight.

From childhood, we hear from parents that before opening the door you need to see who is behind it. To do this, the eye with a sufficient viewing angle is required.

Stages of installation of vestibule doors

The purchase of a good door that meets all your requirements is unfortunately not limited. A lot depends on its quality, professional installation.

Before agreeing with the installers, you need to prepare the doorway. Some doors designs can occupy it completely, but some should be reduced under some opening.

Doors are installed in several stages:

• if you do not create a vestibule from scratch, but only replace the old door, then first of all you need to dismantle it;
• further, on the doorway, it should be eliminated during the dismantling of damage and chips;
• after that, a door frame is installed, which should be slightly smaller than the opening in order to make alignment;
• the cracks remaining between the opening and the door are blown by mounting foam. Particular attention should be paid to its quality, because At the expense of it, the whole structure will last.

When installing the structure, it is necessary to monitor the coincidence of the holes for the lock on the door and on the frame, as well as the rest of the other holes in its place. Only in this case, all mechanisms will work correctly, and serve for a long time.

Installation of vestibule doors is very specific and requires an individual approach. The master professional always takes into account the condition in which the opening is located, as well as the errors allowed during the construction of the house. If he does not do this, the doors will not be able to open evenly and close, the entire system will be pumped and if not immediately, then in the future it will certainly fail. For a flat installation of the door frame, in the presence of wall slopes and other defects, special spacers are used, which are either installed for a while or remain in the design. They help the doors to take the right position inside the opening and stay in it constantly.

After the installer, drilling holes and fixing the box, installed the door leaf, the installation of accessories and fitting of the locks begins.

After leaping, the construction should be fixed in one position and try not to touch it for the first time. Installation foam gains sufficient strength over the next day. During this time, you need to try not to use the door, and if you need to go out, then do it extremely carefully so as not to move anything. After the required time, pieces of foam crawled beyond the boundaries of the box are cut off and start using the vestibule.

So that the vestibule door for a long time and adequately performs its mission cannot be purchased cheap and low -quality constructions. But what if there is simply no way to spend a large amount of money on the door? The answer is simple: it will be possible to save significantly if you purchase vestibule doors from the manufacturer. The fact is that many organizations selling doors are simply resellers who make their wrapping and selling goods in stores in walking access. But if you look for, for example, on the Internet, it is easy to find ads and sites of firms that not only sell, but also produce doors themselves.