Beat the door with your own skin

The front door, which is not decorated with upholstery or has an old cracked surface, looks very sloppy, preforming a negative idea about the owners of the dwellings. Moreover, it does not store heat inside the apartment, and all the noise from the entrance freely penetrates into the premises. Therefore, with time, any good host wants to put the door of the order as from the aesthetic and from the practical side.

Surfacing the door with your own skin, while solving the still and the issues of insulation and noise insulation - is quite possible, so this event does not apply to works of a high degree of complexity, and is available to virtually everyone. The main - have all the necessary materials, certain tools and well understand the sequence of work.

Preparation for upholstery of the door

1. To update a door upholstery need to prepare the following materials:

• Leather, of course, the material is very expensive, and is used for this purpose in exceptional cases. No problem, there is an artificial skin( leatherette or dermatitis).This material is available in a large assortment in building stores, and differs in color, thickness and texture pattern, so it can be selected for every taste. Quality artificial leather and visually, and tactile little differs from the natural.

The width of this material varies from 1100 to 1400 mm, and this is quite sufficient for the size of any door leaf. Before you buy a leatherette, you need to measure the height of the door and add to the result obtained 25 - 30 cm. This length of upholstery should be bought for one side.

Also it must not be forgotten that upholstery material will be needed for the production of rollers, which will be fixed along the perimeter of the door leaf. They will need three strips with a width of 12 - 15 cm and a length that is equal to the height of the door.

• For soundproofing and thermal insulation of , is suitable for sheet foam, dense sintepon or felt. The required thickness of the material is from 10 to 25 mm.

This value will depend on and from material type, and from of the desired dimensionality pattern if it is supposed to be made using decorative nails, fine wire or line.

• Coat nails with decorative cap. They can be made of alloys of copper, silver or gold, or be covered with a material of the same color as the selected upholstery.

Diamet truds boxes or their design will depend on the design decision for the design of the door leaf.

To ensure that the overall looks harmonious, it's best to choose nails for the color of the door handle and lock.

• If a metal door is put in order, one of the highly resistant polymer adhesives is purchased, for example, "88" or the universal "Moment".
• In addition to the sheet heat insulation material, you will need the strip of round insulation( foam rubber or foamed polyethylene), sold in meters. For our purposes, the is suitable for diameters of 10, 15 or 20 mm.

2. Tools should be prepared from:

• Staples and stapler for temporary fixing of insulation and upholstery. The most convenient size for the upholstery of the door is 8 ÷ 10 mm.
• A medium-sized hammer for hammering decorative nails.
• Acute construction knife - it is useful for cutting underlining and upholstery material.
• Screwdriver with a set of bits( bits) and a massive screwdriver - they are useful for dismantling the old shell, removal and subsequent installation of locks and a sight glass.
• nail and pliers are needed for pulling nails, if they will go wrong when driving and, is required by to dismantle the old coating, in case it was installed.
• Shears for cutting materials.

3. The preparation of the old door trim:

• First, all removable elements - the peephole, locks and door handles are first removed.
• Next, the uses tools to remove the old sheathing as neatly as possible. Its can be hooked up with a powerful screwdriver with , and then with pliers. Usually, if the materials are not planted on the glue, the dermatitis and insulation are easily separated from the door leaf. When removing the upholstery from an old wooden door, do not use excessive force to avoid damaging the canvas. Be sure to carefully inspect the entire surface to remove the remaining unnecessary nails, staples, screws, fragments of the old coating
• After cleaning the surface, the door can be removed from the hinges and the on the prepared workbench( bench) or installed four or six stools. Further work on the upholstery can be made in this position. If it is decided to remove the cloth from the hinges, then before this process it is necessary to note its contour on the door frame.
• Sometimes the door is not removed, and its cladding is held in suspended condition on the its staffing place.

How to skin the door with your own hands - different variants of

In order to disassemble all the technology on the skin from all sides in detail, you need to consider three different versions of the - work. This is the upholstery of the outer side of the wooden door, then the inner one, and then dwell on the features of such a process onmetal doors.

Wooden door - Interior upholstery

By the long-established practice, the wooden entrance doors in multi-storey houses opened inside apartments. It is this option that will be considered.

The inner lining of the door opening into the apartment is slightly different from the exterior upholstery, and the main difference of this process is the use of additional insulating elements - rollers. They are made of strips of upholstery and cut insulation. It is convenient to use as ready-made gaskets prepared beads of foam polyethylene, which are sold in meters. This general design element serves for the of a reliable closing gap between the door door and the door box. Therefore, they are beaten with such calculation of , so that they protrude beyond the door for 10 ÷ 20 mm. It should be remembered that on the side where the hinges are located, the shafts to are so repaired that it completely covers the gap along the entire height of the door jamb.

• The first stage of the is the cutting the upholstery and insulation. For the first exact geometrical parameters of the door are taken, to to which is added to 120 - 150 mm - this becomes the size, which will need for decorative sheathing of the canvas.

As a rule, the - trim strips always remain perfect for the formation of sealing rollers for the upholstery of the contour.

The heater bed must have a size of 10 m m m is smaller on each side than the door itself.

• On the perimeter of the door, the strips are fastened with the help of the of the stapler. The strips of the leatherette are fastened facing down. Usually, strips up to 140 mm wide are used, the length of which is exactly the same as the door thickness. On the surface of the door at the same time place about 40 mm of this strip - the rest should be outside.

sealing rollers are the first to be installed around the perimeter of the door. These strips are wrapped with foamed polyethylene foam insulation tapes. Thus, rollers are formed, which also , with the stapler, are fixed on the door leaf.

Mounting the rollers starts from the upper right corner of the door, then they are fixed to the vertical edges of the door, and only then - to the bottom. This takes into account the location of the door relative to the floor - the roller should not rub against the floor covering, as this will very quickly wear out and will break .

If an overhead lock is to be installed, this is taken into account when fastening the rollers - an appropriate gap is made.

• Next, the insulation material is placed on the door leaf. It is fixed around the perimeter with the help of brackets, having retreated from its edge to 5 - 7 cm. In the it cut holes for the eye sight and locks.

• is next applied. The next stage of the is the fastening to the surface, from the top of the heater, the most upholstery material - artificial leather.

. It is wrapped around the edges of the insulation and fixed to the upper corners with the help of staples. If the upholstery is planned with a special pattern, then the marking is carried out on the fixed with from above.

If the imitation leather should be fixed only along the perimeter, the decorative nails are clogged at the same distance from each other in 60 ÷ 80 mm. The material is stretched during the nailing process, since after completion of work it should be perfectly even.

Outside trim of the wooden door

The outer door trim that opens into apartment is as follows:

• Preliminary with closed with a pencil on the door , the rectangle of the door frame is drawn, this line shows how far from the edge the upholstery should be installed. The remaining distance will be necessary for the "quarter" chosen in the door jamb.
• The next stage fixes the insulation material with a deviation from the drawn line inward by one centimeter.
• Then the main material of the skin with bending its edge in in is knocked on the door along the contoured line, is similar to internal mounting, but the bottom edge of the material is left free.

• box. With the external of the side, a heat roller is installed with of the three sides of the not on the door of the , but on the posts and the door frame of the door frame except the lower side.It is absolutely pointless to nail such a roller to the threshold, since it will not perform its functions, besides it quickly will come off or will erase from constant contact with the shoes of people passing through the door.

The dermatine strip is fastened with a stapler to the joint, in the is installed with a strip of insulation, the second side of the material is filled with inside , forming a roller and nailed with decorative nails. The roller should be on the door with the its closing for 15 - 20 mm, but you need to make sure that it does not fall on the keyhole.

• The lower heat roller can not be too volumetric , it is attached to the door leaf itself and must fit snugly against the threshold.
• Next, the is pulled on the lower roller and the main upholstery fabric is nailed.
• The last stage, after the upholstery of both sides, is installed all door accessories - eye , handles and locks. It is very important to carefully make small incisions on the skin. The main thing - is not to cut the material more than it is required, otherwise the door will immediately lose its respectable appearance.

Video: Wood front door upholstery option

Features on the metal door

The metal door is usually installed as an external door, always opening outwards . Its will also be well insulated from inside and transform from both sides of .

Exterior

Converting and insulating the metal door, do not use thermal rollers around the perimeter. This door has a completely different purpose - it is used as the main protection of the entrance to the dwelling and ill-wishers, and only then - as additional protection from the cold.

Mounting of upholstery and insulation on the meta with the on the outside is done on the adhesive. Heat insulation in this case, is cut by a size of 10 ÷ 15 m m m is less than the door leaf , both in length and width. Upholstery same material should exceed its size by 50 - 60 mm - this part of the material will go to bend around metal shelves door canvas .

• On the metal surface, the retreats from the edge of 10 ÷ 15 mm, and in several places in the middle of the plane is applied with adhesive strips.
• Then it is stacked insulation and well pressed against the door leaf. Need to give time to glue under the heater to dry out. A specific period will be specified in the instructions for the use of a particular formulation.
• Next, you can proceed to sticking leatherette. On the back of the metal plate from the top of the door, a distance of 50 mm is applied glue. He needs to give a few minutes to grasp.

• glue. Then, having marked the middle of the width of the door and the cladding material, it must be applied to the glued place by the marks and carefully pressed, after which the give the some time for a good setting.
• The next step in the same way, the side parts of the door are glued in sequence - the cladding material is bent and glued onto the shelves. If a dermatitis excess is formed during stretching, even a few millimeters, it must be cut with a sharp knife, otherwise it will interfere with closing the door. If the cladding material is sufficiently tight, then, perhaps, the will have to cut the corners of the so that the skin is as neat as possible.

Inside

If the inside of the metal door is not insulated, then you should think about this event. Usually, on the reverse side, the metal door looks like a frame welded from corners and a profile pipe on which a metal sheet, which acts as a door leaf, is welded. He's already covered with artificial leather.

Now you need to insulate and trim the inside of the door.

- In this case, for insulation perfectly polystyrene foam having a thickness of the door frame is suitable.

- Wooden rails of the same thickness are also needed.

- Sealing joints and seams require mounting foam.

- It is necessary to prepare a drill with a drill bit for self-tapping screws for metal.

- For interior decoration can be used thin plywood, soft insulation and imitation leather.

• The first step to the frame is to fix the wooden bars. To do this, in the corners or profile pipe, drill holes and fix the straps with screws. Reiki are necessary in order to be convenient for them to attach plywood or other internal lining.

• To remove the "cold bridges", fill the gap between the possible slots between the metal and the slats. It, by the way, will give additional rigidity fastening of racks, as possesses also the expressed gluing properties.

• . Once the slats are screwed and treated with foam, polystyrene panels are installed between them. The slots between them and the slats are also carefully filled with mounting foam.

foam

• While the foam will dry, you can prepare the plywood sheet. Its thickness should be chosen in such a way that the door is easily pressed against the doorway, especially as the on it will be still installed insulation and casing.
• Plywood billet should have the size of the inside of the door, insulated with polystyrene foam, plus the width of the frame along the top and bottom sides of the perimeter of the door leaf.
• A thin insulation is applied to the entire area of ​​the plywood.
• Next, the plane is completely tightened with leatherette, with a bend to the inside. The material is fixed to the glue and is additionally fixed in several places by brackets.
• When the panel is completely ready, it marks the location of the wooden slats, fastened to the metal frame. This process needs to be done very carefully, so that on the casing there are hardly visible points on which decorative nails will be hammered.
• It is possible that in the corners of the it is necessary for to make another one hole and fix the corners of the plywood sheathing with screws to ensure a tight fit of this overlay to the metal frame.

Video: Upholstery of a metal door with its insulation

It should be noted that, , if desired, , the plywood cover can be replaced with a regular lining made of natural wood or laminated Fiberboard . Its , starting from below, is attached to the same installed racks.

The door is skinned with dermatitis - is quite simple. Having done this work independently, the owner of the apartment can save a fairly large amount. To facilitate the calculations of and the upholstering process will be able to purchase a ready-made kit, which includes a set of materials designed for the decoration of a standard door.

Video: an interesting version of the upholstery with the use of the ready-made kit