Coupe doors with your own hands

Doors of the coupe with their own hands are not easy to install - a similar task can be safely attributed to the category of increased complexity. However, "difficult" does not mean "impossible" at all, if is good at understanding the design, in its mechanisms, and if does not mount the in a hurry, carefully measuring the required parameters and performing all the required operations sequentially.

It's clear that you need to have all the necessary tools and have good stable skills of working with them. If all these conditions seem not to be prohibitive, then one can undertake the independent manufacture and installation of the door-compartment.

Choosing this or that design of a similar door, the owner of the house is simply obliged to first know about the its advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages and disadvantages of sliding door constructions

sliding doors in an apartment or house, especially in rooms with small squares, have a lot of advantages:

• This saves space and the ability to use it for another purpose.
• This design visually increases the size of the wall.
• The absence of thresholds can also be attributed to the merits - this is very important if the house has small children, people of advanced age or with disabilities - suffering from impaired functions of the musculoskeletal system.
• There is a possibility to split one room into two zones - this is actual for a one-room apartment when the room performs several appointments at once.
• These doors, when properly assembled, are very simple and easy to use ;
• Sliding doors are able to make an avaricious layout of a typical apartment individuality, affect the aesthetic transformation of the interior.

This design has its own disadvantages, which is also important to know:

• Since when closing the sliding doors between its canvas and the box in the door there will be gaps, the room will not be fully soundproof .
• If the door is installed in the kitchen, it will not be able to fully hold the smells in this room.
• The installation of such a door must be carefully calibrated, otherwise it may be skewed. The door leaf can be wedged in, and it will not open and close ;
• If a door is selected consisting of two flaps, then mounting the of its will be much more difficult, since the halves need to perfectly match each other ;
• Even the simplest sliding door coupe has a rather high cost.

Types of door-coupe

is known to all , the sliding doors or sliding doors differ from traditional ones in that their cloths do not open on hinges, but run along the wall along special guides. Such structures are divided into three subtypes - suspended, suspended cassette and with doors with top and lower guide. Let's look at them closely to find out where and when which door will be optimal:

Suspended door-coupe

Suspended doors - is the most popular option, since they are the easiest to assemble and do not require the dismantling of a part of the wall.

These doors are suspended on a special design, which is fixed to the ceiling or to the walls. The door leaf runs along the guide rail. The fastening and guide elements can be open or they are decorated with an camouflage box.

The door leaf in this construction is in a suspended position a few centimeters from the wall and from the floor. Therefore, from the side on which the canvas is located, it will not be possible to put any from furniture items flush against the wall.

hanging door device To ensure that the concealing structure of the suspension box does not spoil the interior of the room, you should immediately consider its design and location. Such a casing can only close the rail on which the door leaf will walk, or fix it from the wall of the to the wall of the .The second option will be particularly preferable if the structure is to be installed under the ceiling. Another one option is to install a box around the perimeter of the room. In this case, it can become a disguise for a window curtain with curtains. Naturally, such fastening will be appropriate only if the height of the window and door windows is at the same level.

The second version of the suspended door is almost no different from the first in design. The only difference is that the guide rail is not attached to the wall or ceiling, but directly to the door .

Suspended cassette doors-coupe

This version differs from hanging doors in that the system with guides is hidden in the thickness of the wall. Accordingly, and the door leaf will go into the wall, into a kind of cassette arranged according to the size of the leaf.

The assembly of this structure can be made in various ways:

• When building a house - directly when erecting partitions between rooms.
• With light device, partitions made of metal profiles and plasterboard.
• The is hollowed out in the niche wall of the required size and depth, and after installing the door structure - closing the with its gypsum board.
• Installation of a conventional hanging door, and then closing and its , and the whole wall with a plasterboard "screen".In this case, the will have to sacrifice the area of ​​the room, since the wall constructed and the gap left for the door will be stolen from the total area of ​​about 150 mm.

Similar to , the of a true sliding structure will cost much more than conventional hanging doors, since the installation is almost identical to the construction of a new wall.

However, one should pay tribute to the fact that the aesthetics and comfort of this kind of door " at times " is higher than all other designs. If is properly performed by , the 's lifetime is practically unlimited in time.

To the wall in which the door hides, you can put any piece of furniture on top of it, so as it absolutely will not interfere with the movement of the canvas. The design of the door and of its frame can be made in different styles and from different materials, so it is always possible to choose a suitable under the general interior option.

Doors with top and bottom rail

In this version, the door leaf of the door is not suspended, but walks along a rail mounted in the floor.

This design is more difficult to install, since the will have the to perfectly fit the upper and lower brackets. But it is significantly more reliable than and more stable than systems suspended from the top only. The door leaf moves along the rails with the help of rollers, which in this case are fixed both from above and from below.

. To the minuses of the doors with the lower guide rail, one can attribute the profile to the floor, creating for it a special long and narrow groove. In addition, there is another one "Achilles heel" - in the recess of the guiding profile can collect dust, dirt, small debris - they are able to slow down, slow down the free movement of the door leaf. Therefore, , installing such a structure, it is necessary that t t carefully monitor the ideal cleanliness of the runners.

Despite the on the on the , the reliability of the of this option, it is still more often used not for interior coupe doors, but in the of the same-named cabinets.

What kind of door coupe system I have been chosen for, it can have one door leaf, two or even more. The choice according to this criterion will depend on the width of the of the opening, in which the door will be installed, and the desire of the owner of the housing.

Assembly materials and tools

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tool. To manufacture and install a similar door structure, you will need tools that will help you work quickly and neatly. So, at hand should be the following:

• Electric jigsaw and circular saw - they are necessary for sawing a bar and metal guides.
• A set of hand carpentry tools - a hammer( mallet), screwdrivers , chisels, planes and .
• Screwdriver will be required for the accurate screwing of self-tapping screws and other fastening elements . when fastening hardware.
• Electrodrill with set r for I work with wood and for making holes for screws of fittings in profiles.
• Plumbing and building level, measuring tape, pencil, gon.
• To bring the finished wooden structure to an ideal evenness, a vibrating or eccentric sanding machine can be used.

Materials and parts

For door assembly you need:

• One or two door leaves. Buying them, you need to know their weight, because this parameter will need to select and fittings. The door leaf is selected depending on the chosen design. Typical dimensions of the door leaf in relation to the opening will be given in the table below:

- if the curtain is selected, the blade must be higher than the of the door opening;

- if a cassette compartment door is installed, the blade must be lower than the of the opening;

- when installing a door on two rails, the web should be larger than the of the opening in the open version and as less if it is done in the cassette version, ie .go into the wall.

• One metal rail( rail), if the door is suspended and two - lower and upper, if the rollers on the canvas are fixed on both sides. The rails must have a length equal to the double width of the blade. If the two canvases, then, respectively, and the guide should be more than their width four times.
• The block of size 50 × 50 mm and the length equal to the prepared rail.
• Rollers and fasteners for them, matched to the thickness and weight of the door.

• Two casing, one of which will be installed on the side, and the second - will close the top hinged structure, or instead a camouflage box will be installed. Clysters can be mounted on the sides in such a way that the fabric when opening and closing will enter one of them.
• One or two door closer, which will bring the door to the right place on the rail.
• Door handle - one or two.
• Anchor fasteners for installation of a bar on a wall.
• Self-tapping screws.
• Decorative nails can be used to fix the platbands.

Name	Miniature
Self-tapping screw with press cup for hanging plate 4 × 40
Screw for fixing floor guide profile 4 × 15
Screw for fastening profile 4 × 60
Screw for fastening bottom guide rail 3 × 30
Door handle
Rubber seal
Spanner horn No. 13 and hexagon No. 5
Bottom stop
Anchor fasteners
Floor rail
Roller suspension
Closer

As the most popular in the installation are theesnye doors, the dimensions are exactly for this design, although they can come up and for a system with two rails.

Conformance table for openings and doors for single-leaf hanging coupe:

Size of the door-compartment( width, height in mm)	Size of the doorway( width, height in mm)	External size of the door unit with casing( width, height in mm)	Height of fixing the lumber bar from the clean floor in mm	Mortgage lengthlugs in mm
Without frame	With frame
600 × 2000	540 × 1975	565 × 1975	704 × 2042	2047	1300
700 × 2000	640 × 1975	665 × 1975	804 × 2042	2047	1500
800 × 2000	740 × 1975	765 × 1975	904 × 2042	2047	1700
900 × 2000	840 × 1975	865 × 1975	1004 × 2042	2047	1900
600 × 2100	540 × 2075	565 × 2075	704 × 2142	2147	1300
700 × 2100	640 × 2075	665 × 2075	804 × 2142	2147	1500
800 × 2100	740 × 2075	765 × 2075	904 × 2142	2147	1700
900 × 2100	840 × 2075	865 × 2075	1004 × 2142	2147	1900
600 × 2200	640 × 2175	640 × 2175	640 × 2175	804 × 2242	2247	1500
800 × 2200	740 × 2175	765 × 2175	904 × 2242	2247	1700
900 ×2200	840 × 2175	865 × 2175	1004 × 2242	2247	1900

Dimensions of the sliding door with two doors:

Size of the door-compartment( width, height in mm)	Size of the doorway( width, height in mm)	External size of the door unit with casing( width, height in mm)	Height of fixing the lumber bar from the clean floor in mm	Length of the mortgagelumber in mm
Without border	With border
600 + 600 × 2000	1143 × 1975	1165 × 1975	1304 × 2042	2047	2500
700 + 700 × 2000	1343 × 1975	1365 × 1975	1504 × 2042	2047	2900
800 + 800 ×2000	1543 × 1975	1565 × 1975	1704 × 2042	2047	3300
900 + 900 × 2000	1743 × 1975	1765 × 1975	1904 × 2042	2047	3700
600 + 600 × 2100	1143 × 2075	1165 × 2075	1304 × 2142	2147	2500
700 + 700 × 2100	1343 × 2075	1365 × 2075	1504 × 2142	2147	2900
800 + 800 × 2100	1543 × 2075	1565 × 2075	1704 × 2142	2147	3300
900 + 900 × 2100	1743 × 2075	1765 × 2075	1904 × 2142	2147	3700
600 + 600 × 2200	1143 × 2175	1165 × 2175	1304 × 2242	2247	2500
700 + 700 × 2200	1343 × 2175	1365 × 2175	1504 × 2242	2247	2900
800 + 800 × 2200	1543 × 2175	1704 × 2242	2247	3300
900 + 900 × 2200	1743 × 2175	1765 × 2175	1904 × 2242	2247	3700

The canvas is best purchased in the finishedform. But if desired, you can make it yourself, for example, from laminated chipboard .However, professionally made canvas with smooth, perfectly finished edges, will look more aesthetically.

Making the door leaf

If after all it is decided to make the doors yourself, you will need one or two panels of the chipboard of the desired size. As an example, you can take the following dimensions: door door, edged with a box 765 × 1975 mm will require a canvas size of 800 × 2000 mm.

To ease the weight of the door, it is recommended to cut out a rectangle or one or two squares in it, and later install glass or thinner plywood - like panels.

• At first the canvas should be marked - from its edges it is necessary to retreat not less than 150 mm.
• Further, the middle of the blade is cut using an electric jigsaw. For this, a through hole is drilled in one of the corners of the marked figure, into which a nail file is inserted. Carefully, around the perimeter, the middle of the panel is sawed.
• It's not hard to cut 's heavy door part , it's harder to give it a presentable look. For this, it is necessary to decorate the ends of the chipboard both along the perimeter of the door, and inside the resulting frame with a special self-adhesive tape, which is fixed by heating the with its iron. When installing glass or decorated plywood, they are fastened with well-chosen in size and color glazing bead.
• Another option could be a door made of a well-treated bar, fastened with bridges from a narrower bar or from sturdy racks between which glass or plywood is installed.

If it seems that the door from the bar is easier to make, then this is not true, because it requires not only a quality, well-processed material, but also an irreproachable assembly. If one of these conditions is not met, the door frame may become deformed.

In addition, you need to have good carpentry equipment, which will allow you to make precise cuts and ideally process the surface of cut grooves, spikes, corners and other connecting units.

Assembly of the suspension

suspension door assembly The design of the door suspension consists of the following components:

1 - Angular guide rails;

2 - guides;

3 - carriage;

4 - threaded suspension;

5 - nut and lock nut;

6 - door leaf;

7 - door leaf grips;

8 - the stopper.

After manufacturing or purchasing a door leaf, all elements of the system must be fixed on it, which must be installed on the on it .It should be remembered that the glass, if it is provided for installation, is inserted last.

• To cut the handles on the door leaf, the holes on both sides of the panel are marked and cut out.

To accurately determine the position of the handles, from the edge of the door retreat 30 ÷ 50 mm, and using a corner draw a vertical line.

Next, you need to determine the width and height of the hole to be cut. For this purpose, the bottom of the handle is measured, and the resulting dimensions are transferred to the door leaf in accordance with the drawn vertical line.

The received rectangle is applied with a handle and outlined in a simple pencil. So you can get the correct even placement of the handle and round the edges of the rectangle to the desired radius.

The next stage of the is the drilling of the rounded edges of the .To do this, it will be necessary to take a round drill bit of the desired diameter, which on the sides of the marked shape is drilled two holes.

The remaining wood can be removed using a chisel and a hammer. This work needs to be done very carefully.

Having made two such holes, stick the handles in the door leaf from both sides.

• On the end part of the blade, a suspension plate with a roller structure is fixed. It should be noted that in different versions of the , the suspension plates can vary considerably. In some, as in this photo, the rollers are screwed to the suspension plate .And in others they can be inserted laterally into a special groove. The suspension plate itself is screwed with screws with press washers on the defined by the distance from the edge. Typically, a detailed installation instruction for a concrete structure with the specified parameters is applied to the suspension system precisely for the on the .
• Next, the rollers are fixed to the bottom of the door. This element of the system can also have a different design, so it's best to purchase the guides and rollers in the kit.

• After the on the door will be installed the necessary elements, you can proceed to the installation of guide rails, which will go rollers. The guides are fixed to the floor and wall or just the wall, depending on the chosen system.

• To ensure that the lower part of the structure is level and stable, under it is necessary to fasten the with a reliable support, which is most often buried in the surface of the finished floor, but sometimes fixed on top of the floor covering. In the latter case, a low threshold is formed. As a support, a perfectly flat board with a width of the lower guide is used. The holes for fastening in the support board and in the are drilled by the .The upper part is milled "under grind " - this is necessary in order for the self-tapping screw to be completely recessed into the board. Precisely as it is necessary to prepare holes in the guide.

• A lower rail is fixed on top of the support board, along which the roller mounted on the lower end of the door-compartment will move. The rail may have one or two tracks, depending on the design of the door.
• To prevent the door from jumping out of the rail, it is recommended to install a stopper.

The stopper is enough to install the just , the main thing is that it is selected the correct width. It is pushed into the rail track. The spring curved upper plates abut the upper part of the track.

A gap is formed between the upper plates of the stopper, and when the roll goes inside the track, it runs into one from the of the fired stopper pieces, and then enters the space formed between them. The second curved part of the stopper does not allow the roller to move further and go beyond the rail. Thus, the door leaf is fixed in one place.

Open the door-compartment easily - it is enough to apply a small force in the direction of opening, and the roller will pop out of the gap of the stopper, and the door will freely travel along the guide.

• . Further, the goes to the mounting of the upper rail, it is usually fixed to a previously bolted to the wall by means of anchor fasteners. To ensure that the upper guide is strictly located above the lower one, a plumb line is used for accurate measurement, and for the horizontal - the building level.

beam The next step is screwing the upper rail to the rail, into which the door with the suspension system will be installed. It is recommended to install a stop in the upper rail. It must be fixed evenly above the lower stopper, over its part, which fixes the roller when it hits the gap.

• In addition, often in the kit, the includes the door closer, which does not allow the door to remain unopened .
• For a quieter running of the rollers in the metal structure of the rails, a rubber seal is fixed in them. It can be laid both in the upper and lower rail.
• After fixing the guide rails, the door is hung in a suspended structure. First, through the lateral hole in the , the upper guide starts the upper rollers, and then the door leaf needs to be raised slightly and the support rollers installed in the lower rail track.
• If there are two, then first one of them is installed, and then second, and then the motion limiter is screwed.
• The last stage of the is the installation of a camouflage box or platbands. These elements are screwed or nailed with decorative nails to the bar, on which the suspension structure is fixed.

In conclusion, I would like to remind you that the variety of coupe door designs is quite large. At purchase it is not necessary to select each element separately - is better to get all necessary in the complete set and with the corresponding instruction. Kits is selected for the thickness and width of the doors and of the door of the opening, so first you need to make or buy a canvas, and then you have to choose a suspension system with the required parameters.

At present, the assortment of various door leaves is very wide, and you can choose the best for both price and design. Therefore, it is still better to buy a ready-made leaf and select the corresponding kit for and for its installation. Remains only to assemble and fix the entire design of the door-compartment in place.

Video: installation of the interior door