Installing the front door with your own hands

The reliability of the entrance doors depends not only on the quality of the structure itself, but also on compliance with the technology during installation. To perform the installation correctly and not to make serious mistakes, you should study the instruction in advance, carefully familiarize yourself with each stage of the work. With this approach, installing the front door with your own hands will not cause difficulties, and the end result will please more than one year.

Procedure for installing

Replacing the door frame or the installation of doors in a new building involves several steps:

• performing measurements;
• preparation of the opening;
• installation of the door structure;
• sealing of slots;
• finish.

Each process should be performed in the best possible way, without haste, using reliable and proven materials. Fastening of a door box is made by various ways, therefore before installation it is necessary to choose the most optimum to save materials and time.

Please be aware that the manufacturer's warranty is not issued in the case of a self-installation of the door, so if there are any damages during the installation, you will have to repair it at your own expense.

To avoid buying a defective product, you need to carefully remove the protective film in the store, carefully check the door leaf and frame, and then glue the polyethylene tape again. Finally, the film can be removed only after the installation and finishing - so the surface will remain clean and undamaged.

package Also, you should prepare everything you need to work in advance:

• perforator;
• hammer;
• building level;
• angle grinder;
• measuring tape;
• wooden or plastic wedges;
• cement solution;
• steel rods of 10 mm cross section or anchor bolts.

  Tools required

Measurement and preparation of the

For measurement, the doorway borders should be very clearly visible. Often the box is covered by a large layer of plaster throughout the perimeter, making it difficult to measure. Therefore, first remove the platbands from the lath, clean off the excess solution, if necessary dismantle the threshold. If the new box is wider than the previous one, it is necessary to measure the length of the support beam above the opening. It should be 4-5 cm more than the width of the door frame, otherwise the reliability of the fastening will be too low. When all the measurements are completed, you can proceed with the preparation of the opening.

Step 1. Dismantling the lath

In an old brick building, do the dismantling work carefully, so as not to damage the strong masonry;The same applies to walls of foam concrete. The door leaf is removed from the hinges, and then the bulb is cut in two or three places by a Bulgarian or a hacksaw. Then the box is poddeyvat scrap and removed from the opening.

Step 2. Clearing the opening

Along the perimeter of the opening after the removal of the chute, the pieces of the solution remain, cracks and voids open in the masonry of the walls. Beneath the threshold of destruction, they are particularly strong: brickwork crumbles, old beams rot. All this should be removed, the solution must be cleaned with a perforator, and the entire opening should be leveled.

opening Step 3. Fixing cracks and voids

Mix the cement slurry and rub all small cracks. Deep crevices are clogged with pieces of brick and covered with mortar. If you want to raise the floor, lay out a new substrate of brick or make a screed. Align the walls of the opening at this stage is not necessary, because during installation, minor damage to the surface is possible. The main thing is that there are no voids left inside that contribute to the penetration of cold into the dwelling.

Installing the entrance doors

When installing the doors you will need an assistant, because it is very difficult to lift and insert a heavy structure independently, even though the box and the canvas are mounted separately. The availability of mounting ears on the frame and ready-made wiring holes, which are carried out in the factory, will simplify the work.

Step 1. Installing the

box The door leaf is removed from the hinges and set aside. The box is raised and placed in the opening so that the door opens outward. It is very important to set the design level, otherwise it will be closed loosely or with difficulty, which is also undesirable.

Checking the vertical and horizontal of the box is necessary on each plane;if you level out the projections in the opening, they can be knocked down with a hammer or a perforator.

. To prevent the structure from moving, the installation position is fixed with wooden pegs. It is desirable to have pegs of even shape and in the form of wedges, then it is much easier to adjust the level. But it is not recommended to use nails for this - the box can move slightly, and it will have to be leveled again.

Step 2. Attaching the

structure You can fasten the door frame in the doorway in various ways, depending on the type of doors and the material from which it is made. At the perimeter of the frame there must be at least 10 fixation points - 2 at the bottom and top, and 3 on both sides.

1 option: fixing by anchors for eyelets.

This method is suitable for almost all designs;lugs on metal doors are made together with the body, and to the doors of wood and plastic are screwed with screws. Drill perforator pass into the eyelet and make a hole in the wall to a depth of 15 cm. An anchor is inserted into the wall and tightened with a socket wrench. The anchor can be replaced with a steel pin made of reinforcement with a section of 10 mm, sharpening one edge and flattening the second with a hammer. The pin is slammed into the hole until it stops and is welded to the eyelet.

2 option: installation of fasteners through the canvas. With this method, the holes are made in the butt end;Pins or bolts in the same way deepen into the wall and fasten directly on the box. In the wooden structure it is recommended to drill small depressions where the heads of the bolts will be hidden.

blade 3 option: fixation with metal grippers. This method is used for the installation of metal doors in buildings with monolithic walls;the main convenience is that you do not need to drill or drill holes. The door frame from the outside is held by a special edging, and from the inside - metal hooks welded to the inner part of the chute.

First fix the side on which the hinges are located;fasten from top to bottom. After tightening the first bolt, check the position of the box level to avoid skewing. Similarly, the vertical is checked after the second and third bolts. When this side is fixed, hang the door leaf and check the tension of the box.

If the door is easy to open, there are no deformations and gaps, you can attach the second side. The canvas is removed again and bolted with a vertical rack of the lath, as well as the threshold and lintel, without forgetting to control the level of the frame position. Again hang up the canvas, check the ease of movement and tension. If the tension is too strong, you should loosen the fasteners a little.

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Step 3. Completing the installation of

Once again remove the canvas so as not to stain the surface. The heads of the anchor bolts are closed with special plugs that match the color of the door leaf. The surface of the box is sealed with a sticky tape, then the technological gaps and indentations blow out with foam.

Very often instead of foam, a cement mortar with an admixture of alabaster is used - this increases the reliability of the structure at times. The solution is kneaded to a loose state and tightly clogs the gap between the wall and the frame along the entire perimeter.

Then grease the hinges, fasten the fittings to the door, glue the sealing tape around the perimeter.

After the solution has solidified, the door is shpaklyuyut and plastered, remove the tape from the box, hang the canvas. Thoroughly check the work of locks, handles, ease of movement. To ensure that the doorway looks neat, you need to install the casing from the outside. On wooden lath they are screwed with self-tapping screws, drowning the hats into a tree and covering them with putty. If the structure is metal, the casing is fastened with bolts or rivets. From the inside of the opening, slopes make the doors decorative and aesthetic.

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