Doors dismantling: step -by -step instructions

Each owner who started a major overhaul in an old apartment is faced with the problem of dismantling interior or entrance doors. It would seem that there is a difficult one - to remove the canvas from the loops and “uproot” the box. But not everything is so simple. As practice shows, if you want to get an even and beautiful doorway, you need to delete the old structure correctly. We will talk about how to dismantle the doors in this article.

Break - do not build: Features of dismantling

Many inexperienced self-taught builders mistakenly believe that to remove the old door, it is enough to only slide the jambs from the wall. But in practice, everything is not so simple. Often, with improper and aggressive dismantling, not only the door structure, but also part of the wall is destroyed. This situation is especially common in old Soviet houses, where fragile gypsolite plates were used to build interior partitions.

If you do not want you to lose part of the wall when dismantling interior doors, you need to approach work creatively. First of all, decide whether you need an old door or you are going to take it on the last journey - to the landfill. In the first case, dismantling must be carried out carefully so as not to damage components, for example, if you want to rearrange the door from the apartment to the country. If the box and all its elements do not need you, there is a faster and “merciless” method, which we will talk about a little later.

But no matter what way you choose the old doors, the work must be done carefully as possible so as not to damage the wall. Otherwise, after removing the box, you will have to spend time and money on putty and plastering.

But first a little theory. Any such design consists of two vertical racks, one horizontal crossbar from above and the door leaf itself, sometimes there is also a lower horizontal - spike. Often the old doors for their long life managed to survive 5, or even 10 sessions of painting, becoming a thicker one more millimeters, and therefore heavier.

The paint has long hidden the slightest hints of the location of screws, nails and other mounts, but at an intuitive level you can still recognize where what is located. So, usually a wooden block is located between the pie and the door box. Its thickness was selected in such a way that the vertical racks were located strictly perpendicular to the floor surface. Large nails 120 or 150 mm long were driven into this beam: two in the left vertical stance, two in the right, and one (sometimes two) - in the upper horizontal crossbar. If the doors have not changed 30-50 years, then these nails probably managed to rust, so just like that it will not work to remove the box.

In order not to uproot part of the wall with the bars, use a nail or mount. You will also need a hammer, ax and saw (hacksaw).

A sparing way

In this chapter, we will tell you how to remove the door and the box so that they can be used in the future.

Progress:

1. Remove the door leaf, slipping between the door and the floor of the Fomc to make the semblance of a lever. Gently opening and closing the door, begin to lift the canvas, pressing on a lever-monitoring.
   
   It is better to do this together, since the old Soviet doors are quite heavy, especially if you are dismantling the front door. If the hinges do not react to your manipulations, perhaps they are rusted or plowed very much. In this case, apply grease (it is better to use anti -corrosion lubricant in a spray that instantly removes rust), wait a couple of minutes and try again. Complete removal of the canvas should be done in an open form, otherwise the door will come into the horizontal crossbar at the top.
   
2. When the door leaf is set aside, you can proceed to the elimination of the platbands. It is not worth worrying about the preservation of the old platbands, since in most cases they are in a rather deplorable state and are covered with a thick layer of old enamel. Apply the tip of the ax in the hole between the platband and the box or anywhere higher, if all the nails are covered with paint and nothing is visible. Hold the ax with one hand, the other is a hammer.
3. With a slight, but confident movements, forget the ax and disconnect the platband from the box.
   
4. In the expanding gap, you can see the largest nails. Bring the ax for one of them and push the platband to the maximum limit. Repeat the same procedure in the locations of other nails. As a result, you must easily separate the entire platband from the door frame.
5. Since the platbands are available on both sides, repeat similar actions on the other part of the wall. Unfortunately, almost always the platband breaks. During the heyday of Soviet engineering and construction, nails were made very thick and durable, and the platbands were placed rather thin, so it is not possible to remove them with rusted nails. But, fortunately, making new and more aesthetic platbands today is quite simple and inexpensive. In addition, if you recall that on the stanger the platband has already dried up half a centimeter of faded enamel and it cannot be launched even on firewood, then it will be more reasonable to get a new frame for the door.
6. So, the platbands are removed, and in front of you there was a door box with iron loops. Before trying to tear it out of the wall, remember that it is nailed to the leveling bars with long 150 mm nails. Carefully examine one of the vertical racks-if you can see the point of the lower mount (a nail or bar), retreat from it up about 20 cm. If the fasteners are not visible, then retreat from the floor 60-80 cm and rewind the rack.
   
7. A little higher than the resulting cut, insert the tip of the ax so that it is between the doorway and the wooden stand, and then confidently press the rack from the wall. Thus, you simultaneously remove the rack and pull out a nail from the wall.
8. Do the same with the opposite part and the upper crossbar. When the first stand was removed, the dismantling of doors with your own hands is much faster and easier.
   
9. It makes no sense to save a door block that has served 30 years or more - today you can use more modern, durable and inexpensive materials or put the same tree, only fresher.

We described one of the most problematic options for dismantling the doors using large nails as fasteners. If you see that the elements are fastened with screws, then disassemble such a box is not difficult - just use the screwdriver.

Video about the dismantling of the door will help you more accurately work:

A quick way

If you plan to get rid of the old door and are not going to install it elsewhere, use a simpler and more quick way to dismantle the box.

For work, you will need the following tools:

• axe;
• a hammer;
• crowbar;
• wood hacksaw.

How to quickly dismantle the door:

1. Remove the door leaf, as described in the previous instructions - it is no longer possible to make this stage easier and faster.
2. It makes no sense to disassemble the door frame, so it’s easier to break it. This is very easy to do if you do a cut in the central part of one of the vertical racks.
3. Using a hacksaw, make a cut, but not perpendicular, but at an angle of about 45 °.
   
4. If the door frame has a pigeon, it is also better to cut it in the center.
5. If the threshold is fixed in the doorway above the floor, then it is easy to “uproot” it with a crowbar.
6. The platbands will be able to quickly tear off if the edge of the ax is driven between them and the box beam. Take the axle hilt so that there is a gap sufficient to further work with the crowbar.

We remind you that if you do not need the old door box, then the remaining wall will be useful for installing a new door, so do the work as accurately as possible.

Dismantling the plastic door

Plastic and metal -plastic doors have long ceased to be a novelty, and much less often you can see a high -quality massive canvas made of wood than the usual design shining with pristine whiteness. However, for the proper operation, repair and adjustment, you need to know some secrets that are not known to all owners of plastic doors.

The most important thing is to understand the device and functioning of the loops on which the door rests. Then you can use all its potential to the maximum, independently repair or remove the entire structure. The loop consists of several elements: a steel tab, a frame with fixing pins, a distance sleeve located between the tab and the frame.

Dismantling the door on the balcony

If you try to dismantle the plastic door according to the above instructions, you will not succeed. The fact is that such structures have their own installation features and, therefore, dismantling, so you need to remove them in a special way.

Dismantling of the balcony door:

1. Remove the protective caps covering the loops.
   
2. Take a hammer and gently knock out the axial mechanism, slightly opening the door.
3. When the edges of the axial mechanism appear from below, grab it with thin pliers and pull it down until it comes out completely.
4. Tilt the door on yourself, holding it tightly with your free hand (it is quite heavy), and lift 5 cm to free the pin of the lower support. Since the loops are not fixed in such designs, the door can be easily removed, slightly lifting and driving aside.

The deontage of the front door

The device of the plastic entrance door differs from the balcony, therefore, dismantling is a little different. The main difference is that the entrance doors have an enhanced design, and double -glazed windows are not installed in them.

The structure of the loops is also different - they are more powerful, strengthened and have an anti -icmal system. The entrance plastic door has three loops, in the balcony - two. This is due to the fact that the door is quite heavy, and two loops would not have coped with such a load.

In principle, the dismantling procedure occurs according to the same scenario as at the balcony door, with the only difference that you need help - you can’t remove the front door alone. When you raise the door from the loops, it must be kept tight, and only two can cope with this.

Dismantling the metal door

In most new buildings, apartments are commissioned with entrance metal doors, but, unfortunately, they seem reliable only at first glance. In fact, this is an ordinary sheet of steel, not fortified, and even more so that does not have insulating properties. The owners of such apartments prefer to replace the designs with new ones or insulate the existing ones, but first you need to somehow remove the canvas.

The dismantling of the metal door is quite simple:

1. Beat the plaster near the door slope to open the fastening points of the doorbell.
2. Since modern metal doors are fixed using anchors or anchors, try unscrewing them with a key or screwdriver.
3. If the fasteners are not amenable, hollow them with a punch chute.
4. A layer of mounting foam is located between the pie and the door box - cut it with a knife to free the door.
5. Raise the door leaf and remove it from the hinges in an open form.
6. Next, you can remove the door frame and install a better door.

As you can see, it is not difficult to dismantle the old door, whether it is wooden, plastic or iron. The main thing is to do everything measuredly and neatly, so as not to spoil the opening in the wall, which is still useful to install a new door.