When buying doors it is not necessary to spend money on a new door frame, because it can be made it with your own hands. The main difficulty lies not so much in the manufacture, as in the assembly of the frame to install the door, since the cutting of the connections and the marbles has its own specifics. In this article, we will consider in detail the entire process of manufacturing and installing the door box.
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Characteristics of construction
In most cases, in stores, the door canvas is sold separately from the box and finding a suitable model is quite difficult. In addition, the purchased box may not come in size in the doorway, especially if you built a house yourself or make redevelopment of the apartment.
Any door boxes have a similar design - this is a frame, folds and bars of which are fastened with a special way. Special bolts or steel lining are used as fasteners.
Measures and sawing
For the manufacture of the door frame, you will need special plumbing tools and the skills of contacting them. But first it is necessary to make accurate measurements so that when installing the finished box it does not arise unexpected difficulties.
There are two ways to remove measurements:
- by door;
- on the doorway.
For the first way, measure the side of the door and add to the resulting dimensions of 5 cm (the thickness of the door frame). After that, make measurements of the threshold and the top, making the same battery at 5 cm. Check the metro station and proceed to the manufacture of the corresponding box items. Then fold the drinks on the floor to the floor to the top, tighten the top and bottom edge of the future door, not forgetting to add the thickness of the ththelt. So that the cutting line is visible clearly, make a seat on the bars, which will be applied to the crossbar above and to the threshold.
Split prepared materials and pon them under the required dimensions. In one of the lateral blanks, take two small slots to install loops with the help of the chisel and the hammer. The side on which the slots will be made for the loop, is chosen depending on which direction the door will open.
Briefly, the whole process of manufacturing an interroom door frame is as follows:
- The smooth board with a thickness of at least 5 cm is collected into 4 equal parts, two of which correspond to the length of the door (doorway), and the remaining two - width.
- All elements are treated with three sides (the fourth side will be hidden in the wall, so it is pointless to spend it).
- Depending on the width of the board, an incision is made, where the door will be placed, and they make it only from the side where the door will open. Thus, protection from drafts and noise penetration is obtained.
- If you want to install a box for double doors, cuts should be on both sides.
- The ends of the parts are treated with a plane, grind the sandpaper, slightly smoothed the angles.
Standard dimensions of the door frame: the long elements of the door frame are 193 cm, and the crossbar - 90 cm. The depth of the cut should be about 1.5 cm with a width of the board of 5 cm.
Assembly and installation
To prevent irregularities in the process of installing the door frame in the opening, you must be able to use the construction level and plumb. If the box gets crookedly, the door will not be able to close tightly, or you will not get it on the loop at all.
If you install a box in an apartment or a house with stone walls, use wooden peasants and nails for fastening. When dismantling old doors in the homes of the Soviet building, you can see that then the box was fixed with long nails 120 or 150 mm. More information about this is set out in the article. "Dismantling of doors: step-by-step instruction".
If you are working with walls made of plates, only brackets can be used as fasteners.
Dristered door box
A very important point in the process of assembling the door box - the creation of marbles. The drink is sections on vertical and horizontal design elements, thanks to which all parts fit to each other as close as possible and securely. Professional doors collectors use two ways to feed - under 45 ° and at 90 °. Consider each of them in more detail.
When signing the box under 45 °, the master takes the boards and puts the mark from the inside of each of them - oblique lines to remove the extra and get an angle of 45 °. Then removes the unnecessary part, while the angle outside will be 45 °, and inside - 135 °. Length and width of all elements are saved. Little transverse bars are compiled from all sides, and vertical - only on top (at the bottom there is no need to cut, as the box will be stronger to stand on smooth "legs").
To assemble the door frame at 90 °, you must first place all parts of the design on a flat surface. Corners are neatly connected by self-drawing (2 pcs. In every corner). This method is much simpler and faster, however, the appearance of such a box is not as aesthetic, as in the case of 45 °. "Direct" boxes are mainly put in the barn, cellars, bathrooms and other similar rooms.
Installation of loops
Before inserting the door frame in the opening, it is necessary to cut a loop. They must be at least 20 cm from the extreme part of the door leaf. It is important to correctly calculate the depth of the loop entry into the element of the box. Consider that with a closed door between the door frame and the blade there is a gap of 4 mm. The easiest platform for the loop is cut with an electric cutter, but if this tool was not found, take advantage of ordinary chisels and hammer.
Attach a loop to the bar, circle a pencil and cut the desired part. For a regular wooden door, two pieces are enough - at the top and bottom. The lower loop should be 21 cm from the edge of the frame, since 1 cm must be left on the gap between the floor and the door.
Screw the loop and attach the door leaf to the box to move the location of the mounts. It remains only to cut similar recesses in the canvas and can be started to install the box.
How to install a door frame
The task of the door frame is to hold the door leaf in a steady position, so the design itself must be firmly "sit" in the opening. For reliable fixation of the box, specialists use two methods: strengthen the frame with small slats, located perpendicular to the racks, or add solid wide fastening corners. Putting the box in the opening, set the struts in it, which will fix it in the correct position. So it will be easier to screw the screws and finally consolidate the design.
During work, you constantly use a plumb to check the verticality of all items. Also control the evenness of the angles until the final fixation. The main difficulty lies in the fact that the door box can almost never get up perfectly the first time, and the situation has to be corrected. Small wedges or mounting foam are used to eliminate gaps between the frame and the wall.
When you seen a frame to the way, you should consolidate the box on the slopes. Check the strength of the design, make sure that nothing superfluous (wedges, struts, railings, etc.) do not stick to the corners and parties. To fix the box to the slopes, use a dowel. Before twisting to the end, check that the angle is equal to 90 °.
To "reflect" the door frame on top of it should be attached by the platbands. To do this, use self-tapping screws, nails or superproof building glue for wood. If you are using self-tapping screws, the caps can be covered with decorative plugs. On sale you can find platbands with special grooves that you just need to latch so that they are firmly held.
Assembling finished boxes
Fastening the door frame, as well as the assembly, a fairly specific task, with which it is difficult to cope with a person who does not have experience or at least theoretical fitter knowledge. If you are not sure about your abilities, it is better to purchase doors with a door frame. Such a ready-made kit is sold in a disassembled state and without hung loops so that the buyer choose on his own, in which direction the door will open.
The process of assembling the finished kit:
- Spread the bars of the box and make sure that the shortest of them has grooves. If there is no groove, it means that all parts of the door frame will have nails or self-drawing.
- Dock upper and side bars and carefully run them together. In order not to harm the wooden design, use the wooden in China.
- Lock the elements with self-draws, check the evenness of the angles and the strength of the structure.
- The protruding ends of the bars scream with the hacksaw so that they do not interfere with the assembly.
- Measure the width of the upper part of the design and cut the rail slightly longer, then adjust it to the lateral parts of nails.
- Remove the extra ends of the rail.
- On the inside of the horizontal crossbar from above, retreat 20 cm, attach a loop and circle it with a pencil.
- From the bottom, step 21 cm and drive the loop in the same way.
- Cut the window to fasten the loops by pre-calculating the depth (including 4 mm gap).
- Screw the loop with self-draws and attach a box to the door. Transfer the marking of the loops and cut the fastening points on the canvas.
- Measure the height of the doorway and make the appropriate mark on the bars.
- Carefully lift the P-shaped design and insert it in the opening.
- Check the position correctly with a construction level and a plumb.
- If you need to bother one of the sides, insert between the wall and the box of the suitable thickness.
- The remaining clearance fill in the mounting foam - it will not only make the position of the box even more, but also prevents the possibility of drafts.
- Attach the frame with dowels to sleep, remove the temporary struts, the spins of the speakers and install the platbands.
Video on the installation of the door frame will allow you to more clearly understand the process:
