Each of us knows what summer heat is and how hard to experience the lack of oxygen indoors. It is just unbearable, and also harmful to health. In addition, in the summer, we do flies, mosquitoes and other insects, which, at the first convenient case, penetrate the room to break the sleep and bite the owners.
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To get rid of these unpleasant moments, there are mosquito nets that are installed on windows and doors. Mosquito doors have recently become in demand, and not only in urban apartments, but also in private houses.
Install such a mosquito door to a balcony or in the doorway is not difficult, the main thing is to determine the door type.
What are the varieties of mosquito doors
Doors with a thin meshe, protecting people from insects, there are two types:
- Swing.
- Sliding.
The first can be installed on any doorway. The main thing is to decide exactly where defense should stand: on the balcony or inlet. Due to the fact that the balcony door has a smaller size than the entrance, manufacturers make plastic mosquito doors.
For the entrance door it is better to use a stronger material - aluminum or metal profile. This rule should be strictly respected if there is a two-sided door in the room.
In this case, both on the balcony and inlet door, an additional design with a mosquito net is installed in the opposite direction of opening the main door. It turns out that the door protecting from insects will be opened inward if the main door opens outwards, and vice versa. The handle is located on the opening side. If you see the design of a mosquito door, in which there are ordinary loops (without a closer), then in this case, from the opposite side there should be a small handle that allows you to cover the door.
Sliding models of the mosquito doors are made directly under the door itself from the same profile, but instead of glass mosquito net is installed.
Features of structures
Installing swing mosquito doors to the balcony and the loggia is particularly relevant if they are not glazed. Making such designs optionally only on plastic doors, it is possible to anyone, since the door is a separate element with loops, latch and handle.
The door profile can be both standard white and brown. If you choose a color profile, then in this case the cost of the mosquito door will be slightly higher.
Also, the price of the mosquito doors will depend on the type of protective coating. If you have chosen a grid treated with impregnation against domestic scratches ("anticress") or with a smaller cell with dust protection, then in this case the price of the door will be more expensive.
Installation of the mosquito door will cost from 400 to 500 rubles, but if you have the necessary tools, then if you wish, you can put it yourself.
The design of the sliding doors is a movable element that is installed on the guides. Moves the door on the rollers in the specified direction.
The sliding door is made from the same material as the profile. The price will vary depending on the choice of mosquito net, but in any case it will be significantly higher than the swing door.
How to choose a mosquito net
In stores you can see a different mesh that will be different in color and cell size. In order for the door to harmonize with the overall interior of the room, choose a transparent or white grid.
If you are afraid that over time, spots will be visible on the bright canvase (it is especially true in the village), then buy a grid of green or blue.
When buying a web, take the material with a margin. This will save you if you are a little calculated and made an approximate calculation. Add five or ten centimeters to your measurements.
Now you can see a grid with different cell size. Naturally, take the cloth with the smallest hole so that insects could not penetrate the room.
In stores you can meet a special mosquito net, its price will be slightly higher than that of the usual. It depends on what formas it is impregnated: with protection against pets of domestic animals, repellent dust or anti-allergenic coating.
How to make a mosquito door
If you wish, you can make mosquito doors with your own hands. You can buy everything you need in any construction store.
What materials do you need:
- mosquito cloth of the desired size;
- wooden timber (four pieces, size thirty to forty millimeters);
- loops for doors (choose the desired direction - left or right);
- self-tapping screws (thirty-forty pieces);
- doorhandle;
- self-sample size of sixty millimeters (twenty pieces);
- hook and ear;
- stapler for fastening the mesh and brackets (size eight millimeters);
- nails are two centimeters long (fifty pieces);
- lubrication or machine oil;
- cord for fastening mosquito cloth.
Instruments:
- roulette;
- hammer;
- corner;
- screwdriver or screwdriver;
- hacksaw;
- pencil or marker.
Attention! If you want to install a mosquito door in an old house, then learn the doorway - it can have a non-standard form. Therefore, with a building meter, measure the width of the opening from all sides.
Before you start work, take the sheet and make the door drawing, write down the size of the door cloth. Such preparation will help you not be mistaken in the future.
How to make measurements
Before proceeding with the build of a wooden frame, you need to make accurate measurements. Standard wooden frame profile width - twenty-five millimeters. It turns out that when the sash is open, the profile will not be visible, so it is necessary to add another fifty-millimeters to the width and height. Ensure that the side (from the wall of the house) has a distance to install fasteners. From above, you must have forty-five millimeters, and at the bottom - forty.
If you see that at the top of the frame "leaves" for a quarter (features of old windows in "Stalinki"), in this case the attachments are installed on the sides.
How to make a wooden frame
- Wooden woodcut saw the wooden bar into four parts. For upper slats, you need to subtract six millimeters on each side. If this is not done, then the door will be difficult to open.
- Prepare vertical strips. On each side, remove three millimeters from below and from above so that the strips are docked with transverse.
- Take the self-tapping screw and plunge it into machine oil. It should easily enter the tree. If you want, you can drill in advance holes with a drill (drill size - two millimeters),
- Now you can collect a wooden framecher so that the touchscore "hit" in the doorway.
- With the help of a building corner, check that all four angle are equal to the ninety degrees.
- Now you can insert the frame in the doorway and fasten the corners of wooden chips to make sure that it is made correctly.
- Important moment after fitting - installation of loops. Due to the fact that the thickness of the bar in our case is only eighteen centimeters - to attach the loop with self-draws will not work. Bar can split. Therefore, it is necessary to neatly drill holes using thin and long screws.
- If you wish, you can paint the frame of the paint, open lacquer or simply pollip the surface.
How to attach the grid
Remove the frame from the loops and put on the floor or on the table. Take a mosquito cloth and impose it on the frame. Put the allowances for three centimeters on each side. The extra mesh is then easy to remove with scissors.
Formed sticking edges, adjust the frames into the frame and secure them with a staple with the frame. Break the mesh at the same distance. Make sure that the canvas lay smoothly and disappeared.
Now the finished mosquito door can be attached to the doorway and fasten with loops by a predetermined pencil mark.
Do not forget to fasten the inside and the hook, so that no one can open the door outside at night.
Now it remains to check the mosquito door in action.
How to make a door with a mosquito net - look at this video:
