How to assemble and install a door box

Much depends on the correct assembly and installation of the door frame. Skews and clearances can lead to loosening, jamming or other problems with the door, which will subsequently be eliminated.

The door box should be correctly fitted under the hung door, perfectly exposed on horizontal and vertical levels, as well as firmly fixed in the doorway. In addition, additional sealing is carried out when installing the door frame in order to exclude drafts and atmospheric effects on the wooden door.

Types of wooden door boxes for the house

1. Wooden boxes for doorways are made separately or complete with door leafs - blocks. The parameters of the door boxes depend on the width and heights of the openings and doors. In width, the doors are divided into single and double.
2. Closed doors for doors consist of four bars with a vote composed in the correct rectangle. Unmarked - consist of three bars, without a threshold. Such boxes are installed, as a rule, in the internal interior doorways.

Chemical processing of workpieces

1. In order for the box to stand for a long time, it must be treated with an antiseptic. After drying, the bars are covered in two to three layers of olifa. It is advisable to use natural olifa. Better heated, so it is absorbed deeper and dries faster. You can apply an Olifa with an ordinary brush.
2. A roofing material is laid under the threshold, and preferably a rubimast of two three layers. If the door is external, then to prevent rot of wood and fungus - a wooden door box is broken by roofing material along the entire perimeter.

Assembly of wooden doors

1. The height of the lateral vertical racks in fold ledges should be equal to the height of the door. The standard height of the door leaf is 200 mm. Add 2 - 3 mm of the gap between the onion and the base canvas of the door.
2. In the event that you plan the threshold, then add another 3 mm tolerance from the bottom. Without a rocking, the clearance is up to 1 cm, to prevent wiping in case of precipitation.
3. The door frame is assembled on the floor in a horizontal position. The angles are mounted by wood screws, and preferably furniture confirmation, previously drilled under their diameter of the hole. The tolerance for the standard installation of confirmation is 2-3 mm less than the diameter of the screw.
4. In a lying position, the door leaf itself with the door hinges screwed to it is applied to the wooden door frame.
5. A thin marking is made on the door box with a pencil under the clipping of the loops. The cells under them are abrasion, but the second fastener of the loop is screwed in the size and depth of the corresponding thickness of the loop.

Nuances of fastening wooden doorbells

1. Unmarried door boxes - should be securely fixed on the lags and logs.
2. For this, special grooves are made for proper fastening of a door wooden box. The nests selected by the bite are hidden by the decorative board of the performing the rock function.
3. Usually the spikes are nailed to the beams or lags with nails, which ensures the stability of the wooden door box.
4. Wooden door boxes are assembled from glued bars, which does not allow them to be tag and deform.
5. Collect door boxes on straight through spikes and glue. There is another way to fasten the box, for this long self -tapping screws are used in pre -sparkled holes with dowels.
6. The diagonal of bars of a wooden box provides proper strength and rigidity. The lumen _ okonopa is moist, that is, a cement or gypsum solution, and it is better to blow with mounting foam around the perimeter.

Installation of the box in the doorway

1. Set the door frame in the designed opening.  The loop side is aligned, but to the waterpasis. Prepared from wooden bars of mortgages - are adjusted in size and installed in vertical lateral racks.
2. It is advisable to flink before installing the embedded drill with a centered nose. By exposing the door box in level in the horizontal and vertical plane, you can start fastening.
3. Self -tapping screws in the holes are better not to be driven to the end. Having caused the box, gradually clamp the screws checking the level in all parameters. With self -tapping screws, you can adjust the condition along the axes.
4. By adjusting with self -cutting screws, the door leaf is hung on the exposed door frame. The regulation continues until the tongues of the clicks and rugs of the castles completely coincide.
5. Recently, fixation of the structure using mounting foam is very popular. This is a good method, foam mass fills all small cracks and has low heat production.

After the foam dries, the protruding tubers are removed with an assembly knife, and the hollows are sealed with a putty mass. In the final, the platband is stuffed from the inner and outer side.

At the end of the article there are two videos on how to properly assemble and install a wooden box.