Plastic interroom doors. Types, application and characteristics

It is difficult to imagine an apartment or a house where there are no interior doors, because without them, the accommodation impresses uninhabited. They not only allow you to retake, but play an important role in interior design. Plastic interior doors are particularly in demand, since this material has a number of indisputable advantages.

Plastic Features As Material for Interior Doors

Consumers choose this species of interior doors for the following reasons:

• A variety of designer design. Interior plastic doors are covered with PVC film, which is represented by a rich palette of colors. Therefore, such products often imitate the texture and shade of real wood and look very presentable. No less rich and decorative decoration of plastic doors.
• Easy care. Plastic interior doors will serve a long time, fully retaining its original look, do not require varnishing or painting and are cleaned without problems using a conventional soap solution and cloth.

• Excellent heat and sound insulation properties. This is important if the apartment or house is inhabited lovers of loud music or young children. In addition, the installation of interior doors made of PVC will improve the insulating properties of the room.
• Accessible to all strata of society. Quality interior plastic doors, the price of which varies from one hundred to several thousand dollars, allows you to choose a model to suit every taste and budget.
• Safety for the environment. It is scientifically proven that plastic doors type do not carry any threat to the health of others, or release into the air of dangerous toxins. As part of the plastic does not contain volatile substances, therefore they are environmentally friendly.
• The strength and durability. Scratches and cracks on the surface of the plastic doors appear very rarely, even during intensive use.
• Moisture resistance. Time service doors plastic hardly decreases when they are installed in high humidity conditions.
• Fire-fighting properties. Modern plastic does not support combustion, so the doors are not only reliable, but safe.
• Versatility. Interior doors, as the material which is used PVC, suitable not only for living rooms, but also for the bathroom, kitchen, toilet.

Variety of plastic interior doors

On the market a wide range of interior doors made of plastic, which are divided into the following types:

• Swinging (pendulum) doors. These products are so called because they open in both directions. However, in the apartments swing doors made of plastic, and other materials, infrequent visitors, because they do not have sufficient integrity and are not able to create a comfortable environment. Usually, they are installed in supermarkets, railway stations, public places, as well as industrial buildings (base, warehouse, shop). The advantage of plastic swinging doors is that they are easy to open, even if the incoming busy hands. Frame swing doors PVC consists of an aluminum profile having a tubular shape. Inside this profile is placed return mechanism. The door leaves are made of a special sandwich panels, while their lower part amplified by polyethylene sheets. In the photo plastic interior doors is clearly noticeable that they are windows made of transparent polycarbonate.

• To increase the tightness of the product and reduce the lumen between the doorway and directly the door frame, the rubber elastic seal is installed in the profile. Most of all in the pendulum doors, the lower part is wearing, therefore it is protected by rubber tape or enhanced PVC. The door canvases are both single bed and double-tempered (up to 3000x3000 mm). The return mechanism placed in them allows you to flexibly adjust its tension, and therefore the effort that goes to the opening of the sash. This gives good results when eliminating drafts.
• Swing doors. It is classic and therefore the most demanded option. Door canvases are represented by double (if the width of the doorway exceeds 1 meter) or same-sex, but they are combined by what they open in one direction. Plastic swing doors are divided into right and left, depending on the installation features. Determine the type of product is easy: if the door opens to the right, it refers to the right and, accordingly, on the contrary. To know this is necessary to purchase suitable door hinges and handles. However, there is a disadvantage in plastic swing doors: for their opening it takes a large space, so it is not recommended to install them in small apartments.
• Sliding doors (coupe type). They are ideal for small housing, since the need to ensure sufficient free space for opening is missing. This is explained by the special principle of work: the door canvas moves along the wall or inside it according to the special guide rails. Impressively looks a plastic door-coupe that opens inward partitions, but technically is fulfilled only at the initial stage of construction. In the case of normal repair, nothing remains how to install the door leaf on the external guides. Such rails are placed in the lower or top of the opening, and sometimes there, and there. It is often preferred by plastic sliding doors with an upper guide, but it is worth considering that they are often starting to sway slightly on the draft. The most reliable design is a door with two guides. From disadvantages - gaps between the canvas and the box, through which smells penetrate, light, sounds penetrate into the room.

• Folding doors (harmonica). The design of such a door consists of several panels folding when opening, upper (in some cases and lower) guide rail and rollers. Thanks to the bearings available in the video, the harmonica doors are interior plastic open and closed smoothly and without much noise. The stoppers that are included in the kit are designed to fix the door cloth in a certain position. In a limited space, this type of plastic doors will be almost most convenient. However, it cannot be said that the doors of the type of harmonica are devoid of negative features: among them are not very good heat and soundproof properties and a short period of operation caused by the presence of many miniature moving elements.
• Stable doors. This is a variation of a swing plastic door consisting of two halves (top and bottom). Each half is equipped with its loops and lock. Typically, the stable doors are installed in the kitchen or in other economic premises. The top half is open to ventilation, and while the lower door sash blocks the path of pets or young children.

Manufacturers of plastic interroom doors

Before you buy interroom plastic doors, you should make sure of them and read more in more detail that the manufacturer offers. Consider the features of products of the most popular trademarks for the manufacture of such doors:

• "INTEKHPLAST" (Russia). The company emerged in 2000 and quickly earned a good reputation due to the unchanged attention to the quality of the produced plastic interroom doors. The company's employees were internship in Europe (Belgium, Germany. Great Britain), therefore innovative technologies for extrusion production of PVC profile are being introduced at the enterprise. Doors from this firm are distinguished by durability even in conditions of high humidity and are made in a variety of color variations, due to the coating of PVC film: under the nut, under the oak whitewash, gold and wenge. It is provided for the manufacture of non-standard sizes. There are only swing, quite overall models that require large space in the catalog. The cost of interior doors of plastic starts from 190 dollars.

• Salamander (Germany). The company was founded in 1885 in the German city of Cornwestheim and now occupies a leading position in the market of plastic windows and doors. When their manufacture uses a closed steel profile of a large cross section. The weakest connectors are where the plastic profile is welded in the corners, is reinforced with special welded elements that increase the stability of plastic doors to twist. The company specializes in the production of swing, sliding and swinging doors, but in all of them the door canvas is not a solid panel, and glass, so it is unlikely to retire in the room with such a door. The advantage will be excellent sound and thermal insulation properties. The prices of them on average are 160 - 300 dollars depending on the size and complexity.
• Sheriff (Russia). Specializing in the firm on the doors of the accordion. For their manufacture, use PVC panels produced in Germany and France with excellent performance characteristics. These models refer to the category of fire-resistant, and during heating almost do not emit toxins. In addition, high humidity is not dangerous for them, so the "sheriff" doors are installed in the bathrooms and in shower. A decorative film is well glued, intended for imitation of wood texture. The model range shows both deaf and glazed models. However, folding options are inferior by strength to other types of interroom doors, which is worth considering when buying. Also, the feature of these interior doors is the presence of a closing limiter. Their cost is not high, constituting from 40 to 90 dollars.
• "Drops" (Russia). Products of this company is highlighted by a high degree of hydrophobicity, so long will last in conditions of high humidity, ensuring the absence of deformation and changes in geometric forms. These interior doors are characterized by increased fire safety, and polystyrene foam, having excellent thermal insulation properties, is used as a filler. However, the model row shows only the doors of the swing type at a price of 210 to 400 dollars.

In terms of price-quality ratio, interior plastic doors "Intechplast" look good, and if the residential premises is small, then there will be few competitors with the folding doors "Sheriff".

Installation of plastic interroom doors

For mounting interior plastic doors, the following tools and materials will be required:

• calipers;
• roulette;
• pencil;
• a hammer with a round brick
• semicircular and flat chisels;
• screwdrivers (slotted and cruciform);
• nail-holder;
• pistols for sealant and mounting foam;
• rubber cius;
• knife for cutting the mounting foam;
• screwdriver;
• perforator;
• sander.

Then proceed to the door installation process:

1. We score nails into the end part of the door frame so that they are several millimeters from it. This will fix the door frame vertically.
2. We set the door and threshold in the doorway and encourage wooden wedges. The latter should be carefully taken carefully, so as not to disturb the geometry of the door and do not scratch her surface.
3. We plan space for holes on the door frame and drill them through the frame through before entering the concrete. We set the dowels in them and tighten hardware by means of a screwdriver.
4. Construction levels are verifying the correct location of the door sides in the opening and sprinkle the protruding elements of the wedges.
5. We throw all the slots between the door frame and the opening. When the mounting foam dries, its residues cut off with a knife. Small gaps are easily eliminated using conventional silicone sealant.

The role of plastic interroom doors in the interior

Interior plastic doors organically fit into any interior: from classic to modern.
The ease of sticking film coating causes the simplicity of their restoration: if the color gamut or the setting style in the room has changed, the old coating layer is easily removed, and in return is glued.

In most cases, with the appropriate decoration, interior plastic doors cannot be distinguished from more presentable wooden. Plastic doors allow the use of a wide variety of decorative elements: from intricate patterns to small windows, and fans of light and space will appreciate completely glazed doors.