The door to the bathroom is installed on the same principle as all interior doors. The most important thing is to choose the appropriate version of the product, which can be operated in conditions of high humidity and frequent temperature oscillations. How to choose and correctly install the door to the bathroom, we will tell you in this article.
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Choose the door for the bathroom
During repair, many are wondering: What door is installed in the bathroom? When choosing the desired option, it is worth paying attention to such factors:
- the size of the room and the features of its planning;
- frequency and intensity of the use of the room;
- availability or absence, as well as the health of exhaust ventilation.
If the bathroom is small, while using a shower or sink water spray constantly fall on the door, and the ventilation works badly, the material for the door should be especially high-quality, unpretentious and durable. In such a case, it is better not to choose wood products, but to give preference to glass or plastic, as more moisture-resistant materials. If the room is large and spacious, and the door itself is at a high distance from water sources, you can safely install a beautiful and expensive door from a natural tree, although it is necessary for greater durability to be impregnated with protective compositions.
The construction market offers us a lot of product options, consider in more detail what door it is better to install in the bathroom:
- Glass structures are environmentally friendly and not afraid of moisture, as well as normally react to temperature differences. For the bathroom or toilet, such doors are considered an optimal option. These advantages include ease of care and ease of washing, strength, good sound insulation properties, the ability to maintain heat. Glass doors are not deformed from water, and a rich assortment of textures, colors and drawings makes it possible to choose a product suitable for every taste and interior. The minuses of such products include fragility, but this problem is solved by compliance with the rules of operation. Wash glass doors can be practically any chemical means with the exception of those that contain abrasive additives. Of the variety of types of glass doors, you can choose transparent, matte, tinted, mirror, relief and other products.
- Laminated doors to the bathroom from MDF or chipboard are also considered a good option that has access to the cost and good performance properties. If there is a normal ventilation in the room, and the door itself is not subjected to a constant influence of water, it will be very durable and will serve you a lot of years. Products from MDF and DSP are strong enough and easy to care, besides, from such materials you can create compact models, saving space, for example, a coupe.
- Determining which door is better suitable for the bathroom, be sure to pay attention to the plastic models. Plastic has a slight weight and acceptable price, while it has good strength. It is not terrible high humidity and direct contacts with water, temperature fluctuations and most chemicals. Plastic is distinguished by a long period of operation, as well as good heat and noise insulating characteristics. Plastic is the material that can be given a wide variety of shapes, textures and shades, so that you can find many different options for plastic doors in the construction market. The surface of such a door can imitate wood, stone, leather, glass, etc.
- Solving what doors to put in the bathroom and toilet, you can consider such an option as a wooden design. If the room is quite spacious, the sink and shower are far from the entrance, and the ventilation works properly, you can easily put a wooden door. This natural and environmentally friendly material looks status and can decorate almost any interior. However, remember that even the most durable and high-quality wood must be treated with protective impregnations, and then cover with varnish or paint. Moisture and high temperature are the main enemies of wood, but if it is properly to care for the door and follow the rules of operation, the design will serve you long enough.
Installation Recommendations Door
Before installing the door to the bathroom, listen to our advice:
- If there is another room next to the bathroom, and their doors are close to each other, put the bathroom coupe in the doorway. This is a compact design that allows you to save space. So that there is no difficulty with installation, you can use the services of specialists.
- It is desirable that the door to the bathroom itself was equipped with ventilation. As a rule, such ventilation is a small lattice window located at the bottom of the product. If the lattice on the canvas is not provided, then during the installation, refer to a small gap between the floor and the door.
- Do not save on the fittings. All attachments and handles should not only be combined with a stylistic design room, but also to be durable, reliable, strong. The metal must necessarily have anti-corrosion properties, otherwise, in conditions of high humidity, it will quickly rust.
- If the door to the bathroom is made of wood, be sure to treat material with protective means. To simplify the care of the design, you can immediately purchase a laminated cloth, which perfectly repulses moisture.
How to install the door to the bathroom do it yourself
Preparatory work
Even before starting the installation, you must prepare the doorway. On the inside of the bathroom room wall, as a rule, protected from moisture with a facing material in the form of tiles, plastic panels, waterproof paint or something like that. The doorway itself should also have good waterproofing, since it directly depends on the service life of the door. Especially important waterproofing in the event that you have chosen the design of wood, chipboard or MDF. Wood materials are very affected by moisture, over time they can be curved, smear, hide, mold, rot.
Waterproofing of the door opening of the bathroom is performed by using diffuse waterproofing tape on self-adhesive basis. Such a tape is very easy to install, install it with your own hands will not be difficult. The waterproofing tape is glued throughout the perimeter of the opening, as well as on the door frame. So that the material did not exist and stuck well to the surface, the working base must first be cleaned of dirt and dust, as well as align and coat with primer.
Installation of the door frame and installation door
Before installing the door in the bathroom, you need to assemble the door frame. The easiest option is to purchase a finished bathroom door with a box. Then you will not need to do fit, you simply mounted the design with the help of self-tapping screws. If you still have the need to assemble the box yourself, it is done as follows:
- The standard door height is 2 m. To make the box, first cut 2 racks of the magnifier for a length of 200.5 cm. 5 mm is a gap between the door and the box.
- Now make horizontal parts of the Lutka, the length of which will be 60 cm plus 2 profile thicknesses and the same 5 mm required for the gaps on both sides of the structure. 60 cm is the standard door width, but you can navigate your own sizes.
- From the bottom and upper parts of the box, remove the protruding parts of the profile on the thickness of the Lutka in its widest place. To remove these protrusions, perform a transverse cut with a jigsaw, install the chisel from the inside and rally everything too much.
- The next step must be embedded. To do this, retreat from the top and from the bottom of the box at 25 cm, attach a canopy and circle a pencil. In these places, perform the grooves. If you do not want to spoil the design, purchase special hinges that do not require cutting.
- Now you can assemble the door frame. It is most convenient to do it on the floor. Initially, cover the horizontal and vertical part of the Lutka, connecting them with self-draws. Do the same with all other corners.
- By mounted and putting the lutch in the doorway, prepare the door of the door itself. It is necessary to install all the accessories in the form of a handle, a castle, as well as loops. The loops are crashed into the wood in the same way as in the case of the louting, unless you use canopies that do not require cutting.
- Initially, the hinges are mounted on the door canvas, after them - the latch, and the latter should be installed. After that, the doors are installed in their place. So that the design stood in the opening exactly, from the side of the bathroom, we bring to it to the rail, protruding for the Lutch for about 10 cm. This rail will play the role of the door.
- Playing gaps between the box and the wall of the mounting foam, take into account that after raging and froze the foam can surpassed the box and the door canvas will not fit into it. To avoid this, put the struts in the box 3, the width of which is equal to the width of the web plus a 5 mm gap.
- When the mounting foam is frozen, which will take 10-20 hours, the door canvas can be hung on a loop.
