How to make sliding interior doors with your own hands?

Making the interior door with your own hands, you will not only save a significant amount of money, but also be able to embody the most daring design ideas in the interior. Also, there will be no need to call specialists, choose among standard solutions or argue for a long time, defending your vision. But it is necessary to master all the subtleties and nuances of self-manufacturing of door structures.

A sliding door is justified not only because it looks beautiful and can fit into a very different interior. Its important advantage is the most rational use of space.

Not a single square centimeter will go to waste and it will be possible to functionally and stylistically divide a room by dividing its new parts.

In addition to the listed advantages, such input structures:

• do not slam shut by themselves in continuous draft;
• do not interfere with airing a house or apartment;
• differ in easy and smooth work of the opening and locking mechanism;
• allow the use of automation;
• eliminate the need to create thresholds.
• the construction itself is exceptionally simple - the roller mechanism is attached to the canvas and put into guides in a certain way.

For apartments and private houses use their options such as:

• compartment doors (with one leaf or a pair of leafs moving parallel to the wall along the rails);
• cassette (at the time of opening of a shutter clean up in a case);
• radius (stand out in a unique form);
• cascading (any leaf has its own autonomous guide);
• internal beams (when the sash is opened, they go forward, it is possible to pass only through a part of the opening);
• tilt and slide.

The mechanism of a sliding door may have a different number of guides and carriages on them. Almost always for the manufacture of rail used thick-walled aluminum profile.

Sliding doors are divided into:

• suspended (held only from above);
• supporting (the load from which is distributed only along the lower guide). A typical mechanism that can withstand a load of up to 120 kg does not in most cases require setting a threshold.

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An open-type sliding door, all the structural elements of which are visible, may have a leaf not heavier than 100 kg. In the hidden type, the lower guides are not applied, and they are incompatible with glass constructions.

During the installation, you should detect and immediately remove the slightest irregularities, otherwise the sash can roll back without authorization. Especially often this problem arises in the Versailles compartment system.

For those who do not have much experience in home repair and installation of various door designs, it is best to opt for single-leaf doors. Having mastered the work with them, you can easily cope with more sophisticated systems.The first step is the markup, which will help set the guides. Measure with a tape measure the height, starting from the floor surface, add two millimeters to the resulting value (you need a gap) and take into account the height of the roller device.

A pair of marks are connected in a straight line. Be sure to make sure that it is completely horizontal (the building level will help with this). Further below this line guides are mounted. The method of fixing depends on the severity of the door. The lightest options can be put on the dowels, and more weighty will require a bracket. The heaviest input blocks must hold the timber.

When the roller is inserted into the rails, the sash and canvas are fastened at the top with staples. If the canvas is made of glass, fixtures will not be required as usual.

Putting the door with your own hands, periodically check with a level to see if there are any deviations, and if necessary, tighten the bolts or other fasteners. The roller mechanism is disguised with a decorative film, and only then install the fittings.Sliding doors that fit into a niche require the formation of a plasterboard pocket on an adjacent wall.

After all the work is completed, check that the structure and any part of the mechanism act without failures, without tension. Rollers should roll on rails easily and freely, without running into obstacles. Extraneous noises and squeaks show that something is done wrong.

For more detailed instructions on how to install a sliding door with your own hands, see the following video.

That the interroom door could be established, it still needs to be collected. It is necessary to prepare for work a set of boards, a tape measure, a screwdriver, a level and fasteners. The advantage of self-assembly will be that you are almost unlimited in choosing the parameters of the product.

Most often pine boards or laminated chipboard are used, the thickness is the same in these cases - 1.6 cm.

If time is more important to you, you can purchase factory cloth. The joints of boards or plates covered with white glue, and then clamped. On each side three screws are added to the screws and the workpiece is left to dry for exactly 24 hours. After the adhesive layer hardens, clamps can be removed and the fabric impregnated with stain. The design of the sliding interior door implies a bias of two or three degrees in the direction in which they close.

Next you have to buy a wheel-pulley and a couple of rollers (it is extremely unlikely that you can make them at home).

But it is quite possible to make a hook, for this purpose steel strips 35-40 mm wide, thickness of which is 3-3.5 cm, are taken. To cut such steel into necessary fragments will help LBM. In the workpiece, clamped in a vice, holes are prepared for roller axles. The product will last long enough if you paint the canvas with a special primer. Holes with a diameter of 0.8 cm are screwed over the guide bolts M8. Fix the guides need over the opening in order to set them in the correct position.

From all of the above, we can conclude that it is not difficult to make your own hands and install sliding interior doors. It is only necessary to carefully follow the simplest rules, and then success will be achieved exactly.