Often, when installing the input metal door, the owners immediately ordered the second door. For what you need the second entrance door, how to choose a decent option and install it correctly - consider in this article.
The second inner entrance door in a private house or apartment is no longer uncommon. It is not only about the safety of the premises and family members - this is also important. Mostly the installation of the second entrance door is performed in order to preserve heat. Consider the main advantages of installing the second door.
The second entrance door to the apartment. Advantages and disadvantages
Installing the second input door allows you to:
- Save heat indoors. When one door is installed - it is good, and when two - heat is saved twice as much. There is an additional air interlayer between the canvas, which holds heat. You can cite such an example: put your hand to the front door in the cold season. Senake that heat is bad "keeps"? The door will be cold, especially if it is metallic. The cold leaks from everywhere - through the door loops, the well in the castle, and the metal is a good conductor of the cold. To avoid this and prevent the heat loss, choose the second door necessarily deaf and only from the wood array. The second wooden entrance door will ensure maximum heat safety.
- Absorption of noise or sound insulation characteristic. With the installation of an additional door to the residential premises, much less noise from the staircase will be penetrated: the hum of the moving elevator and the creak of opening adjacent doors. For private houses, the second door is also of great importance. The airbag, which turned out to "captive" between two canvases suppresses noise, and all sounds are arisen between two doors.
- Protection of the room from strangers. It often happens that unpleasant odors quickly apply to the staircase and penetrate the apartment. Someone came out to smoke on the staircase, and the caustic smoke smoke is already at your home. In addition, the smell can rise from the basement up the entrance. The presence of the second door allows you to prevent smell penetration into residential premises.
- Protection against intruders. If both doors have several locks, then fraudsters will have to tinker to first open one door and open one more. So there is a chance to save your property from scammers.
In the cottages and country cottages in the summer without a second entrance door can not do. Flies, mosquitoes and bugs so badly get into the residential premises. You can dump insects using mosquito nets or set the second entrance door. In the private sector, you can install a removable second door and instead of warmed second inlet metal doors, install the door leaf with a mosquito net.
The only disadvantage of the second entrance door is that it should only be opened in one direction, namely, inside the room. This applies not only to mounting the second door when the entrance is installed, but also the installation of a single door block. Physically both doors cannot be opened in one direction. It turns out that the first door opens onto the staircase or outward, and the second is only inside the residential premises.
Select the second entrance door
You decided to install the second entrance door. Choose a decent option is not easy, so the question often arises which entrance door to put. Consultants in specialized stores advise to choose a reliable door so that its appearance has harmonized with your interior, since the outer door is often durable, but not very beautiful. The second entrance door will just create interior integrity, and harmonize with interroom doors.
The second door is better to install from the wood array, and the upper coating can be different and harmonized with interroom doors. The only thing that does not need to be done is to establish the second front door of plastic and glass.
A good option is the second inlet door from the metal. Often, enterprising owners of apartments and private houses resort to such a tricky move - the first door is installed wood, and the second is reliable metallic. This, first of all, is due to distract the attention of fraudsters from an expensive metal armored entrance door. The view of the thief will not stay on a simple wooden door, and therefore the safety of the property will be provided.
How to install the second entrance door
The installation of the second entrance door can be in two ways: when one door is already installed, and no one will change it, and the second option is to establish a single block consisting of two canvases. The second option considers more acceptable, since it is spent less time on the installation of the door frame. In addition, you do not need to close the door slopes, they immediately close with a good or door frame. This option is considered ideal, but it is not always possible to implement it. Often the installation of the second input door is performed after installing the main one.
Features of installing an additional door when the first is already installed:
- When installing the second input door, you need to consider which way the door will open. Usually the second door opens inside the room. This means that the mounting of the doors are located on the same side as the fastening of the first entrance door.
- The distance between the first and second door should be at least 20 centimeters so that the doors fittings do not come into contact with each other. When it comes to saving each centimeter of living space, the minimum distance must match the depth of the door handle. It is not necessary to do a very long distance between the first and second door, since then the rule of thermal insulation may be disturbed.
- Specialists advise when installing second doors immediately install additional thresholds. Employment immediately through both threshold will be inconvenient, so you can make a single "platform" that will combine both doors. In addition, it is worth paying attention to the latest developments in the field of threshings - a moving structure. It is a profile made in the form of the letter "P". Inside the clad is a seal made of soft rubberized material with a spring. When the door opens, then the threshold "hides" inside, and absolutely silently. Install the threshold can be installed. It can also be built into any canvas, and if you wish to replace. It is not necessary to ignore the installation of the hole, as it protects your house from street noise and penetration inside outsiders.
How to independently put the door
Before you start work, you need to do the measurements. When you doubt that you can do everything right, then before ordering the door, invite specialists who determine the exact size of the opening.
Supports such tools for work:
- drill;
- roulette;
- building level;
- bulgarian;
- hammer.
To fill the space, you can use wooden bars, construction foam or cement mortar.
If there is a need for, the old door is performed first, and the place is released from garbage and dust. To have the ability to adjust the box in terms of the level, the width of the opening should be greater than the width of the door frame by 3 centimeters.
How to put a second door:
- Install the box in the opening. In place of the opening, she should stand vertically. If everything is done correctly - secure the box with wedges.
- On the boxes of the boxes there are holes for fasteners - the first fastening is installed on the side of the canopy door.
- Using the perforator, you try the holes in the wall (according to the diameter of the bolts), tighten each fastener.
- Take the level again and check how much the door box is installed. If the bolts are shrilled strongly, then it can shift.
- To avoid dissing and "jamming" doors when opening and closing, you need to slightly release the tension of the bolts and check the door running. If it opens freely and does not prevent anything that you can leave everything as it is. If the door "clings" for the box or turned out to be too big, it is worth adjusting the box again.
- It remains to attach the second side in the same way and check the operation of locks. If everything works, you can finally strengthen the door frame.
- The emptiness between the doorway is filled with the mounting foam (first the wall is irrigated by water). Foam must be applied on the floor to the ceiling. Watch that there are no passages.
- The foam will be filled within 24 hours, after which the remnants can be cut and sharpen the surface.
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