Interior doors in the premises perform two tasks: insulating and decorative. When choosing a version of interior doors, it is also important to pay attention to how much space this design will occupy in a room in an open form. For owners of a small home, the ideal door option would be a sliding door to the wall. This model saves space in the room, and it looks individual and neat.
Equipment
The sliding door to the wall consists of the following components:
- door leaf;
- frame;
- driving mechanism;
- decorative strips;
- extras and platbands;
- accessories, it includes handles, locks and other additional small parts.
Features of structural elements
Interior sliding doors to the wall must enter and exit from it without interference, otherwise, the walls and doors will inevitably be damaged. Therefore, individual structural elements of such doors have a number of features.
Let's start with the fittings. Handles must necessarily be drowned in order to avoid the appearance of barriers when opening / closing the door, as for the lock, its shape also matters. An ordinary lock on such a door will not work, here you need to take a lock with a hook-shaped crossbar.
Special attention should be paid to the mechanism for door movement, which includes:
- a guide (there may be one or two guides, most often they take an aluminum profile for their manufacture);
- roller carriages are made of special-purpose polymeric material, which is particularly resistant to abrasion, bearings play the main role in the smooth rotation of carriages , the standard number of rollers must be increased when installing a heavy door leaf (made of solid wood, for example).
- clamps.
Yes, and the door leaf itself is better to choose with the lowest possible weight, since an increase in its mass leads to a greater load on the door's movement mechanism and it warps and decreases smoothness.
Classification
Interior doors are divided according to a number of characteristics.
Depending on the manufacturing method, there are:
From the execution method:
- with glasses;
- continuous web.
From used material:
- from the massif of a tree;
- plastic;
- Chipboard;
- other materials.
Depending on the type of decorative coating:
- laminated;
- melamine;
- veneered.
How does a sliding door to a wall move?
There are two ways to install such doors.
The first - the sliding door moves along two guides, the door leaf moves along the rails that are installed on the ceiling and on the floor. More often this way of installing doors are equipped with sliding wardrobes. This installation option is cheaper, but not too convenient due to the lower rails, they often become an obstacle when walking. True, you can mount them deep into the floor, but then there will be difficulties when cleaning. This option cannot boast of perfect aesthetics. But the second - quite.
The second method is along one guide, which is most often installed above the doorway and does not create obstacles for a person. In addition, with the door open, there is no separation of the floor surface, which creates the appearance of a united space.
By type of running gear
The sliding door to the wall according to the method of movement relative to the wall is of the following types:
- The door that moves inside the door frame, it has a limitation in the form of the size of the door frame, that is, it can only be installed in openings of a sufficient size.
- Doors moving along the wall can be made of any material and move along the guides. Their number depends on the severity of the door itself, sometimes you need to mount two rails - the upper and lower, and sometimes one upper rail is enough.
This type of sliding door has several disadvantages:
- firstly, the door always remains in sight both in the open and in the closed position;
- secondly, the wall on which the door comes in loses its functionality, you can no longer hang a picture or a bookshelf on it;
- thirdly, low sound insulation resulting from the formation of a technological gap between the door and the wall.
- Interior sliding doors entering the wall (cassette system) are similar in design and nature to the previous type of door, but the entire structure is installed in a special niche, which the wall usually serves. But here you need to take into account one important nuance: the place of the pencil case should be free of electrical wires and sockets, as well as other communications.
Cassette Mount System
This installation method makes it possible to maximize the useful area of small housing, as sliding interior doors hidden in the wall do not take up space. As a result of this, furniture can be placed along the wall into which the door slammed.
To implement this idea, it is necessary that the sliding doors to the wall of drywall hide completely. For this purpose, a niche is equipped either during the erection of the walls of the premises, or a part of the existing one is destroyed, into which a plasterboard box is subsequently mounted. The latter option requires a lot of material costs, as well as the availability of permission to change the layout, especially when the wall is bearing.
Sliding doors hidden in the wall are single-leaf and double-leaf.
Benefits of a Sliding Door
A sliding door along the wall moves smoothly and quietly along the guides. This is a mandatory feature, which is achieved through the use of sound-absorbing rails, and only if they are installed correctly.
There is no unpleasant opportunity to catch clothes or some objects on the door handle, as it is mortise type.
This kind of door can easily be left half open, because it will not be able to slam itself during a draft, for example. This is especially important for doors in which glass elements are present.
Aesthetic and neat appearance - achieved by decorating the door leaf with glass (which can be applied to drawings or mosaics), stickers or original coatings.
And the most important advantage is, of course, saving space.
Types of materials for a pencil case
Moisture resistant plywood - in most cases it is used for bathrooms. The design is inherent in light weight, compactness and ease of installation. It will not be difficult to independently establish this type of pencil case, it does not require special adjustment and long engineering calculations. The cost of such a niche is small and relate to budget options. This type of design will be ideal for lightweight doors (interior partitions).
Profiled steel - sold in the form of a finished case made of profiled steel, this design is durable and reliable in operation. It plays well with heavy door leafs made, for example, from solid wood. But all these positive qualities are not worth little money, this option is the most expensive door niche.
A plasterboard pencil case is a universal and the most popular option, it has taken such a position due to the reliability and strength of its structure. Drywall case suitable for all types of sliding door leafs. But the installation of this type of pencil case requires time and serious engineering calculations. Therefore, the construction of a drywall niche is best entrusted to professionals. As for cash costs, here they are minimal.
General rules for mounting a finished pencil case
When buying a finished pencil case, a detailed installation instruction is attached to the purchase.
It looks something like this:
- you need to assemble the pencil case itself;
- attach the door frame to the pencil case;
- attach the assembled structure to the wall opening;
- check the accuracy of installation with a building level, and if the result is positive, fix the structure with hardware;
- install the door;
- close the wall with drywall.
The interior of the housing, in which there are sliding doors, always looks beautiful and modern, because the variety of such door leaves strikes with a stylistic range from classic to high-tech.