A door is the first structural element of a house or apartment that comes into view immediately before entering the room. Repair work in an apartment or house, office is often accompanied not only by the restoration of decoration, but also by the replacement of doors, entrance or interior doors. To understand the types and methods of dismantling, you need to know what types of doors exist and how they differ from each other. Therefore, this material is useful to you.
What type of door structures are distinguished
The types of doors are determined by:
- accessories: entrance, balcony, interior;
- the material from which they are made: wood, particleboard / MDF, plastic, metal, glass;
- functioning mechanism: swinging, sliding, folding (accordion), sliding.
Each of the designs differs from the other in features inherent in a particular type. This nuance must be taken into account when dismantling doors. Such work is carried out according to the need to install the door leaf completely or for restoration with subsequent installation in the same place. Work associated with the removal of doors can be carried out in full or in part, that is, with the analysis of the door frame or without performing this stage.
When replacing the door leaf, implying the dismantling of the box, the procedure is performed in full.
Disassembly Features
Builders distinguish two main methods of carrying out work on removing doors and call them simply: sloppy and neat.
Using the first, the door frame is cut at an angle of 45 about . So it will be easier to extract from the opening. The process involves tools such as scrap, ax, nail clipper.
Choosing the second method of dismantling, get ready for more laborious and painstaking work. The main task of the neat method is to preserve the holistic original appearance of not only the door leaf, but also the frame. In this case, you can not do without a screwdriver, pliers, chisels - the most commonly used set of tools at the stage of upcoming work.
The subtleties of the process
“Breaking - not building” - this is the motto that guides the majority of craftsmen who are dismantling doors. In fact, breaking must also be correct. Professional removal of interior doors implies carrying out the procedure so that as a result, the removed doors and the box, as well as the surfaces adjacent to it, are not critically damaged.
Performing such a procedure is not as easy as it might seem, especially if glass or plastic was used as the production material for the doors.
When working with such material, you need to be extremely careful, because despite their strength characteristics, modern materials used to release doors can be damaged. Even a small scratch will be visible on a matte plastic sheet or transparent glass structure, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. With careless handling, the door can crack in general, then you will have to buy a new one, and this, as is noticeable in the dynamics of market prices for door and window structures, is not cheap.
Stages of work
When dismantling the doors, be sure to follow the order of work:
- Remove the door leaf from the hinges. With detachable and cardboard hinges, there should be no problems, and when working with universal ones, you will first have to unscrew the screws.
- Remove the decorative plugs from the self-tapping screws of the platbands, “squeeze” the latter until fixing nails and removal of the platband.
- Remove the box, and then remove the fasteners from the structure. Dismantling the door frame is laborious, therefore, it requires some skill in carrying out the actions. If the procedure is illiterate, the dismantling of the interior doors may entail a curvature of the doorway, which subsequently will have to be leveled, and this is fraught with additional material costs and delaying the period during which the repair is carried out.
Interestingly, the dismantling scheme of the front door, interior or balcony, is not significantly different. Features of the procedure depend on the type of material from which the door leaf is made. Where you can use force when working with chipboard or MDF, you won’t work “full” with glass or plastic. Care must be taken here.
Dismantling doors in a house
Coming to each of the processes, it is necessary to observe the steps of removing the doors, the accuracy of the work. It is important not to rush when removing old doors. Be aware that the removal process is still easier than installing it, but it still requires accuracy.
In general, it is not difficult to dismantle, you can do it yourself. Such a move will require more labor costs, but will save material resources. Or entrust the work to professional builders who can cope with the task without any problems.
Use the provided recommendations - and then you will be able to dismantle the doors without much loss.