Folding interior doors

Now many people are replacing the classic hinged door designs with new modern folding ones. Folding doors - this is a very functional element that allows you to save space in the room, and it looks very interesting. Folding doors can have a different design and completely different appearance. It is important to know how to choose the right folding doors, and what designs and materials are more suitable for a particular interior.

Folding interior doors are increasingly gaining popularity in recent times. This is due to the fact that folding doors can be installed in absolutely any doorways. Cascading doors in the interior are used for zoning. These are very versatile and practical designs.These doors are very functional, another feature of folding doors is compactness.

Moreover, the following features of such structures can also be called:

• They help save space in the room. In this case, you do not have to provide a place to open the classic door. That is why they are an excellent solution for owners of apartments with a small area. Such a door can be installed even in a narrow corridor, when there is no possibility to put a classic construction. The folding door will take only a very small space around the doorway. Typically, such structures have a small thickness and very low weight, which is the main feature of folding doors.
• High-quality built-in folding structures are quite tight.
• You will not have problems that are often faced by those who install the classic swing doors. So, any folding door will not open from a draft or wind, as a swing, and will not slam on its own. It is completely silent and lightweight design.

• In addition, a feature of these doors is that usually in their design includes special limiters. They allow you to lock the door in the desired position.So, you can pass into the room with busy hands, and nothing will prevent you.
• To ensure complete noiselessness, such structures have closers. Thanks to them, the folding door is able to slide off smoothly along the guides.
• It is not completely traumatic. The door closes smoothly, not abruptly, so the risk of pinching fingers decreases significantly. Passing into the room, you can not accidentally hit a person leaving from there, because the door does not open to the inside of the room, but to the side. That is why such doors are installed by those who have small children and pets at home.

• All folding doors in their design have a rail, which is located at the top. This is a great advantage over sliding structures, because when passing through nothing hinders the bottom, the threshold is also completely absent. You will not be able to hesitate.
• All these designs have a very modern and stylish appearance. Therefore, they are perfect for any style of interior and are used to decorate the aisles in modern-designed apartments and houses.

The design has some drawbacks:

• It is not as tight as swing doors are. The design of sliding doors has small gaps, especially below.But this issue can be solved by installing seals.
• Such doors have low levels of noise insulation and thermal insulation.
• She lets the smell, so these doors are not often installed in the kitchen.

There are two main types of folding doors. These include:

This is a model that is perfect for spacious rooms with wide aisles. Doors-books are double-wing models. They have double flaps, which can also be divided into sections of different sizes. These shutters are arranged according to the type of book, so the design received the same name.

Typically, manufacturers when creating such doors imply that the door will be installed in a large room, so they use only high-quality and fairly massive and reliable materials. Also, the mechanism of the book itself is very reliable. It uses durable fasteners.Such doors are fixed without guide rails. Doors-books can be opened and closed without any problems without relying on the lower base.

The door-book can open in different ways, and at the right moment you can open it by sliding both doors in one direction or, on the contrary, push it apart. This design involves moving apart in different directions, since this can reduce the load on the two door leafs.

These doors are completely unsuitable for installing them in narrow doorways. Otherwise, the design will look ridiculous and significantly narrow the doorway and, accordingly, the room. The structures themselves are quite heavy, so they must be mounted safely.But, as a rule, they are made from natural materials and therefore look elegant.

This is the second type of folding door model, which consists of several canvases, each of which is divided into very narrow sections with a width of 7 to 15 cm. Moreover, one multi-section canvas is usually inserted into a classical doorway.

Such doors are also used as furniture partitions. They are used instead of screens in bedrooms, nurseries and dressing rooms. They solve the problem of zoning. These doors get to install in any width of the aisles, even the narrowest. That is why they are perfect for a pantry in the apartment.

They maximize space saving around the doorway. In addition to the door leaf, the mechanism includes a side box in which at the moment of opening the door all sections are hidden, tightly fitting each other. Thus, the thickness of the structure when folded does not exceed the thickness of such a door frame.

You will be able to add several sections, and in this way you will make the opening wider without undue difficulty. Doors-accordion can have two options for the mechanism. The structure can be installed on the bottom rail or you can not resort to such a complex structure and install the door on the top rail.

The first option is more suitable in order to ensure the function of sound insulation, since such a door will be more tight. The tracks with the rail will close the gap between the door and the floor. But if you want to use an accordion as a screen, then the rails below will not be needed at all.

As a rule, these are not very rigid compact structures. That is why they are considered not as reliable as folding doors-books. These doors look a little ridiculous in very large and spacious rooms with a wide doorway, since they have a large number of sections. Therefore, they are more suitable for installation in standard or narrow aisles.

Sliding models have a mechanism that is very similar to the sliding design mechanism. As for folding doors, books, they easily fold in half. There are unusual folding models that, when opened, move upwards, acting like a blind.

The opening system of classic folding doors is as follows: the leaves are moved apart along guide rails at the expense of rollers. As a rule, guides are located at the top, but there are models with a lower guide. They differ from sliding doors in that the latter move inside the wall or parallel to the wall, and the folding move on rollers to one of the door jamb.

The doors with a double-leaf construction have a separate roller on each such section, and the doors-accordion have more than two sections, therefore the rollers are fixed not on each narrow section, but through one. There are also swivel folding doors.

Folding doors have one important advantage. For their manufacture uses a variety of materials. The most popular are the following:

• Plastic. This is a very light and practical material that is completely resistant to many external influences. These doors are perfect for installation in the passage to the kitchen or bathroom, because they do not affect the effects of high humidity or temperature changes.

Plastic models can have a variety of design. Their designs range from classic to the most modern. Moreover, in such constructions are used inserts and from transparent plastic. The plastic construction is very light, but not too durable, the door of plastic can be easily broken.

• Tree. Wooden models are the heaviest in weight, but elegant in appearance. As a rule, wooden doors are made of books, because they are more massive structures.Very elegant look laminated wooden doors. Moreover, such a door can have both a solid wooden structure and a canvas with various inserts.

• Chipboard. One of the most common materials for the manufacture of door panels. It has a very light construction and serves for a long time. It is also not exposed to external influences, but is not very environmentally friendly. Such material as a chipboard is able to provide noise insulation if the construction itself is airtight.

• Aluminum. This material is most often used to create a skeleton. When creating a door structure, it is used together with plastic, wood, glass.

• Steel. Another material that is more often used for the manufacture of the basis of the door structure is its frame.

• Glass. This material is used both as a whole and in combination with other materials.Glass and mirror designs look very luxurious and fill the room with light.

Now manufacturers often make designs of triplex. It is very durable and durable. In addition, when creating a folding structure can be applied glass. In order to diversify it, manufacturers use both frosted and colored glass - stained glass.

With regard to the size of the valves, then, as a rule, the folding models of accordions each valve and each section has the same size. But there are also unusual asymmetric models with shutters of different sizes.As for the double-leaf models of books, different parts may vary in size. This is resorted to if you want to make more free zone when opening a folding structure.

Each such door can have a large number of leaves on the entire door leaf. As a rule, only the parameters of the door passage affect how many canvases the structure will have. If it provides for a double-wing construction, then the accordion will have two canvases, and if the opening provides only a single-door design, then the canvas will be one. These models can have different heights. It can be determined on the basis of their own measurements.

Such designs can be purchased in a standard form, since so many doorways have similar indicators. But otherwise you can choose such doors to order by individual measurements.

Assembly and installation of different models are significantly different.

• Harmonic. The easiest way to install folding models of the type of accordion. Initially, it is necessary to prepare a doorway for the installation of such structures.After you carry out the necessary preparatory work, you need to install the door frame using the building level. The box is necessary so that it includes sections when opening the folding structure.

After the mounting foam hardens, it is necessary to get rid of its remnants. Then you should complete the installation of the box, fixing it with platbands. Make sure that you do not have distortions and cracks, otherwise the door will not enter into such a box or simply break.

Then it is necessary to proceed to the assembly of the door leaf. You need to arrange the sections in the correct order and assemble them. Observe with the rules of joining images and drawings or other decorative elements, they will help to correctly arrange all the canvases. Then in the right places you need to fix the rollers, runners, and they are fixed to each narrow section through one.

Some doors in their design include the use of additional fasteners.Sometimes their role is performed by loops, which are fixed between different sections. They also need to install and secure among themselves.

After assembly, you need to make measurements just in case. So, you need to measure the door leaf and doorway to establish compliance. Having established this fact, it is necessary to proceed to further installation. At first install a clamp so that it coincides with rollers. After this, only the last step remains: to connect the rollers and the door leaf with hooks or hinges.

So you will ensure the noiseless movement of the web along the guides and extend the life of these components. This greatly simplifies the process of opening and closing the door. When using, try to move the door along the guides smoothly without sudden movements.Otherwise, you damage the sections, and the door simply flies off the rails. Watch for the serviceability of parts in its mechanism, so that the design will serve you as long as possible.

Details on how to install the door-book, you can learn from the video below.

• Book. The installation of the model book will be slightly different. After collecting the two doors, you need to go to the installation of awnings. Then you must fix the hinges in the door unit. In order to make the load on the doorway more uniform, it is better to use four hinges for this.

Before installing the rails must be lubricated with engine oil.

After you have performed all these actions, you need to fasten the aluminum bus. She needs to give the right size to fit the parameters of the door leaf. For this you need to cut it and fix it with screws. After that, you need to install the rollers, then you can fix the tire to the floor or the door unit.

If you want to make a lock in the design of the book, then it should be done at this stage.After that, you can fix the door leaf and check its performance.

Details on how to install the door-book, you can learn from the video below.