The installation of iron doors is made both in the apartments of apartment houses, and in bathhouses, garages, houses, private homes, providing reliable protection of property from thieves and other intruders.
If the purchase of a high-quality metal door is not possible because of the high cost of materials, or because of the need to manufacture a door of a certain size, then if you independently manufacture iron doors, there is no doubt that the construction will be reliable and the costs of the materials used will not be too high.
Planning and sketch
First, you need to make a careful measurement of the doorway, and also make sure that the walls you have made of brick or concrete, and not from plywood under a thick layer of plaster. After that, you should display the dimensions of the doors, the height of the installation of the hinges and the lock, the stiffeners and other features of the product on paper.
If during the measurements you find that the dimensions are more than 1500х2000 mm, then the door box is better to make the team, on the top or side, in this case, you need a frame, sewn with metal. In the wide doorway of the private house it is recommended to add 2 additional modules with glazing to strengthen the door design and adornment of the entrance group.
Tools and materials
To make it you will need:
Door Manufacturing
First, we describe the production of a classic iron door, which includes a door frame, a cloth, hinges and fixing plates for fixing in the doorway.
Since metal door blocks are installed at the entrance to the apartment, the door leaf should open from the inside out. In accordance with the requirements of fire safety, the front door should not create obstacles for evacuation if necessary.
On whether you prepare a doorway correctly before installing metal doors, the quality of the installation depends. It is important to adjust its dimensions to the dimensions of the door - the more precisely this will be done, the smaller the gap between the opening and the door, the more securely the door will be installed. This can be explained by the length of the protruding part of the anchor bolt. If the opening is too wide, then the door is installed in a suspended state - the parts of the box will not be adjacent to the walls.
Decoration of a door by a window and a figured lattice
The front door with double-glazed windows is installed in private houses. Due to the fact that the light penetrates into the window, the hallway will be better illuminated, and forged elements will give the front entrance a respectable look.
The window, located in the doorway, is made during the cutting of the metal sheet. On the perimeter of a hole of a rectangular or other shape, metal reinforcement is welded.
Then follow the same stages of work as in the version with a classic door. After staining in the opening of the window, you need to install a double-glazed unit, and on the outside, it is recommended to weld a decorative grille.
At the entrance door it would be nice to install the door closer so that the door closes silently.
Performing work in this sequence, you yourself without any problems make and install a metal door.
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The front door is one of the most important elements of an apartment. It protects the house from unauthorized penetration by intruders, so this design should be as strong and reliable as possible. Metal input products are in great demand, however their cost is quite high. If you want to get a door, having spent a minimum of money, or you need a design of non-standard sizes, then you can do it yourself.
Why you may need to self-welding doors
Gone are the days when you could leave your house open and not worry that all valuable things will be lost from it. Even being in the apartment, you can not be sure that the unlocked door will not break into the robbers. Therefore, more and more people are replacing thin wooden cloths, armored constructions of metal.
There is a huge assortment of steel entrance doors on the construction markets. All of them have attractive appearance and are positioned by sellers as reliable impenetrable structures. However, often after the purchase it turns out that the iron "armored" door you have acquired is opened with an ordinary barrette or kicked out with a kick of the foot. This drawback is typical for Chinese models.
Quality imported and domestic products, booking of which really meets all standards, have a high cost.
If you want to become the owner of a solid metal door, then make it yourself. To make such a design is not as difficult as it might seem, but you will spend a few times less than you would pay for a similar design in the store.
The production of strong doors at home requires a fairly large list of tools and materials. Most of them can be purchased at the building store, and some will have to be ordered at the factory.
Tools and materials that will be needed for the manufacture of doors:
- Two-millimeter steel sheet;
- Several meters of profile pipe;
- Two door hinges;
- Door accessories (handle, lock and peephole);
- Anchor bolts and mounting foam;
- Drill and Bulgarian;
- Welding machine;
- Warming material;
- Plywood or boards;
- Materials for finishing the finished structure.
We have provided you with a universal list of tools. Depending on the purpose of the product and its design, some materials, for example, forged elements, can be added.
How to make your own drawing of a metal door
Before proceeding directly to the manufacture of the door, it is necessary to make measurements of the doorway. It is also important to carefully inspect the walls adjacent to the place where the door will be installed. They must be made of concrete or brick, as the metal structure is too heavy for a gypsum board base.
After all the measurements are taken, it is necessary to draw the drawings of the future door. The scheme must coincide with the actual dimensions on a scale. In your figure, indicate the location of the lock, the stiffeners and the door handle.
To make a homemade door look no worse than a purchase, you need to carefully think through each nuance before manufacturing it. Also you can add designs of decorative elements, for example, decorate with glass or forged patterns.
The drawing will help you to see all the drawbacks of the circuit and in time to understand whether you need to add stiffeners or better leave it as it is. Also relying on a well-written plan, it will be easier to weld the door correctly.
How to weld a door from a profile pipe: we make a door box
Before the door is manufactured, the doorway must be properly prepared. On how much this part of the flat will be flat, depends on how tight the steel structure will be to the walls.
The doorway must be carefully plastered, plastered and adjusted to the size of the door frame. Make sure that the doorway is handled correctly, you can use the level.
When the doorway is prepared and its dimensions coincide with the dimensions of the door structure in the drawing, you can proceed to assembly the frame. The first is doing it, because the size of this element will be easier to make a canvas.
Material for the creation of the door frame can serve as thick profile pipes. With their help, manage to weld the most durable construction.
Manufacture of a door box:
- First of all you need to re-measure the parameters of the already prepared doorway and cut the profiles according to these dimensions. In this case, consider that the finished door frame should be smaller than the doorway by about 1.5 cm. In this case, the installation of the door structure will go as smoothly as possible.
- Next, it is necessary to slightly weld the frame elements to each other. This is necessary so that in the event of an error, you can easily redo your work.
- Now you need to re-frame the frame of iron. The distance from corner to corner is measured diagonally, as well as vertically and horizontally.
- If the frame is perfectly flat, then the final welding of the elements. The welding places are ground with a special machine.
- At the last stage, it is necessary to drill the holes for the anchor bolts and weld the hinges. The loop and profile welding points are sanded with a grinder.
The structure of the door frame can not be called difficult. If you have minimal welding skills, then with this stage of creating a door you will cope without much difficulty. However, if you are holding a welding machine for the first time, we advise you to practice beforehand on pieces of a metal corner.
We make the cloth of the iron door with our own hands
After the assembly of the door frame is completed, you can go directly to the manufacture of the door frame, and then to weld the sheet metal onto it. For these purposes, you can use a metal corner and a two-millimeter steel canvas.
How to make a door leaf by yourself:
- The metal corner is cut into pieces of the desired size. To do this, remove the measurements from the inside of the box. The door leaf should be smaller than the box by 5 mm from all sides.
- Elements of the frame are welded. Diagonals are checked.
- The center of the frame is vertically welded to the stiffener. It is also necessary to weld the horizontal profiles, one half will need 2 metal fins.
- Now you can make a steel sheet layout. It should be 1 cm larger than the door frame on the lock side, on top and bottom, and at the attachment point to the hinges, leave a 0.5 cm clearance. The cut sheets are welded to the frame.
- Welding points must be sanded using a grinder.
- Drill a hole and holes for the lock and install it on the door. Do not forget to make a hole under the peephole.
- Weld the door hinges to the frame and the canvas.
- Inside the door structure between the stiffeners is laid insulation.
- The inner side of the door is decorated with a sheet of plywood, which can then be pasted with veneer or wallpaper.
- The metal side of the door must be primed, and then painted or covered with leatherette.
If you want, you can make an inset of glass in the door leaf or decorate it with art forging elements.
The resulting self-made door has all the characteristics typical of purchased analogues. However, it will cost you much cheaper than the finished design and may even prove to be better than many factory options.
How to weld an iron door with your own hands (video)
Making a metal door with your own hands is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. Even if you are holding the welding machine for the first time, after a little training, you can create a very decent product.
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Today, not only city dwellers, but also the bulk of owners of suburban property, as entrance doors, prefer metal structures. In theory, they are much stronger, more reliable and durable than wooden or plastic counterparts. But in fact, many solid-looking metal doors from the budget segment can be opened with a can opener, and scrap for them is a universal key. To deliver the same expensive expensive design is not affordable for everyone, and the high cost is not a guarantee of the appropriate quality. Therefore, craftsmen, who possess welding skills and the corresponding tool base, prefer to make such doors themselves. In this situation, you can be confident in the strength of the frame, and in the worthy parameters of noise absorption and thermal insulation, and give the appearance in the overall style. FORUMHOUSE users also mastered the process and shared the results.
Introductory
Typically, the metal door consists of a box, cloth, hinges and mounting elements (plates, eyes, pins). And although you can not do without certain costs for materials and components, the self-made door will cost considerably less than the purchased one. The exact list of consumables depends on the construction, dimensions and purpose - if for a household block a simple frame with a skin and a latch is sufficient, then to enter the house the door must be multi-layered, with effective locking hardware and decorative lining. In the second case, an approximate set of required looks like this:
- Metal corner (from 5 mm) or profile - for the box.
- Metal corner or profile pipe - for frame, stiffeners.
- Sheet metal - for power sheathing (optimum thickness 2-3 mm).
- Thermal insulation material (mineral wool, foam, EPS or PSB).
- Accessories - hinges (better with bearings), sealant, peephole, lock / locks, handle, etc.
- Finishing - wood, forging, plastic (for the inner side different panels or laminate).
One of the most important stages is the measurement, if you make a mistake, in the future the installation of the door will be much more complicated, so it is worth sticking to certain recommendations:
- All measurements are not from the finishing layer, but from the roughing wall.
- Between the box and the opening must remain a groove, the standard - 2 cm (for alignment and mounting seam).
- The clearance between the box and the cloth from the side of the hinges is 3 mm, from the side of the lock - 5 mm.
In addition, the availability of a working drawing with dimensions or at least a sketch will be a great help, not everyone has the imagination developed enough to represent the final result in the mind. Fortunately, quite workable drawings are sufficient on the web, if drawing and drawing are difficult too.
But the best assistant is the experience generously shared by the participants of our portal.
dronduletus User FORUMHOUSE
I welded unpretentious doors to the dacha, I, in general, are not professionals, the door is my third welding experience (after the grids), so maybe I somehow did the wrong, I have my jambs.
On the frame went a profile pipe 20x40 mm, a metal sheet 3 mm thick, as an insulator - mineral wool, finishing - MDF.
Since the carcass must be cooked on a sturdy, level surface, and there was no suitable cooking table for the craftsman, he used the beams exposed in the same plane. He also used clamps to preserve the geometry of the product, some in the welding process slightly "grab" the elements to the cooking table. dronduletusmade the door in several stages.
I cut the pipe to the size, I did not observe the corners at 45,, because the welding was done butt-end, I assembled the frame, repulsed the diagonal, seized it, checked it, fixed it with clamps. He welded the frame and welded the stiffeners.
The sheet on the lining was trimmed taking into account the allowances for an overlap along the entire perimeter (1.5 cm), fixed on the frame by clamps. Welded first from the inside of the frame - from the middle to the edge, with sticks (about 2 cm in steps of 15-20 cm). To make the leaf smaller, brewed diagonally - opposite sides in different directions. After similarly welded the outer seams, peeled the Bulgarian, in the same order boiled over the ribs of stiffness. It was possible to manage and one edge, but the sheet fell curved. Next, he welded a "pocket" under the lock - he cut out a groove in the end face, he cut a profile along the perimeter.
The box was brewed from the corner 40x40 mm, for the threshold used a channel, 100x50mm, when cutting segments, I added gaps not only to the hinges and the lock, but also up and down (4 mm each). As a protection against lovers to profit another's goods, he welded additional plates / plugs over the place where the bolt will come in full width (on both sides). Welded metal strips to fix the box to the wall (two on top and three on each side). It was protected not only from knocking out the crossbar, but also from the removal of the door from the hinges.
dronduletus
He welded pieces of a corner 8 cm wide inside the door, on the back side of the frame, having lifted from him by 8 mm are anti-removable crabs.
The canopies were welded in a horizontal position - putting the canvas in a box and placing an iron plate between the canopy and the canvas with a thickness of 2 mm to seal the sealant and avoid friction. The canopies were welded at a distance of 25 cm from the edge of the canvas to the center of each canopy, first checking the level and fixing the clamps.
Since the walls are old and the condition of the brick leaves much to be desired, abandoned the usual anchors, and the pins used only to fix the threshold (channel). The box was fastened to studs, 25 cm long (diameter 12 mm) and chemical anchors, after mounting the box hung the door and drilled the holes for the bolt. In the cavity of the door I laid the heater, sewed all the panels with MDF, painted it.
The steel door in the apartment is a sure guard of your safety. In addition, the door can be judged by the owner, because a beautiful and tidy front door speaks about the taste and accuracy of the owner of the dwelling.
Preparatory stage. Tools and Materials
First of all, we will prepare the tool and everything that we need in order to make steel doors . From the tool we need:
- Welding table
- Welding machine
- with a circle for metal
- and a drill with a set of drills
- Roulette and other measuring instrument
- Set of wrenches and screwdriver
For manufacture of metal doors with their own hands we need this material:
- Metal corners for a door frame or a steel pipe with a square profile
- Sheet metal thickness preferably not less than 1.5 mm
- Material for plating (plywood, veneer, boards, etc.)
- Locks, handle and other accessories
- Fasteners (bolts, screws, etc.)
Measurements
Before manufacturing entrancemetal door own hands,it is necessary to remove the dimensions by which we will make the door leaf and the box. Measuring the doorway, from the received sizes on each side we take away on 2 cm.
Such a gap will subsequently simplify the installation of the box, will allow aligning and correcting it. When making measurements, it is necessary to make sure that we have reached a solid foundation: concrete or brick, and do not measure the doorway on the plaster, which happens to be very thick. When the sizes are received, we proceed to the next stage.
Do not forget to check the dimensions diagonally, from corner to corner. This will allow you to check the size of the angles, which should be exactly 90 degrees. When we were convinced that all dimensions are accurate and correct, we can weld the box. In the finished box, it will now be convenient to make slits for the lock bolts. They are made with the help of a Bulgarian.
Manufacture of door leaf
First of all, we need to know the dimensions of the future door leaf. To do this, we measure the inside of the box and leave a gap on each side of 0.5 cm. For these dimensions, weld the frame of the door leaf from the corners.
The manufacturing process of the door frame is very similar to the manufacturing of the box. Inside the frame we weld the lengths of the corner at regular intervals from each other. They will serve as ribs of stiffness.
Next operation in manufacturing metal doors with their own hands- Cutting out a sheet of metal for the door. It is cut out based on the dimensions of the door frame with an allowance of 1 cm on each side, and on the side of the hinges - 0.5 cm. This sheet is welded to the frame exactly. Also do not forget the Bulgarian to remove the burrs on the metal and clean the welded seams.
Now is the time to install wooden slats on the door leaf, on which the door trim will be fastened. It is also possible to make slots for locks and a hole for the eye sockets.