Repair is an expensive event, and everyone is looking for ways to save on something. Many owners try to do as much work as possible on their own and involve specialists only at those stages where it will not be possible to perform any work without professionals. This approach is often used in the arrangement of the front door. The owner orders a metal door with an open frame without cladding, paying the minimum amount, and does the cladding with his own hands. In addition to financial benefits, the owner will receive a guarantee that the canvas is of high quality (the whole structure is in plain sight), and the interior decoration of the front door will not be imposed by the manufacturer and can be done as the soul wants.
The choice of materials for facing the door today is wide. You can use ready-made decorative panels that are made specifically for. Instead, you can experiment with other materials that are used in different areas of construction for surface finishing.
The choice of material for should be based on its aesthetic characteristics and take into account the features of the operation of the front door. Finishing the entrance iron door from the outside will differ from the way it is sheathed from the inside. The inner side of the canvas will be in protected conditions, where the humidity level will not change over a wide range, and the likelihood of mechanical damage will be minimal. Finishing the front door from the inside can be done with almost any material.
Another thing is the outer surface of the door. The outer finishing layer will be exposed to more aggressive effects of moisture, temperature changes, and the outer lining of the front door must withstand any unforeseen mechanical damage.
Therefore, it is necessary to choose how to finish the door not only according to the aesthetic characteristics of the material, but also according to its performance. The main ones are moisture resistance and mechanical strength of the surface.
Important! When choosing a material, it is necessary to understand the technology of its installation. Each of them is distinguished by a certain level of labor intensity and will require the appropriate skills from the performer.
The range of design of such overlays is huge. There are conventional models with embossed volumetric panels, there are flat panels with deep milling. Designer models use glass or mirror inserts, patina finish, 3D engraving. But when choosing a card, you should first of all pay attention to the type of protective coating. The cheapest and presented in a wide range of basic sizes are embossed MDF cards coated with ordinary (inner) PVC film. This material is ideal for lining the canvas from the inside. But it is not suitable for the outside, since the protective film does not have sufficient strength, and the material itself swells and deteriorates under conditions of high humidity. Higher quality (and more expensive) are linings coated with an outer film of increased strength or painted with polymer paint.
Important! MDF panels with outer film can be installed on exterior doors if the porch is equipped with a wide canopy. Regardless of the quality of the coating, the cards do not allow direct contact with water.
This is the most expensive option. Panel tinting can be done independently and get the desired shade in accordance with the interior. The surface of the slip can be varnished several times, which looks much more practical than MDF cards. Surface wear and the inevitable loss of gloss of the coating must be restored. You can always remove the panel and ennoble it with a new layer of varnish or glaze.
Important! Panels can be made by yourself. To do this, take moisture-resistant plywood, cut out a rectangle to fit the canvas and decorate it to your liking. It can be covered with stain, varnish, stick home-made panels in half a tree. In this way, the outer side of the iron door is lined with leatherette.
This is a universal material, which is used for both internal and external finishing of the entrance metal door. The lining has a lock connection, so it is easily mounted and the jointing is smooth.
Any lath material allows you to make a surface with any direction of the jointing lines, so the clapboard lining does not look the same.
Plastic is not afraid of moisture, but this advantage is completely offset by its low mechanical strength. Therefore, only the inner surface of the door can be trimmed with plastic. In addition, outwardly this material does not look presentable enough.
This is another material that is often sheathed on the front door to an apartment. Decorative finishing indoors when using a laminate is carried out in a complex way: doors are lined with a laminate, it is laid on the floor and slopes are made. Such interiors look solid and harmonious.
Finishing the front door on the outside with leatherette is one of the most common options that are used for decoration. At the same time, a rolled insulation with elasticity is laid under the material. As a rule, foam rubber is taken to match inexpensive leatherette. It not only insulates the fabric, but also provides a uniform stretch of the fabric and allows you to perform a characteristic relief embroidery.
Important! Leatherette is rarely used for an iron door. This is due to installation difficulties. In addition, not every owner who installed a new door will consider leatherette a worthy decoration for her.
Facing materials are attached to the canvas in two ways:
MDF panels, solid wood or homemade cards are attached to the door with self-tapping screws:
Important! Overlays on both sides at once. When mounting the inner card on the outer surface of the canvas, the caps of the self-tapping screws will remain visible, which will still have to be covered with something. Therefore, two overlays are usually bought or made at once.
This method of mounting the cladding is the simplest.
The supporting element for fastening the lining, laminate and other slatted material will be a wooden slat frame, which is attached to the web stiffeners from the inside. I take the rail of the same thickness as the height of the jumpers of the metal frame. It is fixed with metal screws.
A heater is placed in the cells of the canvas cavity and a lining is installed, nailing it to the frame rails.
Important! When using lining, it is also used for sealing slopes. The opening, fully sheathed with clapboard, will look impressive.
When working with wooden clapboard, thin decorative slats are used to decorate the perimeter of the door leaf and close the joints between the planks at breaks in the direction of the lines. When working with plastic and laminate, a plastic starting L-shaped profile is used for such purposes. It is first stuffed around the perimeter of the canvas, and then the cut strips are inserted into it.
This method is more laborious in all versions, since trimming the lining takes much more time than instant screwing on the lining.
The batten cladding on the outside of the door has some special features. If on the inside the thickness of the skin does not matter much, then on the outside it should not protrude much. Therefore, from the outside, the facing material is attached directly to the surface of the door leaf. To do this, take a thin lining and screw it to the canvas with self-tapping screws. Alternatively, you can make a card. On a sheet of thin fiberboard, a distillation is mounted on glue in exactly the same way as if it were laid directly on the canvas. It is left to dry, pressed with something heavy so that the typesetting card does not move during the drying process. After drying, it is fixed in the same way as ordinary MDF cards.
If the owner himself took up the installation and lining of the door, then to complete the finishing of the doorway, you will need to make slopes. There are several options for making slopes. Of these, the simplest for self-fulfillment can be considered the use of extensions or installation on slopes of the same material as the door trim. Plastering is too dirty and time-consuming technology, and natural stone is not always combined with the surrounding interior.
The extensions go well with laminate, panels, as they are made of almost the same material and have the same type of coating. In addition, they are easy to install, they do not require the construction of a complex frame, and a system with telescopic adjustment of the depth of the casing will allow you to easily install it yourself.
