By installing a solid front door, we are trying to solve the two most important problems - to ensure safety and warmth. And if most of the manufacturers of metal doors cope with the first of these tasks, then to solve the second one you have to make some efforts on your own. So, how to insulate the front metal door yourself?
Door insulation
In fact, it is quite difficult to make sure that the metal door does not let the cold in from the outside. Wooden doors are much easier to cope with this task. Wooden canvases are considered the warmest in themselves, which means that their insulation does not cause much trouble. In a specialized store, where it is quite difficult to buy a metal door that matches your particular doorway, you can ask about the possibility of making it to order. But in this case, you should not be sure that it willprevent the loss of heat, as well as prevent the penetration of cold from the outside. You can slow down the process of heat leakage by installing an additional door inside the room. However, this option, especially in small apartments, is not very convenient. The vestibule formed between the doors serves as an ideal barrier to cold air from outside. Despite the reliability of this time-tested option, double doors are slowly losing their popularity. The consumer prefers to deal with the wind blowing in the gap in an alternative way - by insulating or sealing the space between the frame and the door.
Door Seal
It turned out to be quite difficult to choose a metal door that would "sit" tightly in the doorway. To achieve the desired result, it is necessary to take additional measures to eliminate the most insignificant gaps. The easiest way to insulate is sealing rubber. With the help of a rubber seal, you can easily insulate the front metal door. It must be glued around the entire perimeter of the doorway frame. The dimensions of the sealant must correspond to the width of the folds (the area of contact between the door and the frame) and the length of the area to be insulated. The thickness of the rubber used must correspond to the gap between the rebate and the door leaf. The parameters of the seal can be found in the following way. Attach ordinary plasticine or elastic putty to the frame and close the door. The resulting roller will demonstrate the exact thickness of the required sealant. Glue similar rubbereasy enough. You just need to separate the adhesive tape accompanying the seal and stick the rubber around the perimeter of the frame, pressing it tightly against the folds.
How to thoroughly insulate the front metal door?
Iron doors have to be insulated not only around the perimeter of the frame. The fact is that ordinary metal doors have an empty void inside. And the cold metal, which, as a rule, is duplicated by nothing from the inside, passes the cold without any obstacles. And in order to insulate the entrance metal door, you have to sheathe the canvas with decorative material. The most suitable material in this case is polystyrene. It must be cut into rectangles, which together will correspond to the parameters of the door leaf. All prepared puzzles are glued onto liquid nails. Minor gaps between the insulation can be filled with mounting foam. Next, we veil the insulated door leaf with a laminate or laminated fiberboard, screwing it with self-tapping screws to the corner.
