Interior doors in rooms perform two tasks: insulating and decorative. When choosing a version of interior doors, it is also important to pay attention to how much space this design will occupy in the room when open. For owners of dwellings of small dimensions, a sliding door to the wall will be an ideal door option. This model saves a lot of space in the room, and it looks individual and neat.
Package
The sliding door to the wall consists of the following components:
- door leaf;
- frame;
- drive mechanism;
- decorative strips;
- additions and platbands;
- fittings, this includes handles, locks and other additional small parts.
Features of structural elements
Interior doors sliding into the wall should enter and leave it withoutinterference, otherwise, damage to both the wall and the door is inevitable. Therefore, individual structural elements of such doors have a number of features.
Let's start with the fittings. The handles must be drownable to avoid the appearance of obstacles when opening / closing the door, as for the lock, its shape also matters. An ordinary lock will not work in such a door, here you need to take a lock with a hook-shaped bolt.
Special attention should be paid to the door movement mechanism, which includes:
- guide (there may be one or two guides, most often an aluminum profile is taken for their manufacture);
- roller carriages are made of a special-purpose polymer material that is particularly resistant to abrasion, bearings play the main role in the smooth rotation of the carriages, the standard number of rollers must be increased when installing a heavy door leaf (solid wood, for example).
- retainers.
Yes, and the door leaf itself is better to choose with the smallest possible weight, since an increase in its mass leads to a greater load on the door movement mechanism and its warping and a decrease in smoothness occur.
Classification
Interior doors are divided according to a number of characteristics.
Depending on the manufacturing method, there are:
- panel;
- paneled.
From execution method:
- with glasses;
- solidcanvas.
From material used:
- from an array of wood;
- plastic;
- chipboard;
- other content.
Depending on the type of decorative coating:
- laminated;
- melamine;
- veneered.
How does a sliding door slide into a wall?
There are two ways to install these doors.
First - the sliding door moves along two rails, the door leaf moves along rails that are installed on the ceiling and on the floor. More often, wardrobes are equipped with this method of installing doors. This installation option is cheaper, but not very convenient due to the lower rails, they often become a hindrance when walking. True, you can mount them deep into the floor, but then there will be difficulties in cleaning. This option cannot boast of perfect aesthetics. But the second one is quite.
The second way - one guide each, which is most often installed above the doorway and does not create barriers for a person. In addition, when the door is open, there is no separation of the floor surface, which creates the appearance of a unified space.
By type of running gear
Sliding door into the wall according to the way of movement relative to the wall is of the following types:
- A door that moves inside the door frame, it has a limitation in the form of the size of the door frame, that is, it can only be installed inopenings of sufficient size.
- Doors moving along the wall can be made of any material and move along the rails. Their number depends on the severity of the door itself, sometimes you need to mount two guides - the top and bottom, and sometimes one top rail is enough.
This type of sliding door has a number of disadvantages:
- firstly, the door is always visible in both the open and closed position;
- secondly, the wall on which the door enters loses its functionality, you can no longer hang a picture or a bookshelf on it;
- Thirdly, low sound insulation resulting from the formation of a technological gap between the door and the wall.
- Sliding interior doors that enter the wall (cassette system) are similar in design and movement to the previous type of door, but the whole structure is installed in a special niche, which is usually a wall. But here one important nuance must be taken into account: the place of the pencil case must be free from electrical wires and sockets, as well as other communications.
Cassette mounting system
This installation method allows maximum savings in the useful area of small-sized housing, since sliding interior doors hidden in the wall do not take up space. As a result, furniture can be placed along the wall into which the door has entered.
To implement such an idea, it is necessary that the sliding doors into the plasterboard wallhid completely. To this end, a niche is equipped either during the construction of the walls of the room, or a part of an existing one is destroyed, into which a plasterboard box is subsequently mounted. The latter option requires a lot of material costs, as well as permission to change the layout, especially when the wall is load-bearing.
Sliding doors hidden in the wall come in single and double doors.
Sliding door benefits
The sliding door along the wall moves smoothly and quietly along the rails. This is a mandatory feature, which is achieved through the use of sound-absorbing rails, and only if they are properly installed.
There is no unpleasant opportunity to catch clothes or some objects on the door handle, as it is of a mortise type.
This type of door can easily be left half open, because it will not be able to slam itself shut in a draft, for example. This is especially important for doors with glass elements.
Aesthetic and neat look - achieved by decorating the door leaf with glass (on which drawings or mosaics can be applied), stickers or original coatings.
And the most important advantage is, of course, saving space.
Types of materials for the pencil case
Moisture resistant plywood - in most cases used for bathrooms. Designs are characterized by low weight, compactness and ease of installation. It won't be too hard to installthis type of pencil case, it does not require special adjustment and long engineering calculations. The cost of such a niche is small and belongs to budget options. This type of construction would be ideal for light weight doors (room partitions).
Profiled Steel - Sold as a ready-made canister made of profiled steel, this design is durable and reliable in operation. It plays well with heavy door panels made, for example, from solid wood. But all these positive qualities cost a lot of money, this version of the door niche is the most expensive.
Gypsum plasterboard is a universal and most popular option, it took this position due to the reliability and strength of its design. The plasterboard case is suitable for all types of sliding door panels. But the installation of this type of pencil case requires time and serious engineering calculations. Therefore, it is better to entrust the construction of a drywall niche to professionals. As for cash costs, here they are minimal.
General rules for mounting the finished pencil case
When buying a ready-made pencil case, detailed installation instructions are included with the purchase.
She looks something like this:
- need to assemble the pencil case itself;
- attach the door frame to the pencil case;
- attach the assembled structure to the wall opening;
- check the accuracy of the installation with a building level, and if the result is positive, fix the structure with hardware;
- install the door;
- close the walldrywall.
The interior of a home with sliding doors always looks beautiful and modern, because the variety of such door panels strikes with a stylistic range from classic to hi-tech.
