Interior Door Installation
Interior door installation is the step that you need to take in order to fully complete your interior house design.
So, after you have already picked up the paint for your walls, bought your furniture, chosen the right doors to fit in your “dream house”, the next thing to do is interior door installation. Of course, this part is usually and easily made by at least two persons, but then again if you are the kind of person that wants to do all by himself, that is also possible.
Well, you need to carefully check again your house plans in order to see exactly where the doors should be installed; perhaps you have chosen to have patio doors, sliding doors or folding doors; interior door installation will depend on the specific door you want in your house. Nevertheless, due to the fact that most people choose to have traditional doors, these interior door installation guide will focus on this product.
So, what you need to know first: doors are usually used for security, aesthetics, privacy, climate control or to secure the passage between different rooms.
The interior door installation should start by having the frames of the doors put up first into the desired walls, in order to have the hinged mechanism installed on the side of the desired part of the room you want the doors to open. Second step in interior door installation is the hinged mechanism that will sustain the weight and the movement of the door; the vertical axis and the already mentioned mechanism will make the door to open only in one way, so that it will reduce as much as possible the space needed in the room, or simply to make the movement from one room to another much easier -this is generally the case of train or closet doors. Once you fixed the hinged mechanism with nails or screws on the door frames, the interior door installation will continue with attaching the door itself onto the mechanism.
After these steps are done, proceed to the last part of the door installation process: carefully mark the places where the doorknobs and the lock-sets should be installed; then pre-drill the screws into the holes that you previously marked, temporally put the lock-sets and the doorknobs and if everything is fine, fix these with the right screws. After all of these being done, you need to calibrate the door in order for it to perfectly fit in the frames while it is closed; if you didn’t put the screws in the right way, you might see that the door will need a little push so that you can open it; in this case, use the screw-driver to firmly strengthen up the screws; if this isn’t enough and the door is still not opening easily, try to use a small house chainsaw to smoothly cut the parts where you see that the doors encounters obstacles at the contact with the frame. That should do the trick!
As you already understood, the best way to make the interior door installation go as smooth as possible is to measure carefully and to pay attention at everything that might make the door not to close or open properly. At the end, the interior door installation should conclude with all the doors installed in the right way and you can proceed another step in decorating your house.