What is the dock for the interior door. Types, sizes, installation

Interior doors in the interior of the house play a big role. To have a complete aesthetic appearance, if necessary, install door accessories. Not everyone knows what is a dashboard for an interior door, what functions it performs, how to install it correctly. To these questions, you can find the answer by reading this article.

What is a door screen?

Let's try to explain briefly what a dashboard for an interior door is. These are special slats of various sizes and textures that are installed in the openings, if the width of the door frame is greater than the thickness of the wall. They serve not only to strengthen the door structure, but also to mask the defects present on the slopes, giving them aesthetics. Docks are an important element, so the color, texture and style they should be selected under the appearance of the door leaf. Planks can be installed in existing old interior doors or in new ones. Fixing of the docking can both from one, and from both sides of the opening, depending on the location of the box in it.

Additional panels are of such types:

• Telescopic;
• Without edge;
• With an edge.

The material for manufacturing these elements is wood, finely divided fraction (MDF), wood fiber board (Fiberboard), plastic. Cladding horizontal and vertical strips with decorative film or veneer of different types of wood.

Dimensions of dashboards for interior doors

Manufacturers produce additional elements of such parameters: the height of the panel is 2 m, the thickness is 0.5-2 cm, the width of the bar can be from 10 to 14 cm. Non-standard fittings for interior doors, the dimensions of which, as a rule, exceed the standard parameters, order. Door frames can have special grooves, which includes the dock. Usually they are suitable panels with a thickness of 10 mm. In this regard, when choosing a device, one should take into account the size of the quarter. There are no restrictions on the thickness of the additional board if the door frame is without grooves.

Tools for mounting the tools

For high-quality installation of door accessories it is necessary to have such a set of tools:

• A disk saw;
• Milling machine for wood;
• Clamp.

With the help of these tools, you can quickly and easily install the dashboards for interior doors, the price of one set of which will be approximately 580 rubles. After installation, you can be sure of the durability of this design.

Installation of additional panels

Above is described what is the dashboard for the interior door. Their standard sizes and the tools required for installation are also indicated. And now tell you how to install the device. Interior doors are best purchased with additional elements. Since for aesthetic beauty the whole wooden structure must be made in the same style.

The installation of the additional element can be carried out before the door box is mounted or after it has been installed. If you chose the first option, then the dolly boards should be fixed on the back side of the lath. In the second case, the panel is drilled through and fixed to the box with screws.

There are cases when the wall openings have different sizes between the two sides of the slopes. Then the door frame is fixed to the narrow part of the opening, and the one closes the one that is wider. To do this, glued to the back of the vertical panels are butt-strips with a length of 25-35 cm. Their cross-section must be such that, with the mounted accessories from them to the wall, a gap of 10 mm remains. Next, the panels are inserted into the groove of the door unit, and the formed small gap is blown with foam.

You can install the docks in such openings in a different way. From the bars make a frame, which is attached to the slopes by screws. The space is poured with foam and after it dries on it, the vertical additional strips are glued on.

In the installation, telescopic elements with grooves are most convenient, which makes it possible to install them in uneven openings. Such subsidies for interior doors, the price of one set of which 680 rubles, are installed without the use of glue and screws. Their connection is due to the grooves.

Mount docks begin with vertical panels, and then install horizontal elements. After completing their installation, you should attach the platbands.

Elimination of gaps after assembly of the gates

After installation of additional elements, the gaps formed can be blown out by foam. To ensure that the foam, which has a property to expand greatly, does not arched the door frame, you must follow certain rules.

1. Blow the foam should be evenly.
2. Do not remove the spacers until it is completely solidified.
3. Hold the additional panels spacers, which should not exert pressure on them.
4. Take care that the foam does not go out of the escarpment and does not displace the doses. It is better to leave a small space, which can then be plastered.

After you have learned that such a dashboard for the interior door and how to install it, perform the installation work yourself will be quite easy.