Saving thermal energy is important for the preservation of material tools and comfortable living conditions in the house. Often warm leaves home through the doors. It is not necessary to change them to new ones: if they are correctly insulated - the effect will not make himself wait.

Warming doors with their own hands. What reasons, heat goes through the doors

The reasons for which the door does not save heat consist in the following.

1. Use for the manufacture of doors of materials with low thermal insulation characteristics. This concerns most often doors made of metal. As a result, with a large temperature difference outside and indoors, condensate may appear on their inner surface.
2. Insufficient door thickness and lack of thermal insulation in its design.
3. The presence of "cold bridges", which can be locks, eyes, loops, door frame, stiffener ribs of the door canvase.
4. No insulating material in slopes.

The lack of insulation and the seal leads to a freezing of the entrance door

Wooden Door Warming: Preparatory Stage

Before fixing the insulation, you need to examine the door leaf and the box and find out:

• how tightly the door is closed;
• does the locks, loops, drones work well;
• the need to repair the door frame;
• the need to restore the door canvase.

After that, it is required to remove the size of the canvas to purchase the material. Stripping upholstery, take into account the location of the locks and the door eye.

Measurement of the door cloth for the pattern of insulation and upholstery

IMPORTANT: Upholstery Materials need to be purchased with a reserve on the grounds for fastening and for stretching fasteners.

Warming doors with their own hands. How to restore the doorway from the tree with their own hands

In the event that the door has already served for many years and there is some defects, you must follow the following recommendations.

1. The door around the perimeter is examined: if the clearance is too large along the threshold (which happens during the abrasion of the box) to overlap it with the seal, the threshold needs to strengthen the lining of the desired thickness. To do this, first need to align the door frames with the plane, and in the corners - a wide chisel. Having determined the thickness of the lining, fasten it with wood glue and self-drawing. The pad must be made of moisture-resistant wood treated with an antiseptic. You can prevent further abrasion of the thoring with a metal decorative M-shaped profile.
2. The side of the door leaf, which will not be closed as a heater, should be in good condition. Old paint need to be removed by a special chemical or a construction hairdryer and a spatula. Cracks, irregularities are eliminated with putty, after which the surface is treated with fine-grained emery paper. Stone door leaf cover with primer and decorated paint.
3. Similarly, they come with a doorway dial. On the edge adjacent to the door leaf, glue the rubber seal on the adhesive basis. The height of the seal profile is selected depending on the density of the adjustment of the canvas to the box.

Required material for insulation of the entrance door do it yourself

The following materials will be needed for work:

• insulation (foam, mineral wool, batting, etc.);
• outer upholstery (dermatin, tarpaulin, dense tapestry, artificial leather);
• fasteners (special nails, ribbons, glue);
• rubber seal.

The rubber seal on the adhesive basis for sealing the fitting of the door leaf to the box

Features of the wood door insulation with their own hands consist in the method of fastening the insulation and decorative design of the door of the door. The following materials can be used as insulation:

1. Porolon: Porous soft and lightweight material of different density. The optimal thickness of the foam rubber used for the upholstery of the door leaf is 30-40 mm.
2. Isolon, or foamed polyethylene: fooled on one side (happens without foil) with a thickness of up to 20 mm thick. When insulation is located foil towards the room.
3. Vatin or felt: natural material, which is a cloth from cotton production waste. Currently used rarely.
4. Polyfoam: It can be different density, may replace the foam rubber. Clapped with glue and closes with decorating web.
5. Mineral Wat: has good thermal insulation properties, but it is inconvenient to use cotton due to its large thickness.

Door canvas insulated with foam

Wooden door insulation tool do it yourself

Work on the warming of a wooden door requires the presence of the following tools and devices. At the preparation stage:

• plane;
• chisel;
• hammer;
• construction hairdryer;
• putty knife;
• roulette;
• screwdriver;
• sander;
• emery paper shallow grain;
• paint brushes.

At the insulation stage:

• mounting or small lomik (for removing the door leaf with loops);
• spatula or brush (for applying glue);
• construction knife;
• tailor scissors;
• hammer.

Installation of insulation on the door with his own hands

Wooden door (if it is not hollow) can only be insulated outside. work technology involves the following sequence of actions.

Door canvas prepared for insulation mounting

1. The door leaf is removed from the loop: it draw in the mount from below by inserting the tool between the floor and the edge of the canvas. In this case, the door needs to be closed and opened with incomplete amplitude and hold hands.
2. The door leaf is placed on a workbench or sturdy table up by the party, which will be attached a heater.
3. Carried out the dismantling of lock handles, trim strips and door peephole.
4. Laid at the door insulation. In places where the installation of locks, handles and door peephole in the insulation do cutouts.
5. Clean the side heater for applying glue on the door leaf. The glue will prevent sliding of the insulation under its own weight.
6. Fit insulation in place and pressed, smoothed by hand or with a roller.
7. On top of the insulation is laid upholstery. It also makes cuts in the area of \u200b\u200bthe lock elements and the door peephole. In this case the recesses must be formed so that the edge trim strips tightly pressed material.
8. The edges of the trim on the door perimeter are folded so as to leave room for the nails with a wide hat (furniture). Nails fills perimeter material often: every 2-5 cm (depending on the density of upholstery).
9. If necessary (in case of the use of heavy insulation) stuffed transverse or diagonal stripes, cut and rolled from the same upholstery material. It is possible for this purpose to use a thin steel cable in vinyl shell.
10. The door leaf is hung on hinges.
11. Set into place handles, decorative trim and a peephole.

Door, insulated izolona

Important: upholstery material attached taut. To prevent the formation of wrinkles, stretch to be performed in several ways. Recommended insulation installed outside the door: it will prevent freezing of the web.

Leatherette upholstery is attached to the door leaf stud

Additional diagonal fastening upholstery

Internal and external insulation, metal doors

Metal doors have certain advantages over wood:

• does not warp due to moisture and temperature changes;
• design features make it possible to ensure a snug fit the edges of the web to the planes of the box.

At the same time, the high thermal conductivity of the metal is the cause of the loss of thermal energy. To avoid this - it is necessary to conduct warning events. The features of the insulation of the metal door with their own hands consist in the possibility of laying the heat-insulating material in the cavity of the design of the door leaf. But it is feasible only in case of collapsible door. At the same time, the technology should be observed and take into account the peculiarities of the preparatory work on the warming of the door with their own hands.

Warming with a metal door foam

1. If the door canvas can be disassembled, without removing with the loops - disassembly of the pads of the castle, decorative lining, door eye.
2. From the inner panel of the trim, screws hidden by plastic caps are twisted. The panel is dismantled.
3. Taking into account the location of the ribs of stiffness from the foam, mineral wool or extruded polystyrene foam, cutting plates of the insulation.
4. Material for insulation is laid in the cavity of the door leaf by the rotary.
5. The covering panel is installed in place, fasten it with screws that are closed with plastic caps.
6. Install the knobs of locks, overhead panels, door eye.

Dismantling of the decorative lining of the castle of the metal door

In some cases, there is a need to insulate the unintellular doors. Such may be the design of Chinese production. Warming technology provides as follows:

1. The door canvas is removed from the loops and fit onto the smooth surface to the inner side (the insulation will be attached to it).
2. Locks of locks, handles and eyes are dismantled.
3. On the perimeter of the canvas, a wooden bar is attached, the dimensions of which are selected depending on the size of the heater thickness (20-50 mm). The sizes of the frame should be such that the design is free to enter the space bounded by the door frame. The mount is performed by self-assembly for metal through pre-drilled holes. The diameter of the holes is a little thinner of the screws.
4. Inside the frame of the bar is stacked by the insulation. In this capacity, extruded expanded polystyrene can be used - material with high heat insulating characteristics.
5. The gaps between the insulation and the box bar are filled with mounting foam. It securely secure the insulation and improve thermal insulation.
6. On top of the frame with the insulation is mounted in advance carved from plywood or OSB plates (4-6 mm thick) lining. Fasten it with self-draws, with a circular inclusion - every 5-7 mm.
7. The lining is stained or closed with decorative material.

Filling the gaps by mounting foam

Important: Due to the increase in the thickness of the door leaf, it is necessary to replace the door eye to the model suitable in size, as well as set longer pins for the lock handles.

An alternative way of insulation of unsolved doors is based on the use of vermiculite - bulk mineral material. It is falling asleep inside the door leaf through the hole drilled in different places. The complexity of the method is that fill the door insulation can interfere with rigidity ribs. Before starting work, it is necessary to determine their location of the canvas to select the optimal places for the technological holes. After frustration, the vermiculitis of the holes are sealed with lining cut out of plastic.

Vermiculitis - bulk mineral insulation

In conclusion the article on how to perform the warming of the door with your own hands - video, demonstrating some of the details of the technological process.