Exterior Dutch Door With Screen

Loydbuilders Exterior Dutch Door Eliminates The Need For A Screen for dimensions 1066 X 1600

Exterior Dutch Door With Screen – A screen door is a great way to not only let some fresh air and sun to your home, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at precisely the same moment. By using a screen door, you also have the ability to keep your home enclosed, while allowing a breeze, possibly when the weather is warm or anytime you just need to let a bit of fresh air in. Although you can purchase display doors for your home, they are in fact fairly simple to make, requiring only a few tools and supplies, using simple building techniques. Screen doors can be either very simple in design, or can be more elaborate, based upon your needs and building skills.

Supplies you’ll need, You will need some thin wood inventory to use for the display door structure, a hardware frame for the door itself, and display meshing, together with a 1/4 inch from 3/4 inch screen molding. Some basic tools such as a tape measure, hamper, knife, chisel, staple gun and knobs will be needed.

Designing and Cutting the Door, Thinner wood inventory is generally used when building a screen door, generally in a five-eighths thickness. Pick a well-dried wood to prevent future wood shrinkage, discoloration or warping. Measure the dimensions of the door you want to construct, and cut the vertical and horizontal pieces to fit. While building the door, it can help clamp the door bits to a work table. To produce the corner joins, as well as when adding the center horizontal support piece, you will want to take off half of the depth of one piece of wood at the place where they will match a saw, so that the overall finished thickness of the joint will be equivalent to that of one piece of wood. Utilize a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the wood service bits together, then clamp and let it dry completely. When the adhesive joints are completely dry, you can sand the door, and employ a stain and clean finish, or paint the door if desired.

Adding the Screen to the Door, Laying the door flat on the job table, measure the overall opening and cut a piece of display material into the appropriate size, leaving a few inches around the edges to make installation easier, which is trimmed later. Lay the display over the top of the door frame, and staple it to the top of the frame, pulling it tightly towards the base of the door. Make sure to pull the display tightly in the flat directions too, keeping in mind that display will elongate over time. The display can be stapled directly to the door, as the principles will be covered by molding that will be placed around the border of the display. After the display has been stapled securely into position, trim the display and cover the edges with the display molding.

Finishing the Job, Once the door itself has been assembled, you can install the door frame , and also then attach the new screen door into the frame. Attach a door handle and fasten the door into the frame with spring hinges so that the door will close automatically.