Doggy Doors For Screen Doors
|Doggy Doors For Screen Doors – A screen door is a great way to not only let some fresh air and sun into your home, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at the same moment. By employing a screen door, you have the capacity to maintain your home enclosed, while still allowing a breeze, possibly when the weather is warm or anytime you just need to let just a little bit of fresh air in. Even though you can buy display doors for your home, they are in fact fairly simple to make, requiring only a few supplies and tools, using simple building techniques. Display doors can be either very simple in design, or could be elaborate, depending on your needs and building abilities.
Supplies you’ll need, you’ll need some thin wood stock to use for the display door construction, a hardware frame for the door itself, and display meshing, together with a 1/4 inch by 3/4 inch screen molding. Some basic tools such as a tape measure, hamper, knife, chisel, basic gun and knobs will be needed.
Pick a well-dried timber to avoid future timber shrinkage, discoloration or warping. Measure the dimensions of the door you want to build, and cut on the vertical and horizontal pieces to fit. While building the door, it can help clamp the door pieces to a work table. To make the corner combines, in addition to when adding the center horizontal reinforcement piece, you’ll want to take off half the depth of one piece of timber where they will intersect with a saw, so that the overall finished thickness of this joint will be equivalent to that of a single piece of wood. Utilize a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the timber support pieces together, then clamp and allow to dry completely.
Adding the Display to the Door, Laying the door flat on the job table, measure the overall opening and cut a piece of display material into the proper size, leaving a few inches around the edges to make setup easier, which will be trimmed later. Lay the display over the top of the door frame, and staple it to the peak of the frame, pulling it tightly towards the bottom of the door. Be certain that you pull on the display tightly from the flat directions as well, keeping in mind that display tends to elongate over time. The display can be soldered right to the door, as the staples will be covered by molding that will be placed around the edge of this display. After the display was stapled firmly into place, trim the display and cover the edges with all the display molding.
Finishing the Job, when the door itself was assembled, you can install the door frame itself, and attach the new screen door into the frame. Attach a door handle and fasten the door into the frame using spring hinges so that the door will shut automatically.