Storm Screen Door

Custom Aluminum Storm Doors Screen Doors Provia inside size 1084 X 816

Storm Screen Door – A screen door is a great way to not only let some fresh air and sun into your house, but also to keep insects and other pests out at the same moment. By using a screen door, you also have the capacity to maintain your house enclosed, while allowing a breeze, either when the weather is warm or anytime you just want to let a little bit of fresh air in. Even though you can buy screen doors for your house, they are in fact fairly simple to make, requiring only a few tools and supplies, using simple construction methods. Display doors can be very simple in design, or could be more elaborate, depending upon your wants and construction skills.

Supplies You Will Need, You will need some thin wood inventory to use for the screen door construction, a hardware frame for the door itself, and screen meshing, together with a 1/4 inch from 3/4 inch screen molding. You’ll also need paint brushes, glue brushes, varnish and one inch nails.

Designing and Cutting the Door, Thinner wood inventory is generally utilized when building a screen door, generally in a five-eighths thickness. Pick a well-dried wood to avoid future wood 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 constructing the door, it can help clamp the door pieces to a work table. To make the corner joins, as well as when adding the centre horizontal reinforcement 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 the overall finished thickness of the joint will be equivalent to that of one piece of wood. Use a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the wood support pieces together, then clamp and let it dry completely. When the glue joints are completely dry, you can sand the door, and employ a stain and clean finish, or paint the door if desired.

Adding the Display to the Door, Laying the door flat on the job table, measure the overall opening and cut a piece of screen material into the appropriate size, leaving a few inches around the edges to make installation easier, which will be trimmed later. Lay the screen 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 sure that you pull on the screen tightly from the horizontal directions as well, keeping in mind that screen will elongate over time. The screen can be soldered right to the door, as the principles will be covered by molding which will be set around the edge of the screen. After the screen has been stapled securely into position, trim the screen and cover the edges with all the screen molding.

Finishing the Job, when the door itself has been built, you can install the door frame itself, and then attach the new screen door into the frame. Attach a door handle and secure the door into the frame using spring hinges so the door will close automatically.