Exterior Sliding Glass Doors With Screens
|Exterior Sliding Glass Doors With Screens – A screen door is a superb way to not only let some fresh air and sun into your home, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at precisely the exact same moment. By using a screen door, you also have the ability to maintain your home enclosed, while allowing a breeze, either when the weather is warm or anytime you only need to let a little bit of atmosphere in. Even though you can purchase display doors for your home, they are in fact fairly straightforward to make, requiring only a few supplies and tools, using simple construction methods. Display doors can be very simple in design, or could be elaborate, based on your needs and construction abilities.
Supplies You Will Need, you’ll require some thin wood stock to use for the display door structure, a hardware frame for the doorway itself, and display meshing, together with a 1/4 inch from 3/4 inch screen molding. You will also require paint brushes, glue brushes, varnish and 1 inch nails. Some basic tools such as a tape measure, hamper, knife, chisel, basic gun and clamps will be needed.
Pick a well-dried wood to prevent future wood shrinkage, warping or swelling. Measure the dimensions of the doorway you want to construct, and cut the vertical and horizontal pieces to match. While building the doorway, it can help clamp the door pieces to a table. To make the corner combines, as well as when adding the centre horizontal support piece, you will want to take off half of the thickness of a single piece of wood where they will intersect with a saw, so that the general 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, and then clamp and allow to dry thoroughly.
Adding the Display to the Door, Putting the doorway flat on the work table, measure the general opening and cut a piece of display material into the appropriate size, leaving a few inches around the edges to make installation 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 closely towards the base of the doorway. Be sure to pull the display tightly in the horizontal directions as well, keeping in mind that display tends to elongate over time. The display can be stapled directly to the doorway, as the staples will be dealt with by molding that will be placed around the border of the display. After the display has been stapled firmly into position, trim the display and cover the edges with the display molding.
Finishing the Job, Once the doorway itself has been built, it is possible to set up the door frame itself, and also 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.