34 X 80 Sliding Screen Door
|34 X 80 Sliding Screen Door – A screen door is a great way to not just let some fresh air and sunshine into your home, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at the same time. By using a screen door, you have the ability to maintain your home enclosed, while still allowing a breeze, either when the weather is hot or anytime you just need to let a bit of fresh air in. Although you can buy display doors for your home, they are actually fairly simple to make, requiring just a few supplies and tools, using simple building techniques. Screen doors can be very simple in layout, or can be more elaborate, based upon your needs and building skills.
Supplies you’ll need, you’ll require some thin wood stock to use for your display door construction, a hardware framework for the door itself, and display meshing, together with a 1/4 inch from 3/4 inch screen molding. You’ll 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 necessary.
Designing and Cutting the Door, Thinner wood stock is generally utilized when building a screen door, normally in a five-eighths thickness. Choose a well-dried wood to avoid future wood shrinkage, discoloration or warping. Measure the dimensions of the door you need to build, and cut the horizontal and vertical pieces to fit. While building the door, it can help to clamp the door bits to a work table. To produce the corner joins, in addition to when adding the center horizontal reinforcement piece, you will need to take off half of the thickness of one piece of wood at the place where they will intersect with a saw, so that the overall finished thickness of this joint will probably be equivalent to that of a single piece of wood. Utilize a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the wood service bits together, and then clamp and allow to dry thoroughly.
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 dimensions, leaving a few inches around the edges to make installation easier, which will be trimmed later. Lay the display over the surface of the door frame, and staple it to the peak of the framework, pulling it tightly towards the base of the door. Be certain that you pull the display tightly from the horizontal directions as well, keeping in mind that display will stretch over time. The display can be stapled directly to the door, as the staples will be dealt with by molding that will be set around the edge of this 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 door itself has been built, you can set up the door frame itself, and also attach the new screen door into the framework. Attach a door handle and secure the door into the framework with spring hinges so that the door will shut automatically.