Screen Door Inserts
|Screen Door Inserts – A screen door is a superb way to not only allow some fresh air and sunshine into your house, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at the same time. By employing a screen door, you also have the capacity to maintain your house enclosed, while still allowing a breeze, possibly when the weather is hot or anytime you only want to allow a little bit of fresh air in. Although you can purchase display doors for your house, they are actually fairly simple to make, requiring only a few supplies and tools, using simple building techniques. Screen doors can be either very simple in layout, or can be elaborate, depending upon your wants and building skills.
Supplies You Will Need, You will need some thin wood inventory to use for your display door structure, a hardware framework for the doorway itself, and display meshing, along 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 necessary.
Pick a well-dried timber to prevent future timber shrinkage, discoloration or warping. Measure the dimensions of the doorway you want to construct, and cut the vertical and horizontal pieces to fit. While constructing the doorway, it can help to clamp the door pieces to a work table. To make the corner combines, as well as when adding the center horizontal reinforcement piece, you’ll want to take off half the depth of a single piece of timber where they will intersect with a saw, so the overall finished thickness of this joint will be equivalent to that of a single piece of wood. Use a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the timber support pieces together, then clamp and allow to dry completely.
Adding the Screen to the Door, Laying the doorway flat on the job table, measure the overall opening and cut a piece of display material into the proper size, leaving several inches around the edges to make setup simpler, which is trimmed later. Lay the display over the surface of the door frame, and staple it to the top of the framework, pulling it closely towards the bottom of the doorway. Be sure to pull the display tightly in the flat directions too, keeping in mind that display tends to stretch over time. The display can be stapled directly to the doorway, as the staples will be covered by molding that will be placed around the border of this display. After the display was stapled firmly into place, trim the display and cover the edges with the display molding.
Finishing the Job, when the doorway itself was built, you can install the door frame , and also attach the new screen door into the framework. Attach a door handle and fasten the door into the framework with spring hinges so the door will shut mechanically.