Screen Glass Door
|Screen Glass Door – A screen door is a great way to not just allow some fresh air and sunshine to your home, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at the same moment. By using a screen door, you also have the capacity to keep your home enclosed, while still allowing a breeze, either when the weather is warm or anytime you only need to allow a bit of fresh air in. Even though you can purchase display doors for your home, they are actually fairly straightforward to make, requiring just a few tools and supplies, using simple building techniques. Screen doors can be either very simple in layout, or could be elaborate, based upon your wants and building abilities.
Supplies you’ll need, you’ll require some thin wood stock to use for the display door construction, a hardware framework for the doorway itself, and display meshing, together with a 1/4 inch by 3/4 inch screen molding. You’ll also require paint brushes, glue brushes, varnish and one inch nails. Some basic tools like a tape measure, hamper, knife, chisel, basic gun and clamps will be needed.
Designing and Cutting the Door, Thinner wood stock is usually used when building a screen door, generally at a five-eighths thickness. Pick a well-dried wood to avoid future wood shrinkage, discoloration or warping. Measure the dimensions of the doorway you want to construct, and cut on the vertical and horizontal pieces to match. While building the doorway, it can help to clamp the door pieces to a table. To produce the corner combines, as well as when adding the center horizontal reinforcement piece, you will want to take off half of the thickness of one piece of wood where they will match a saw, so the general finished thickness of the joint will be equal to that of one piece of wood. Utilize a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the wood service pieces together, then clamp and let it dry thoroughly.
Adding the Screen to the Door, Putting the doorway flat on the work table, measure the general opening and cut a piece of display material to the appropriate size, leaving a few inches around the edges to make setup simpler, 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 closely towards the base of the doorway. Make sure that you pull on the display tightly in the horizontal directions too, keeping in mind that display tends to elongate over time. The display can be soldered right to the doorway, as the staples will be dealt with by molding that will be set 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 assembled, you can set up the door frame itself, and then attach the new screen door to the framework. Attach a door handle and secure the door to the framework with spring hinges so the door will close automatically.