Decorative Metal Screen Doors
Decorative Metal Screen Doors – A screen door is a great way to not just let some fresh air and sunshine into your house, but also to keep insects and other pests outside at precisely the same moment. By using a screen door, you have the ability to keep your house enclosed, while allowing a breeze, possibly when the weather is warm or anytime you only want to let just a bit of fresh air in. Even though you can purchase screen doors for your house, they are actually fairly simple to make, requiring just a few supplies and tools, using simple construction techniques. Screen doors can be either very simple in design, or could be elaborate, depending on your needs and construction abilities.
Supplies You Will Need, you’ll require some thin wood inventory to use for the screen door construction, a hardware frame for the doorway itself, and screen meshing, along with a 1/4 inch by 3/4 inch screen molding.
Pick a well-dried wood to avoid future wood shrinkage, warping or swelling. Measure the dimensions of the doorway you want to construct, and cut on the horizontal and vertical pieces to fit. While building the doorway, it can help to clamp the door bits to a work table. To produce the corner joins, as well as when adding the centre horizontal reinforcement piece, you will want to take off half the thickness of a single piece of wood at the place where they will intersect with a saw, so the overall finished thickness of this joint will probably be equivalent to that of one piece of wood. Use a polyurethane glue and a brush to attach the wood service bits together, and then clamp and allow to dry thoroughly. When the adhesive joints are completely dry, you can sand the doorway, and employ a stain and clear finish, or paint the door if desired.
Adding the Screen to the Door, Laying the doorway flat on the job table, measure the overall opening and cut a piece of screen material into the appropriate dimensions, leaving a few inches around the edges to make installation simpler, which will be trimmed later. Lay the screen over the surface of the door frame, and staple it to the peak of the frame, pulling it tightly towards the base of the doorway. Be certain to pull on the screen tightly from the horizontal directions too, keeping in mind that screen will stretch over time. The screen can be soldered right to the doorway, as the principles will be dealt with by molding that will be set around the border of this screen. After the screen was stapled firmly into position, trim the screen and cover the edges with the screen molding.
Finishing the Job, Once the doorway itself was built, it is possible to install the door frame itself, and also 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 shut mechanically.
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