In the distant past, shirma was used to zoning large on the area of premises. Now they are used for decorative interior design, but the principle of the screen of Screen lay down the basis of the creation of modern folding harmonica doors. These doors will be relevant to premises with a small area, as they occupy significantly less square than the doors opened by the usual way.
The folding door of the harmonica allows you to significantly save space and gives the room a stylish look.
You can buy the doors of this type with a set of fittings in stores. And you can make the door folding harmonica with your own hands. This will require labor time costs, but at cost it may turn out more profitable than buying ready doors. In addition, you can implement almost any designer idea.
The harmonica door can have any design and manufactured from various materials depending on the wishes and capabilities of the customer. Shops offer a wide selection of various materials suitable for the manufacture of such doors:
- tree (pine, oak, maple);
- glass;
- Chipboard;
- MDF;
- plastic;
- leather;
- the cloth.
Advantages and disadvantages
| Benefits | disadvantages |
| Significant savings of the useful space of the room. The ability to install the automation device. Fixing the sash in the desired position. Enjoy or reducing the number of sash at will.Installing the door with opening to any side. Silent. Do not break away from drafts. Doors consisting of plastic panels allow you to install them in bathrooms, shower cabins, that is used as a waterproof barrier. | Comparatively short service life - about 5 years. Doves with lots of lamella have many slots around each panel, so they possess:
Service life and door quality depends on:
Requires very careful use. |
Making folding doors on their own
Scheme of elements of folding door harmonica.
If desired, the road harmonica is made with their own hands. However, it should be borne in mind that only specialized fittings are required for such doors. Therefore, it is worth buying a ready-made kit.
Tools for the manufacture and installation of doors-harmonica:
Power tools:
- drill;
- Perforator (for drilling holes in the concrete wall).
Tools for measuring and drawing:
- Pencil - applying markup;
- Roulette - accurate measurement of parameters;
- Corolnic - accurate measurement of corners;
- Level is an assessment of the correspondence of vertical and horizontal planes.
Installation circuit roller mechanism.
Tools for cutting and cutting:
- hacksaw - cutting material;
- stationery knife;
- Stuslo - cutting boards;
- Electrolovka - sawing materials.
Consumables:
- glue;
- sandpaper - stripping;
- small bars of their tree;
- edge in the color of the material;
- platbands;
- rail guide of aluminum;
- polyurethane foam sealant - mounting foam;
- Fasteners - screws, screws, dowels, loops.
Diagram of the roller mechanism of the door frame.
The door is the harmonica of sections that can be made with your own hands. Before making the door, you need to find out the height parameters and widths of the opening. This is necessary to determine the number of panels in the sash. Deciding this, you can start working:
- A rectangle is cut from the LMDF cloth to the size of the doorway.
- From the prepared rectangle you need to cut panels.
Ends of finished panels:
- shut out the sandpaper;
- Water with a cloth to eliminate dust.
- stick to the processed ends plastic edge, tightly pressing it with a roller;
- After complete drying, the panel is ready for the assembly.
Preparation for installation: features
The guide is made through the rollers pre-installed on the spots.
Installed the door harmonica with their own hands. To install it, you need to know the order of its preparation and installation:
- Installing the guide at the top door opening. Before mounting the guide, you must drill holes in it at a distance of 25-30 cm from each other.
- Deciding with the direction of the door flap, you need to install a latch that is attached to the rail. If the sash opens from left to right, the latch must be installed on the left side of the rail, and if right left - with the right. By installing the latch, you need to place the carriage runner. After that, it is necessary to fix the guide by self-drawing.
- At the bottom and at the top of the upper panel are installed metal axes. Their location should be strictly symmetrically relative to each other. To do this, marking the position of the axis. Then drill down the nests of such a depth to them so that after setting the ends of the axes performed above the surface of the panel. The receiving plate must be installed under the bottom axis in the corner of the opening.
- In the last panel (relative to the panel with metal axes) you need to install the roller runner.
- To install the loops, decompose the prepared panels next to, observing the sequence and not can be the extreme panels. Place the pencil their location in the sash. Marking must be extremely accurate. Even a small displacement of the installed loops will lead to the deformation of the panel. All panels located inside the sash between the extreme panels are connected by 3 loops. When installing self-made doors-harmonica, it is easier to install hinges on the reverse side. In the finished sash, the distance between the panels should be 3 mm.
- Door handle and lock are installed in advanced grooves.
Installation and adjustment of the door-accordion do it yourself
The guide is fastened with screws to the top of the door frame, while the harmonica should be in the folded state.
Prepare the sash, you can proceed to the final stage - the installation of the door design.
Wedding sash:
- folded sash fix in planting plates;
- The axis of the carriage-runner is secured with a plate located on the extreme panel.
With the help of the adjusting key, it is necessary to loosen and pull up the nuts, adjusting and adjusting the sash.
You can make the door with sash consisting of a large number of panels.
In this case, more upper runners are required and an additional support at the bottom of the doorway to regulate the movement of the sash. In addition, you will have to install the lower rail rail, which must be hidden in the floor or with the help of the threshold.
Folding harmonica doors will save space indoors, will give the interior originality and will last long enough, subject to high-quality selected materials for its manufacture, as well as compliance with the technological process of installation and careful operation.
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