Sliding interroom doors-coupe - an option that is increasingly found in urban apartments. His undoubted plus is saving the place: the sash slides along the wall and does not require space for opening. In addition, such a design looks extremely elegant and modern.
Other dignity - you can install the model and your own hands. In contrast to the swing design, the coupe is extremely undemandingly to the doorway.
Installation requirements
Step-by-step instructions for installation of the design includes all numerous nuances. However, there are several general requirements that should also be performed.
- Weight - Sliding Glass Interior Doors Coupes are almost the most spectacular, but also the most severe in the literal sense of the word. The installation with your own hands is, of course, it is possible, but, given the cost and weight of the canvas, it is better to provide a business to specialists. In particular, if the installation of additional accessories is required, and even more so the lock.
Lighter sliding models are made of MDF, plastic, it is possible to install it yourself.
- The curvature of the wall - finishing and quality of the doorway really does not matter. Close up of its ordinary paint, plasterboard or even plastic panels. But the wall, along which the sash should be moved, should be smooth enough. Otherwise, the canvas simply will not be able to move.
- The same applies to the curvature of the floor: if the floor will be uneven on the installation site. The sash will start "walking", spontaneously move or, on the contrary, will not be able to move. Therefore, the upper guide is always installed strictly horizontally to the floor.
- Construction - models of this plan are quite varied: you can install double-minded doors, you can collect a traditional option with two guides, you can mount the canvas only with the top guide fixed directly to the ceiling. For example, the intercommercial sliding door-compartment on the photo of the lower guide has no.
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Installation of interior doors - coupe: step by step
This design is purchased almost in the finished form: the cloth is fixed in the profile, guides and rollers are included, as a rule, there is all the necessary fasteners and tools for its use. Usually there is an instruction in which the procedure for action is stipulated.
- The lower guide is cut in size - the width of the doorway plus the width of the canvas, because in the open form, the sliding interior door is located along the wall.
- The guide is applied to the mind, mark the locations of the mounts - usually in the profile there are already holes under fasteners.
- In the marks, drill holes for installation in the floor and plastic plugs insert into them. Mounted guide and fix with screws.
The upper guide is fixed in the same way: on the walls in the wall, the holes are drilled and the part is fixed by self-draws. Another thing is important here: the upper guide must be strictly parallel to the bottom.
- For this, verticals are carried out from the edges of the lower guide - check the level so that the floor distance is the same. For these marks and install the upper guide.
- If once the sliding doors for the wardrobe were installed with their own hands, then the difficulties will not arise with interroom models. The door leaf is first introduced into the upper guide, and then, following the instructions, inserted into the lower groove. If necessary, the second person presses the rollers below.
- Conduct the position of the sash: for this, the adjusting screws are in the ends of the canvas. The sash is installed in the focus side of the doorway and determine whether there is and from which side of the gaps. If available, then weaken the stopper and the adjusting screw is achieved the correct position of the canvas relative to the opening. Then the stopper clamp.
Sliding interior doors coupe in the photo are adjusted using a screw.