Not so long ago, metal-plastic doors put only on the balconies. With the development of technology, broader and reliable profiles appeared, allowing them to use them as an entrance in private houses and cottages. They are deprived of the main disadvantages of wooden doors - they do not swell from moisture, do not require regular renewal of paintwork, and it can look like the same or quite differently - it is your taste. Of course, with the reliability of metal entrance doors, they do not compare, but in the cottages and private houses such a margin of durability is not needed. First, you can penetrate through the windows. They are now no smaller size. Secondly, guard the territory of fences, gates and wickets. So the inlet plastic doors are quite justified. Especially if you consider that they have many advantages and not so much flaws.
Input plastic doors can be part of the input group - with windows on the sides
Pros and cons of plastic entrance doors
Advantages:
- Flexible manufacturing technology that allows you to make PVC entry doors of any configuration, colors, design.
- Good protection rates from cold / heat.
- Different opening systems.
- We can operate in a hot and cold climate.
- Do not react to moisture changes.
- Provide good protection against noise, dust.
- Compatibility with alarm.
- The ability to install locks of any complexity - ordinary and closing in all directions.
- Require minimal care, easily clean.
Of all the advantages, the input plastic doors on their own project can be reserved. Without any restrictions. More plus - the possibility of implementing a swing or sliding system. The sliding system is well combined with French windows. The area of glazing and they practically do not differ from the windows, as a result we get a very harmonious solution. Thus, make out access to the terrace, in the garden, to the backyard. Other materials do not provide such an opportunity - they are not compatible with the sliding system.
Sliding inlet plastic doors - a great way to make an exit to the terrace, in the garden to the backyard
Despite all the advantages, there are plastic entrance doors and disadvantages:
- High price.
- Mounting complexity.
- Not too high resistance to hacks.
Most questions occur during installation. To enhance reliability around the perimeter of the doorway, a metal reinforcing pad is installed. It also improves the complexity of the installation. In addition, it is necessary to comply with technology that ensures a high degree of heat-sound insulation. All this makes the installation harder.
Input plastic doors: species, materials
As far as the inlet plastic doors will meet your expectations, as well, they will work, there will be or not to deliver inconvenience, it depends on whether materials are chosen correctly, fittings. The stability of the form depends on how the technology is sustained (is there an amplification in the corners, as carved in the opening profile under the accessories). The combination of these moments ensures that even street plastic doors work without problems. Therefore, every nuance is paying attention.
PVC entrance doors can one to repeat windover winds, and may differ
Method of opening
By the number of flaps, inlet plastic doors are one, two, three and four-dimensional. Most often in private houses put doors with one or two sash. Bivalves can be with two or one moving flaps. The second sash also opens, but only in certain situations - if more air should be inserted into the house or put something volumetric. For such models, the second flap is fixed by the spinages at the top and bottom. Three-rolled most often have one fixed and two movable flaps, four-dimensional - two-to-two ratio.
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The number of flaps is determined by the width of the doorway. Up to 90 cm can be done one sash, from 1 meter to 1.8 m - two. A wider passage requires a three-stranded door.
According to the method of opening the door there are swinging (with opening inside or outdo) and sliding. Swing doors can be ordinary or pendulum (when they can open both inside the room and outside). In private houses, pendulum put very rarely, mainly if do the doors on the terrace.
Another point: entrance doors to a private house usually open out. This is not a rule, but so accepted. First, they are harder to knock outside, secondly, it is simpler, if necessary, to carry out inside. But it must be remembered that it increases the cost of the design, since the loops require another type, more expensive.
Profile
The quality and properties of the inlet plastic doors are determined by the quality and properties of the profile, from which they are made. Because the choice of profile is very careful. It is advisable to use well-known firms. REHAU, VEKA, KBE. They are checked, you know exactly what you get. Unnamed or little-known manufacturers are a big risk. No matter how soon change the doors due to their unsatisfactory quality.
The properties of the outdoor plastic door are largely dependent on the profile that you chose
Profile thickness and number of cameras
Street plastic doors are made from a special profile. It is wider and "thicker" that is used for the manufacture of balcony doors and accurately wider than that goes on the windows. Inside the profile, a reinforcing element is installed. For plastic doors, they put the contour from durable plastic, in the metalplastic reinforcing contour from aluminum.
For metal-plastic entrance doors, a class A profile is used, the minimum thickness of which is 70 mm, the maximum 118 mm, the thickness of the outer wall is at least 3 mm. In addition, it has a greater number of chambers, reinforced with thicker aluminum.
Different profiles for PVC entrance doors in Veka
The choice of profile thickness depends on several factors. The first is a climatic zone. The colder / hotter in your region, the more fat profile is worth taking. The second factor that needs to be considered is whether there is a temper in the house. If it is, you can try to save - the tambour will be a buffer zone. At the same time, you should not forget about the cost - the thicker the profile, the more expensive it is.
This moment is also important as the number of isolated cameras in the profile (the more, the better, and at least 3 cameras, but better - 5), as well as the thickness of the wall of the outer jumper. A thicker outer wall is a big strength, the best protection against temperature differences.
Doors without imposts have limited sizes
Even, to give the inlet PVC doors of greater rigidity, in the corners put reinforcing elements. This is an important point warning through the severity or temperature difference. All these features affect the final quality and on the convenience of operation.
Profiles for outdoor plastic door with thermal survey
There is also the so-called "warm profile for plastic doors." It has an additional insertion from plastic - thermal survey. It isolates the outer and inside of the profile. This improves thermal insulation characteristics, has a positive effect on sound insulation.
Reinforcement
A profile is on the manufacture of frame and sash, the inside of which the enhancing element is inserted is an aluminum profile. It can be C-shaped, P-shaped and closed - in the form of a rectangle. The most reliable is closed. It has greater rigidity, which guarantees the maintenance of the door shape at temperature differences. And pay attention, such a closed reinforcing profile must be on the frame and on the sash. Then even for large temperature differences, the door will not "will be deposited."
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The difference between the profile for the manufacture of a plastic entrance door in a thicker plastic, larger the number of chambers and a reinforcing circuit made of thicker metal
At the same time, the reinforcing profile is used with a thickness of 2 mm - this is minimum, and there are still with 3 millimeter metal. It takes the design. It is by mass of the door that can indirectly distinguish a balcony unit from the inlet plastic door. Too thick metal it makes no sense, but also thin simply will not endure the load.
How to cut holes
Only there is one very important point. In many firms, when making the door holes for the installation of locks are cut with a grinder. And the holes make with a solid "reserve". It is simpler and faster, but such holes significantly weaken the design.
So the holes made by the milling
It is with this method of cutting the holes of the door bends "sabers" at large temperature differences. This is when on -20 ° C, and in the house + 25 ° C. In principle, the rejecting profile begins at less significant differences - from about -5 ° C. Just with an increase in the difference grows the gap at the top and bottom. Before ordering plastic doors, make sure that the holes are milling, and not cut by the grinder.
Loop
Since the profile and double-glazed windows for the weekend plastic doors have a solid weight, the loops must be reliable. Models are only overhead, the windows are not applicable. Select preferably the best of existing - PVC street entrance doors to a private house open / close very often. Only good quality gives a guarantee of many years of trouble-free use.
There are three loops on the folding width (60-80 cm), on wider - 4, rarely more. Each of the loops is designed for 150-200 kg, so that their overall "loading capacity" is very large. But it is not worth putting less powerful - the doors open often, so the fittings should be reliable. That is why it is better to order a loop of well-known manufacturers. They are responsible for how long the doors will serve, it will be or not, it will be done.
Special loops for plastic doors provide adjustments
In order for the doors do not bother during operation, it is important to adjust them well. The weight of the flap should be evenly distributed onto all loops. Then, under any conditions, there will be no skew and other problems.
Glazing
Plastic entrance doors can be without glass at all. Also, glass can be located at the top of the door (height of it is any). There is a third option - complete glazing.
If the glass is made from the vertex to the bottom, it is usually separated by a transverse crossbar - the impost. This is not necessary - there are firms that make solid glass, but there are few of them, since the technology is complex. It is worth such glazing is significantly more expensive, and there is also the possibility that it can change geometry. So basically try to persuade the impost. Such double-glazed windows are easier to manufacture, cheaper, more reliable. The location of the crossbar is determined depending on the design - if the input group assumes the presence of windows nearby, they are made either at one level or with a significant dispersion.
With a large area of glazing, it is important to choose the right glass of double-glazed windows for input plastic doors.
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For street plastic doors, two-chamber double-glazed windows are usually used. They provide sufficient level of sound and heat insulation. Good indicators also have single-chamber energy-saving double-glazed windows. In general, there are the following types of double-glazed windows:
- Energy saving. Silver ions are sprayed on the glass surface. From this spraying is reflected warm. This maintains heat inside the house.
- Multifunctional. Silver spray for several surfaces. Due to this, warm and cold is preserved.
- Noise protection bags. To improve the noise insulating characteristics of the chamber make different widths, and the first glass has a thickness of 6 mm.
- Shockproof (triplex). Several glasses that are bonded with a glue composition, thanks to which they are better resisting shocks.
Doors Street plastic and double glazed windows
Glass can be ordinary, patterned, colored, satin (matte) with a mirror spraying. There are still armored. All this makes it possible to choose the characteristics of double-glazed windows for input plastic doors according to your requirements. Each firm characteristics differ slightly in the photo above the data on Ruhau firms.
Threshold
Street weekend plastic doors can be equipped with a threshold of two types:
- Aluminum. It has a small height. With this threshold, it is convenient to walk, but because of this it is possible to strengthen, although the sealer should prevent this, but it does not always turn out to be quite effective.
- Plastic. In essence, this is part of the frame. The height of such a threshold is greater and this is not very convenient, but in some cases choose this option, as it is necessary to protect against cold air.
Flat threshold is more convenient, but may not be protected from blowing
The choice of the threshold is not the most difficult point, but it also contributes to the level of comfort. For the entrance groups, the threshold is preferably done with a thermal explosion. This will not give the opportunity to penetrate the threshold.
Locking systems
Input plastic doors can be completed by conventional locks - with one point of fixation (single-side) or multi-axis. Multi-axes have several leaving "tongues".
There are two types of locks with multiple constipation - multi-axis and multiple. The clamps are designed for the best clamp of the frame to the frame. It ensures the maintenance of heat, so such locks should be used if the inlet plastic doors separate the warm room from the street or cold tambour.
The second type is multiple - have hazardous resistance. They have longer riglels (tongues) that are harder to squeeze. Such locks are worth using if you should pay the safety of great importance. Specifically - walls stone, windows small, with installed rolling shutters and alarm. Then it makes sense to put a more reliable castle. Otherwise, attackers will simply cost the doors using windows.
Plastic outdoor locking systems
If both characteristics are needed - and good thermal insulation, and reliability - you can put a multi-axle anti-burglar. They have a pin (tongues) in the form of a mushroom. They are so simple not hack.
Publishers in multi-axes are located vertically (from 4 to 6) and in the corners (with high altitudes they put additional). It helps improve door fit. Speed in motion they can from the key, and can - from the handle. It is more convenient to use the handle. But it should be borne in mind that multi-rotated locks require a certain sequence of actions when closing. Over time, the owners are getting used to this, but at first it delivers inconvenience.
Plastic door assembling video
It is unlikely that someone decides to collect plastic doors on their own. Just after watching these rollers it is easier to understand the structure of the door, the purpose of each of the elements.