Many are now installed at the entrance to the apartment second door. It is often installed in addition to the metal entrance door. What's the point of this? Is such waste necessary, or is it not more than an excess?
Installation of metal door
Why do you need the second door in the apartment?
If you ask a similar question to the owner of an apartment with a double door, then you can hear the following answers about the need to supplement:
- For beauty. Metal structures have long been learned to be attractive externally, but by default, such structures have a typical finish. If you want the entrance to look in accordance with the overall interior of housing, then you have two ways. First, order an individual decoration of the inside of the metal structure. Secondly, put an extra, cheaper wooden design, which can be separated as you like. Practice shows that the second option is almost always cheaper.
- As additional protection. No matter how good the main steel protective design is, it still does not happen much. Additional protection can give you (and take away from an attacker) precious minutes, which will be enough to arrive for employees of the rule of law, which is especially relevant for apartments equipped with alarm. In addition, often in order to move the hacker, it is enough to get along the stairs by the apartment by a random person - a tenant or someone's guest. Additional protective design increases the likelihood of such an outcome.
- Additional insulation. No matter how well the outer panel was warmed, in the conditions of severe winters in recent years, regular failures of the heating campaign, ever-energized glasses and opened entrance doors in the stairwell, thermal insulation may be insufficient, which can become an incentive to install an additional entrance door. The point is not even that the tree in itself is warmer metal. Heats in this case is not a tree, but a layer of air between the first and second door. After all, as you know, the air is the best insulation. However, this is true only under the condition that the air from the "interstrey" will not be communicated with the cold atmosphere of the entrance, nor with the warm space of the apartment. Pay special attention to the sealing of both structures!
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- Soundproofing. The air layer will not only delay heat, but also does not let outsider sounds, which is so replete with an apartment building: the steps of the neighbors on the stairs, the sounds of the elevator, the flap of the access door. If you are restless, you have a sensitive dream and you prevent you from any noise, then the second door for you is simply indispensable.
Installation of the second door
First of all, we are determined with the material:
- The metal door is out of competition in its protective qualities, but this option is the most expensive.
- If you put aesthetics in the chapter, then the tree is your choice. The height will also be heat and sound insulation of the wooden door, but the price will also bite frankly
- Economy option - plastic saving budget. Heat insulation with due sealing is acceptable, soundproofed worse. Protective qualities - zero, appearance - "Poor, but clean."
- Well, finally, the optimal option for the price / quality ratio is the design of MDF wood panels (photo). Wooden or metal frame from two sides is covered with chipboard panels. Air inside the design itself serves to additional heat and air insulation. In appearance, only a specialist will be able to distinguish such a door from a wooden.
Selecting the material, proceed directly to the installation. In order for the design to please the eye and adequately performed its functions, it is necessary to comply with a few simple rules:
- If you are not a specialist and doubt your abilities, do not hesitate to consult with professionals, as well as study photos and video instructions on the network.
- "Intelligence" must be no more than 30cm, but, of course, to be sufficient to install the handles. Handles themselves are desirable to spread in height so that they do not interfere with each other.
- In order for the design to be convenient to use, both parts should be installed on one side of the jamb.
- The threshold is required for both parts of the structure. Many neglect the threshold for the inner door, bringing its heat and soundproof properties to zero.
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We provided enough information for reflection. Does your apartment need a second door - to solve only you.