Due to reliability and durability, aluminum structures are often installed not only in stores and shopping centers, but also apartments.
The trouble-free operation of the door block depends on the quality of the shut-off mechanisms. After time, aluminum doors will be adjusted.
In this article, consider the types of fittings, ways to adjust it and replace with your own hands.
Accessories for aluminum doors
On aluminum doors most often set overhead loops
It is very important to choose and use only high-quality locking mechanisms. The service life and uninterrupted work of the door depends on their reliability. When choosing a castle, we draw attention to what they are with locking in one and several points. Multipoint Rigal Castle provides a more dense adjacent of the sash to the frame.
It is important that the canopies optimally withstood the weight of the door. There are hinges for balcony, interior and input groups, each species is designed for a certain burden of design.
For aluminum doors, overhead loops are most often used.
Criteria for good fittings:
- The sash fits tightly to the box throughout the perimeter.
- When closed, the design elements do not rub each other.
- With an open door, if it is installed in terms of the level, the sash will remain in the position in which it was opened.
- The handle is firmly held.
- In the closed position there is no purge.
If the design is under warranty, adjusting aluminum doors is performed by the specialists of the window company, after the warranty period, the adjustment can be performed with your own hands.
To check the clamping density, put a sheet of paper into the closed door. If it is impossible to pull out the paper from the design in the closed position, or it is pulled by jerks, then the fit is good.
Otherwise, accessories requires adjustment.
Types of handles, ways to adjust
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The handles are used, as a rule, office or pressure type. Office handles are semicircular, round, triangular or semicircular, one-sided or double-sided. In the doors installed in the rooms with a small passability of people, mainly use pressure handles with cylinder locks.
If the pressure handle began to fall down with the effort, lubricate the corresponding mechanism.
If the pressure heads jammed, and the lubrication of all parts did not give the desired result, the entire mechanism will be replaced.
Pressure headset replacement stages:
- Turn the plate at the bottom of the handle to open fasteners.
- We unscrew all locking screws.
- Remove the old handle.
- At its place we install a new instance.
- Close fasteners with a plug.
If the attachments on the handles are breaking, they must be filled with a hex key or cross screwdriver. The tool is chosen depending on the type of locking mechanism. Pre-remove decorative linings covering fasteners.
Screws of the pressure headset screw down with the help of a cross screwdriver. The attachments of the office handle are clamped by means of a hex key, it provides a special groove in the side part.
If it is necessary to replace the office handle and the pressure headset, when buying new components, we draw attention to the fact that according to your structure and sizes, the most coincided:
- fastening distances;
- The width and height of the planks on the pressure headset;
- The number of fasteners.
When buying an office handle, we pay attention to the distance between the lower and the upper screw in the new and spent items were the same.
Castle replacement
There are several types of locks for aluminum doors.
Views:
- with one closing point with a faleval latch;
- with one closing point with roller latch;
- With several riglels.
The roller latch allows you to lock the closed door with a lock noble.
If the locking mechanism started to eat, it is possible to lubricate it. In the lock with the cylinder mechanism, we change the cylinder, leaving the old case. When buying a cylinder, we draw attention to the coincidence of all parameters with the exhaust mechanism.
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When buying it is important to ensure that the distances coincide:
- from the response to the middle of the opening for the key;
- shift from the cylinder cut;
- From the middle of the opening for the key until the middle of the pin under the pressure headset.
We produce a replacement with your own hands:
- We unscrew the screw that holds the cylinder, turn the key and take it out of the keyhole.
- Remove two screws from the profile, holding the lock, and remove it.
- Install a new mechanism. Read more about Mounting locks. See this video:
If a faleval latch was previously installed, then it is necessary to replace the entire mechanism.
Adjusting canopies
The loops that aluminum doors are fixed are stationary and removable. The number of loops depends on the purpose of the door block:
- If the design has a lot of weight, you need to install three loops;
- On the light doors of the interroom, there are enough two canopies.
If the door has checked, rubs on the frame or works with a creak, it is necessary to adjust the canopies of aluminum doors. If you do not adjust the design on time, it may break, then you will need to replace some elements. Before you start adjustment, we remove the decorative lining with the loops, unscrewing the screws with a hexagon on 5 (or 6). About the adjustment of the hidden door loop, see this video:
Sheds with two adjustment points:
- Adjusted in height by lining the laying between canopies fixed on the frame and sash;
- Adjusted clamping to frame by the method of movement horizontally.
Canopies with three adjustment points:
- In terms of adjustment, we adjust, turning the hexagon key, the screw from the inside of the loop on the sash across the axis;
- align vertically by adjusting the lower loop with a hex key;
- Align the plane in the open position, remove the decorative plug, adjust the hexagon.
How smoothly the door is closed, depends on the propeller's proper operation, it is regulated by turning the screws on the housing.
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If the doors are installed so that it is impossible to remove the decorative pad for adjustment, remove the sash with the standard way. The decorative pad is fixed with a screw from the opposite side, it is visible when the sash is open. We perform adjustment and hang the sash again.
If you cannot remove the sash, remove the plastic caps on top and bottom of the loops. Then I knock down the mounting "fingers" with a screw from a frame dowel.
Elimination of violin
Often, when opening and closing the door, the creak is heard.
The creak arises due to the fact that:
- Sheds were broken or demolished;
- Dust scored in the loop.
We take cleaning, dust remove with a vacuum cleaner or hairdryer. After complete cleaning, we lubricate all moving elements with machine oil. For details on how to get rid of the tube, see this video:
If malfunctions occurred in the performance of the door block elements, immediately diagnose and adjust. Most often, problems arise with carrier elements of aluminum blocks - loops, locks, latches and spinages.
During the operation of metal products, it is necessary to carry out the lubricant of the driving parts.