How to put a glass door

To better illuminate the dark room or hallway, instead of a glass door you can put glass in the old door. By a special design panel doors are not suitable for such an adjustment, and Flush doors just glaze. Success depends on the accuracy. For halls, kitchens and living rooms fit a sheet of glass inserted 60 mm below the upper edge of the door and the missing 400 mm to its lower edge. Bathroom and toilet handy sheet frosted glass, which put at a distance of 400 mm from the bottom of the door. To better illuminate the dark room or hallway, instead of a glass door you can put glass in the old door. By a special design panel doors are not suitable for such an adjustment, and Flush doors just glaze. Success depends on the accuracy. For halls, kitchens and living rooms fit a sheet of glass inserted 60 mm below the upper edge of the door and the missing 400 mm to its lower edge. Bathroom and toilet handy sheet frosted glass, which put at a distance of 400 mm from the bottom of the door. A door has retained its mechanical properties, a sheet of glass should not take up edges of the door approximately 160 mm. Ordinary window glass sheets used for small windows. For the long panels, where the glass is easily broken, use a wired or laminated glass. Wooden planks, which are fixed to the glass door, selling flat and with the selected quarter. Apron on the bar with the selected quarter disguise uneven edges of the door window. To correctly calculate the width of straps, one must subtract the thickness of the door thickness and take a small tolerance of the glass ribbon or strip of cellular rubber. The resulting amount is divided in half. 1. Layout of the opening. Put the door on the box. Using a square or two bars of wood, downed at right angles as guides, draw a line across the door at the right distance from the top. Measure the desired height and draw a line parallel to the first. To calculate the distance from the edges of the door to the edges of the opening, namerte width of the opening, then subtract from it the width of the door, and divide by two. Make sure that this distance is not less than 160 mm. Then, using the elbow or homemade right angle, draw on the front doors of the lines corresponding to the sides of the opening. 2. How to cut a hole in the door. The corners of the opening with an electric drill-holes. Do not press hard on the drill so as not to split the door. Turn the door and put on the opposite side of the contours of the opening. Okleyte loop tape to the edge of a saw at work did not crumble and is not cracked. Again, flip the door and insert a nail file jigsaw in the drilled hole in the corner. To support the stopper jigsaw place along the line of cut rectangular bar and press it to the door clamps. Put them under the wooden blocks to prevent damage to the door. Turn on the jigsaw and lead him through along the bar. Do the same with other parties. 3. How to increase the opening edge. Using a chisel, then filling a porous doors not less than 50 mm from the edge of the opening inwards. Cut four bars the size of the opening of the same thickness as the thickness of the fill and paste them instead of remote filler. Attach these bars PVA glue or nail strips rebated. 4. How to fix the strap. Using a saw and sawing box, cut to miter Four bars with a selected seam to insert them into the opening. Fasten straps inside the doorway of PVA glue or screws. For the screws first drill holes at intervals of 150 mm, and then tighten the strap 30-millimeter screws number 8 and close their caps or drown. 5. How to insert a glass. Put the door into place, remove the tape. Cut the size of a sheet of glass. Wired or laminated glass must be cut by the supplier. Put the strips of porous rubber strips inside or Glass tape to the ends of the glass and insert the glass into the opening. Connect to the conditions four reinforcing bars to fix the glass. Lay a rubber band and fasten the top strap. Ural LTD