Sliding door to the wall: advantages, varieties

Interior doors in the premises are twotasks: insulating and decorative. When choosing a version of interior doors, it is also important to pay attention to how much space this design will occupy in the room in the open. For owners of a small housing, the ideal door option will be a sliding door to the wall. This model is great saves space in the room, and it looks individual and accurate.

Equipment

Sliding door into the wall consists of such components:

• door leaf;
• frame;
• the driving mechanism;
• decorative planks;
• fittings and trim;
• accessories, such as handles, locks and other additional small parts.

Features of structural elements

Interior doors sliding into the wall shouldenter and leave it without interference, otherwise, inevitably damage to both walls and doors. Therefore, the individual elements of the construction of such doors have a number of features.

Let's start with the accessories. Handles must necessarily be drowned in order to avoid the appearance of obstacles when opening / closing the door, as for the lock, then its shape also matters. The usual lock in such door does not approach, here it is necessary to take the lock with the hook bolt.

Special attention should be given to the mechanism for the movement of the door, which includes:

• Guide (can be one or two guides, most often for their production take an aluminum profile);
• roller carriages, are made of polymerspecial purpose material, which has a special resistance to abrasion, in the smooth rotation of the carriages the main role is played by bearings, the standard number of rollers must be increased when installing a heavy door leaf (from solid wood, for example).
• fixatives.

And the door leaf itself is better to choose fromas small as possible, since increasing its weight leads to a greater load on the mechanism of the movement of the door and there is a distortion and a decrease in the smoothness of the stroke.

Classification

Interior doors are divided into a number of characteristics.

Depending on the method of manufacture are:

• shield;
• paneled.

From the method of execution:

• with glass;
• solid cloth.

From the used material:

• from solid wood;
• plastic;
• Particleboard;
• other materials.

Depending on the type of decorative coating:

• laminated;
• melamine;
• veneered.

How does the sliding door move into the wall?

There are two ways to install such doors.

First - the sliding door moves in twoguide, the door leaf moves along the rails, which are installed on the ceiling and on the floor. More often in this way, the doors are fitted with wardrobes. This installation option is cheaper, but not very convenient because of the lower rails, they often become a hindrance when walking. True, you can mount them deep into the floor, but then there will be difficulties in cleaning. This option can not boast of perfect aesthetics. But the second one is quite.

The second way is by one guide, whichmost often it is installed above the doorway and does not create obstacles for the person. In addition, when the door is open, there is no separation of the floor surface, which creates the appearance of an integrated space.

By type of running gear

Sliding door to the wall by the way of movement with respect to the wall is of the following types:

• The door that moves inside the door frame has a restriction in the size of the door box, that is, it can only be installed in openings of sufficient size.
• Doors moving along the wall can beare made of any material and move along the guides. Their number depends on the severity of the door itself, sometimes you need to mount two guides - the top and bottom, and sometimes enough and one upper rails.

This type of sliding door has a number of drawbacks:

• Firstly, the door always remains in sight, both in the open and in the closed position;
• secondly, the wall, on which the door comes in, loses its functionality, it can no longer hang a picture or a bookshelf;
• Third, low sound insulation, which arises from the formation of a technological gap between the door and the wall.

• Sliding interroom doors, moving into the wall(cassette system), in its design and movement are similar to the previous type of door, but the whole structure is installed in a special niche, which usually serves as a wall. But here it is necessary to take into account one important nuance: the place of the pencil case should be free of electric wires and sockets, as well as other communications.

Cassette mount system

This method of installation makes it possiblethe maximum saving of the useful area of ​​small-sized housing, as the sliding interior doors hidden in the wall do not occupy space. As a result of this, you can put furniture along the wall into which the door has stopped.

To implement such an idea, it is necessary thatThe sliding doors to the wall of gypsum board hid completely. To this end, the niche is equiped either during the erection of the walls of the premises, or destroy part of the existing one, into which the gypsum board is later mounted. The latter option requires a lot of material costs, as well as the presence of permission to change the layout, especially when the wall is a carrier.

Sliding doors, hidden in the wall, are single-leafed and double-leafed.

Advantages of a sliding door

The sliding door along the wall moves smoothly andquietly on the guides. This is a mandatory characteristic, which is achieved through the use of sound absorbing guides, and only if they are properly installed.

There is no unpleasant possibility to catch clothes or some objects by the door handle, since it is a mortise type.

This kind of door can easily be left half-open, because it can not shut itself in the draft, for example. This is especially important for doors in which glass elements are present.

Aesthetic and neat appearance - is achieved by decorating the door leaf with glass (which can be painted or mosaic), stickers or original coatings.

And the most important advantage is, of course, saving space.

Types of materials for the pencil case

Moisture-resistant plywood - in most casesused for bathrooms. The designs are inherent in small weight, compactness and ease of installation. It will not be very difficult to independently install this kind of pencil case, it does not require special adjustment and long engineering calculations. The cost of such a niche is small and refers to budgetary options. This type of construction will be ideal for doors of small weight (interior partitions).

Profiled steel - sold as a finished producta box made of profiled steel, this design is durable and reliable in operation. It plays well with heavy door leaves, made, for example, from solid wood. But all these positive qualities are not small money, this option is the door niche most expensive.

Gypsum cardboard box - universal and mosta popular option, this position he took because of the reliability and strength of his design. The plasterboard case is suitable for all kinds of sliding door leafs. But the installation of this type of pencil box requires time and serious engineering calculations. Therefore, it is better to entrust the construction of a drywall niche to professionals. As for cash costs, here they are minimal.

General rules for mounting a finished pencil case

When purchasing a ready-made box, a detailed installation instruction is attached to the purchase.

It looks something like this:

• you need to collect the pencil case;
• attach the door frame to the case;
• Assemble the assembled structure into the wall opening;
• check the construction level of the accuracy of the installation, and if the result is positive, fix the structure with hardware;
• install the door;
• close the wall with plasterboard.

The interior of the housing, in which there are sliding doors, always looks beautiful and modern, because the variety of such door panels strikes a stylistic range from the classics to high-tech.