Before starting work on installing a metal door, check the dimensions with the doorway. The box size should be larger to 6 centimeters. Installing metal doors with your own hands in the gap left allows you to do the job accurately. But before you begin this process, you should check the complete set of the product, comparing with the description that is provided by the manufacturer.
Rules for installing metal doors- Initially, it is necessary to dismantle the old structure from the opening, which then should be cleaned of dirt and chips, and then leveled.
- Then, using masking tape, close all technological holes and fasteners on a metal sheet. Especially carefully you need to isolate the places of all locking elements and loops. Using a special mounting foam, the cavity of the frame must be filled up to half the volume and after it has completely hardened, you can proceed with the installation of this design.
- In order to have a quality installation of metal doors with your own hands, you should carry out this process with an assistant, with which you need to place the door leaf in the opening in the open state in the box at a right angle. At the same time, we place a wooden block under the door as a backup. From the location of the loops, you need to set this design strictly vertically using the building level. Then, over the entire height, we fix it with wooden wedges.
- After the door has been leveled, it is necessary to fix its frame with anchor bolts, starting with the hinge, which is located in the upper part of the structure. For this, a recess of 140 mm and a diameter of 14 mm is made through a drill hole in the wall through the mounting hole. Then we fix the anchor bolt with a wrench , which holds the entire heavy structure. These fasteners are included with the specified product. Due to this, it is easier to install metal doors with your own hands. If necessary, additional fasteners can be purchased separately.
- The next step in installing the door metal sheet is to check all the verticals and planes with a building level and adjust if necessary.
- In the wall, we similarly drill a hole to strengthen the lower anchor bolt. Then we fix it and also install the middle hardware. After each installed bolt, the door should be checked for level and corrected for errors.
Position of the structure and its adjustment by level
When installing metal doors with your own hands, you should especially pay attention to securing the anchor bolts at the location of the lock. In this case, you must be careful. You need to make sure that the door in the closed position is tight, without gaps and distortions, evenly located in the box. Only then is the final fastening of all anchors made.
After all of the specified parts are firmly fixed, install the plug in the mounting holes, and then fill the remaining void between the installed metal frame of the door and the wall with mounting foam.
Lock settings
After mounting this design, you should evaluate and adjust all the gaps between the frame and the door metal sheet. Then you need to make sure that the installed locks work effortlessly, and the crossbars enter freely into the nests. After full adjustment we attach platbands or decorative elements.
The correct observance of the above rules is the technology of installing metal doors.