By installing a solid front door, we are trying to solve the two most important problems - to ensure safety and warmth. And if most of the manufacturers of metal doors cope with the first of the listed tasks, then the second one has to make some efforts on its own. So, how to insulate the entrance metal door yourself?
Door insulation
In fact, it is quite difficult to make the metal door do not let in cold outside. Wooden doors are much easier to cope with this task. Wooden cloths are considered to be the warmest in themselves, which means that their insulation does not cause much trouble. In a specialized store where it is rather difficult to buy a metal door that matches your doorway, you can ask about the possibility of custom-made it. But in this case, one should not be sure that it will prevent the loss of heat, and also prevent the penetration of cold from the outside. You can slow down the process of heat leakage by installing an additional door indoors. However, this option, especially in small apartments, is not very convenient. A vestibule formed between the doors serves as an ideal obstacle to cold air from outside. Despite the reliability of this time-tested option, double doors are slowly losing their popularity. The consumer prefers to deal with the wind blown through the gap in an alternative way - insulation or sealing of the space between the frame and the door.
Door seal
It turned out that it is quite difficult to choose a metal door that would firmly "sit" in the doorway . To achieve the desired result, it is necessary to take additional measures to eliminate the smallest gaps. The easiest way to warm - sealing rubber. Using a rubber seal, you can easily heat the entrance metal door. It must be glued around the entire perimeter of the doorway frame. The dimensions of the seal must correspond to the width of the folds (the area of contact of the door and the frame) and the length of the insulated area. The thickness of the rubber used should correspond to the gap between the rebate and the door leaf. The parameters of the seal can be found in the following way. Place ordinary plasticine or elastic putty on the frame and close the door. The resulting roller will demonstrate the exact thickness of the required seal. Gluing such rubber is easy enough. You just need to peel off the adhesive tape that accompanies the seal and glue the rubber around the perimeter of the frame, firmly pressing it to the folds.
How to thoroughly insulate the entrance metal door?
Iron doors have to be insulated not only around the perimeter of the frame. The fact is that ordinary metal doors have an empty space inside. And cold metal, which, as a rule, is duplicated by nothing from the inside, allows cold to pass through without any obstacles. And in order to insulate the entrance metal door, you have to sheathe the canvas with decorative material. The most suitable material in this matter is polystyrene. It must be cut into rectangles, which together will correspond to the parameters of the door leaf. All prepared puzzles are glued onto liquid nails . Minor gaps between the insulation can be filled with foam. Next, we veil the insulated door leaf with a laminate or laminated fiberboard, screwing it to the corner with screws.