Each modern house and apartment has a bathroom. And for its functional use, a door is required. The installation is practically no different from the installation of a conventional interior. The main thing is to choose the right one.
What to consider?
When making repairs in the apartment, each owner asks himself which door to choose. The bathroom is characterized by high humidity, so first of all, the following points must be taken into account:
- The volume of the room and its layout.
- How often is the bathroom used?
- How reliable is the ventilation system.
For a small room, the door to the bathroom should be selected from high-quality and durable material. For a large and spacious room, in which the water sources are at a sufficient distance, you can mount any door.
Types of doors
Bathroom doors can be divided into several types:
- Models that are attached to the box using hinges. Turning on them, they can open in any direction. Such designs are called swing. They are still divided into right- and left-handed.
- In small apartments, a sliding door to the bathroom is popular. This largely saves free space and does not interfere with the passage near it.
- Solid structures with durable glass inserts.
Materials for the manufacture
Today on the market there are a huge number of door options made of various materials. Therefore, each owner can choose the right model for himself:
- The glass door to the bathroom is made of environmentally friendly raw materials, is not afraid of moisture, does not deform, and therefore will serve as an ideal option for this room. Glass structures have good sound insulation, perfectly retain heat in the room. They are easy to maintain, as they can be washed with any detergents that do not contain abrasive inclusions. But the glass door to the bathroom has a drawback. This is fragility. It can break due to mechanical stress. Now on sale there are various types of these designs: transparent, mirror, matte and others. Therefore, you can choose any door you like.
- A good option may be the door to the bathroom, made of laminated particleboard or MDF, provided that water will not fall on them and the room has good ventilation. Laminated structures are characterized by an affordable price, and also have good performance. A sliding door to the bathroom can be made from this material. It will save the environment and with proper care will last quite a long time.
- Doors to the bathroom can be selected from plastic. These designs differ from others in their light weight, while possessing sufficient strength. Yes, and in the price category they are more accessible to the buyer. This material is not afraid of contact with water, it retains heat well in the room, is not afraid of temperature changes, and is easy to clean. Plastic is a kind of material that can be given any shape and color, imitate other materials.
- The wooden structure fits perfectly into any interior of the apartment, it is an environmentally friendly material. However, it is necessary to install such a door to the bathroom, provided that the room is large and spacious, equipped with good ventilation, the risk of water getting on a wooden surface is minimal. Good advice from specialists: it is recommended to treat such structures with special protective impregnations against moisture penetration and varnish.
Installation Recommendations
Installing a door in the bathroom requires compliance with some rules: a compact design in the form of a compartment allows you to save space if there are still doors to other rooms nearby. The design is desirable to choose with ventilation holes, which are usually located in the lower part. If they are not provided, then a small gap should be left between the floor and the door or in its upper part.
Particular attention should be paid to fittings. It is advisable to choose a canvas with a corrosion-resistant coating, which, in turn, must be strong and reliable and, of course, be suitable for the overall design of the apartment.
Preparatory work
Before you start installing the door in the bathroom, you need to prepare an opening. To do this, remove the old openings, clean them from litter and dust. But usually they put new doors without dismantling the box. The doorway must necessarily have good waterproofing, since the service life of the structure will largely depend on this. To do this, use a special waterproofing self-adhesive tape.
Installation
The easiest option is to purchase a door with an opening. Then the installation will take much less time. When choosing a design, you must take into account the size of the door to the bathroom. To do this, you need to measure the height and width of the opening.
The box is assembled on a flat surface. Once it is ready, proceed to installation in the prepared doorway. Then it is recommended to wedge the structure and check it with a level so that there are no distortions in the installation. After this, you need to fix it with screws or anchors, to foam the space between the wall and the box. Then put the spacers and once again check the correct vertical position. In this state, the opening should remain until it fully seizes with foam.
Hardware Mounting
When the strength of the installation of the doorway is not in doubt, you can start cutting the loot. On the door leaf, hinges are first installed, then a latch, and only last handles are screwed. The finished door is hinged. Then the platbands are attached.
Sliding door installation
The sliding structure, in comparison with the ordinary one, takes up much less space, but for its installation it will be necessary to make additional devices so that it can freely roll to the side.
Such doors look better than swing doors. The set with the canvas itself includes rollers, guide profiles, accessories, fasteners and platbands.
Getting to work
Installation of the sliding door begins with fixing the box. After that, all the cracks are closed with platbands. Marking is done for the upper guides. With the help of the level, the correctness of their location is checked. The height of the roller mechanism is set, to perform this manipulation it is required to use the canvas. Designs are attached to the wall with dowels. When everything is fully prepared, you need to install the canvas, which should occupy a strictly vertical position.
During installation, it should be borne in mind that during movement along the rollers the element does not touch the surface of the wall. In the same way, accordion doors are mounted, because the main mechanisms and accessories they have have a similar design.
Information in conclusion
Which doors to put in the bathroom should be decided by each apartment owner independently. Currently, among the large number of different designs available on the construction market, it is not difficult to select the desired model. But it is always worth remembering that the door in the bathroom will be constantly exposed to moisture and vapors. But if the room is provided with good ventilation, then there can be no restrictions on the choice of a door suitable for the interior.
Basically, buyers are guided by the size of the doorway. If the attractive model is larger, then the owner will have to make some efforts to expand it. There is another alternative option - to order any type of construction in a workshop that specializes in the provision of such services. In addition, specialists can also install the door to the bathroom if the owner has problems with the independent implementation of such work.