Sliding door to the wall: advantages, varieties

Interior doors in the premises perform two tasks: 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 clear form. 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 must enter and exit from it without interference, otherwise, inevitably damages 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, 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 special polymeric material that 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 with the smallest possible weight, as increasing its weight leads to a greater load on the movement mechanism 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 sheet.

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.

The first - the sliding door moves along the two guides, 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 sliding-door 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 - quite.

The second method - one guide, which is most often installed above the doorway and does not create barriers to humans. In addition, with the door open, there is no separation of the floor surface, which creates the appearance of a unified space.

By type of running gear

Sliding door to the wall by the way of movement in relation 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 be 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, you can not hang a picture or a bookshelf on it;
• Third, low sound insulation, which arises from the formation of a technological gap between the door and the wall.

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

Cassette mount system

This method of installation makes it possible to maximize the usable area of small-sized housing, since the sliding interior doors hidden in the wall do not occupy space. As a result, along the wall, into which the door came, you can put furniture.

To implement such an idea, it is necessary that the sliding doors to the wall of drywall hiding completely. To this end, the niche is equipped either during the erection of the walls of the room, 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

Sliding door along the wall moves smoothly and quietly along 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 cases used 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 box 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 pencil case - the universal and the most popular option, this position he took because of the reliability and durability 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, the construction of gypsum plasterboard niches is better to entrust 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 hi-tech.