Previously, sliding doors were mainly installed in office and commercial premises, but now they are increasingly being used as a good alternative to swing doors for a residential building. Therefore, if you are expecting repair work or the construction of a new house, then you need to consider this version of the arrangement of doorways. Maybe it will help to improve comfort and will provide an opportunity to solve the most important problems that often arise when planning an apartment.
Variants of the device of the sliding interior door and its advantages
Usually, such a door is bought, complete with guides, a box and mechanisms that allow the canvas to move along the rails. The pens here are integrated, they do not protrude from the outside, otherwise they would interfere with its normal operation. The number of canvases can vary from one to four, but for normal apartment conditions, in most cases, two is enough. If huge doors with a large number of doors are installed, then most of the time only half of them work, while the others move apart, only if necessary, merge adjacent rooms into one whole room.
Very relevant is the possibility of installing such a door for a small apartment . It does not take up much space near the opening, and you will have room for a chair, a shelf, a pencil case, a table and another thing. Multi-leaf systems serve as a beautiful partition between adjacent rooms. In addition, the canvas can be decorated with photographic printing, made of transparent or frosted glass. Similar options easily make the door an ornament to the interior.
Are there any disadvantages when installing a sliding door?
You should definitely provide a place for parking the wings. In comparison with the swing mechanism, this type of door opening is more expensive and more noisy, the rollers always make sound when moving. Another drawback of this system is not very high-quality sound insulation, you will hear almost everything that happens behind the door-compartment. A small child can sometimes have difficulty opening very high doors of a sliding door, but usually these problems occur when the mechanism is of poor quality.
Variants of fastening of sliding internal doors
The canvas can move when opened parallel to the wall or go inside, completely hidden from view. Depending on this, there are both built-in doors and door-way type. The second option has some disadvantages, the rails are visible here, which requires additional decoration. In addition, the section of walls where the doors are moving can not be occupied by furniture. But the overhead type is more simple in execution, it does not require a special pencil case, which can be equipped only during construction or during a major repair.
Types of sliding interior doors:
- Single leaf sliding doors.
- Two-leaf sliding doors.
- Interior sliding doors accordion and their types.
This type of doors is compact and only needs one parking space. You can fasten them to the ceilings or walls. Opening the doors to the side saves a lot of space, which the owners of tiny apartments will instantly appreciate. Often a similar system is put in the bathroom, where full-fledged swinging doors prevent the toilet bowl or other plumbing from being placed. You can equip them with a wardrobe installed in a niche, a closet .
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Large sliding doors are a good solution for separating the dining room or the living room from the kitchen area. They are also suitable for arranging access to the terrace or loggia. By the way, the canvas here can move, both in opposite directions, and in one of your specific directions.
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Previously, this type of leaflets was rather flimsy and ugly, but now you can find good mechanisms, equipped with beautiful canvases of glass, wood, leather, fabric, metal or covered with decorative plastic film. A good option is to use a sliding interior door of an accordion for room zoning. Often there are sashes, consisting of narrow slats, which can be removed by adjusting the width. Disadvantages of the accordion appear in rooms with intensive movement. The opening mechanism of it wears out much faster than a swinging or conventional sliding door.
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