Wooden door with own hands

It often happens that you can not find on the door a door that fits exactly to your doorway and the overall design of the room. And then the question arises: how to make a door of wood with your own hands.

First of all, you should know that the best option for making a door is pine. Sometimes spruce is used for this purpose, however, its wood is knotty, and the structure of the fiber itself can separate.

A very important point is the choice of boards for the manufacture of doors. The material must have a smooth structure without flaws. Planks with a bluish surface should not be taken, as it indicates a violation of storage technology, and, hence, in the future such wood can rot and deteriorate.

Doors from solid wood by own hands

  1. If you want your door to be smooth and beautiful, the material should be carefully dried. For this, the boards are stacked on top of each other, but there must always be gaskets between them. In this case, the moisture will evaporate freely from the boards. Dry the wood in a well-ventilated room at a temperature of + 25 ° C for one to two months.
  2. Dry the boards and you can quickly, if you put them in a special drying chamber. In it, the boards are laid on the gaskets and dried at a temperature of about + 50 ° C.
  3. To make an interior door of wood with your own hands, you need to have such tools:
  • We make the frame of the door. We measure the door frame and by its size cut off two horizontal and vertical bars. We spread them on the floor in the form of a door. Using the chisel and the hacksaw, we do the sampling in the required places.
  • Double glue these places with glue, check the strict perpendicularity and parallelism of door elements and connect the frame to the overall structure with the help of screws.
  • For the strength of the frame, it is necessary to install the panels. There can be several, and it is better, if such cross-pieces are located symmetrically. The panels should fit very tightly into the grooves without gaps. We fasten the panels with screws, making sure that they do not come out on the front side of the door.
  • We mark the size of the sheet of fiberboard for the facing of our door. We put on a skeleton a double layer of glue PVA and we glue fiberboard to the made door. Let the door dry for a few days, and then decorate it with varnish or textured paint, install loops and a handle on it. The door made of wood, made by own hands, is ready.