Sliding door repair. We repair sliding doors ourselves

Nowadays, an increasing number of people in their apartments use sliding doors, interior and partitions. They allow you to save space, which is not so much in modern apartments, change it, and, if necessary, disappear at any time. It is not difficult to install sliding doors with your own hands, just as it will not be difficult to repair sliding doors. But you can order high-quality doors that do not have to be repaired.

If your sliding doors have begun to act up, first check if a lot of dust has accumulated in the upper or lower rails - this can cause the doors to work poorly. Therefore, sometimes it is necessary to remove dust from the guide rails with a vacuum cleaner. Sliding doors have their own "disease" - this is often the jumping out of the upper rollers from the guide rail. Check the rollers, and if they popped out, and it is possible, put them in, otherwise, if they are not inserted, this will lead to deformation of the guides. If the rollers do not enter the grooves of the upper or lower guides, this must be eliminated. Also check the stoppers, they can open, which happens very often - close them. Sometimes the rollers require replacement - they tend to wear out over time. In order to do this, you need to remove the doors. If there are stoppers in the guides, first open them, and only then carefully remove the door. After removing the door, use a screwdriver to remove the old rollers and insert new ones of the same type.

Also in sliding doors there may be such a problem as loosening over time of the upper mounting plate to which the guide is attached. In this case, you need to reattach this bar, or install a new one. To do this, either in the same holes that were, or slightly shifted to the side, you need to drive in the dowels, attach the bar, and then screw in the screws. Remember that the sliding door guides must be fixed as evenly as possible, even if there are bumps, otherwise the sliding doors will fail and not last long.

On the door leaf there are special carriages for mounting fasteners. This mechanism can also fail over time, or it was not well adjusted at first and failed. Then you need to adjust the sliding doors, and again put the lock nuts under the adjusting bolts.

If it is necessary to completely replace the sliding mechanism - the upper and lower guides, then it must be borne in mind that you cannot save money on this and you need to choose the right mechanism. His choice depends primarily on how much the door leaf itself weighs - for doors weighing from 40 to 75 kg it will do

A mechanism with two rollers, but if the door leaf weighs more than 75 kg, it is better to take a mechanism that has four rollers.

Thus, we see that if the sliding doors began to jam or act up, you should not immediately run for new ones. In some cases, it is enough to simply clean the sliding mechanism or adjust the rollers. Well, if the breakdown is more serious, then you need to repair the sliding doors - replace the old rollers, tighten the slats if they are loose, or replace the entire sliding mechanism.

In an effort to make the house more comfortable and cozy, the idea often comes up to replace ordinary swing doors with sliding doors (they are also called retractable, sliding, hanging). The good news is that you can install sliding doors with your own hands without any problems. The bad news is that a normal mechanism costs about the same as a quality canvas. Bribes in them is the moment that in the open state they almost do not “eat up” space. They either hide in the wall (the best, but more difficult option to implement), or move along it.

All this is true, but there is a significant disadvantage - a very low degree of sound insulation, especially in the variant of the compartment door. When the canvas just covers the opening. When installed in a pencil case (into a wall), the situation is slightly better, but the degree of sound insulation of a hinged door cannot be achieved even with this installation method. If all this does not scare you, you can study the systems, choose, and then install.

Sliding door systems

There are two types of mechanisms: suspended and rail. Both are not ideal. Briefly about their advantages and disadvantages - below.

Suspension system on top rail

The suspension mechanism is a carrier beam, to which a guide is attached in the form of the letter "P" with "legs" bent inward. The rollers to which the door leaf is attached move along this guide. In technical terms, this is a hanging door on the top rail.

When installing such a door, the floor under the door remains smooth, only the lower roller is installed on the right and / or left in the doorway. It slides along the groove made in the bottom end of the canvas. It is necessary so that when moving it does not deviate vertically. This design is the easiest to install. Installation is very simple and consists of several steps:

That's all. Roller doors installed. But this system, in this form, as in the photo, has very low noise isolation characteristics. They are practically zero: the passage is simply blocked.

Rail sliding doors

This type of door has two rails: top and bottom. The rollers are also installed at the top and bottom. Thanks to this design, the system has a high degree of rigidity: it can be shaken, and this will not cause much damage.

Minus the rails in the floor is known: the complexity of cleaning. Debris and dust constantly gets into the grooves, you have to monitor their cleanliness. This type of door is most often used in cabinets,. They are installed as interior doors if mobile children grow up in the family. Then safety is more important than the difficulties with cleaning.

Mounting options

Regardless of the sliding door system, installation methods can be:

The easiest installation option is compartment doors. They can be installed independently, and not only at the stage of repair, but also after it. It is only important that the opening is even, and the wall has a normal bearing capacity. The disadvantage of such a system is that you can’t put anything close to the wall in the place where the door rolls back. There is one more thing: very low sound insulation. It's easy to explain: if you look from the end, there is a gap of several millimeters on the sides. It is necessary so that the canvas does not “shuffle” along the wall. And all sounds perfectly penetrate through it, becoming only a little quieter.

Cassette doors are good because in the open state the leaf is in the niche of the wall and does not interfere. The second plus is that seals can be installed around the perimeter of the opening, which give much higher sound insulation performance. The disadvantage of installing a sliding door in a niche is that it can only be done at the repair stage. The second drawback: to make a pencil case for sliding doors, they usually put a false wall, and this is stolen centimeters of area.

Cascading - one of the varieties of compartment doors. It just has more guides: according to the number of movable door panels. Installation is perhaps the most difficult: a lot of details and high accuracy of installation is required. The systems are classified as elite, and they rarely save on installation: repairs will cost more.

Features and installation procedure

You can install sliding doors with your own hands even without much experience. It is quite possible to do without installers. It will take a little time, and also - installation instructions. We will try to give a detailed description of the process with photo and video materials.

Self-installation of sliding interior sliding doors

The systems may differ slightly, but the general rules remain the same. There are several requirements that must be met prior to installation:

• The opening must be even, otherwise you will have to take a canvas that covers all deviations with a margin.
• The bearing capacity of the sides of the doorway should be high, as well as the wall above it.
• The opening should already be finished: plastered and painted, wallpapered or decorated with decorative panels.

Next, let's start assembling. You can attach videos first. Different manufacturers have their own recommendations. Some recommend retreating from the edge 1/6 of the width of the door leaf, in other systems they are attached immediately from the edge, and the mounting plates provide the indent. We install such a system: in it, roller platforms are installed immediately from the corner.

Marking the location of the rollers

We center them, measuring so that the distances are the same. Having exposed the plate, with a pencil or marker we outline the places for the fasteners. We drill holes in the marked places. The diameter of the drill is 1 mm smaller than the diameter of the self-tapping screw.

We expose the plates, screw in the screws. The length of the fastener depends on the weight of the canvas, but not less than 70 mm. We twist them exactly perpendicularly, otherwise unnecessary stresses will arise.

Installing rollers

Supports for rollers are inserted into the installed plates. They are fixed with a cover on the side surface. Next, roller platforms are screwed onto the threaded pins.

It is also convenient to install handles and locks before hanging. They need special, mortise. If you bought a ready-made kit, the required holes are available. If you have adapted an ordinary canvas, you will have to trace the outline with a pencil, and remove the excess with a chisel. After the handle or lock enters the recess, the attachment points are marked, holes are drilled under them and fittings are installed.

The most convenient way is to hang sliding doors on a dry wooden beam. Its cross section is less than 50 * 70 mm, its length is twice the width of the door leaf + 5 cm. We cut off the guide of the same length.

Having placed the guide along the bar, it is attached to the bar with self-tapping screws at least 8 cm long. The number of fasteners - at least three - departing 10 cm from the edges and in the middle (more often, less often - no).

Now you can measure at what height to mount the beam. A guide with a bar is “rolled” on the door with installed rollers. So you can accurately note how high the doors turned out. We drill at least four holes in the side face of the beam for fastening to the wall.

The guide with a bar "rolls" on the rollers on the door

7-10 mm are added to the mark obtained - the doors should hang, and not shuffle on the floor. 7 mm is the minimum gap that is sufficient if there are no floor coverings in the opening. If they are supposed (later lay laminate, carpet, linoleum, etc.), then the thickness of these coatings must also be taken into account.

So that the canvas does not “walk” during installation, it is jammed with small wooden wedges. You need at least two stops - near both rollers.

Having attached the beam to the wall and correcting its position with the help of a level, we mark its position with a pencil. If the wall allows, you can fasten it to the wall through, but take self-tapping screws with a length of at least 120 mm for this, or better, put it on anchor bolts.

If the wall, for example, is concrete, the installation of dowels is required. To do this, you need to transfer the marks under the fasteners to the wall. This can be done using a thin and long drill, the diameter of which is smaller than the drilled hole.

An even simpler option: a long thin nail. It is inserted into the hole and a mark is made on the wall with a couple of blows. Further, the procedure is known: we drill holes for the plugs of the dowels, insert the plugs, if necessary, hammering them. Then we install the doors.

Attaching sliding doors to the wall

Stoppers must be fixed along the edges of the guide. They are brought in from the sides, the required location is established empirically (so that the canvas covers the opening completely in the closed state, and rolls back sufficiently when opened. They are fixed with clamping screws.

Having opened the doors, we install a flag roller on the floor. It goes into a groove sawn at the bottom of the canvas. It is necessary so that the doors do not deviate vertically.

First, we insert it into the groove, mark the holes for fasteners, drill, then fix it with short self-tapping screws (length about 15-20 mm).

On this we can assume that the sliding doors have been installed. They are already fully functional. Remaining finishing work. The mounting bar with the guide is closed with a decorative trim matched to the tone of the door leaf. It can be nailed directly to the beam with finishing nails.

Only when you expose it, make sure that the wheels are closed. So much more beautiful)) Now - that's it, you installed the sliding doors with your own hands.

See below for a video tutorial on installing such a door. There are several installation options.

We mount cassette-type sliding doors (in a case)

The process of mounting the guide, hanging the door leaf almost one to one repeats those described above. There is no need only for finishing, and all other steps are necessary. Instead of mounting a decorative strip, a false wall is mounted at a distance of at least 10 cm from the wall. Usually it is made of plasterboard profiles, which are sheathed with wall plasterboard. But this is not important - you can use GVL or plywood, any other suitable material.

Where does the distance of 10 cm come from? The thickness of the door leaf and the gaps on both sides are 5 cm. A minimum of 5 cm is added to them for installing the profile. So it turns out 10 cm.

Since the main load will fall on the wall, the profile frame can not be reinforced. If such a wall does not seem very reliable to you, you can insert wooden bars inside, which you can fasten with self-tapping screws. This will make the structure very rigid.

The basic principles for calculating the case for a sliding door, as well as the marking features, the principles of preparing a doorway for installation, see the video.

Homemade sliding doors

Any door leaf can be mounted on rollers and will work as a sliding door. The guide and all other components - rollers (carrier and flag), stoppers, stops - can be bought. Hang on them at least a piece of plywood or a door assembled from several boards. This is the easiest and cheapest option. But to make a mechanism on your own is already a more difficult task. One of the options for a sliding door mechanism made from improvised materials (from round pipes of different diameters) in the video. The system was supposed to be installed in a closet, but judging by designs, easy can withstand even an oak door from an array.

If your doors do not please you with their appearance: the door is cracked, sagged and dried out, the lock has become very sticky. Have you thought about replacing it more often? Do not hurry! Try to fix everything with your own hands. Most of these problems can be "cured" on their own, saving a lot of money.

• Overview of typical faults;
• How to strengthen the door frame if it loosened;
• Sagging and scratching the flooring, what to do;
• How to correct the geometry;
• Large gaps, what to do;
• How can you strengthen the panels yourself;
• What to do with cracks;
• How to replace a broken lock with your own hands;
• The handle broke, how to replace it with a new one;
• How to replace broken glass yourself;
• Do-it-yourself repair of sliding structures.

Overview of typical malfunctions of interior doors

Often, when a door looks respectable, we forget to "take care" of it. And yet, no matter how expensive and high-quality it may be, time takes its toll and it needs cleaning, lubrication or adjustment, in short, preventive measures. When they are not done on time, the door begins to create a lot of problems for the household:

• sag, scratching the flooring;
• a nasty creak appears;
• door hinges are loose;
• hard to enter the door frame;
• just chill and so on.

One of the most basic causes of all shortcomings is considered improper operation or quality.

We strengthen the loosened door frame, the repair sequence

The step-by-step instructions for repairing the mount are as follows:

Sagging and scratching the flooring, what to do, how to repair

An easy solution is to re-hook the hinges or replace them:

Adjustment with a washer attached to the hinge.

How to correct the geometry of the interior door

Sometimes it happens that not a single piece of repair advice helps to eliminate the problem of sunken doors. Most often this happens due to the fact that it cracks or, on the contrary, swells. The way out is to correct the edges around the perimeter.

What needs to be done, what repairs are required.

Important! Before planing the door, make sure once again that the problem is not in the deformation of the frame.

Large gaps, how to repair interior wooden doors

When door products are made from wet wood, the door will definitely dry out during operation, which creates a lot of inconvenience and problems during use: the tongue cannot reach the latch, large hinges between the frame and the door, as a result - the door sags a lot.

What to do in this situation?

How to independently strengthen the panels on interior wooden doors

When interior doors dry out, problems can arise not only in the form of gaps that appear, but also in the panels. They lose their tightness. What should be done in such cases?

The only correct solution in the repair will be plywood.

• It is required to remove it from the hinges;
• Disassemble completely;
• Thoroughly clean from old glue and dirt;
• Reassemble the bars and connect (glue);
• The panels are put in place, then the door is fixed in the clamping device.

What to do with cracks on wooden interior doors

The repair process is laborious and painstaking, however, the result is worth it. The algorithm of actions for restoration is as follows:

For clarity, watch the video:

Advice! You can, as an alternative to the entire restoration process, use special decorative overlays. Moreover, after that, it will be difficult to distinguish it from the new one.

How to replace a broken door lock with your own hands if it cannot be repaired

This device has the main load, so they very often fail. Signs that it is time to repair or change it: it closes very poorly, the handles scroll. This suggests that the larva of the locking device is unusable and it's time to change it.

• The first thing to do is to take out the larva, for this, screws are unscrewed on the end plate, after which it is removed quite simply;
• decorative strips are dismantled along with handles;
• carefully unscrew the remaining fasteners, remove the device case;
• after which a new locking device is bought, suitable in size (so as not to drill new holes) or a similar model, and mounted in the lock opening.

The repair process is shown in more detail in the video:

The handle in a wooden door broke, how to replace it with a new one

In order to change the handle on the door panel, you need to carefully read its design

follow further instructions:

• unscrew the fasteners on both sides with a screwdriver;
• pull the handle out of the canvas;
• using a wrench, unscrew the rotary mechanism in the handle and remove it.

If the handle is equipped with mechanical locks (latches), then proceed as follows:

• the process of unscrewing the fasteners is similar to the above;
• then carefully inspect due to what it is held. Typically, such models are equipped with mechanisms for the movement of the tongue and the rod, inside which there is another rod. When it is removed, the handle is easily removed.

How to replace broken glass in interior doors

Designs with glass inserts in apartments look, no doubt, beautiful and stylish, but unlike wood, glass tends to break. If such a nuisance happens, then you should not call the master, and even more so change the design of interior wooden doors. Let's get started with the repair.

Removing the rest of the glass:

• this requires loosening the glazing beads (wooden strips that hold the glass);
• carefully remove all residues and fragments;
• some modern models have a rubber gasket. It must be pulled out and carefully examined. If it's damaged, change it too.

Preparatory work before repair:

• if the broken glass has a regular rectangular shape, then it is quite simple to repair - the dimensions are taken and a new one is ordered in the workshop. If the door is with figured glass, then you can draw the shape with a pencil and cardboard;
• if the broken insert was painted over or all kinds of putties, putties were used, they must be carefully removed;
• before inserting a new one, it is best to remove the door so that the glass does not break if it accidentally falls, and it is very difficult to work on weight;
• before laying on the bed, apply a layer of silicone;
• a rubber gasket is inserted and only then it is laid, fixed with a glazing bead.

Do-it-yourself repair of sliding structures

This type of interior paintings in residential apartments is not uncommon, especially at the present time. If earlier they were used for attractiveness and beauty, now it is caused by saving space. Such structures are equipped with a sliding mechanism, which tends to fail over time.

Main faults:

• hard to open or vice versa;
• the top rollers can pop out of the guides;
• loosening of the upper mounting plate.

Repair sequence:

In the first case (heaviness when closing) - the repair consists in cleaning the accumulated dirt. In the second case, if you are sure that the rollers need to be replaced, then you just need to repair them:

• remove it from the guides;
• remove old and worn ones, insert new ones;
• the door panel is installed in its original place.

How to do this is described step by step in the instructions or watch the video tutorial:

We really hope that the above tips and instructions will help you repair interior doors with your own hands and postpone the purchase of new ones for an indefinite period.

• have a lot of experience;
• will come with their own equipment and tools;
• do the job well and cheaply.

In order not to run into amateurs, ask the master a couple of questions about repair technology and ask how long he has been repairing interior doors.
When might an interior door need to be repaired?

1. From the difference in humidity and temperature, the structure was deformed or sagged.
2. There were chips, cracks, scratches on the canvas.
3. Finishing material peeled off.
4. Loose loops.
5. There was an annoying creak.
6. Broken latch or hardware.

Repair of interior wooden doors

Most often, repair of locks, replacement of broken glass or other decorative elements, restoration of the normal operation of door handles are required. Usually, breakdowns do not occur because the manufacturer has released a low-quality door, but because the owner uses the design inaccurately.
The modern building materials market allows you to restore interior doors or radically change their appearance. The professional will:

• special putty;
• soft or hard wax;
• varnish on the floor with a matte, matte or glossy base;
• color using unique paints that are resistant to abrasion and moisture.

The master from the EtoDom catalog will repair sliding, swinging and any other wooden structures even after a fire.

$ Repair of interior doors. Price in Moscow

The cost depends on the volume and complexity of the work required. But I must say that repairing an old door, in any case, will cost less than buying a new one.