Removing Doors: step by step guide

Every owner, started overhaul of the old apartment, facing the problem of dismantling the interior and exterior doors. It would seem that there is a complex - remove fabric with loops yes "uproot" box. But it is not so simple. As practice shows, if you want to get a smooth and beautiful doorway, remove the old structure should be correct. About how to make the dismantling of the door and we discuss in this article.

Break - not to build: Features dismantling

Many inexperienced self-taught builders mistakenly believe that the removal of the old door you just otkovyryat shoals from the wall. But in practice, things are not so simple. Often, if not properly and aggressively dismantle destroyed not only the design of the door, and part of the wall. This situation is particularly common in the old Soviet buildings, where construction of interior partitions using fragile gypsum board.

If you do not want when removing interior door you also lost part of the wall, the work must be approached creatively. First, determine if you need an old door or you're going to spend her final journey - to the dustbin. In the first case it is necessary to carry out the dismantling careful not to damage the components, for example, if you want to rearrange the door of the apartment to the cottage. If the box and all the elements you do not need, there is a faster and "merciless" way, which we will talk about later.

But what a way to dismantle the old door you choose, the work should be carried out carefully as possible to prevent damage to the wall. Otherwise, after the removal of the box you have to spend time and money on puttying and plastering.

But first, a little theory. Any such structure consists of two upright posts, one on top and the horizontal crossbar of the door leaf, sometimes there is also a lower horizontal - nut. Often, old doors for his long life had to go through five or even 10 sessions of painting, becoming thicker than a few millimeters, and therefore heavier.

Painting has long concealed the slightest hints at the location of screws, nails and other fasteners, but intuitively it is still possible to identify where things are. So, usually between the piers and the door frame is a block of wood. Its thickness was chosen so that the vertical studs arranged exactly perpendicular to the surface of the floor. This large nails hammered beam length of 120 or 150 mm, two in the left vertical column, two - to the right, and one (sometimes two) - the top horizontal bar. If the doors do not change 30-50 years, these nails certainly had rust, so just remove the box will not turn.

Not to uproot with bars of the wall, use a crowbar or a claw hammer. You will also need a hammer, an ax and a saw (hacksaw).
Gentle method

In this chapter, we'll show you how to remove the door and a box so that they can be used in the future.

Progress:
Remove the door leaf, palming off between the door and the floor crowbar to make the likeness of the lever. Slightly opening and closing the door, begin to lift the sheet, pressing down on the lever-mount.

Better to do it together, as the old Soviet door quite heavy, especially if you make the dismantling of the front door. If the loop can not respond to your manipulation, perhaps they have rusted or clogged. In this case, apply grease (best to use anti-corrosion grease in a spray that instantly removes rust), wait a few minutes and try again. Complete removal of the web should be made in an open form, otherwise the door rests on the horizontal bar at the top.

When the door leaf is set aside, you can proceed to the elimination of trims. Worry about the safety of old casings especially not worth it, because in most cases they are in pretty poor condition and covered with a thick layer of old enamel. Attach the edge of the ax in the opening between the door casing and a box or in any place higher, if all the nails are covered with paint, and can not see anything. With one hand holding the ax, the other - a hammer.
Not much, but sure movements ax hammer and remove the casing from a box.

The enlarged gap you can see the very large nails. Move the ax under one of them and move the casing up to the maximum limit. Repeat the same procedure in other locations of nails. As a result, you should easily be separated from the whole casing of the door frame.
Since frames are on both sides, repeat a similar action on the other side of the wall. Unfortunately, almost always the casing breaks. During the heyday of Soviet engineering and construction nails done very thick and strong, and trim set pretty thin, so just take them with rusted nails fails. But, fortunately, make new and more aesthetic frames today is quite simple and inexpensive. Moreover, if we recall that in the camp of clypeus has stuck to half a centimeter discolored enamel and it can not even for firewood, it is reasonable to get a new frame for the door.
So trim removed, and before you left the door frame with iron hinges. Before you try to pull it out of the wall, remember that it is nailed to the leveling bars long, 150-millimeter nails. Carefully inspect one of the uprights - if you can see the lower mounting point (nail or bar), back it up by about 20 cm. If the fixture is not visible, then pull back the floor 60-80 cm and sawn rack.

Just above the resulting insert cutting edge of the ax so that it is between the doorway and wooden stand, and then move the sure touch of a rack on the wall. Thus, while you remove the base and pull the nail out of the wall.
Do the same with the other part and the top crossbar. When charged the first rack, the dismantling of the door with your hands is much faster and easier.

Keep door unit, who served 30 years or more, it makes no sense - you can now use more modern, durable and inexpensive materials, or to put the same tree, just fresher.

We describe one of the most problematic option of dismantling the door with large nails as fasteners. If you see that the elements are fastened with screws, then disassemble this box is not difficult - you just use a screwdriver.

A quick way

If you plan to get rid of the old door and did not intend to install it elsewhere, use the faster and easier way to dismantle the box.

For work you need the following tools:
the ax;
hammer;
crowbar;
hacksaw on wood.

How to quickly dismantle the door:
Remove the door leaf, as described in the previous instruction - easier and faster to do this step anymore.
Disassemble the door frame does not make sense, so it is easier to break. It is very easy to do if you make a cut in the central part of one of the uprights.
Using a hacksaw make the cut, but not perpendicular but at an angle of approximately 45 °.

If the door frame has a nut, it is also better to cut it down the middle.
If the threshold is fixed in the doorway above the floor, it is easy to "root out" with the crowbar.
Plat will quickly pull out if the drive between them and packaged timbers sharp ax. Pull the handle of the ax, appeared to span sufficient for further work with the crowbar.

We remind you that if the old door frame you will not need the rest of the wall still is useful to install a new door, so follow the work as carefully as possible.
Removing the plastic door

Plastic and metal doors have long ceased to be a novelty, and much less seen a massive web of high-quality wood than the usual design, radiant pristine whiteness. However, for proper operation, maintenance and adjustment is necessary to know some of the secrets that are known far all owners of plastic doors.

The most important thing - to understand the functioning of the device and the hinges that hold the door. Then you will be able to use all its potential to the maximum, self-repair or remove the entire structure. The loop consists of several elements: steel tabs frame with fixing pins, spacer sleeves disposed between the tab and the frame.
Removing the door on the balcony

If you try to dismantle the plastic door on the guidelines above, you will not. The fact that such constructions have their own particular installation and hence disassembly, so they must be removed in a special way.

Remove the protective caps covering the hinge.

Take a hammer and gently knock axial mechanism, the door slightly open.
When the bottom edge seem axial mechanism, grabbed him thin pliers and pull down until it is fully released.
Heel the door, holding it tightly with your free hand (it is quite heavy), and lift up to 5 cm in order to free the pin of the lower support. Since these structures are not fixed at the bottom of the loop, the door can be easily removed by slightly raising and take aside.
Deontazh door

The device is a plastic door is different from the balcony, so the dismantling takes place a little differently. The main difference is that the front doors have reinforced construction, and they are not double-glazed windows.

The structure of the loop is also different - they are more powerful and have strengthened anti-burglary. Plastic entrance door has three hinges, in the balcony - two. This is due to the fact that the door is quite heavy, and the two loops do not have coped with such a load.

In principle, the removal procedure takes place under the same scenario as in the balcony door, the only difference is that you need help - alone to remove the front door does not work. When you lift the door off its hinges, it must be firmly held and can cope with it only two.

Removing the metal door

Most new buildings apartments come with a metal entrance door, but unfortunately, they seem to be reliable only at first glance. In fact, it is an ordinary sheet steel, no reinforced and certainly not having insulating properties. The owners of these apartments prefer to replace the design of new or existing warm, but first we must somehow remove the painting itself.

Removing the metal door is quite simple:
Repel plaster slope near the door to open the door mounting points ears.
Since modern metal doors fixed with a wedge-anchor or anchor bolts, try to unscrew them with a key or a screwdriver.
If the fasteners are not amenable, they Hollow chisel punch.
Between the piers and the door frame is a layer of foam - cut it with a knife to release the door.
Lift the door leaf and remove it from its hinges in an open form.
Then you can remove the door frame and install a better door.

As you can see, dismantle the old door is a snap, whether wood, plastic or iron. The main thing - to do everything in a measured and carefully so as not to spoil the opening in the wall, which is still useful to install the new door.