Large heat losses in the house occur through the door block. The reason can be a twisted box, wear of seals or just a thin canvas. For the warming of a wooden door in a private house, comprehensive measures to eliminate all defects are taken.

Wood has a low thermal conductivity, but the disadvantage of the material is the response to the differences of humidity and temperature. The door block dissipates, swells, throws and even cracks. There are three main reasons that signal the urgent need for insulation in the country of the wooden door:

1. Education slots between the box and ends of the walls of the road. Initially, during installation work, all the gaps are fought. Foam is a good insulation, but over time loses properties. Faster destruction occurs from the street, if the platbands are not installed. Foam will spoil from sun exposure. Another cause of the gap is breaking louds.
2. Education gaps between the box and sash. The most common defect of the wooden entrance door occurs due to bad wood, poor-quality installation and long-term operation. Often the owner itself becomes the culprit when she cuts his swollen sash to close it better. After drying, the product decreases in size, a slot is formed.
3. Wear insulation. Each thermal insulation material is selected taking into account operational requirements. If they were not initially observed, the incorrectly chosen insulation loses efficiency. For example, Minvat quickly flies, and due to dampness decreases in volume.
   You need to warm any old wooden door, as well as a thin sash.

Which insulation is better to choose?

To make a warmed wooden door with your own hands, the thermal insulation material is required, as well as the material for the upper decorative finish. The seal closes the gaps. When the question arises than to insulate the wooden door in a private house, pay attention to the following materials:

• Styrofoam It is better to use how the inner insulation of wooden entrance doors. Plates can be sewn from the side of the room.

• Porolon It is considered the most common insulation, which is covered with artificial leather on top. Porous material allows you to create an effect of volume. Porolat over time loses crumbling crumbling.

• Minvata. It does not burn, has good thermal insulation properties, but quickly flies. When exposed to dampness accumulates moisture. Under the weight slides from the vertical surface.

• Polyethylene foamed - Isolon in structure resembles foam rubber. The material is distinguished by the best thermal insulation indicators, a long service life. Isolon poorly tolerates a long exposure to direct sunlight.

• Polyurene Foolder Applied by spraying method, firmly glued to wood, penetrates all the cracks. The disadvantage is the impossibility of performing work without special equipment.

• Polystyrene foam Reminds foam, but has improved characteristics. The material has self-effect properties when exposed to open fire.

When choosing a heater for the doors of a wooden house, it is important to take into account the thickness of the material. Thick layers are weighted with a sash, they will create an obstacle to normal closure. Thin - useless. It is necessary to find a gold middle between these two parameters.

Types of seals for door boxes

In addition to thermal insulation, it will take a seal for sealing slots around the perimeter of the canvas. It is a ribbon distinguished by the thickness and material:

• Foam strip Fixed due to the adhesive basis. The sealer is rapidly wears during the season.

• Silicone band Resistant to damp, elastic. Over time, begins to stick out, rushing with pieces.

• Rubber rubber The sealer for wooden doors will serve for many years. Ribbon is resistant to wear, damp, mechanical exposure.

• Thermoplastic - Best durability, but folded in installation.

• Polyurethane strip Blinds due to the sticky base. According to characteristics, it is not inferior to the rubber seal.

Thermal insulation cannot be performed without decorative finish. Usually, the insulation is closed with artificial leather. Fix furniture nails with a wide decorative hat. On the inside, the canvas are cuddered by laminated MDF panels. Beautifully looks like a finish of genuine leather, but the material is very expensive.

How to insulate a wooden door?

Start Wooden Door Warming with preparatory work:

• weave weelines are fixed with new elongated self-drawers;
• if a thick heavy insulation is used, installed an additional loop;
• eliminate the battle of the box, the defects of the canvas;
• check the state of the seal around the perimeter of the door jet at the junction with the walls;
• change broken accessories: lock, handles, obstacle eye, cheek.

After eliminating all defects, the insulation is started on wooden entrance doors.

Often the question is, you need parosolation When insulating wooden doors? With the arrangement of the mounting seams of the door block - needed. The gap between the box and the wall is close in foam. So that the thermal insulation does not spoil, from the street seam closes the psyl ribbon. From the side of the premises foam destroy the pairs. To protect the seams, stick with vapor insulation scotch. Parosolation may be required for the product if it is installed in the raw room, and the heat-insulation is the Ministry of Service.

Installing the sealer on the door frame

The first salvation from heat loss is the installation of the seal on the wooden door to eliminate the slots between the sash and the box. The tape is selected in thickness corresponding to the size of the gap. The thin strip is useless, and the thick will become an obstacle for normal closing of the canvas. Installation of the seal consists of the following actions:

1. Measure the gaps between the sash and the box, pick up the thickness of the tape.
2. The self-adhesive sealant is glued into the groove on the perimeter of the judge.
3. Silicone tape is fixed by the braces of the construction stapler.

If around the perimeter of the door block, the size of the gap is different, which often happens during deformation, the box is expanding and deepened the groove. The edge of the canvas pass grinders. A two-layer or three-layer tape is glued to the new groove.

Correctly glued sealing must all over the perimeter tightly lay down to the edge of the sash and do not interfere with its free closure.

Sealing rollers

Heat the junction along the perimeter of the door frame can be dermatical rollers with foam rubber embedded inside.

• Measure the length of all sides of the sash. According to the results, four strips of 100 mm wide are cut out of dermatitin.
• Strips lean towards the edge of the sash up the involving side. Near the edges of the door leaf dermatin fix the stapler.
• Inside each strip lay thick foam rubber, form a roller.
• Fix the second edge of Dermatin stapler.

The door block becomes more beautiful, and all the gaps are hidden under the rollers.

Warming of the web

For maximum warming of the wooden door, the method of bilateral thermal insulation is used with their own hands. The sash is facing outside and from the inside. From the street, thermal insulation is closed with material sustainable to aggressive weather conditions. To insulate the entrance door from the inside, most often use foam rubber and artificial skin. Woodering of a wooden door occurs in the following sequence:

• For the convenience of working, the canvas are removed from the loops, free from the old insulation, handles, locks and other fittings.
• The heat insulating material is cut out a fragment, the size of more dimensions of the sash. Well, if on each side there will be about 100 mm of foam rubber.

• The insulation on the edge of the door is shot by the stapler brackets. Sweet ends are cut off with scissors.
• From above, the foam rubber is covered with artificial skin. From hanging edges form rollers and fasten with furniture nails. The overall plane of the web decorated with a pattern. It turns out after feeding nails. Soft foambone between wide hats forms beautiful bulges. Between the fasteners, it is possible to pull the wire or the cross-cutting tube of the Dermantine.

At the end of the work, all accessories are installed and the insulated product is placed on the box.

If a foam or polystyrene is selected for the insulation of the door block, the final cladding is usually carried out by MDF. The sash increases in thickness and weight. The door unit is additionally enhanced by loops. A frame forms a cell forming a cell on the surface of the canvas from the plates. Foam plates are tightly stolen, and the gaps between the rails are blown by mounting foam. Fixed MDF.

You can glue thin plate foam plates to the door leaf, without making a frame. For decorative finishes, artificial skin is used.

Installation of double doors

A good way to insulate the house is the installation of a double entrance door. Due to the formation of airspace, separating the room with the street, the heat remains. The disadvantage of such a design is to reduce the place.

For the indoor unit, the threshold is installed. The insulation additionally laid on the slopes between the doors. There are structures where two sash are hung with loops on one deep box.

Heating the entrance doors, it must be remembered that moisture is affected by the cloth from the street. The processing of impregnation, staining with paint or varnish will be able to protect against dampness. Not bad waterproofing creates oil.

The entrance door in a private house is one of the main sources of heat loss. In order not to freeze in winter, you need to take care of her insulation in advance. In this article, we consider what materials it is better to apply as a heater (felt, foam rubber, foam), as high quality and simply insulate the door with your own hands, hide her dermatitin and close the slit self-adhesive tape.

There are several ways to insulate the front door for the winter, the optimal is the upholstery. This uses the following materials for this:

It can be noted that the manufacturers with a thermal explosion as a heater uses precisely polystyrene. Such doors include the well-known line of the doors "Nord", positively proven itself in the market, from the Moscow manufacturer of the Profmaster's entrance doors.

Warm iron door with foam panels

Usually, metal doors are made from a sheet material welded on sides of the sides, i.e. have inside the voids that need to be filled from the inside, for additional insulation.

The insulation technology is as follows:

• We remove the dimensions of the door leaf (width and length) by which we cut the panel from the fiberboard to close the foam layer.
• We transfer to the phaneur from the fiberboard the dimensions of the door leaf, the location and size of the eyes and the handles, cut the openings under them.
• We apply the panel to the door, checking the correctness of all marks.

• With the help of a sharp knife, we cut out the sheets of penity, to glue them to the inside of the door canvase. This insulation is glued using silicone, which is applied with a dense uniform layer, over the entire surface.

Tip! The thickness of the foam is determined by the size of the regiment of the corner.

• Now you can close the foam panel from the fiberboard. We put on a screwdriver and screw the boulders to the door leaf on the screwdriver.
• The ribs of the stiffness of the metal door are made of a hollow tube, in the winter it is refrigerated and the effect of the "refrigerator" is obtained. That this does not happen, it is filled from inside by mounting foam. To do this, the hole is made in a drill hole, where and pour foam.

Attention! If you want to overhaul the wall, the slots between the sheets of foam, can also be pouring the mounting foam.

Warm the front door to Foam

To insulate the entrance door from a tree, a foam rubber can be used from the outside. For this you need:

• Remove the door frame with loops and place it on a flat horizontal plane, such as stools. Then remove all the protruding parts of the door (lock, eye hole, handle).

Tip! Before heating the door to the foam rubber, hover the door to the canvas with an iron sheet to strengthen it.

• Next, you need to make the basis for rollers needed to plug the hole between the door and the box. For doors, opening out, from dermatitis, 3 bands are cut out with a width of 140 mm, of which the length is the first to be the length of the door, and the 2 other widths. Three strips are sticking with cloves along the edge of the door box, pre-retreating from the edge of 15 mm. The party on which the loops are located. For doors that open inward, 4 140 mm wide strips are cut and nailed from all sides.
• From the cotton you need to make harnesses, a diameter of 30 mm, wrap them into the dermatin, pinned from below, and nail the resulting roller at the very edge door.
• Next, foam rubber sheets are laid on top of the door leaf.

• From Dermatin you need to cut the cloth according to the door parameters, plus 10 cm on each side. Spread the dermatin on top of the insulation and lift it with nails, first lateral angles, and then the bottom and top
• Next, you need to make the remaining three rollers (this applies to the doors that open out) and nurture them so that the upper edge of the upholstery cannol overlap the bottom.
• Then you can nail a cloth throughout the perimeter, ending with the edge on which the loops are located.

Tip! You can reap the door leaf, having navigasted with caps on a specific pattern. This method of "decorations" doors does not give to the rustle.

• At the end, you need to cut holes for all the protruding parts of the door, secure the handle to the place and you can hang the door back to the loop.

Insulation of mounting foam

No less effective way to protect the doorway from cold air to getting a mounting foam:

1. Buy gun with foam, medium sizes.
2. Cut the building tape the border of the door, including the door itself, the box and the wall.
3. Pour the mounting foam inner and external door perimeter, checking the emptiness between the door frame and the wall.
4. Then with the help of sandwich and the knife to remove excess foam.
5. At the end of the joints, put sand and sneak under the color of the walls of the house.

How to use sealing gasket

Rubber gasket overlaps the gap between the door frame and the door canvas. Such a gap remains even with a closed position of the door, and through it up to 20% of heat. To prevent it:

• Measure the perimeter of the door frame, this indicator will be equal to the length of the tape. The width is equal to the size of the place of contact of the frame and the door leaf (the width of the fold), and the thickness of the width of the cloth and the door.

Tip! The width of the fold is to measure problematic, but this can be done with plasticine. It is placed between the door and the box, and close it. After that, it is removed and removed.

• We remove the paper from the sealing laying that protects the sticky side, and smooth over the entire perimeter of the folding door box.

Thus, it is possible to insulate the door by upgrading it with insulation and closing the joints with a sealing ribbon. If these methods do not help, you need to check the installation of the door leaf and the absence of holes in the mounting foam used during installation.

Doors are the main way to get into your home, not only guest, attackers, as well as cold, noise. According to statistical data, a third of all heat that is lost in your home takes exactly through this path, and the door most often takes exactly the door, because over time the operation or the installation is formed. This is mostly noticeable in the cold period of the year, when the heating is connected when the room temperature does not rise to the desired one. Warming wooden doors in a private house, you will increase the air temperature by 3-4 ° C, the humidity of the air is normalized and the costs of heating rooms are reduced.

Wooden doors for a private house Warm will help you keep warm. Make it you can thanks to a small sleep insulation. Most often your doors, purchased, are already initially insulated. But keep in mind that they have so thin layer of isolation, which will not be able to use it. It is connected not only with savings, but also with the desire of sellers to reduce the weight of the design.

Materials for insulation

If the door of the door is originally in contact with the door box, there are clearances, it takes cold air, it is recommended to use the seal. Take the sealing rollers to insulate the products. Best of all, they are in combination with insulation. The insulating material is covered with all the door canvas, which helps to hold heat and insulate it as much as possible.

If you are interested in which insulating materials are used to insulate the wooden doors, we note their large number. We will analyze the most interesting.

For the upholstery of the inlet door of the tree typically use these types:

1. Isolon - The minimum thickness of the material will give a good result for the thermal characteristics of isolation. Made of synthetics.
2. Porolon- To protect wooden doors from moisture, not the best solution, since it has the ability to absorb moisture and crumble over time. Its cost is cheaper than the previous one, serves for a short time, it starts to collapse soon, but for beginners - just a find.
3. Mineral wool Practical, long-known material, which has proven well-known. The most economical option. But, as we know, "the miser pays twice," because it will absorb all the moisture and ultimately your seal will become a seatingman of bacteria, destroying not only herself, but also the door canvas. After some, she begins to settle, form bulbs.
4. Styrofoam - easy to install, resistant to external influence and show good performance indicators. Nevertheless, the negative should be attributed to bad sound insulation. The foam is easy to use and can be easily attached to the surface. It has low refractory, but shows a greater resistance to moisture.

Pay special attention to the thickness of the seal. Too thick insulation layer - will open the problem with the closing of the door, makes it heavy, but too thin - do not give you the effect of which for which you did all this.

Do not forget that all the insulation mentioned above will look extremely unattractive. Therefore, a decorative coating is also used. Often, it is artificial or genuine leather, dermatin or plywood.

We have already disassembled that there are three ways of insulation, as a large-scale, partial one. This is insulation with rollers, insulation and sealing. Now we will analyze each of them.

How to install a seal in the door frame?

This is the easiest and easiest way of insulation. He implies that your wooden doors are not bad, only this is confused by the clearance between the box and the canvas. A private house shares only this obstacle with the street frost, so the gaps are extremely undesirable. Warm in this case can be a rubber profile. For simplicity, the installation has long been made with a sticky basis.

It is enough just to smoke it all over the perimeter, for which you do not need special knowledge or skills. If there is no rubber profile, it is necessary to apply a dermal tape, in several layers folded.

The parameters are necessarily measured, the width of the slots, after which the suitable rubberized tape is selected both in length and by quantity. Cut into the necessary pieces, the protective layer is removed and tightly tight to the door or to the box.

Take advantage of this warming with a high degree of responsibility. Because it is the most terrible slope through which the Arctic streets of the street in winter penetrate your home.

How to carry out the upholstery of wooden doors insulation?

We will need: nails, dermatin for a decorative layer, insulation, for example, Minvata. We recommend warming on both sides if possible, which will give a greater effect.

You must first remove the door and place it on the backup, which can be kitchen chairs, or table. Now you need to remove the handles, loops, eyes, locks, other additional fittings.

Because We have wooden doors, it is recommended to process its antiseptics and waterproof, which is especially relevant for a private house. Usually, the layers of the insulation are inserted into the frame of BRUSEV. We put there insulating material. Fix with glue or construction stapler, nails.

At the finishing stage, insulation is covered with a layer of decorative tissue (dermatitin) and it is also fixed. Then you can back insert locks, handles and install doors back to the box. After checking out that everything is fine and closes.

How to insulate with sealing rollers?

The latter is unresolved today. If it is not possible to remove the doors with the loops, then you should apply this method. It is still fair to those private houses that not only suffer from the winter from the cold, but also in the summer of terrible heat.

You should close the doors closely. The roller is not nailed to the threshold, and it is done on the bottom ends of the canvas. You can do this from above, only carefully consider the weighting of the design. Note that with a significant increase in the load, it may be necessary to use more powerful loops.

More details you can look in the video about insulation:

It is simply insulated inlet wooden door in a private house, you can achieve a decrease in heat leakage from the room by about 10%. To create a thermal insulation layer, various materials and technologies are used, but all of them are directed to the seal of the slots around the doorway and to reduce the thermal conductivity of the wooden canvase. Wooden door insulation can be made independently, observing the sequence of technological operations.

T. K. Warm the entrance wooden door with their own hands, will have to take care of the selection of materials necessary for this purpose. Before starting work, it is necessary to examine the box and door canvas for the presence of cracks. It is possible to do this with a burning candle brought to the place of joints of a wooden frame and walls, boxes and canvas, as well as panels if the door canvas is not made of plywood. In places having cracks, the lady of fire will range from draft. Near the discovered slots you need to put tags.

The gap between the wall and the wooden frame is easy to fill in the mounting foam. But the slots in the canvas and in the joints of his junction with the box will have to isolate otherwise. For the convenience of performing work, a wooden canvas is better to remove with loops and put on the floor. Old coating and upholstery, if there are, you need to remove, and handles and decorative lining on locks and eyes dismantle

From the canvas remove the measure of height and width. The outer side is measured from the edge to the edge. Internal need to be measured taking into account the adjunctions to the box: retreating from edges by 2-3 cm.

What are used for thermal insulation?

The traditional way to insulate the inlet wooden door is to upholstery of its canvas with thermal insulating material. For this purpose, apply:

• minvatu;
• batting;
• felt;
• sintepon;
• styrofoam;
• foam;
• foamed polyethylene or isolon with a foil coating or without it.

The insulation layer is covered with decorative upholstery. Most often these are materials that create a barrier for the effects of precipitation on heat insulating fillers. As a upholstery, you can use:

• leatherette;
• natural or vinyl skin;
• fabrics with water-repellent impregnation;
• with the use of foam of foam, moisture-resistant plywood or wooden lamella type lining can serve as an upholstery.

Upholstery Materials need to be bought with a small margin, since they are made of additional parts for insulation of the joints of the box and the canvas, and the edge of the decorative material must be subjected to 1-1.5 cm.

Special rollers

For sealing the slot between the box and the canvas, serve rollers from the material, which will have a wooden door leaf (dermatin, leather, etc.). They prevent the impact of the winds with wind and reduce the possibility of the formation of drafts. These parts are manufactured independently in cases where the door with an external, not adjacent to the box, side. Inside the rollers at the inlet wooden door there must be a heater - it is a thin foam, isolon or other such material.

The process of working with foam

The installation of foam filler is used as a way to insulate the front door from the inside, without disturbing its decorativeness. Most often do that, if the canvas doors are frame and has a decorative finish, for which it has been acquired. Manufacturers use corrugated cardboard as a filler - a material that has a low heat shield function. When operating, it is necessary to replace the "stuffing" of such a door with a layer of insulation from foam or EPPS.

When performing this work, you need to unmount the door, removing the upholstery material from the canvas (FALP). From the cavities, the filler is removed, leaving only the bars of the frame.

Polyfoam must be cut into parts, if possible, more precisely corresponding to the form and size of the cavities of the door. Fastening to produce liquid nails or other adhesive for foam. Mounting foam is necessary if there are more than 1-2 mm between the frame and EPPS. After installing the heat insulator inside the door, the cover panel is attached to its place, and the canvas are hung on the loop.

Required tools

To warp the inlet wooden doors with soft insulating materials, you need to prepare some tools:

• sharp knife or scissors for cutting parts;

• roulette;
• a hammer;
• sealing ribbons;
• nails with decorative hats.

If you wish, you can use a thin line: to create a geometric pattern from rhombuses on upholstery material.

Elimination of gaps with a seal

Choosing how to insulate the inlet wooden door, should not be bypassing various types of sealing elements, but to determine the best best to consult with the seller. Seals are specially designed products whose function consists in maximum filling of gaps and cracks between the door elements: a box and wooden canvas. In addition to heat shields, the insulation fulfills the role and home.

The installation of the seal and sealing reduce the overall loss of heat through the wooden door, solving the problem of insulation by about 60%.

Types intended for wood doors

For insulation of inlet wooden doors, different types of doorway seals are used:

• tubular from porous rubber;
• silicone;
• foam.

There are options for fastening the seal: on an adhesive layer applied by the manufacturer or with small nails with their own hands. When choosing sealing tapes for a wooden door, it is worth considering the performance characteristics and durability of the material. The best choice is the rubber seal.

Insulation boxes

T. K. The tree has a low thermal conductivity, the insulation of the box of wooden entrance doors is to eliminate the slots between the parts and the walls with their own hands. On the perimeter of the door box install the seal. It must be fixed on the site of the edge of the edge of the wooden panel door and the label of the frame, where it enters. Less frequently, the seal is between the edge of the wooden canvase and the frame: when opening and closing, the sticky base of the tape is subjected to enhanced load and the seal may tear off.

In addition to the slots between the web and the frame, the mandatory insulation is also subject to joints between boxes and walls. The thermal insulation is performed by packles, foam rubber or similar material, driving it into the gaps. If the cracks are large (more than 5 mm wide), then they will be able to high with the assembly foam. To do this, the end of the tube is placed in the gap and, by pressing the lever of the nozzle or pistol, move the balloon from the bottom up along the box. The gap must be filled with ½ depth, since the foam expands greatly.

Upholstery of the canvas

At this stage, the insulation of the inlet wooden door consists with their own hands from several individual operations:

1. Cutting materials are produced on previously removed width and length measurements. The insulation must be cut without a switch, and the decorative upholstery, if necessary, is cut with a viscosity for the edge deposit (1-1.5 cm). It is necessary to convert the edge when the installation of sealing rollers is not performed. This is done if the inner insulation of the wooden input group of the apartment insulation and the skin is performed.
2. Installation of the insulation is to fasten it on a wooden door leaf. To do this, you can use glue, construction stapler or wallpaper nails. The outlet rectangle must be aligned and attach to the canvas, leaving the free edges of the material to convert the trim to them.
3. The detail of dermatina is superimposed on top of the insulation and smoothed. Attach the upholstery material is necessary from the middle of the canvas. If you want to make a decor, then its drawing is placed in advance, and when attaching the upholstery between the nails, the line is tightened along the outlined lines. The edges of the upholstery must be subjected to insulation and nail with decorative nails with a uniform step throughout the perimeter.

Sealing with rollers

The upholstery of the country house door from the outside must be completed with the installation of special rollers. To make them, you will need to cut 4 strips with a width of 10 cm. Length 2 of the strips is equal to the width of the wooden canvas with a 2 cm. Other 2 parts are linked by the rate of height, not forgetting to leave the same allowance (10 cm).

From the foam rubber or other filler, you need to cut the strips, the length of which corresponds to the length of dermal parts, and the width is 2-3 cm less. Warf wooden entrance doors with rollers can be up to, and after mounting the sheathing of the web.

Installation

On the edge of the door, decompose the details of Dermatin harvested earlier: long stripes in height, and short - width. The laying is carried out with an insanity up so that the strip edge is 1-2 cm from the edge of the wooden base. Mounting can be performed with a construction stapler brackets or small nails with an enlarged hat (upholstery). The step of the fastener is 10-15 cm throughout the perimeter of the canvas.

For better thermal insulation, the doors on the nipple of the Dermatin bar should be wooded from the insulation material, retreating from the edge to 1 cm. Bend the roller along in half so that the insulation is inside the upholstery. All free edges and secure the edge of the roller on a wooden canvas with decorative nails.

Fasteners performs and finishing function. Nails can be driven with an arbitrary step and even close to each other, but you need to monitor the uniformity of their placement. Ends the mounting of the filmed earlier accessories: Under the handle you need to cut holes, and the lock pads fix over the upholstery.

Winter is naturally associated with cold, and now also with the need to upload large amounts of money for heating, the value of which is rising systematically. To increase the temperature in the room and save on the heating of the house or apartment owners of the property try to detect and eliminate the sources of heat loss.

In most cases, the thermal imaging of the buildings shows that about a third of heat out of the room penetrates out through the so-called "warm circuit", namely the windows and entrance doors.

Do not think that the installation of double-glazed windows and replacing the door block automatically solves the heat loss problem. And if the replacement of windows leads to a decrease in losses, because They are closed in winter, in the case of the door, the heat is still out of the room, so you need to study how to insulate the front door in a private house with your own hands, and apply knowledge in practice.

Thermal insulation of the entrance doors makes it possible:

1. reduce heat losses, getting rid of pods and drafts;
2. reduce the noise level penetrating the apartment / house;
3. increase the aesthetic component - doors decor.

Warm the door in the apartment is much easier, because, as a rule, it goes into the entrance, where the temperature of the freight is greater, compared with the temperature on the street. Warming the door in a rural house - the task is more complex, i.e. It separates the heated room from frosty air and wind frosty. Nevertheless, the general rules and directions of insulation will be the same for them. The difference will consist in choosing the thermal insulation material and its thickness.

How to insulate the entrance door?

In a private house and apartment for insulation, different thermal insulation materials can be used, the blessing the construction market is replete with them. Among the most popular:

• cardboard (Paper cellular filler). Domestic manufacturers are filled with corrugated cardboard inkomnate doors to increase their sound insulation properties. No one surprises the warming of the Chinese door with cardboard, because This is the cheapest insulation;

• furniture foam (Thickness from 3 to 100 mm, the price is 45-900 rubles / m.kv). This is a material for insulation of doors, which one of the first began to apply for thermal insulation. Porolon features low price, flexibility, ability to keep the form for a long time and restore it with short-term load, good sound insulation characteristics, simplicity in operation;

• styrofoam (2560-3200 rubles / m.Kub.). It is he who is considered the most efficient insulation for the entrance doors. And the insulation door of the foam is the most popular solution. Polyfoam distinguishes low cost, excellent sound and thermal insulation characteristics, simplicity of installation. However, it should be remembered that the foam supports burning.

• polystyrene foam (3500-5000 rubles / M.Kub.) It has similar properties, but, at the expense of a higher density, it allows you to warp the door guard. Polystyrene foam features a higher price. By structure, both material refer to the category of hard, and are used for mainly for the insulation of the metal door;

• polyurene Foolder. Product is a novelty in the field of insulation of doors. According to its properties, polyurethane is comparable with foam, but its use makes it possible to fill the entire space inside the door. The material is environmentally friendly, does not support combustion, but is characterized by a higher cost;

• vata.. Warming the door of mineral wool is a modern analogue to the insulation of foam rubber. Due to the flexibility of this material, it can be used for insulation of both metal and wooden doors. At the same time, the mineral wool should be distinguished (IsOVER, the price is 70-75 rubles / m.kv.) And basalt cotton wool (Rockwool, the price is 200-220 rubles / M.KV.). The second option is tougher and eco-friendly. In any case, when insulating the entrance doors, the wool requires the installation of a parobacker film. This is due to the fact that the hygroscopicity of the wool does not allow it to be exploited without additional protection. For the same reason, it is not recommended to warm the doors in a private house;

• dermantin. This is a decorative material, its purpose to close the insulation and give the door aesthetic appearance. Therefore, the insulation of the doors of Dermantine is performed only with thermal insulation material.

Ready door insulation kit

Those who do not want to spend time on the selection and calculation of the amount of materials. Manufacturers offer to bring a set for the insulation of the door - a ready-made solution for input doors of different sizes.

The set for insulation of the entrance door includes:

• dermantin. In appearance resembles the skin. Now this upholstery has lost its popularity, but it remains one of the simple and cheap ways to insulate and decorate the door in the cottage;

• foam;

• sealing rubber. To avoid purging around the perimeter of the door frame;

• nails with decorative hats.

The cost of the set "Standard" with a foam rubber 5 mm thick - 490-520 rubles., Lux kit with foam rubber 10 mm - 1180-1230 rubles. There are also sets with syntheps, they are slightly cheaper.

Thanks to this set, you can easily perform a slight repair and insulation of outdoor doors.

As a rule, the price of the kit is higher than the cost of its individual components, so it is better to acquire materials on their own.

How to insulate the entrance door in a private house and an apartment

We will analyze the technology of insulation of the street door on their own in the context of the directions. You can select two sources for heat loss:

• the door itself, i.e. Due to the high thermal conductivity of the door canvase, heat loss occurs. More heat skip metal doors, less - wooden;

• door contour. A significant part of the heat "blows out" from the room with drafts, which appear due to a loose door fit to the door frame.

Consider how you can insulate the entrance doors with your own hands to reduce heat loss in both directions.

Direction 1 - door leaf insulation

It should be understood that ways of insulation doors will be determined by the material from which the door canvas is made:

• It occurs by filling the cavity inside the door frame. For this you can use foam and wool. Before starting work, the door must be opened, remove the cardboard filler (installed in almost all Chinese doors) and fill the emptiness more suitable thermal insulating material.

When filling with foam, it is cut into pieces, comfortable for installation and is glued to the inner door surface with liquid nails and a mounting gun. Free space is blown by mounting foam. In the case of cotton, first it is recommended to make a crate, whose cells are placed in cotton wool. Stop your cotton without a crate can not, because It has a tendency to slip during the time. Then the door is closed with any sheet material, for example, dvp and decorated. Often the insulation is covered with plastic panels or MDF panels.

Note. The thickness of the insulation for the front door should be equal to the thickness of the door canvase, otherwise you have to change locks.

• Performed by flexible insulation. Since the insulation cannot be placed inside the door frame, you need to decide which side door, outside or from the inside. It takes into account the direction of opening the door and location of the loop. The main requirement is that the seal does not interfere with their functioning.

For insulation, the thermal insulation material is placed on the door leaf, covered with a film (in the case of cotton), and the upholstery of the doors Dermantine is performed, which is fixed with decorative cloves.

Note. The use of reflective material, such as a foam, from the inside of the door will allow "return" to the room heat. After all, the reflective ability of the foam is 97%.

Direction 2 - insulation opening the entrance door

Only the insulation of the canvas will not reduce the heat loss so that you can talk about improving the energy efficiency of the warm contour of the house.

A second direction, more productive and easy to implement, from which work on thermal insulation is usually beginning, is the insulation of the door frame. In this direction, two ways of insulation are distinguished:

1. Warming door box of the front door

For these purposes, a seal is used - polymer or foam (less often) on an adhesive basis. Preference is better to give polymer, because The term of its operation is longer, and the effectiveness is higher. The foam adhesive tape will not last and the season, at best, is exiled throughout the year. The process of insulation is simple and assumes the sticker of the seal around the perimeter of the door canvase. The main thing is to pre-wipe and degrease the surface so that the seal is better glued.

An important aspect on which the effectiveness of insulation depends is the correct selection of the thickness of the seal. The thin seal will not perform its function in full, and the thick will create an additional load on the door loops during the door closing process, and will result in their accelerated wear.

Plasticine will help in solving this problem. It must be wrapped in cellophane and put between the door frame and the web. Then the door to close and open. The thickness of the obtained plasticine roller will correspond to the optimal thickness of the seal.

2. insulation of slopes of the entrance door

Errors in the installation of the door frame, the use of poor-quality foam, which "kicked up" for the period of operation of the door, saving on the foam and its blooms with interruptions - all this in the end leads to the fact that the cold comes from, it would seem that a warmed door.

What to do if blowing from the entrance door?

To eliminate the drafts, it is necessary to dismantle the slopes, fill the cleaned space by foam, lay the insulation (preferably soft) and reinstate the slope. If it is difficult to make this kind of work, it is better to order the masters, its services will not be too expensive, and the appearance of the door will be presentable.

How to determine where does it blow?

Check if the air foam does not miss, you can, if you bring a lighter to the mounting seam. If the flames flumes - you need to take measures to replace foam.

Installation of a double door as a method of insulation

A single way to insulate the house can be the installation of a double door. The space between adjacent doors will become an air layer, which will contribute to the fact that the cold air from the street will not penetrate directly into the residential premises. In conjunction with the insulation of openings and slopes, this approach makes it possible to get really high-quality insulated entrance doors.

Note. An ideal option in this case can be the installation of two doors on one door box.

If insulation helps little - it's time to change old doors. Good reviews of whether to prevent cold penetration, leveling the temperature differences between the room and the street.

Budget insulation of the entrance door - video instruction

Warming of balcony doors

If there is a balcony in the house or apartment, then this is another door that goes outside (especially if the loggia or balcony is not glazed) and, accordingly, needs thermal insulation.

How to insulate a balcony door for the winter

The insulation of the balcony door has its own specifics, which is associated with the presence of the window in it. If the door is made of wood, then the insulation is carried out by sticker the seal around the perimeter of the canvas, insulation of slopes and sealing of the glass plantation. Warming technology will be similar (we recommend familiarizing yourself) with the insulation of wooden windows.

If there is a plastic door insulation, then in this case it is recommended to first check the door fit density and adjust the fit by adjusting the accessories. Insulation technology is also similar to thermal insulation of plastic windows. In case there are no violations in the work of the fittings, the masters recommend applying a Swedish warming technology. This is the most reliable way to reduce heat loss through the balcony block.

Conclusion

As you can see, there are several directions for the door insulation in a private house. But only their integrated use will allow to get a really tangible effect.