Wooden Doors and Windows

Anyone sooner or later faces the need for some repair work in the house. However, while a full major repair work often requires professional assistance, the windows and doors can be repaired on your own, without professional specialist services.

As a result of improper and long-term operation, doors and windows start coming apart, swinging open, squeaking and falling to pieces. They may also get warped or even sag. These are simple defects, which can be easily fixed with glue, joinery tools and screws. Let us consider a few situations.

If a door or a window got jammed, first of all you have to give it an angular inclination matching the frame. This is not hard to do. You just have to insert a wooden or a cardboard shim underneath the hinge. It’s worth reminding that if a window, for instance, is jammed in its upper vertical location, the shim should be placed under the lower hinge. A door usually gets jammed as a result of obtaining a large gap with its casing in the hinge area. In this case, it would be enough to slightly «sink» the hinge sockets deeper.

The door can sometimes spring, even if the hinges are deeply incised, and the screws are well recessed. This is increasingly the result of tight junction door to the box. In this case you should always cut a little bit on both or one side with a large chisel width. As for the windows and doors had settled here by the lower and upper halves of the loops enclose a self-made spacers in the form of wire rings or washers, pre-lubricated with oil. If this method did not bring the desired result, the loop just rearranged a little higher.

Sometimes the door might start springing even if the hinges are deeply fit and the screws are deepened well. This results from a close juncture between the door and casing of the door. In a case like this you need to slightly cut off from one or both sides using a wide chisel. To fix sagged windows or doors, you may use the shims hand made of a snap ring or the oiled washers. If this method does not bring about the desired result, then the hinges should be displaced slightly upwards.

Sometimes the door or window does not close tightly enough in case the fabric, wool or leather pads are used at the joint. This can be repaired quite easily by nailing or gluing a thin wooden lath (rubbed down and dyed beforehand) to the flat end of the door or window. Don’t forget to sink the nails well, when doing this. If the door dried out causing cracks of up to 2 mm wide (1/12″) to appear on its surface, it is time to fill them with some oil-containing putty. Before doing that, clean the wood from dirt and dust, and coat the door with a linseed drying oil. If the cracks are over 2 mm thick (1/12″), they should be filled with strips of dry wood. In case of a fixed door panel, it must first be dismounted from all sides of the door. Only after that the above listed manipulations shall be performed, followed by setting the door panel back in place.

Every so often a wooden door leaf may need to be shortened. This can be done by a standard handsaw or a portable electric circular saw with small teeth. To make a saw cut straight, the door should be secured with a wood board from the opposite side. In order to easily follow these operations when needed, a lower part of the door leaf is purposely manufactured from solid square log or light massive wood. However this area might appear to be not big enough. Then the door leaf should be cut to the required size, while the cavity resulting from this operation can be covered with a wooden block and fixed with glue.

Windows and front doors are usually more often exposed to deformations in particular seasons. The wood may periodically swell or dry out. If that happens, the top layer of swollen wood has to be removed in order to ensure free door closing without excessive force. After it dries, apply a special shim with adjustable width. To make such a shim you will need a rectangular plate of tin about 5 cm wide (2″), e.g. from a tin can, or a piece of brass or copper. The length of such piece should be twice the thickness of the door. This shim needs to be mounted with nails or screws to the top flat end of the door leaf and folded in half on top of its front corner. Then an elastic but quite tight filler piece should be inserted and squeezed in between these metal plates. That makes it possible to adjust the shim width easily, whenever needed in the future.

The live example is a door that swells in the summer and wouldn’t close. After making the hinge sockets deeper, it started closing perfectly again in any season of the year.

All recommendations described above will help to solve typical problems relating to wear out of windows and doors on your own. The same applies if you have faced a much more complicated situation that does not match any of the above listed cases. It is worth reminding that if you are unsure of your own capabilities, you should rather consider specialist assistance. Professionals would quickly fix the problems for some charge and then you may start using and enjoying the result of their qualitative work.

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Durable material and security with wooden front doors

Doors have always been an important component of the house. One steps through it into the wide world outside and returns, at varying times of day and night, and enters the peace of home.

It is the connection between two widely differing worlds: on the one hand, the open world of society in which one learns, works and celebrates, and on the other hand, the personal, self-constructed cosmos of one’s own four walls, in which one pursues one’s interests and hobbies, cooks and eats, and relax from the daily routine.

Wooden front doors are one of the most well-known and popular types of front door, then just as the natural raw material is available all round the world, then it is respected and preferred for its stability and formability.

The choice for the right front door should always be carefully considered– then it not only has to endure the daily stress but also adequately represent the home and its residents. Windows24.com offers a wide assortment of front doors of wood in all sorts of shapes and colours.

The advantages of wood

The demands placed on any door are high. Extreme variations in temperature from minus 10 to 15° C outside and plus 20° C inside have to be endured in many countries in the deepest winter months, while in high summer the wood has to put up with rises in temperature due to direct sunlight. At the same time the wood must be weather resistant while also being easy to maintain.

Neither rain nor snow must impair the function of the front door, nor is the door allowed to get wet and thus soft and rotten. All these functions are easily mastered by high quality front doors from Windows24.com. Wood is, in contrast to glass or metal, by nature an extremely good insulator for heat and proves to have good resistance to noise – and thus is often chosen as the material from which to produce front doors. By providing the right treatment and the best surface finishing wooden front doors can be made secure against wind and damp.

From the view of construction one differentiates between solid wooden doors on one hand and wooden doors on the other, the latter of which may be combined with other materials. The first category comprises doors of various different woods and seen ecologically are unobjectionable as wood is a natural raw material which is both sustainable and recyclable. Frame and filler material of solid wooden doors comprises multi-layer laminated and glued wood.

By using laminated wood scantlings one avoids any warping or the formation of cracks caused by constant heat. The best values can be obtained here by having a 3-layer laminated structure. Front doors which are not constructed of wood alone, but are combined with other materials are further split up into those with filling and those with external strengthening.

Wooden doors with filling are seldom used as front doors, however, given the right special fillung – such as insulating filling material or steel core – can achieve very good values in terms of soundproofing, thermal insulation, protection against warping and burglar protection and have the same effectiveness as solid wood doors.

Security levels and wooden doors / solid wooden doors

The most important function of front doors is to prevent unauthorised entry, and to protect the lives and property of the home owner and family. When one wishes to keep burglars from breaking into a house through the door, then one has to know what the weak points of a door can be and go about making these more safe.

Critical points of any front door are often the door hinges, the locks and the glazing. From a door panel thickness of 40 mm or more but without any filling material solid wood doors prove to be good for burglar protection and resistant, as the tools of the potential criminal have no weak points to attack. Thus by choosing a solid wood door the basic preconditions for a secure entrance door are already given. The security of the solid wood door can further be enhanced by additional fittings and providing solid hinges.

Glass panels are another weak point of some doors and require additional security. A possibility to reduce the chances of a break-in is the use of security glass, hinge-side security and self-locking locks.

Infill doors, whereby only the outside frame is constructed of wood have various security resistance values depending on the actual type and the precise material used for filling. It is important here to pay attention to check the door has a stable filling and ensuring adequate fixing of the door into its door frame.

Sometimes it is necessary to add some door panel strengthening and protective fittings for door and frame. Thus already stable wooden doors can be made even more robust and secure doors in a number of different ways.

Decoration and wood ornamentation

Wood does not just offer itself as an extremely stable and impermeable material for the construction of doors. Wooden is also malleable and can be decorated to your wishes. As for the colour which the front door should have – there are virtually no limits except your fantasy.

There are few other parts of a building that can be decorated on the outside in order to show one’s individuality as can be carried out with a wood door from Windows24.com.
It all comes down to personal taste: one can choose a plain unassuming wooden door in white; or one can go for a massive-looking entrance in oak; and even doors with carvings or with applied symbols are possible.

Especially modern, arc-shaped forms and circular or semi-circular figures can be displayed in and on a wooden door. Front doors of wood are ideally suitable to present the style and design of one’s home in proper style to the outside world.

The usefulness of wooden front doors

The front door is the showcase of the house. Just as there are numerous tasks that a front door performs, aso there are uncountable advantages of having a wooden door.

• High stability and durability
• Good security and burglar protection
• Optimum thermal and noise insulation
• Eclogically sustainable and recyclable material
• Presentation of aesthetics and style